BQE CORE vs. Fyle

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BQE CORE
Score 9.4 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
BQE CORE is a business management solution built specifically for professional service firms. BQE CORE is a combination of a billing assistant, project management, and accounting solution. CORE is designed to do the hard work of delivering actionable insights directly to the user's dashboards or inbox. BQE CORE replaces the products Engineeroffice, Archioffice, and BillQuick; the functionality of these applications is now found in BQE CORE.N/A
Fyle
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Fyle is an expense management solution built for finance teams. Fyle extracts data from receipts, attaches the invoice, and ensures constant compliance in real-time. Fyle's benefits: Expense tracking: Expenses can be submitted from everyday apps like Slack, WhatsApp, G suite, Outlook, and SMS. Automatic corporate card reconciliation: reconcile any card transaction, expense, or receipt in an audit-ready fashion without any manual intervention. Predictive…
$14.99
per month per user (minimum 5)
Pricing
BQE COREFyle
Editions & Modules
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Growth
$14.99
per month per user (minimum 5)
Business
$17.99
per month per user (minimum 10)
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BQE COREFyle
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
BQE CORE
7.6
Ratings
1% below category average
Fyle
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Ratings
Task Management9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration5.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology4.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration6.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
BQE CORE
7.5
Ratings
1% below category average
Fyle
-
Ratings
Quotes/estimates6.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Invoicing8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BQE COREFyle
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
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8.6
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Likelihood to Renew
7.0
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Usability
9.2
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Availability
8.2
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Performance
7.3
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Support Rating
7.4
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Online Training
6.4
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Implementation Rating
2.3
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Ease of integration
4.5
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Product Scalability
8.2
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Vendor post-sale
8.2
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Vendor pre-sale
8.2
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User Testimonials
BQE COREFyle
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend this for our industry: architecture, engineering, or construction. I would recommend this for any larger firm with many employees or high number of projects. I would particularly recommend this for a company with projects that have budget constraints and where time tracking and expense tracking is very important. I would not recommend this complicated software for a small firm with a small amount of income or number of projects.
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A business/individual can definitely opt Fyle for their expense tracking and management. In a remote-first, employee first world, it's vital for companies to stay close to employees and make it easier for employees/users to claim reimbursements etc. A cloud software like Fyle is all you need to get started. What more do you need than a robust app that has seen over 50 million dollars being reimbursed to date? While this is the positive use case of Fyle, I think another major use case would be to monitor and track expenses made by employees. It'll help finance teams to see policy violations, make sure the claims are authentic, and reimburse only valid claims. It's intelligent in that way.
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Pros
  • Invoice Collections within Billing is a great tool because of the ability to take notes and track contact.
  • Invoices are professional looking and easy for our clients to understand the overall progress within each phase of their project.
  • Dashboards are the best tool EVER!
  • The Contact List feature within Clients setup is the perfect way to track multiple project managers within a large company that also has multiple contracts with us.
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  • Automatic details filling feature of Fyle saves a lot of time in browsing each and every receipt and then entering the details
  • Categorization provided by Fyle assists in reducing navigating and search time for itemizing the bills
  • Linking the audit feature from Fyle has helped in reducing the turnaround time for audit queries and thus improved productivity for audit team
  • Keeping a complete track of all claims submitted in the dashboard provides a clear view of what expenses are penign to be approved by audit team
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Cons
  • Customizable Reporting
  • Linking Project to Payment all together
  • Assigning contacts to particular roles - such as Invoicing, Contracts, etc.
  • Accounting Functionality - they are basically a project management accounting software, so in my opinion, they could learn some things from other accounting software such as QuickBooks etc.
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  • Ability to upload multiple bills at once. The file upload option as of now allows only one file to be uploaded at a time
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Likelihood to Renew
We have been using Core for a few years now, and honestly started to look at other software systems to see what was out there. What we chose was a nightmare for migration so we never left Core. Now we have added invoicing and payments from Core instead of double entry with QBO. Still only a few cycles in but looks like it will be up to speed soon and working smoothly.
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Usability
The foundation is awesome, like I have said before, however the house being built on it, the educational resources being provided to us (more of sales pitches that don't work), and flexible workflow opportunities, is making us look elsewhere for how much we will be spending on per user. It's crazy to think how flexible they are not when it comes to user settings. Lack of integration with other sources is awful.
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Reliability and Availability
I can only remember a couple of times in 4 years that Core has been unavailable.
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Performance
This is one area that does need some improvement. It can be slow at time, so we had our IT look at it from our side and we had no issues, so it has to be some slowness on their side.
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Support Rating
As a new employee and CORE user, I talk to support on a weekly basis. I have never had to wait for more than 3 min to get connect with a support rep, and all my questions have been answered. The support representatives are polite and eager to help no matter how simple your question is.
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Online Training
Make sure you have someone training you that fits your style of learning.
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Implementation Rating
wont let me skip
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Alternatives Considered
Deltek Vision is far more advanced, more encompassing and offers more flexibility with what you want to do. However, it's also quite difficult to use, whereas BQE CORE is intuitive and user friendly. The trade off is worth it in some arenas but overall it's not suited for a larger fast paced company. Great for smaller companies.
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Features wise both Zoho and Concur are equivalent to Fyle - may be they even offer more features. We picked Fyle particularly because: a) We are a small organization of less than 200 employees and were looking for a cloud based offering b) We had to keep our costs minimal without making major changes to our organization structure Fyle was most optimal that catered to all our requirements.
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Scalability
This software works on a small and large scale.
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Return on Investment
  • Quick setup of new tasks under a parent project, with immediate hourly billing to it.
  • Monitoring of details of non-chargeable efforts in appropriate detail
  • Validation of hourly cost, billing cost, benefit cost, profitability by person and role
  • Company tracking of write-off's included in corporate and project reporting, no data is "lost"
  • Can track excessive work time as +PTO in lieu of pay for use as future vacation
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  • Lesser manual work
  • High Employee morale
  • More accountability
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ScreenShots

BQE CORE Screenshots

Screenshot of Core powered by BQE SoftwareScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Dashboard ViewScreenshot of BQE CORE 360* Firm Performance ViewScreenshot of BQE CORE Reporting & AnalyticsScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Time EntryScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Expense Tracking

Fyle Screenshots

Screenshot of Fyle's Gmail extension.Screenshot of the interface to create custom policies.Screenshot of where to detect policy violations automatically.Screenshot of some of Fyle's available analytics.Screenshot of Fyle's dashboard.