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BQE CORE

Score9.4 out of 10

190 Reviews and Ratings

What is BQE CORE?

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.

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BQE CORE Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features BQE CORE has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 190 ratings of BQE CORE's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Timesheet Tracking

    Timesheet tracking is the ability to track all billable and non-billable hours for each project.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Task Management

    This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.

    Category average: 9.2

  • Gantt Charts

    Gantt charts are charts that show tasks or events along the y-axis displayed against time along the x-axis.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Quotes/estimates

    Ability to create, manage and send project fee proposals to customers

    Category average: 8.6

  • Team Collaboration

    Team collaboration capabilities let team members work directly with each other and provide team updates.

    Category average: 9

  • Support for Waterfall Methodology

    Waterfall methodology is a tradition development method that is linear and sequential.

    Category average: 7.9

Who Buys & Uses BQE CORE

BQE CORE Reviews

What users are saying about BQE CORE.
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Pros

  • Streamlined time and expense tracking with cloud receipt storage
  • Robust invoicing and billing capabilities supporting varied methods
  • Centralized project management for client and project details

Cons

  • Issues with data export clarity and slow download times
  • User interface and general experience can be prone to errors
  • Limitations in time entry management and integration

BQE Core Suits All Our Needs

Mary KinsleyView profile
Finance Analyst in Finance and Accounting at Steadfast City Economic Partners (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

BQE CORE is used for project management, budgeting, invoicing, expensing and time tracking, amongst many other aspects of our business.

Pros

  • Invoicing
  • Expensing
  • Time Tracking
  • Report Configurations

Cons

  • Calendaring
  • Managing clients within a project
  • Speed of performance

Return on Investment

  • Accurate financial reporting
  • Allows for more accurate budgeting
  • Tracking employee and project allocations

Usability

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Online, Teamwork.com

We Highly Recommend This All-In-One Business Solution

Sydney Hayes
Office Manager in Marketing at Ackerman Engineering, Inc. (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Now that we use BQE COREwe have a better way to track time and expenses along with accounting. In our industry we are typically a subconsultant on new construction projects and this software is particularly useful in our industry. It is helpful for marketing and project managers to be able to view all of the client information in one place, as well as keep accounting visible for particular users. Time tracking for us has never been more efficient!

Pros

  • Time tracking
  • Expense tracking
  • Project details and accounting details
  • Sorting projects by many different fields
  • Creating reports

Cons

  • Time tracking view saved instead of resetting each time
  • Searching projects for details
  • Honesty this software works really well, maybe only a couple bugs so far

Return on Investment

  • Less time spent on tedious tracking tasks
  • More time available for employees to get more project work done instead of admin work
  • Our ability to view the time it takes for different tasks has increased
  • We have more correct records after implementing BQE CORE

Usability

Effective Accessible Tool

Incentivized
Dan Larsen, PHRView profile
Consultant in Human Resources at Sierra HR Partners (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BQE CORE for billing, invoicing, and expense tracking for a team of consultants and recruiters working on a variety of products and services.

Pros

  • Accessible
  • Easy to make entries

Cons

  • Updating entries can take time at month-end

Return on Investment

  • Easy billing makes for more effective billing.

Usability

Other Software Used

Google Chrome, Microsoft 365

BQE is Awesome!!!

Michael Vargas
Architectural Designer at ARKO Architecture (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

BQE makes it very easy to manage your time performance which is crucial to an architectural office. They give you a very clean and simple interface making it very easy to use and understand. Overall, I've had a great experience with BQE. It has made me a much more organized person in terms of my job and managing the hours of our projects.

Pros

  • Easy to use interface
  • Easy to edit projects

Cons

  • Loading lists and projects
  • Making the website more seamless and less buggy

Return on Investment

  • We use it every day to manage our time performance.
  • Used to coordinate out weekly meeting in office with project list and status.

Usability

Other Software Used

AutoCAD

Awesome Tool for Engineering Company

Incentivized
Kree Champion
Office Manager in Engineering at ME Cubed Engineering (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BQE CORE for practically all administrative and bookkeeping tasks in our engineer firm. Over the past few years the capabilities have expanded greatly. We have junior level drafter and subcontractors log time on specific projects. We invoice and collect payments. We are also able to to create vendor bills and purchase orders which is very useful in keeping up with outstanding items. It also features comprehensive reports that analyze profit etc.

Pros

  • Invoicing
  • On demand live customer support
  • Bookkeeping
  • Time entry

Cons

  • When time is received on a purchase order, you are unable to simply delete the the vendor bill and the time received. A new purchase order must be created
  • Receiving or logging time directly on invoicing screen
  • Customizable invoicing templates - have to have customer service create.

Return on Investment

  • It is quite expensive but we have been able to keep booking in house which saves about $5000 per year.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)

Other Software Used

monday.com

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