
About BQE CORE Suite
BQE CORE makes it easier and more profitable to run your business. It organizes information, automates repetitive tasks and allows your firm to spend more time providing service to your clients instead of managing internal processes.
BQE CORE is an integrated Time and Expense Tracking, Project Management, Billing and Accounting solution that is scalable for businesses of all sizes. It is built by Architects, Engineers, and CPA's to meet the specific needs of professional services firms. It is packed with simple, powerful features designed to help firms bolster their cash flow by expediting their billing process, while dramatically improving their project management and their ability to analyze performance.
Certified partnerships with Intuit, MYOB and other market leaders ensure that Core intuitively extracts, customizes and delivers customized output from any third-party accounting software.
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Key benefits of BQE CORE Suite
Improves Efficiency
BQE CORE automates repetitive tasks and keep all your billing, projects, accounting contacts, files and more in one place.
Speeds Up Cash Flow
With accurately tracked hours, and flexible billing options, CORE ensures that no billable hours sip through the cracks.
Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device
CORE is available across all major platforms so you can enjoy the freedom and flexibility to run a successful firm anywhere in the world.
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Markets
United Arab Emirates, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Hong Kong SAR China, Ireland, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, United States and 7 others
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
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Total features of BQE CORE Suite: 160
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- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Valuable software for billing at a law firm
Reviewed on 5/4/2019
Bill quick is a perfect solution to create invoices and be able to bill many different attorneys on...
Bill quick is a perfect solution to create invoices and be able to bill many different attorneys on different projects.
Pros
The ability to customize many of its features is great. You can setup and keep track of time associated
with various cases, clients, projects. There are so many reports that you can run to keep track of your spending. Able to export invoices to LEDES format. Able to import time from excel spreadsheet.
Cons
It takes some time to learn the software, the tech support team was great in getting me up and running. If you want additional reports they have a custom report group but their cost is a bit high to modify reports. It looks a bit complicated but actually it is easy to use.
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Core is the core of our business
Reviewed on 21/4/2022
Our overall experience with Core has been very good. It is allowing us to run and manage our...
Our overall experience with Core has been very good. It is allowing us to run and manage our business far more effectively that before. Also the fact that it is web based has been awesome especially during pandemic work from home instances.
Pros
Project management and billing are our favorite features, we couldn't run our business without them. Core integrates really well with how we setup and manage a project.
Cons
The Allocation feature needs a lot of improvement. It feels like all the information we need is in Core but it is not easy to retrieve or maintain, specifically around dependencies between phases within a project.
- Industry: Construction
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
BillQuick - A look at one year post conversion
Reviewed on 30/6/2015
Pros
BillQuick is a powerful tool in tracking project time and expenses for professional services. We converted from 7 years of Quick Books data. Although the conversion and integration was not a seemless process, and the learning curve was much longer than originally anticipated, we are now tracking project profitability at a much higher level than we ever have before.
BillQuick Tech Support is fantastic. They are patient and knowledgeable, and we have received a lot of added value by having the Gold Care Tech Support package added onto our services. Additionally, we have invested quite a bit of extra money on having Bill Quick Customization Department write customized reports. Although the standard reports section is extensive, we were unable to find reports that gave us exactly the data we wanted to see. It's nice that this additional service is offered, but it would be nice for them to give us a handful of customized reports as part of the conversion process and then charge extra from there on out.
Cons
The software is not as user-friendly as it could be. Some things are overly complicated and require detailed use before you understand the functionality of the software. It could not be more different that QuickBooks, and the transition for us was difficult. Personally, I highly underestimated the learning curve.
In the beginning, we were only using BQ for time and expense logging and we maintained our Quick Books file for all other general accounting, which I would strongly discourage. Although the SYNC feature does work to sync data between programs, it is not a clean sync and much of it needed cleanup on either side of the sync. This was very frustrating. We just recently converted all of our general accounting in QB over to the Accounting portal in BillQuick. This has helped to have all of our financial records in one software system and our data is much more consistent. However, the "Accounting" portal is not perfect and there are a number of features that are lacking where QB has it all dialed in. Examples: 1) in looking at a vendor bill, there is no indication or PAID FLAT to see it has been PAID or not. To see if it is paid, I have to look at the previous checks. 2) In a report that lists all AP checks written for a particular time frame, there is no TOTAL at the end of the report. 3) BQ allows duplicate check numbers. (This is not a complete list, but the top 3 things that drive me insane.) These seem like basic accounting features and for them to not be included in an accounting software is frustrating. DISCLAIMER: we have not yet upgraded to BQ2015 and remain on BQ2014 for a while longer. My understanding is that BQ2015 has updated a number of accounting features, so I look forward to seeing if any of those issues are remedied.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Running a design practice, what they didn't teach you in architecture school
Reviewed on 16/4/2022
I check what other apps and services are out there for architects and most are even more overwhelmin...
I check what other apps and services are out there for architects and most are even more overwhelming or offer more than needed for a small practice, or charge much more that it is worth.
Pros
Running a practice and staying financially solvent is key with a way to measure progress with tasks, time and fees. CORE does this and in a way architects can understand since it is designed by architects. However, it tries to cover all variations on running a firm and while appreciable, it can be confusing with too many choices to search and select from. The flexibility is a plus once you reach out to customer service (live24/7/365) and they kindly walk you through a solution.
Cons
It's a bit complex at the onset of setting up the account and projects. You do it often enough, it does become second nature but it takes time and includes some missteps readily corrected by the help system.
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Time and billing for CPA Firm
Reviewed on 22/4/2022
Very good
Very good
Pros
The ability to generate multiple invoices at the same time. The ability to easily send invoices via email. The employee activity reports.
Cons
The product takes some art to setup, and the administrator is needed to setup new clients.
BQE CORE Suite FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for BQE CORE Suite.Q. What type of pricing plans does BQE CORE Suite offer?
BQE CORE Suite offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Our pricing structure is simple, flexible and designed to fit your needs – you only pay for the features that you and your staff actually use. Annual and multi-year commitment options are available to support the unique needs of your firm. Start a FREE trial today to learn how CORE can maximize productivity and unlock your firm's true profitability potential.
Q. Who are the typical users of BQE CORE Suite?
BQE CORE Suite has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-5,000
Q. What languages does BQE CORE Suite support?
BQE CORE Suite supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does BQE CORE Suite support mobile devices?
BQE CORE Suite supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does BQE CORE Suite integrate with?
BQE CORE Suite integrates with the following applications:
Affinipay for Associations, ArchiSnapper, Box, Dropbox Business, Financials for Office 365, Google Drive, LawPay, MYOB Business, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Power BI, Office 365 Document Management, OneDrive, Quickbooks Online, Stripe, Tax1099.com, Xero
Q. What level of support does BQE CORE Suite offer?
BQE CORE Suite offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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