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BQE CORE Suite

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Time & Billing | Project Management | Accounting

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Q. What type of pricing plans does BQE CORE Suite offer?

BQE CORE Suite has the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)

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Q. Who are the typical users of BQE CORE Suite?

BQE CORE Suite has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business

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Q. What languages does BQE CORE Suite support?

BQE CORE Suite supports the following languages:
English

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Q. Does BQE CORE Suite support mobile devices?

BQE CORE Suite supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone

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Q. Does BQE CORE Suite offer an API?

Yes, BQE CORE Suite has an API available for use.

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Q. What other apps does BQE CORE Suite integrate with?

BQE CORE Suite integrates with the following applications:
MYOB Business, LawPay, Dropbox Business, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, Stripe, Microsoft 365, Quickbooks Online, ArchiSnapper, Microsoft Power BI, AffiniPay, Xero

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Q. What level of support does BQE CORE Suite offer?

BQE CORE Suite offers the following support options:
Knowledge Base, Chat, Email/Help Desk, Phone Support, FAQs/Forum, 24/7 (Live rep)

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BQE CORE Suite product overview

What is BQE CORE Suite?

BQE’s powerful all-in-one platform and expert support give A & E firms the intuitive tools they need to meet the demands of their firm, empower their team, maximize profitability, and deliver superior results to clients.

Key benefits of using 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.

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Knowledge Base
Chat
Email/Help Desk
Phone Support
FAQs/Forum
24/7 (Live rep)

Training options

Live Online
Webinars
Videos
In Person
Documentation

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4.5

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BQE CORE Suite features

Functionality

4.4

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695

Total features

164

27 categories

Most valued features by users

Alerts/Notifications
Activity Dashboard
Reporting & Statistics
Third Party Integrations
Reporting/Analytics
API
Customizable Reports
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BQE CORE Suite users reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

/5

695

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.81/10
Rating distribution

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Pros
We are still using Quickbooks for accounting for now. The webinars have been great, the support team has been great, our trainer was great.
Invoicing is easy and we are impressed with professional looking invoice templates that are easy to read. Also it is easy to manage the outstanding accounts receivable.
Each and everyone of them I have interacted over the years have been amazing. All of them in customer service are tremendously helpful in setting up the software for my new firm.
Cons
There are times when a question asked gets bumped up and it takes a long time to correct or answer that you lose track of the problem.
The program was often slow and sluggish between screen changes (I have very fast ethernet connection 250mbps DL speed).
It was the most expensive waste of time I've experienced in a long while. It's right up there with Yelp advertising.

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Cecilia T.

Financial and Operations Administrator

Architecture & Planning, 11-50 employees

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We like invoicing in Core

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Steven B.

Insurance, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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CORE is a real time saver !

Reviewed 10 months ago

Implementation took longer than expected but has proved worth the extra time to get it right.

Pros

Using CORE to invoice our clients has freed up so much of my time I'm afraid I could have streamlined myself out of a job. Billing previews that used to take days are now done in hours. The time to create invoices and submit them for approval takes about 25% of the time before CORE. Easy to learn and a breeze to use.

Cons

ORE is a very complex software system to set up, but once we worked out all of the nuances and specifications, this software rocks!

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Juan Pablo C.

Architecture & Planning, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Best product out there, basically out of the box .... no implementation needed

Reviewed 4 months ago

Just great, it allows me to have a far quicker pulse of the business in financial terms and also marketing wise keeping track of proposals.

Pros

It is very well structured, in a logical manner and has put a lot of attention into details of how projects can be deployed in so administrative ways in the AE industry. It can keep a project very simple o very sophisticated in terms of phases, budgets, reporting, etc.

Cons

Moving from Archioffice (the previous software from BQE) to CORE was not flawless at all. I would have liked more support from BQE and that they acknowledge it is not flawless or that things willl appear automatically.

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Stacy M.

Construction,

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  • Likelihood to recommend5/10

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BillQuick - A look at one year post conversion

Reviewed 8 years ago
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....

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...

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Paula Y.

Civil Engineering, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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happy customer

Reviewed 2 months ago
Pros

once we loaded all the info and figured out the new system - easy to use.

Cons

Just that we had to start learning any new software

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Deborah V.

Maritime, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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As seen from the perspective of Administration.

Reviewed 6 months ago

The entire team is more accountable for a wider list of aspects of the job. Time, expense are now relatable to the team, not just to management due to the analytics being on everybody's screens, not just management. Awareness is the first step toward making the effort to make changes.

Pros

The time tracking is the first and most impactful of the features. As the team grew more comfortable, they found it easier to get more specific with the breakdown...not being so vague. After six months most of the team seems very comfortable with the use of the product.

Cons

I am HR Admin, and we do not yet have the HR module, so it is likely having the smallest affect on me. The time and expense features that I use the most is not always accurate due to some of the automatic features, but we have/had not stipulated our needs. It is customizable to make this work more in our favor, but we had to know of the effects first. I like least that we had to wait and experience the detriments to see what it would do first, so that we could then make those changes

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