About BQE CORE Suite
BQE CORE centralises and streamlines how teams enter and use accounting, time & expense tracking, billing, reporting, and project management details. This allows you to accurately stay within scope and budget, plan, and make quick and informed decisions.
Run Your Business from a Single Platform
● Use smart, customisable dashboards with actionable intelligence
● Monitor projects and have tighter control over budgets and profitability
● Automate the entire billing process to improve cash flow
● Easily capture every hour for projects, overhead and time off with pre-filled timesheets and in-built timers
● Quickly take action with clear, easy-to-understand, schedulable reports
● Manage your business no matter where you are with native iOS and Android apps
● Win more clients with CORE CRM
● Focus on the “Human” and develop talent with BQE CORE HR
BQE CORE offers integration with various third-party accounting software and certified partnerships with popular software such as QuickBooks Online, MYOB AccountRight Live, Dropbox, Google Drive, Stripe, Office 365, Power BI, and more!
With more than 400,000 users worldwide, BQE CORE is trusted by leading architects, engineers, accountants, lawyers, IT specialists, and business consultants. The scalable system is suited for small to large-sized professional services firms looking for a solution with a wide range of features and integrations at a modest price.
BQE CORE pricing is built in a modular fashion and lets you buy only the modules you need.
BQE CORE Suite pricing
BQE CORE Suite does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. BQE CORE Suite paid version starts at $29.00/month.
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BQE CORE Suite Reviews
Feature rating
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Yep, there is a feature for that!
Good. Invoicing and time entry in the program fit our needs. There are always more features that we discover when we need more from CORE.
Pros
The program is cloud based which keeps us current. Most of the time when I have specific report, feature, or activity that I want, I can find what I need quickly. As with many programs, CORE does more than my office utilizes it for. Invoicing and time entry are usually smooth processes.
Cons
We migrated from ArchiOffice and feel that the way contacts are managed in CORE is utterly useless. We've abandoned it in favor of a piecemeal assortment of Office 365 and Mac built-in programs.The structure of projects is also something that can be improved. When a project transforms from hourly to percentage or adds phases, CORE has some flexibility but there are troublesome aspect such as migrating time from a single phase project to ensure it can be captured in invoices.
Alternatives Considered
Deltek VisionReasons for Choosing BQE CORE Suite
Saved money through the al a carte module cost structure compared to previous program.Switched From
ArchiOfficeReasons for Switching to BQE CORE Suite
Easier to migrate our ArchiOffice data into CORE.- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Excellent Software
Excellent - their people know the product, when you call with an issue you SPEAK to someone who is knowledgeable. They answer the phone which is such a great thing
Pros
The ability to speak to someone who knows the software when an issue arises.
Cons
Honestly I don't have an issue with it at all. We got the product BillQuick first and then went online to Core, which was a blessing because a couple of months later the pandemic hit and we were all homebound.
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Software has issues, but their customer support is pretty good
In theory, I like all of the features that core has to offer, however, when the features don't work the way they're supposed to it becomes a bit of a nightmare to use. It has a lot of bugs, crashes often and in general is just not very user friendly.
Pros
I like the expense management feature for employee reimbursement and client billing purposes. I also liked the accounting feature that allows you to bill expenses straight from the Cloudfeeds. I also really liked their customer support. They have a solid team on standby for customer support. I would often get the same person when I called. They are super friendly and know how to navigate the software.
Cons
It's time consuming to use - it's so slow and there are a lot of features that bug out and simply don't work the way they're supposed to, so I spend a lot of time navigating all of that, which is a bummer.
Alternatives Considered
Deltek Costpoint, Deltek Acumen, Deltek PPM, QuickBooks Online, Deltek Vision and Deltek PaymentsReasons for Choosing BQE CORE Suite
The owner of the firm worked with the BQE team when they first started building the software, he was informing them of features that would be useful for the architecture firm, so he set the company up with BQE to support their mission.Reasons for Switching to BQE CORE Suite
The owner of the firm worked with the BQE team when they first started building the software, he was informing them of features that would be useful for the architecture firm, so he set the company up with BQE to support their mission.- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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BQE Review
I switched to this system after using another finance system for 18 years and it was an easy interface and allowed for minimal training so even our entry level staff picked it up quickly.
Pros
The ability to run multiple reports and drop them into excel.
Cons
I wish we could save multiple filters for the T&E reviewer since I use that the majority of the time.
- Industry: Utilities
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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BQE makes time keeping and tracking simple
BQE makes time keeping and tracking relatively easy. Good layout for site navigation. You can add widgets to your "dashboard" for what is important to you.
Pros
Good for time-sheet tracking. Both for yourself and tracking time billed to projects. Easy input with a well-working search feature and "Load Recent Activities" button. Also breaks up billable and non-billable time for you.
Cons
Our company does not use the Project Planning/Tracking App, so not comment on the usability of that.