BQE Core provides a streamlined solution for your firm's time tracking, billing, and accounting needs. This software helps you simplify financial processes, increase accuracy, and gain real-time insights. Explore BQE Core's intuitive interface and scalable features to optimize your firm's operations and enhance productivity.

BQE CORE Specifications

Time Tracking

Task Management

Reporting

Budget Management

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What is BQE CORE?

Overview

BQE Core is an all-in-one accounting and business management solution designed to meet the professional services and needs of various project-based firms. It offers a comprehensive suite of integrated features, including project management, project accounting, reporting and analytics, time and expense tracking, and billing and invoicing. The fully integrated suite offers intuitive tools to provide firms with real-time visibility into financial and operational metrics to improve decision-making, budgeting, resource allocation, and overall project performance.

What is BQE CORE Best for?

One of the most useful capabilities of BQE Core is its real-time reporting and analytics features. The project management software provides data-driven, automated reporting that gives executives, project managers, and finance teams more accessible and actionable insights into their projects and business health. Executives can gain a comprehensive view of the firm through real-time key performance indicators, while project managers can track project performance and budgets in real-time to improve efficiency and keep projects on schedule. Moreover, finance teams benefit from dashboards that provide instant insights into expenses, budgets, and profitability.

BQE Core Pricing

BQE software offers flexible per-user pricing packages to suit different firms' needs. The core Foundations package provides time and expense tracking, billing and invoicing, project management, and reporting and analytics capabilities. It delivers the central features to streamline back-office processes and improve project outcomes.

Firms can add the Accounting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), or Human Resources (HR) modules to gain additional functionality in these areas. The additional modules are priced depending on the number of users requiring access.

Potential customers can receive custom BQE Core pricing tailored to suit their needs.

BQE CORE Integrations

Users can integrate the software with several third-party applications valuable for their businesses. Some core BQE integrations include the following:

How does BQE CORE work?

Use the following basic steps to get started with the BQE Core project management tool:

  • Enter your login credentials and familiarize yourself with the navigation menu
  • Depending on your role and responsibilities within your organization, explore different modules
  • Customize your settings and preferences by accessing the configuration options available within each module
  • Begin using BQE Core by entering and managing relevant data related to your projects, clients, employees, time entry, and expenses
  • Take advantage of the various features and functionalities to streamline your firm's operations, improve efficiency, and gain actionable data
Watch a BQE Core Demo to learn more about how the tool works.

Who is BQE CORE for?

Business organizations of all sizes can use the software, particularly in project-based industries and sectors. It is ideal for:

  • Architectural Firm
  • Engineers
  • Consultants
  • Professional Services Companies

Is BQE Core Right For You?

BQE Core's comprehensive system is an excellent choice for professional service firms seeking to manage various business aspects more efficiently, including architecture, engineering, consulting, and legal. It offers robust features tailored to diverse needs, allowing the software to streamline operations and gain valuable financial insights.

The software prioritizes data security through advanced measures like encryption, user access controls, and regular backups. It also ensures compliance with industry regulations such as GDPR and CCPA, providing a company with a secure and compliant environment for sensitive data.

Still not sure? Contact Software Finder at (661) 384-7070 for more information and to make an informed decision.

BQE CORE Features

Get more visibility into your company’s financial performance. This feature allows account insights at every level—company, client, phase, project, and staff. You can connect business and project accounting for better financial management.

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You can track/enter time, expenses, and billing (including vendor bills) all in one place. Send prompt invoices and expense receipts to clients once approved and receive paid deposits with instant ePayments. Automated invoicing also helps save time you can spend on more significant tasks. By extension, you can automate the entire billing process to boost cash flow as well as create invoices that match specific project types. 

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Run marketing campaigns, manage lead scoring and conversions, and track RFI/RFQ for boosting customer relationships. The COREBQE CRM tools allow users to turn insights into valuable actions. Furthermore, you can handle the entire customer lifecycle process from a single centralized and integrated platform location. 

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BQE CORE's comprehensive HR module helps streamline and automate everyday processes. It provides an intuitive interface with powerful tools to track employee information/hours worked, manage payrolls, handle benefits, and more (in an effort to boost organizational productivity). The platform supports HR departments of every size by providing the most needed features in one easy-to-use solution. 

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The reporting and analytics feature enables businesses to generate insightful log reports on employee performance, project costs/earned value, time spent (via time cards) expenses, and more. With this function, users can easily identify trends and gain valuable insights into their processes and costs, as well as deploy custom fields. 

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BQE CORE project management mobile app allows users to stay connected and productive on the go. The app offers a streamlined user experience with features like time tracking, project overviews, and resource scheduling. With powerful integration capabilities, this utility enables users to stay up-to-date with their business activities even when they're out of the office.

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Pros and Cons of BQE CORE

Pros

  • Users can enter time on the go
  • Profitability and performance insights
  • Keeps the team more organized
  • API access is available

Cons

  • Software may respond slowly between screen changes
  • Difficult setup

BQE CORE Pricing

Basic

(Basic Module)

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What's Included

  • Time. Expense, & Profitability Tracking

  • Basic Billing, Account/Cash Flow Management, & Invoicing

  • Project Management

  • Reporting & Analytics

  • Client Support/Answer Queries & Requests

Account

(Basic Module + Account)

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What's Included

  • Auto Reconciliation

  • Integrated Account Deposits & Fund Transfers

  • New Firm Program Onboarding

  • Profitability Analysis

  • Custom Chart of Accounts

  • Company Budgeting

  • Company Financial Reports

CRM

(Basic Module + CRM)

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What's Included

  • Campaign & Budget Management

  • Prospect Tracking

  • Proposal Builder

  • Team/Sales Enablement Too

  • Departmental Requests Flow

HR

(Basic Module + HR)

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What's Included

  • Employee Benefits and Review

  • HR Forms Library

  • Performance Measurement

  • Salary History Tracking/ Requests

  • Automated PTO

BQE CORE Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

272 Review(s)

Rating Distribution

5

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(134)

4

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(125)

3

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(13)

2

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1

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January 2025

BQE is great!!

Michael Vargas

ARKO Architecture

Ease of use

10

Value for money

5

Customer Support

9

Functionality

8

Pros

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.

Cons

What i like least is the loading aspect behind it and it does take a while for a page to load or a list to load as you scroll. But I'm sure they are a couple of updates away from resolving this.

January 2025

Review from Ms. Lydia Wu

Lydia Wu

UPI Project Canada Ltd

Ease of use

8

Value for money

8

Customer Support

9

Functionality

8

Pros

I use BQE Core for time and expense entry, reviewing vendor T&E, creating invoices, payment tracking, and reporting. BQE makes it easy to track time and expenses without the need for manual Excel spreadsheets. It also saves a lot of time by streamlining the invoice creation process—just a click of a button, and I can bill my clients efficiently

Cons

1. It takes over an hour to download CSV files when dealing with large amounts of data. However, it's often unclear how long the process will take. Could the system display a progress bar showing the percentage of CSV files generated? This would help users understand how much time remains for the download to complete. 2. Please add a pop-up message saying 'End of the filter search' on the Time Sheet, Expense Entries, and 'Time and Expense Reviewer' pages. It's often confusing to keep scrolling through rows without knowing whether you've reached the end of the search results 3.In the 'Create Invoice Batch' T&E details section, the filter function is not user-friendly. After filtering by an employee's name, the work dates do not appear in chronological order, making it time-consuming for users to review the T&E details

January 2025

Best Engineering Software

Kree Champion

ME Cubed Engineering

Ease of use

8

Value for money

8

Customer Support

10

Functionality

8

Pros

Invoicing, Bookkeeping, Budget, Project Management

Cons

Requires training to utilize all functions

Frequently Asked Questions

BQE Core provides user-based pricing plans. The Foundations module includes all essential features. Additional modules like Accounting, CRM, or HR can be added as required. For more details, click Get Pricing.