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BQE CORE Suite pricing
BQE CORE Suite does not have a free version but does offer a free trial.
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BQE CORE Suite Reviews
Feature rating

- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Valuable software for billing at a law firm
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: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Very Good Software
Works well for our QMS as well.
Pros
Projects take on and set is exactly according our business processes. CRM is a very good addition.
Cons
Not much except that the accounting module cannot intergrate Sage Pastel which used by our accountant. I’m sure the BQE team can work out something if I ask but I haven’t.
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Easy to use, support and competitively priced.- Industry: Construction
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BillQuick - A look at one year post conversion
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: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Perfect for design firms
The best benefit is BQE's customer service, anytime we've had an issue or question they are quick to assist and resolve!
Pros
This is a really great all-around billing/invoicing software. It took some time to learn but has some really great features, our favorite being a more advanced break down of our project's phases and billing. You can even add a note to each time record's slot for each day.
Cons
There is definitely a learning curve for the first few months as it is not as user intuitive as it could be.
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Full of features to help manage the business
I understand that the program have much more to provide than what I understand. It is more powerful than what I know how to use.
Pros
The multiple features and ability to see where you are at at any time.
Cons
Not very customizable by user, Need better "FREE" training.
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