BQE Core Suite Reviews in January 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

I highly recommend bqe – CORE!

PROS: We transferred 12 years of ‘Project History’ to bqe – CORE effective January 1, 2019. I am the Business Manager and I report directly to the owner of the Company. I keep current the clients we work with…..and all project-phase information for the company , billing – invoicing, using the CORE operating system. As a former Marine Corps officer…. then commercial banker (15 years) I believe that ‘People make the difference’….. not machines. The people at bqe – CORE, particularly the HELP ...

Core is flexible to use

PROS: The flexibility of CORE invoicing has made our complex billing requirements to a minimum. We have customers that need invoices with three levels of tiered structure. Prior to CORE, it used to take us a lot of time to do billing and that time has been cut down extremely by CORE. Of course, we do like CORE's simple Time + Expense tracking and other Project Management features. We are also exploring utilizing the Core accounting module so that we have all the aspects of the business in ...

Core is very user friendly

PROS: Core is very user-friendly. We used BillQuick for over two years then switched to Core. We find Core much easier to navigate. I only use Time and Billing and again, am very pleased with the program. I learn more about it every time I call Customer Support. CONS: I think the difficulties I have are related to needing a better understanding of the program. I can't say I have anything I like least about it except for the speed. I think the slowness is due to our Wi-Fi system.

Cannot Trust Key Functionality to Work Correctly

PROS: Combined time, expense, forecasting, project management all in one tool CONS: - Extremely poor customer service: We've had key functionality not work (e.g., invoicing, duplicate bank account transactions coming into the tool for Expense Reporting, being able to classify expenses to a certain business unit, ability to split expenses) not work and it takes over 3 months to fix. The customer service agents don't care that you can be sending invoices with incorrect amounts to clients or ...

BQE Core is very user friendly

PROS: Core is very user friendly. We used BillQuick for over two years then switched to Core. We find Core much easier to navigate. I only use Time and Billing and again, am very pleased with the program. I learn more about it every time I call Customer Support. CONS: I think the difficulties I have are related to needing a better understanding of the program. I can't say I have anything I like least about it except for the speed. I think the slowness is due to our Wi-Fi system.

Appalling Organisation and Unstable Product

PROS: The sales process was very good. Multiple demos to different stakeholders and trial licences. CONS: Very buggy, clearly poor controls / testing in place. More concerned with adding features than creating a stable platform. They have removed a key piece of functionality - offline working in the mobile app - as they have introduced a bug into the live environment and have made no commitment to fixing it.