About BQE CORE Suite

People and projects are the core of your professional service firm. That’s why BQE Software created BQE CORE, an intuitive professional services automation solution that gives you complete visibility and control over projects, financials, clients, performance, and staff utilisation.

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.
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BQE CORE Suite pricing

BQE CORE Suite does not have a free version but does offer a free trial.

Starting Price:
Not provided by vendor
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
Yes

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BQE CORE Suite Reviews for UK Users

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.5
Functionality
4.4
Ease of Use
4.4
Customer Support
4.6
5 reviews of 784 View all reviews
Nick
Nick
  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 06/01/2025

BQE Core, a great product!

Been great, when there is an issue, the BQE Core team goes out of there way to fix it.

Pros

Simplifies Invoicing and Billing and enhances Project Management over Time Keeping.

Cons

Implementation was a challenge primarily due to QBO, but sales expectations were different from reality.

Alternatives Considered

BigTime

Reasons for Choosing BQE CORE Suite

QBO is an inferior product and does not meet the needs of a professional service organization.

Switched From

QuickBooks Online

Reasons for Switching to BQE CORE Suite

Accounting integration was not available with BigTime
Vicky
  • Industry: Architecture & Planning
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 13/01/2025

Recommended

Pros

It is very easy to use. And lots of functions

Cons

nothing I really don't like. It is all good.

Melidee
  • Industry: Civil Engineering
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
2
Customer Support
5

3
Reviewed on 01/02/2024

Great invoicing platform for Time Based Civil Engineering

Pros

Time tracking; overall look of the invoices; tracking payments

Cons

Needs to improve features like adding email to each project; being able to make notes only visible to us on an invoice; seeing payment dates while looking at invoice (this takes several steps by going to the project tab); CORE can be slow and I find I have to enter 2-3 times before it will respond (Server issue?); Being able to create our own "template" for what assignments need to be used when creating a project and there's more not specified here.

Mitchell
  • Industry: Research
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 10/01/2025

Lots of features, includes an API

Overall, my experience was good. It's a comprehensive suite of software, not lacking much. It can be buggy at times, but there's definitely workarounds that can be done. Additionally, the inclusion of an API is a major selling point over competitors.

Pros

I like how everything has many ways to accomplish the same thing. Not stingy on features.

Cons

Sometimes it can be laggy and require a couple refreshes prior to actual timecard submission

Mary
  • Industry: Management Consulting
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 06/01/2025

BQE Core makes life easier!

BQE Core is easy to navigate and if issues and/or questions do arise, their customer service team is always quick to answer our questions!

Pros

BQE Core Suite makes invoicing and reconciling expenses fast and efficient, giving us the opportunity to update any items that may need adjusted prior to finalizing any entries each month.

Cons

BQE Core Suite runs a bit slower than we would prefer, but otherwise, it suits all our needs!

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