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Manager's Free Accounting Software is popular with Small Businesses around the world who use it in 70+ languages across all industries and stages of business growth.
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It is a very easy to use platform for basic or more complex bookkeeping. I love that you can modify it as needed to allow for as little or as much detail as you'd like.
I was able to eventually work around the issues and print to PDF using the macOS print window, but the whole process was painful and time-consuming.
The help files are the best I've seen for any software of any type and also has the best explanations of basic accounting concepts that I've read including AccountingCoach.com.
Everything has some down sides, or I might just be nitpicking here. There is no way to lock your reference numbers.
The software is very good, stable and super easy to use and it gets our recommendation.
Do not control the type and size of the program font and not the invoice. There is no login protection for a single user and anyone can open the program.
There's a great support forum with expert uses, and the developers themselves, who are mostly very responsive to questions. I remember once reporting an issue which the developer fixed the SAME DAY.
No nonsense, feature rich, double-entry accounting.
The technical support team is pleasure to speak with and very informative. They are able to help me understand and utilize Core better.
I find the billing process steps a bit awkward but I am used to them now. It is annoying to have to look for the most recent invoice under Invoice Review once the invoice is processed as final.
Fantastic time-billing software. The flexibility it has in generating reports and the technical support from staff was terrific.
No real changes to suggest as of yet. There is already a lot to absorb.
Key project information on reports is helping our project managers make important timely decisions in real time. Absolutely love their excellent customer service.
Our project managers thought it was hard to use, and didn't feel our data was always accurately depicted.
Amazing customer support and a great product. Glad to not be shopping for a new product for sure.
Early on we had a difficult time understanding the vendor bill workflow.
Cecilia T.: Hi, I'm Cecilia. I'm a financial administrator, and I give BQE Core Suite a five out of five rating. For more ratings like this, click below. We use it for maintaining costs and in invoicing our clients for the projects as they progress. We do it on a monthly basis, and it's very easy to maintain the accounts for the clients, make sure everything's up to date, and record all the payments. I like BQE because you can really customize pretty much projects, employees, all activities, the way you invoice. You can customize pretty much each process throughout the business cycle to your company's needs. You can filter and create groups and lists to meet the company's needs specifically for you. I work with architectural people who are very visual, and I think they use colors a lot and are very less wordy and more visual, I guess, is the big thing. We find Core sometimes all the screens look exactly the same, so they have to read it. And it's hard for them to say, "Okay, this is a budget screen. This is a fee schedule screen," because they all look the same. They're like blank slates. It would be great if all the budget screens were in one color and all the fee schedule screens were in another color so they know when they're keying something in at what point of the system they're in. Are they in projects? Are they in budgets? Are they in time entries? Green for time entries, yellow for budgets. That would really make, I think, just click in quicker for them. It takes longer for them to read every single screen.
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