BQE CORE Suite vs ClickTime: Which is a better fit?

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.

Jen: Hi, my name is Jen and I'm the Director of Operations. I would give ClickTime a five star review. For more videos like this, click below. We have been using ClickTime for as long as I've been with our organization. However, a couple years ago, we were looking at using Paychex to do all of our time tracking, and we ultimately decided to stay with ClickTime. We were trying to come up with a way to better track our grants and contracts and how people bill their time on it. ClickTime was just something that's user friendly, and it's easy for people to access from anywhere. ClickTime is very easy to get set up. It's very intuitive, and whenever I onboard a new employee, it barely takes any time at all to explain it to them. One of the things I like most about ClickTime is that they're also a small company. They're really easy to get in touch with on the few occasions that I've had issues. They're quick to respond via phone or email. Another thing I like is that they're always looking at ways to improve the user experience. In the past few years, they've made a lot of different upgrades that have really helped our workflow and to make things easier on our time management end.