# Page 15 | BQE CORE Suite Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 15 - Is BQE CORE Suite the right Trust Accounting solution for you? Explore 783 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/141096/BQE-Software/reviews --- BQE CORE Suite 4.5 (783) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/141096/BQE-Software/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 15 - Reviews of BQE CORE Suite ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 351-375 of 783 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use EA Edward A. Structural Engineer Architecture & Planning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "I am a small consulting engineering firm and use this for time accounting and invoicing. Additioanl features and capabilites are available as I grow into them." October 15, 2018 5.0 Pros This is fairly intuitive for a non-programming type of user. Results have been good and reliable. Support help has been very good, both from my account rep and tech support. It is good to have backup when things get lost, and BQE has been there. I look forward to exploring other features as my needs grow. Cons I have the basic level program and am curious about extended planning tools and features. We will see if these are as intuitive and the basic functions. Review Source CJ Chelsea J. Creative Associate Graphic Design Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "CORE Is Super Effective at LPA!" July 29, 2022 5.0 Pros I like how the time tracking is laid out and intuitive to use. Cons I don't like how changing the project category resets the description sometimes (glitch?) Review Source LC Lori C. Business Manager Oil & Energy Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Time entry is better than our old system.." February 13, 2020 5.0 Pros The time card entry process seems to be better than our old system. Lot less steps for our staff to get their time sheets in. We are still in the learning process, I can say one thing about BQE support personnel...they are helpful and very patient and understanding. I appreciate them very much Cons For vendor ID, you have to choose either a tax ID number or a SSN. Vendor's can be either, so you should be able to have both. Review Source AM Ashley M. Business Manager Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Used the software for: 2+ years ### "BillQuick has made our life easier" June 20, 2017 5.0 I highly recommend it Pros I would definitely say BillQuick has made our life easier. It is very easy to use and handles our time and expense tracking on projects. Integration with QuickBooks works really well and it saves double data entry. Whenever we need any help their customer service has been outstanding. Cons Cannot think of anything. We have been using BillQuick for 7 years and whenever there has been an issue with the software BQE has been there to support us Review Source ER Edward R. President Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great billing software" March 30, 2017 5.0 Highly recommended product. Pros As a structural engineering consulting practice with numerous projects and clients, the software answers our needs with wonderful organization and flexibility in setting up projects and invoicing. Numerous invoicing templates allow us to satisfy our clients billing requirements to a "T". Technical support is responsive and knowledgeable on all facets of the program. Cons The biggest asset, deep flexibility and customization, can take some real time to master. Fortunately, though, technical support is there to take you by the hand and show you how to accomplish what you need to do. Review Source SD Scott D. Principal Design Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Principal review." December 2, 2021 5.0 Pros Ease of use with time and expense tracking. Cons Some of the filter options have not seemed to work properly in the past. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Salesforce Business Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Clunky, but gets the very basic job done" February 16, 2021 3.0 Clunky, difficult to use, but again, maybe with more access, and actual training, I would find it easier to navigate. Pros Easy to enter time, once you've been given access to necessary projects. Simple user interface and easy to pull reports. Cons Very clunky - maybe it's just my access, or that I've been given no training, but the filters to manage other's time for approval are not easy to use. When you click to "select all", it selects the first 25, then if you scroll to view others, it selects them too. Would like to be able to turn off this feature Review Source BR Beth R. Paralegal Management Consulting Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "BQE Support is very helpful" July 1, 2020 5.0 Overall great experience with BQE Pros The ability to call and quickly connect with customer support is very helpful. We have been using Core for more than one year for time tracking, billing, project manager and accounting features. The technical support team is pleasure to speak with and very informative. They are able to help me understand and utilize Core better. Cons Allowing users to have different access to matters Review Source sF sahar F. Project designer Architecture & Planning Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "BEQ Review" August 24, 2023 5.0 it's easy to use and useful. Pros easy to use, and i like it so far. it is easy to follow. Cons I am just using it for time tracking and it is good, but i believe others use it for project management as well. and they ae happy. Review Source SO Sarah O. Financial Administrator Design Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "BQE Review" December 5, 2023 4.0 Pros The ability to track projects, budgets and along with invoicing. Cons There are some features that are hard to locate and wish some the features were a bit simpler to navigate. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer OFFICE MANAGER Civil Engineering Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Not ready for primetime!" November 14, 2017 1.0 At this point, we get absolutely no benefit. I have spent over 100 hours of my time trying to set it up over the past month and our employees are still unable to use it to track their time and expenses. Very frustrating experience! Pros Core promises to give project managers lots of granular insight into their projects, tracking budgets, employee time, expenses, etc. In demos it looks great! Cons Almost nothing about this software works properly. It is full of bugs and terrible user design. Support technicians, while nice, don't seem to be very familiar with the software. Review Source TG Tracie G. Business Manager Architecture & Planning Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "There are many ways we see BQE Core streamlining our processes" June 22, 2020 5.0 Pros First & foremost is this Technical Support Team! Each call I have made to them has increased my operational knowledge of Core and provided needed assistance with resolving issues. We in the early implementation stages so there are many ways we see Core streamlining our processes. In my role we use BQE Core for time and expense tracking, invoicing and project management - and I am increasingly impressed at the capacity of Core and it's abilities. Cons I would like to see more information/description links - identified by the circled blue question marks. Review Source AR Amber R. Accountant Architecture & Planning Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Core BQE user/ accounting" March 30, 2023 5.0 organization and ease of workflow Pros the vendor bills are a great feature for multiple uses and uploading documents direct to the projects is great for organization and the live help is priceless. Cons has had times where its very slow and has odd glitches Review Source VN Vivian N. Accounting Manager Architecture & Planning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great customer service" March 18, 2019 5.0 Pros I called worried about our data migration dates between AO and Core and rep fixed Everything and put my mind at ease. Our transition will now be so much smoother. Feeling more positive about Core! Cons Nothing I can think of at this time..... Review Source SM Susan M. Accounts Architecture & Planning Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Support following second look service" November 8, 2016 3.0 A rep was brought in to iron our a long standing issue we had with invoicing using your Online version. It has been reported many times before but the problem was unable to be replicated. The rep took the time to understand the problem and followed it through, successfully identifying the problem lay with the Custom invoice. It was able to be rectified and our next invoice run worked perfectly. Her support was worth a five star, and in the past 70% of the time the support issued have been resolved (although not necessarily in a timely manner) hence the 4 star rating on customer service above. Pros Problems are being resolved slowly - we've used the online version for two years now and have worked out way around the quirks to invoice successfully. Cons Response times, some functionality, being able to switch between screens quickly (e.g. when editing multiple timeslips), no way to quickly check GST being charged on each item. Invoicing process takes longer than it did pre the Online version, partly due to the process required to download invoices to the correct files (which used to be done automatically) to email through our Outlook for Mac. Often a problem needing support from the US because of the time difference. Review Source MC Mila C. Accountant Accounting Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great Software for Tracking Hours and Reporting" September 26, 2022 5.0 Pros I like how easy the software is to use. It's intuitive and I've never had trouble finding what I needed. I like the reports as well. They have a nice layout and are easy to read. Cons I can't think of anything that I would improve at this time. Review Source CK Carolyn K. Controller Architecture & Planning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very well thought of software" February 17, 2017 5.0 My background in finance has availed the opportunity to work with Sage ERP300, Great Plains, QuickBooks, Peachtree, Design Manager and now BillQuick. I am very fond of BillQuick and its customization features. Very well thought of software. I look forward to BillQuick providing better accounting functions than QuickBooks down the road. The support team is extremely knowledgeable and pleasant to work with. Over these years several BillQuick support engineers have assisted me as well and provided shortcut solutions that in essence create bigger issues. Review Source BS Brent S. Partner Architecture & Planning Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great for small architecture offices" September 16, 2022 5.0 Pros Project management, invoicing, and time tracking are used daily Cons Tasks are still a little clunky, though still very useful Review Source AH Allie H. Office Admin HSE coordinator Environmental Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Office Admin" November 7, 2023 5.0 it's been a short experience, and I am still learning, but overall, everything has been really simple to learn. Pros the Ease to navigate, and simple fixes and easy comparable side by side reports. Cons there isn't anything I really dislike about BQE CORE Suite Review Source CV Craig V. Used the software for: ### "" September 22, 2011 4.5 ArchiOffice is a useful program for architectural practices of all sizes. You should consider this software even if you are a one-person firm. Our firm has 12 employees and we use Quickbooks as our accounting software. Before ArchiOffice, we used Quickbooks for time slips and invoiced our clients directly through QB. But we could not easily track our project billing progress vs. our project budgets, much less profitability and the ability to break out our additional services. ArchiOffice 2011 is a one-stop program that contains all of our project info, contact info, and time slips in one location. It is kind of like Outlook: you open it up first thing and leave it open all day long. No longer does a project manager have to ask the bookkeeper about a client's invoice, where we stand on a project budget, or if the client is fully paid. ArchiOffice pulls the right data out of Quickbooks and puts it back in the firm Owner or project manager's hands where it belongs. Quickbooks then becomes a simple General Ledger... All of your financial and/or project reporting are available at the click of a button. This software even works remotely over the Internet, so you can run reports or enter your timesheets while away from the office. The security levels built-in also restrict the information to those who do not need access to it. We started using the program in V8 about February of 2009. We've been through AO2010 and are now using AO2011. Customer support is immediate. We have had our share of issues, but typically they were resolved in a few hours. The ones that weren't, usually were fixed in the next service release. Review Source TV Tiziana V. Water and wastewater process specialist Architecture & Planning Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great software " December 15, 2021 4.0 Pros I love how intuitive is the interface and graphic Cons Nothing that I do not like. I think the software is great Review Source AD Aakash D. EE Design Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great customer service and support" January 3, 2022 5.0 Pros Easy to Use and has amazing customer service. Cons Cannot think of any, enjoy using the software everyday. Review Source JL Joyce L. Office Manger Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "CivTech BillQuick Software & Support" October 4, 2016 5.0 CivTech decided to implement the software with the current QuickBooks software to improve time entry & add reports. Also to save time during the invoicing and payroll process. During the implementation of the 2 software programs and learning process the BillQuick Representatives, Customer Service along with the custom report process has been a good experience and will be an excellent benefit for our company. I would like to thank my rep and the representatives who have been essential in our company moving forward with understanding and using the BillQuick software. Pros The input ability that employees are able to enter their time to the projects for payroll. This software tool is good overall for saving time. In the past the employee entered their time on a spreadsheet and the accounting person reentered their time into the accounting program with QuickBooks. The more we learn about the benefits of BillQuick the more we like the software. Cons Taking time out to make the phone call to get the answer to fix a problem that came up. Basically it is part of the learning process which ends up being a good experience because of the knowledge and help that we receive will there is an issue. Review Source GC Gerard C. Managing Director Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Has a long way to go" October 17, 2017 2.0 Project integrated with time and expense management once stable Pros Good response to issues and extensive bugs with commitment to resolve over time. Tools for logging on and/or providing work around has been helpful (necessary). Ability to add modules as required will provide a cost effective tools once the platform is stable. Cons BQE CORE has great potential, however as at 17th October 2017 it is still in beta format with lots of unresolved bugs and serious usability issues. Whilst BQE have been very responsive to our reports of software bugs and usability issues it is user beware and use at your own risk. I suggest you wait until mid next year before investing in this product. The reviews for this product have been misrepresented and relate to the broader BQE software suite NOT BQE-Core. So don't be fooled (as I was). There seems to be ZERO software quality assurance with this product, evidenced by software revisions with new bugs and half resolved issues. I think it is being developed in India not the USA but I am not sure what the exact arrangements are. Review Source SL Somi L. Senior Project Manager Architecture & Planning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Time tracking software on daily basis " December 2, 2021 5.0 Pros can keep track of my hours daily, very convenient Cons Sometimes, the pages don't load fast enough Review Source Similar Products Featured