Some of the main features and benefits that BQE CORE has to offer you are:
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| Dashboard | Provides real-time, graphical information for executives and managers to make important and quick decisions. It also allows employees to stay on top of their tasks and performance. |
| Notifications and Reminders | Allows you to stay on top of things to do. These remind you of important deadlines and dates. |
| Project Budgeting | Enables you to manage projects effectively and profitably. You can create standalone as well as custom project budgets. |
| Allocation and Forecasting | Allows you to manage everyone's workload and tasks within deadlines |
| Calendar | Manages your time, appointments and events. You can sync your CORE calendar with other calendars. |
| Time Entry | Allows you to track time for accurate billing and job costing |
| Expense Entry | Allows you to track expenses for job costing and internal administration |
| Personal Time Off | Allows you to manage your personal time off |
| Classes | Helps you stay organized by categorizing and tracking your transactions |
| Custom Fields and Labels | Allows you to save and track unique information. You can customize the terminology and labels to suit your preferences |
| Billing Schedules | Saves your time by scheduling recurring billing for your projects |
| Fee Schedules | Gives you the option to use special rates under specific situations |
| Timers | Allows you to track time in 'real-time' on multiple projects |
| Recurring Transactions | Saves your time and efforts by automating your processes of generating bills, invoices and checks |
| Payments and Collections | Manages your payments and revenue, and enables you to stay on top of your outstanding invoices |
| Statements | A statement summarizes information about invoices, adjustments, and payments for a project or a client. |
| Vendor Bills | Helps you manage your accounts payable, thus reducing your liabilities |
| Account Reconciliation | Helps you maintain accurate finances and accounts |
| Bill Payments | Helps to pay your A/P liabilities |
| Cloud Feeds | Removes the hassle of downloading your bank statements and other cloud feeds by importing them into your CORE accounts |
| Reports | Enables informed decision making by providing useful information to managers and employees. You can customize, schedule and memorize your reports. |
| Messages | Allows you to stay connected with other CORE users and be better informed |
| Data Integration | Gives you the freedom to manage your business from where you want by allowing syncing of data with your accounting system, say QuickBooks, Xero or MYOB AccountRight. Its cloud storage feature supports and integrates with Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. |
| Auto Complete | Saves your time by letting you use shorthand codes |
| Overtime Calculator | Reduces chances of errors and saves time with its automatic overtime calculations |
| To-Dos | Allows you to better manage your tasks and appointments |
| Cloning | Reduces editing and data setup time by creating copies of records |
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Globalization |
CORE offers seamless globalization of your data. Currency, numeric and date data is always formatted according to the company preferences as opposed to regional settings. Your locale has no effect on the date, currency or numeric formats. |
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Allows you to attach files and documents of all kinds to your records for easy management and tracking |
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Manages all your currencies if you are dealing with foreign transactions and expenses in multiple currencies |
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Allows you to assign specific items to your employees and projects |
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Accounting |
Provides full-blown A/R and A/P features including deposits, checks, transfers, registers and general journal |
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Allows you to request and receive retainers at the project and client level |
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Offers a complete built-in, but customizable security system. Security profiles allow or limit access to various screens, reports, and confidential information. |
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Native mobile app for iOS and Android smartphones that allows you to use CORE anytime and anywhere |
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LEDES Export |
You can export CORE invoices to the LEDES format used by the legal industry. |
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HR |
You can manage your human resources in CORE, such as employee benefits, salary, journals, incidents, forms, etc. |
| CORE uses the voice recognition technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to allow you to converse with it via devices such as Google Home or Google Assistant. | |
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CORE CRM |
CORE provides a fully-integrated, all-in-one CRM solution that compliments the existing CORE platform. You can set up sales goals, pursue leads, and track opportunities. |
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Two-Factor Authentication |
CORE admins and users have an extra layer of security by enabling 2FA on their accounts and choosing text, voice call, or authenticator app as authentication options. |
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CORE offers your clients different ways to make online payments via credit cards or ACH transfers using the BQE ePayments feature. |
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You can integrate with Office 365 so as to sync your Microsoft 365 Outlook/Hotmail/Exchange calendar events with the CORE Calendar. |