BQE CORE

By audience

Accounting & Finance

• Runs project billing (fixed fee, hourly, phased, retainers) and AR, with built-in accounting or a two-way sync to QuickBooks, Xero or MYOB AccountRight
• Processes payroll inside CORE on Gusto's engine, with payroll totals posting back as general-ledger entries
• Tracks WIP, budgets and project profitability without re-keying time or invoices into the ledger

Executive Leadership

• Principals watch utilization, multipliers, backlog and project profitability across the firm from CORE dashboards and CORE Insights
• Firm data loads into Power BI or Microsoft Fabric through BQE's own connector for wider reporting

Business Development

• The built-in CRM tracks prospects, opportunities, proposals and pursuit follow-ups, and syncs CRM email with Office 365

Human Resources

• CORE HR keeps employee records, benefits, reviews and incidents, and CORE Payroll handles employee onboarding, PTO policies and W-2s

Project Manager

• Project managers plan phases and staffing, allocate and forecast resources, and see budget versus actual as time is entered
• Time entries can be created from Outlook or Google Calendar meetings, so PMs get complete hours against each phase

Architecture

• Built for architecture practices: tracks design-phase fees and construction-administration time, and bills by AIA-style phases

By phase

Concept & Planning

• Principals build fee proposals and phase budgets for a pursuit before design work starts

Design

• Design staff log time and expenses by phase and activity, and PMs track fee burn against the design budget

Construction

• Construction-administration hours and reimbursables are tracked and billed against the CA phase of the contract