TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BQE Software Inc., a world leader in time tracking, billing and project management software for professional services firms, announced today the immediate availability of BQE BillQuick® 2012. The new and improved features in BillQuick 2012 promote faster business decisions, increase project performance and streamline the billing process.
“One of the reasons why BillQuick has become such an indispensable tool among professional services firms is because BQE listens to its user community,” said Shafat Qazi, CEO and Founder of BQE Software. “We balance customer feedback with our own in-depth understanding of the domain to provide unique features that make it easier to win new business, make educated decisions and eliminate friction in their management processes.”
Make Decisions Faster
Based on the popularity of the Report Center, BillQuick 2012 features two new centers.
- Project Center: Centralize everything you need to manage a project. Find out which projects are running at a loss, have burned through the budget or have overspent their contract. Not only can you easily monitor the condition of your projects, you can control them so they are headed in a profitable direction.
- Collection Center: Aggregate all collection efforts in one place to manage the collections process with greater efficiency. On a single screen, see invoices, payment history, key historical statistics and collection related notes.
Increase Project Performance
With the goal of reducing the number of steps involved in managing a project, BillQuick 2012 includes two key features that will help project managers lead their team more efficiently.
- Interactive Gantt Charts: Schedule projects by simply dragging and stretching tasks on a visual timeline. BillQuick automatically checks for conflicts when you assign people and can send an allocation schedule to everyone involved.
- To-Do Alerts: Utilize the new alerts feature to automatically remind team members about their assigned tasks.
Streamline Billing Processes
Improving the billing process directly impacts cash flow. In BillQuick 2012, there are several features that will help the accounting staff get the billing completed faster.
- Progress Billing for Expenses: Bill your expenses in advance and when your employees complete their expense sheets, simply link them to the previously processed invoice.
- Specify Minimum Retainer: Input a minimum retainer only when it’s needed for a project. When it’s time for re-billing the retainer, BillQuick will automatically remind you.
- Multi-Currency Expense Sheets: Set the default expense currency by employee, giving them the power to fill their expense sheet in multiple currencies.
- Overtime Calculator: Analyze multiple timesheets and mark qualifying entries as overtime automatically, with appropriate overtime rates.
- Memorized Filters: Automatically keep the last 100 filters applied to your reports. This simple yet intuitive feature is guaranteed to save time every day.
- Automatic Payment Receipts: Eliminate the need to manually email a ‘Thank You’ note to your clients. BillQuick 2012 has the ability to automatically email a customizable ‘Thank You’ note to your clients once a payment is received and conveniently attach an electronic receipt of the payment.
Community Involvement Drives Enhancements
More than 480 features and enhancements were directly requested by the BillQuick community and nearly 200 have been implemented in this release. A few of our favorite requests are Project Center, Overtime Calculator, Memorized Filters and Multi-Currency Expense Sheets. The goal of this engineering effort, involving over 40,000 man hours, is to empower BQE customers with tools that optimize everyday processes and deliver a better business management experience.
BQE BillQuick Family
BQE offers a line of BillQuick solutions flexible enough to meet the demands of any firm size—from a single person to a global firm. BillQuick, Web Suite, BillQuick HR and BillQuick Online make up the BillQuick Family. BillQuick incorporates critical business functions—time and expense tracking, project management, billing and accounts payable—in one solution that accommodates the complex needs of today’s professional services firms. Web Suite extends the power of BillQuick to remote users and satellite offices via the Internet by hosting it on your server. BillQuick Online combines the power of BillQuick with the benefits of a cloud solution—no installation, backup or hardware maintenance. BillQuick HR is a powerful human resource management application that enables you to manage your employees in a simple and effortless manner. On-the-go users of Web Suite and BillQuick Online can quickly and easily submit time cards and expenses using the free BillQuick Mobile application on iPhone® and Android™ devices.
Availability
New and upgrade versions of BillQuick 2012 are now available for worldwide purchase through BQE Direct Sales and BQE Authorized Resellers. For additional information and screen shots, please visit www.bqe.com/BillQuick2012. For North America, Europe and Australia regional pricing inquiries please email sales@bqe.com or visit www.bqe.com/contact for a regional phone number.
About BQE Software
BQE Software is a world leader in time tracking, billing and project management software for professional services firms. Its products, including BillQuick®, ArchiOffice® and EngineerOffice®, simplify the way information is entered and utilized by firms. With over 250,000 users, BQE is the trusted solution worldwide for architects, engineers, accountants, attorneys, IT consultants and business consultants. The company is headquartered in Torrance, California with offices in Australia and Europe. For more information, visit www.bqe.com. Follow BQE BillQuick on Facebook, www.facebook.com/BQE.BillQuick, and Twitter, www.twitter.com/BillQuick.