Do you understand the Work Breakdown Structure options in BillQuick? What best suits your management style and information needs will determine how you setup projects. There are several ways to organize your work breakdown structure. Take a quick tour and see which fits your preferences. You might also see a few more ways to optimize [...]
Read more3 Ways to Handle Bills from Vendors
A question from a soon-to-be BillQuick Customer (I’m positive kind of guy!) echoes similar questions asked in demos and training by architects, engineers, accountants and other professional services firms. We use subcontractor engineers to support the existing billable employees. We have a mark up for the cost of the subcontracted engineers. What is the correct [...]
Read moreWhy Do I Need SQL Express?
Before answering this end-question, let’s start with What is SQL Express? SQL Express is a FREE database from Microsoft. It is the ‘baby brother’ of the enterprise-level Microsoft SQL Server database technology. They share a lot of DNA. SQL Express can handle up to 4 gigabytes of data. Of course, by the time you hit [...]
Read moreHuge Success – BillQuick on Tour 2011, Las Vegas
One of the joys of being part of BQE Software is meeting customers and talking with them. BQE University’s BillQuick on Tour events consistently receive high marks from BillQuick users. “I didn’t know BillQuick could do that!” is a comment that brings smiles to all our faces. The only better comment we love to hear [...]
Read moreTips and Tricks – Recent Reports
BQE’s CEO and Founder, Shafat Qazi, periodically presents a seminar, BillQuick Tips & Tricks. Most the items come from his annual visits with customers and frequent conversations with users. Shafat likes to observes how new and long-time users interact with BillQuick. His favorite moments are insights from a user’s perspective that turns into a new [...]
Read moreTips and Tricks – Apply Styles to Custom Fields
Listening to customers (and potential customers) has been standard operating procedure at BQE since before BillQuick v. 1.0 was released in 1996. Sitting with them and watching how they use BillQuick has resulted in numerous time-saving, productivity-boosting features. A new one added in BillQuick 2011 is Styles for Custom Fields.
Read more10 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About BillQuick Timers
Bad experience with timers in another application? You might have dismissed the stopwatch timers in BillQuick because of a bad experience with a quirky, always-crashing timer in another application. It’s time to overcome that bad experience. Don’t think timers fit how you work? Balderdash! In the field, use the Web Suite Mobile timer. At your [...]
Read moreFree Webinar – QuickBooks Integration – Are you doing it right?
Take the quick quiz and find out: Are you entering data twice? Is integrating taking more time than you think it should? Do you wish the integration had payroll settings and Class settings? When you integrate BillQuick and QuickBooks, duplicate entry is gone. You can live up to the motto: NED2 – Never Enter Data [...]
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December 15, 2011
