You’ve waited long enough and you will soon find out why it was worth the wait. Thanks to all of your valuable suggestions we have made BillQuick 2006 the most powerful Time Billing and Project Management software available.

So you may be asking, what’s all the buzz about? Take a look and find out for yourself.

BillQuick 2006 has over 120 new features and many "under-the-hood" improvements. In addition to the standard database engine, BillQuick 2006 also supports Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine (Microsoft SQL 2005 Express), and Microsoft SQL 2005 and 2000. BillQuick Enterprise and BillQuick Pro now support Integrated Windows Authentication.

The reports team has added over 100 new reports and Invoice templates. BillQuick 2006 now includes over 350 reports and over 90 invoices templates.

To experience the true power of BillQuick 2006, we recommend that you download a trial copy and give it a test drive. BillQuick 2006 works concurrently with previous versions of BillQuick, so you can install it without having to uninstalling or overwriting your previous version of BillQuick.

Some of the key features you will see in BillQuick 2006. . .

New and improved User Interface features

Role-Based Navigators –

Company, Management, Time & Expense, and Billing

With active action buttons and data flows and focused, user-specific information, each of the 4 NEW Navigators make it easier for first-time and experienced users to work with BillQuick. Available navigators now include:

• Company Navigator

• Management Navigator

• Time & Expense Navigator

• Billing Navigator

Information includes charts showing (for example) month by month cash flow, billings, unbilled time, job costing, and important Top 10’s. Enhanced time and expense approval workflow let you know when entries await approval for billing.

Auto Complete for Memos

BillQuick 2006 has two really hot new features for billing. That's right, features to save you time and make billing easier. First, there's Auto-Complete. You can setup shorthand codes to expand into phrases, sentences, paragraphs, pages in any memo pad – invoice memos, time and expense memos, project notes, and more.

Write-Up/Down by Amount

Here's another winner -- Write-up or Down WIP by amount. In addition to the current Percentage Write-Up/Down feature, you can now write up/down work in progress by amount. And you can adjust the Net Bill Amount on Billing Review. In BillQuick 2006 it all flows to the employee and project write-up/down reports.  

Wait, There's More!

Invoice Wizard

BillQuick 2006 includes a new Invoice Wizard that steps you through the process. Along with the enhanced Phased Project Wizard, you can efficiently accomplish billing tasks immediately. With the wizard, you can create a draft or final invoice, and save or print the invoice immediately.

More Billing Information in One Place

Also new for billing, the Billing Review screen now includes the Bill Details screen. Double-click any row to display a complete summary for the billing record, including your billing decisions. View billing information before producing a draft or final invoice.

For more information about new and improved features in the entire BillQuick Family, see the rest of this month's BillQuick eLetter and visit our web site.

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Agent Alert - New Level of Workflow Automation

Set-it-and-forget-it capabilities save time in companies of all sizes. Professional operations turn non-billable hours into billable hours. That's a whole lot better than a small operation – or a large one – being a fire brigade, putting out fires that seem to come out of nowhere despite management’s best efforts.

Agent now contains three workflow functions:

• Management Workflow Automation

• Administrative Workflow Automation

• Report Workflow Automation

Management Workflow Automation

Agent Alert

New in 2006, Agent Alert monitors your company database for exceptions – changes or conditions you define. For example, you may set Agent Alert to monitor:

• Project amount spent until it exceeds a threshold

• Change in project status change

• Project percent complete until it exceeds a threshold

• Project budget until it exceeds a threshold

• Work in progress greater than a set amount

• Receivables greater than a set amount

• For excessive work-in-hand inventory

• For excessive non-billable hours

• For time and expenses waiting approval

• For past due payments

• For unpaid invoices older than specified number of days

The list is endless. You decide what key elements Agent Alert should keep an eye on for you, and what constitutes an exception to inform you about. Agent can alert instantly you by On-Screen Message or send you an email. This is the workflow automation typically found in accounting packages costing $25,000 and higher.

Administrative Workflow Automation

Agent Alert

Enhanced in 2006, the Startup Interview Wizard steps you through setup, helping you make decisions about how you want Agent Time Card to monitor company timekeeping policy for exceptions. You control the parameters, defining workdays, hours in a full workday, frequency of monitoring, and more. When Agent identifies delinquent timekeepers, a click sends an email reminder. You can also view sick hours, vacation days, and so on.

Report Workflow Automation

Schedule any BillQuick report (or any report created with Crystal Reports) to be produced on any frequency – daily, certain day of the week or month, etc., then have it printed automatically. Or for much more flexibility, have the report automatically sent as a PDF attachment to one or many email addresses. Truly, workflow automation at its best --- set it, forget it, and let the information flow to you when you want it.

Agent’s workflow automation capabilities deliver more time for clients and personal activities. Reported payback periods range from as little as one week (large firm) to about two months (2-person company).

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Suite, Suite Web Suite

Faxing information, re-entering information, delaying billing -- it takes time for the person who needs information, the person who has the information, and the person who duplicates the effort to record it.

Staff, managers and partners in the field need to stay productive. They drive revenues and profits for the firm. In addition to the details of projects, they need to keep clients happy and projects within budget. Time taken away from these responsibilities to exchange information related to BillQuick means fewer billable hours, plus the non-billable hours of administrative staff or others. Equally important, people in the field, in satellite offices, in client offices, and other locations need to record time and expenses ASAP because the company needs to bill clients ASAP to maintain a steady cash flow. You can't wait for time and expenses to be faxed, emailed, or delivered by messenger. (Not to mention the added cost of duplicate entry).

Introducing Web Suite!

Web Suite contains the key functionality found in BillQuick. Using a browser-based interface, you can access your company database via the internet, an intranet, or your local area network. Access to Web Suite and to specific functions and features is controlled through security permissions. Using Web Suite you can:

• Manage Projects

• Manage Clients

• Manage Employees

• Manage Activity and Expense Codes

• Track Time

• Track Expenses

• Create Invoices

• Manage Invoices

• Preview/Print Reports (and apply filters)

• Manage Systems Settings & User Preferences

• Search for projects, clients, and more

• Review context-sensitive How Do I’s 

Professionals in satellite offices and in the field, for instance, can access client and project information, adding, editing and deleting it as needed. You access company information, never interrupting staff at the main office. If you need a new activity or expense code, just add it. The company database is instantly updated.

Enter time and expenses anytime, anywhere. Timekeepers can choose the time entry screen they prefer: Sheet View or Week View. Or they prefer, use Timer and open as many stopwatches as they need. Expense Log is available too, allowing timekeepers to capture expenses too. It fast even on a dial-up connection. And when the user saves a record, it is instantly in the company database, ready to review, edit and bill. Real-time. No uploading. No downloading. No importing. No export.

Managers responsible for managing and billing projects are all too often the same people who spend time away from the office. They work at a client's site, at home, at a satellite office, or from a hotel room. Don't wait for faxed or overnight pre-billing reports and draft invoices. Don't wait until you return. Don't "guestimate" a bill. Too often, the result is late, inaccurate bills and slow cash flow and sometimes, upset clients.

Web Suite’s Billing Review provides up-to-the-second timely information for billing decisions wherever there is an Internet connection. With the capabilities in BillQuick’s Billing Review function, you can create one or dozens of Draft and Final hourly, time & materials, fixed fee, percent-complete, recurring, and other invoices. They can be printed at the office, a client's office, or your hotel room. Even faster, email them to clients. 

Web Suite’s Reports lets you produce BillQuick reports anywhere, anytime. Because this module employs server-side processing to generate dynamic HTML pages, reports are generated fast. From the Report Viewer a user can print or export documents as needed.

Web Suite can be run over the Internet or an intranet, or on your local area network. Users can run in Windows, Macintosh and other environments using only Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, Netscape 7.1 or later, Opera 5.0 or later, or Safari for MAC OS.

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How Do I Get BillQuick 2006?

Contact BQE Software

Telephone:(888) 245-5669

Email: Sales@bqe.com

Fax: (310) 784-8482

With more than 100 new features, you get a faster, easier to use, and more time-saving solution in BillQuick 2006 than ever before available.

Through March 31, 2006, you receive up to $300 Off BillQuick PLUS 2 Free Months of Support. When you purchase BillQuick Basic, receive $100 off the list price, paying only $295 for a two-user system. If you need more users, consider BillQuick Pro at $595 for 5 users - a $200 savings. Or if you are a larger operation with higher access and reporting demands, pay only $695 for a BillQuick Enterprise 5-user pack. That's a $300 savings.

Remember: The deadline is March 31, 2006.

You can also check out BillQuick 2006 and all of its add-on modules by downloading a trial copy.

Monthly BillQuick Quizzer
Win $50!

Want to try? Be one of the first 10 people to respond with the correct answer and win $50. You can apply it to any BillQuick product or service.

Here's this month's BillQuick Quizzer question:

Which statement about new and improved BillQuick 2006 is true?

1. BillQuick add-on, Agent, now includes Alerts, which allow you to monitor any data in your company database and be alerted when an exception occurs.

2. BillQuick role-based navigators are really neat.

3. Web Suite contains key BillQuick functionality, and allows you to access and interact with company data anytime, anywhere.

4. Auto Complete saves time by letting users enter a code that expands into phrases, sentences or more text in a memo field.

5. Invoice Wizard steps you through billing a project.

6. A, B and C

7. B, C and D

8. A, C and E

9. A, B, C and D

10. All are true.

11. All are not true.

Hurry and send your answer to BQ-Quiz@bqe.com. You could be a winner!

It's new BillQuick 2006. Gain recognition next month as one of the first three BillQuickers to win $50 for answering the March Quizzer correctly.

Current BillQuick Release Information

Latest BillQuick 2006

BillQuick 2006 v. 7.0.48.  For details, see the BillQuick 2006 Update Log File.

BillQuick 2006 has been tested with all versions of QuickBooks, from 2004 through 2006. It has also been tested with Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006 and later, Peachtree Accounting 2005 and later, and MYOB Australia 2005 and later.

BillQuick 2005 and QuickBooks 2006

BillQuick 2005 has been tested with QuickBooks 2006. Everything is A-OK.

Macintosh Compatibility

Quick reminder: BQE Software is compatible with the Macintosh in two ways: The Web Suite add-on modules or by using Virtual PC.

Latest BillQuick 2005 Version

BillQuick 2005 v. 6.0.124. For details, see the BillQuick 2005 Update Log File.

Various fixes and general improvements throughout BillQuick, including Billing Review, Payment, Manual Invoice and Memo features..

Latest BillQuick 2004 Version

BillQuick 2004 v. 5.0.102. Click to view the changes.

If you have Internet access but do not allow BillQuick to automatically download updates (you turned off AutoUpdate in the Other 2 tab on the Preferences screen), go to the File menu and select Get Updates. When you exit BillQuick, the update automatically installs.

If desired, you can download the latest BillQuick 2004 update from the BillQuick web site. Click Save when prompted. Next, run the setup program from the folder in which it was saved.

Happy BillQuicking!

Thanks from the 
BQE Software Marketing Team