Thursday, January 28, 2016

BillQuick Legal 2016 Protects Billable Time with New Automation and Efficiency-Focused Features

BQE Software, Inc., a world leader in time, billing, accounting and project management software, today announced powerful updates for BillQuick® Legal 2016 to accelerate the efficiency, effectiveness and convenience of legal time tracking and billing.

The new features in BillQuick Legal 2016 enable attorneys and legal professionals to effortlessly organize matters and manage accounts payable. BQE Software will offer demonstrations of the solution during Legaltech New York in booth number 1520, February 2-4.

 “Simply put, BillQuick Legal 2016 allows you to do more in less time,” said Shafat Qazi, CEO and founder of BQE Software. “With this release, we focused on minimizing the time spent to complete day-to-day tasks. BillQuick Legal 2016 helps legal professionals get things done accurately, intelligently, automatically and ahead of schedule.”

Designed to help attorneys and legal professionals optimize processes for maximum results, the new features for BillQuick Legal 2016 focus on automation, efficiency and technical excellence. 

Automation

BillQuick Legal 2016 employs intelligent automation capabilities to minimize time spent on non-billable and/or manual tasks. These capabilities include:  

  • Ability to automatically import transactions – Users can now automatically import bank and credit card transactions to eliminate manual data entry from the accounts payable workflow.
  • Auto-update matter information from the client screen – Easily change invoice templates, fee schedules, payment terms and currency at the client level to automatically update corresponding matter rules.
  • Auto-include phases – Automatically include all phases and sub-phases when reviewing time, expenses or invoices for a matter.
  • Auto-open favorite screens – Work without interruptions by specifying up to five favorite screens to automatically open at login.
  • Back-up SQL database – BillQuick 2016 can automatically initiate backups within the application, protecting users’ valuable time and billing information and records.  

Efficiency 

BillQuick Legal 2016 minimizes repetitive, time-wasting steps through features that create more efficient time and billing results such as:

  • Matter-level retainer – As an expansion of BillQuick Legal’s matter-level retainer capabilities, users can now receive a retainer for a parent matter and apply all or a portion of that retainer to a matter’s phases and sub-phases.
  • Time and expense by class – Applythe View by Class filter to the Reviewer screen to view all time and expense data unique to the selected class or a range of classes.
  • Detail view of unpaid expenses – Users can nowreceive alerts for any unpaid expenses while paying a vendor to minimize multiple transactions and any missed payments.
  • Send multiple attachments as a single file – Bypass multiple client emails with large or numerous attachments by sending all invoice-related attachments as a single file through BillQuick Legal 2016.

Technical excellence

 Built on the powerful .NET 4.5 engine, BillQuick Legal will work with the latest version of operating systems such as Windows 10 and provide significant performance improvements.

To learn more about BillQuick Legal or to start a free trial, visit www.bqe.com/legal.

 You may also visit BQE Software at Legaltech New York (February 2-4, booth number 1520) to see a live demonstration. 

 

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About BQE Software

BQE Software is a world leader in time billing, accounting and project management software for professional services firms. Its products, including BillQuick® Legal, ArchiOffice® and EngineerOffice®, simplify the way information is entered and utilized by firms. With over 350,000 users worldwide, BQE is the trusted solution for lawyers, architects, engineers, accountants, 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/BillQuick, and Twitter, www.twitter.com/BillQuick.

 

By Guest Blogger: BQE Software