BQE Software Makes BillQuick® Available to Millions of Peachtree Users; Industry leading time billing software now integrates with all leading accounting software

Business Wire, Dec 15, 2005

TORRANCE, Calif. -- BQE Software Inc., makers of the popular BillQuick(R) time billing and project management software, announced today that it has made BillQuick available to the millions of small and medium size businesses that rely on Sage's Peachtree Accounting solutions to manage their operations. With this new release of BillQuick, BQE now offers time billing and project management capabilities for all major accounting solutions; QuickBooks by Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU), Small Business Accounting by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Peachtree by Sage Software (LSE: SGE.L).

"Seamless integration of time billing and project management with an underlying accounting platform that tracks account status and manages accounts payable and receivable is important for small and medium size businesses. It saves time and allows them to focus more on their business. BillQuick is already the solution of choice for thousands of QuickBooks and Microsoft SBA users, and now BillQuick is also available for the millions of small and medium size companies that use Peachtree as their accounting system. This makes BillQuick platform independent!" said Shafat Qazi, CEO and Co-Founder of BQE Software.

BillQuick time tracking and project management solutions allow professional services companies to closely monitor time, resources, profitability and activity forecasts for their projects and clients. Peachtree helps small businesses efficiently manage and streamline their accounting and business management operations by providing powerful accounting with strong analysis tools and operations management features. By integrating BillQuick and Peachtree, client and project specific information can now flow freely between the two applications, allowing for time spent on projects to be tracked, reported and billed to clients easily and accurately. No more entering the data twice.

"We have more than ten years of experience working with small and medium size professional services companies. Accurate time tracking, real-time project management, and powerful billing functionality are essential to the profitability and ultimately the success of these companies," said Will Breiholz, General Manager of BQE Software. "BillQuick now integrates with the leading accounting solutions in the market, so even more small businesses can benefit from a complete business management solution."

About BQE Software Inc.

BQE Software, Inc., founded in 1995, is based in Torrance, California. Its flagship product, BillQuick(R), is a leading time billing and project management software. BQE has developed products for service industries that completely automate the time-keeping, project management and billing process. This includes software for off-site consultants and satellite offices: time and expense recording, report generation and invoicing via the Web, email and PDAs. BillQuick is suitable for any size organization, as it utilizes Microsoft Access, MSDE and SQL server databases. Architects, engineers, accountants, attorneys, IT consultants and other business consultants have discovered the unequaled features and flexibility of BillQuick products. For more information on BQE Software, call (888) 245-5669 or visit www.BQE.com. A free 30-day trial version of BillQuick 2005 is available at www.BillQuick.com or by sending your request to sales@bqe.com.

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