Factor AE 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Factor AE

5.0

(10)

Pricing

Starting at $30.00 per month

About Factor AE

Factor AE is a simple, affordable software that helps architecture and engineering firms manage projects, resources, invoicing, and overall profitability. The features in Factor A/E were specifically designed to alleviate common pain points in the industry, including: flexible project and phase break-downs, sub-consultant management, task creation, resource scheduling, time and expense tracking, detailed invoicing, and industry-specific KPI's. The product specialists at Factor are happy to offer fully-assisted onboarding and customized data migrations from the current platform.

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Factor AE Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $30.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$30.00

per user, per month

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Factor AE Features

Popular features found in Project Tracking
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
Multiple Projects
Prioritization
Project Planning
Project Time Tracking
Status Tracking
Task Management
Task Scheduling
Workflow Management
More features of Factor AE
Activity Dashboard
Activity Planning
Budgeting/Forecasting
Customizable Templates
Dashboard
Gantt/Timeline View
Progress Tracking
Project Templates
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Resource Management
Task Progress Tracking
Time & Expense Tracking

Factor AE Integrations

QuickBooks Online

Factor AE User Reviews

Overall Rating

5.0

Ratings Breakdown

100%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

5.0

Value for money

5.0

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.9

Michael G.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Excellent Software Solution

I've been able to reduce the number of hours spent tracking consultant budgets on projects, and streamlined the invoicing process. The support team has been excellent, responsive and extremely helpful.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The system is very easy to use and set up. After a quick demo, my firm was up and running. I am able to easily track consultant fees and project invoices for each phase.

Cons:

I would like to have the ability to track proposals vs active projects. I've been told this is a feature that is coming soon.

Reasons for switching to Factor AE

BQE was too slow and clunky and tried to do everything, but nothing well.

Kristen Y.

Verified reviewer

Civil Engineering

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

Factor AE is a Winner!

We switched to Factor since our previous time keeping software was having countless technical difficulties and their customer service became nonexistent. We have been very happy with Factor. Their customer service excellent. The software is easy to navigate. The Invoicing process is very efficient. We're very happy we made the switch.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

User friendly, efficient, excellent customer service.

Cons:

Don’t really have one yet. Perhaps they could improve how they differentiate user rights between admin, project managers and staff, a little more.

Reasons for switching to Factor AE

Big Time became unreliable and we encountered many problems with its accuracy, integration, and customer service became non existent.

Heather H.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2025

Highly Recommend

Our small (12 person) architectural firm has been very pleased since we switched to Factor for project management and invoicing. The Factor team was very helpful during the transition from our old software and have continued to be responsive to our support requests when questions come up. The software itself is intuitive and easy to learn. Overall, we would definitely recommend!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software itself is very easy to learn. With so much data included, we were pleasantly surprised at how intuitive it is to find the information you need.

Cons:

Customized reports take a few days to create. There are so many reporting options that finding the right reports can take some time.

Reasons for choosing Factor AE

The customization options and hands on support team made Factor a more attractive option.

Reasons for switching to Factor AE

We were looking for a software that better integrated Project Management, Time Tracking and Invoicing

Amanda L.

Verified reviewer

Civil Engineering

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

Highly Recommend Factor AE

They have been easy to work with, and the system is easy to use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

My favorite thing about Factor AE is that it syncs perfectly with QuickBooks Online. I also really like the easy to use system, and the helpful customer service.

Cons:

I would like the ability to receive credit card payments from our clients. Factor is currently working on this capability.

Reasons for choosing Factor AE

Factor AE surprisngly got better reviews for its capability to sync with QBO.

Reasons for switching to Factor AE

BigTime was no longer able to sync with QuickBooks, and they could not provide us with a fix.

Amy J.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

Simple yet Powerful

Factor has made a large part of my job so much easier and less frustrating. Especially invoicing.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ease of use. We have used other software design for the a/e industry and all of them are cumbersome and hard to find the correct information. Factor is very straight forward and the support is great. One of the best parts for our firm is that invoices and reports are customized for your firm. And Factor makes sure the invoice works the way you want it to work. This is a great improvement over the other software we have used in the past.

Cons:

The only thing missing is our old software would push any employee reimbursable expense to be a bill to pay. In Factor I have to run an expense report and then go into Quickbooks and pay it. But that is just a change in routine so once everyone gets used to it, I think I will actually like it better.

Reasons for switching to Factor AE

Core was not a dependable program and the customer service was non-existent. We paid to have them customize an invoice and it was never corrected. They had a problem with the overall system and it took them a month to correct it. We used Core for accounting and project management and if you can't trust the numbers, you cannot run your business.

Scott S.

Verified reviewer

Civil Engineering

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

Great time keeping program

Over the last 3 months Factor A/E has been a solid time keeping program that is a breeze to use

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Factor AE is a step above our old system when it comes to logging time and tracking PTO. Intuitive and easy to use.

Cons:

Factor can still be affected by internet outages.

Ethan G.

Verified reviewer

Civil Engineering

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

Factor AE from an Employee Perspective

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of duplicating time entries and tracking of PTO balances.

Cons:

Nothing major. Might be useful to add a feature that includes recent expense entries, similar to the recent time entries, to save some steps when inputting recurring expenses.

Reasons for switching to Factor AE

Issues with customer service and crashing.

Keegan F.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

Easy day to day experience

Great customer support. Easy day to day method of logging and submitting time while easily controlling project management.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The easy integration for project management.

Cons:

Factor would be nice to have on a mobile app.

Kathryn H.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2023

Over all happiness with Factor

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Factor AE provides a single place for tracking employee time, tracking project time, tracking project budget, and creating accurate invoices with out being overly cumbersome. For a smaller office full of creative landscape architecture minds this program has been easy for all our staff to use.

Cons:

There have been times when creating reports for our needs have been...challenging. Luckily, Factor has a very good support staff and they've been willing to help us. As with all software, there are things it won't do and we have to find ways around it, for me the reports have been that "thing."

Mark H.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Yes.

Cannot say enough good things about Factor A/E. We are a small architectural firm and searched high and low for a third party software solution to integrate with our Quickbook Online so that we could prepare customized, accurate, phased invoices for our clients and run various reports. We came up empty until we happened to find Factor A/E. Really very impressed with the software, support, and people there. Like, more impressed than you can imagine! So if you need to track phased projects and prepare invoices for an architectural firm, look no further. In our experience, there's no limit to their expertise, patience, or genuine concern for their clients. Five stars are not enough.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Everything has been very good so far. Factor A/E has been remarkably helpful, responsive, and professional in delivering all we have asked for -- from time sheet entries to project tracking to invoicing to reports, Factor A/E is impressive and easy to work with.

Cons:

So far we are pleased with everything at Factor A/E.

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