Blinkbid

Blinkbid is a bidding and estimating software specifically designed for creative professionals in the advertising, photography, and film industries. According to the vendor, Blinkbid caters to businesses of all sizes, from individual freelancers to large companies. This software is utilized by advertising professionals, photographers, film producers, art directors, and creative agencies, providing them with features to streamline their bidding and estimating processes.

Key Features

Job Duplication: According to the vendor, users can save time by creating a job once and duplicating it for future use. They can also design custom templates of line items to streamline the bidding process and easily duplicate relevant parts from previous jobs.

Industry-Specific Item Catalogs: Blinkbid provides industry-specific item catalogs, such as AICP, AICE, and Commercial Photography, which offer comprehensive lists of line items for any job. Users have the flexibility to choose from various options to create bids based on their experience.

Real-Time Job Sharing: Users can collaborate seamlessly with agents, producers, or anyone on the BlinkBid network, according to the vendor. They can oversee jobs in production in real time and make changes as needed.

Multiple Revisions: According to the vendor, Blinkbid offers limitless bid revisions to accommodate changes in scope and negotiations with clients. Users can create endless new revisions and revert to any previous version.

Currency Converter: Blinkbid allows users to bid in their preferred currency, present in the client's currency, produce in their familiar currency, and invoice in the client's currency. The platform pulls currency conversion rates from current exchange rates, but users can tweak the conversion rate for granular control if required.

Made for Large Companies or Individual Freelancers: Blinkbid is designed to be scalable and can be used by both individual freelancers and large companies. According to the vendor, all employees of a company have access to all jobs, while freelance producers can be granted access to specific production parts of a job.

Personalities: Users can create different personalities to house different types of businesses under one umbrella, according to the vendor. Each personality carries its own settings, such as logo, tax, and reporting, providing the freedom to structure the company in various ways.

Production Tracking: Users can track production expenses with receipts or time, or both. According to the vendor, Blinkbid allows users to balance overages on one line item by taking money from another line item. Production reports can be generated to ensure the project stays on budget.

Freelancer Account: According to the vendor, Blinkbid offers a freelancer account, allowing users to share a job with the freelancer account and have the freelance producer oversee the job. Freelance producers can log in to the account and actively participate in the production process.

Item Catalog: Blinkbid provides a customizable and clickable item catalog that includes everything needed for a job. Users can customize the catalog according to their specific needs, according to the vendor.