BidBook

RATING:

4.5

(17)

About BidBook

BidBook is a cloud-based customer relationship management solution, built on Salesforce, that helps construction businesses manage bids, client relationships, projects, and revenue. The platform offers a host of features such as contract management, email marketing, forecasting, client tracking and quoting. BidBook enables organizations to analyze budgets, cash flows, profits and margins to streamline operations. It allows users to prioritize their bid pipelines and track invitations to bids (ITBs), proposals, activities and change orders. Additionally, it lets users maintain connections and handle sales activities via iOS, Android, Windows and macOS devices. BidBook includes a notification system, which sends alerts to team members and managers for due dates,...

BidBook Pricing

$55 to $90 per user, per month. Call for edition pricing. (5) users to start.

Starting price: 

$90.00 per year

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

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BidBook Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for BidBook

1 - 5 of 17 Reviews

Joshua

Construction, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed June 2020

ACP Review - Josh

Tracking our bids, and giving our salesman an organization tool. We send out 25+ bids a week and they need something for them to remind them to follow up. We will eventually use it for reporting as well.

PROS

I created multiple diagrams describing our companies workflow. [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] used these diagrams and took the time throughout multiple meetings to understand our workflow. From there, they structured BidBook to fit our workflow. This made the software feel proprietary to our company. I enjoy how user friendly the software is and how smoothly it runs. When you click on an object or link its instantaneous. The ability to track multiple bids for one project is the main reason we chose Bidbook, and so far seems to work well. I hope the more we continue to use it, the more we get out of it.

CONS

I would like a better way to edit multiple bids at one time. Many times we send the same bid to multiple companies. Even though the bid is the same for each company, we have to take the time to go into each bid and update it. I wish there was away to mass edit each bid and attach our proposals simultaneously.

Reason for choosing BidBook

BidBook was the first product we looked into and it looks like we made a good choice.

Reasons for switching to BidBook

BidBook has the ability to tie multiple bids to one project

Jorden

Construction, 201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2020

Good Platform

PROS

The reports and dashboard features are visually pleasing and clear to read. The reports are easily editable and the date can be manipulated to show exactly what you want on your dashboard.

CONS

The Salesforce Chatter feature has yet to work like we expected it to work. It appears to be a great tool, but must be set up correctly. We are working through the kinks now.

Reasons for switching to BidBook

We were not getting the support from Cosential and felt that BidBook, being on the Salesforce platform had much more to offer. The usability is much better as well.

Lynette

Construction, 201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed December 2022

Royal Electric First Year of Bidbook

PROS

Platform allows us to customize to our needs. Centrally locates all our Bid History per Account. Allows easy search to find Suppliers. And has all the data in one place.

CONS

Getting the data into the system correctly was a bit of a pain. Understanding the Bidbook Status's to our existing Status's.

Reasons for switching to BidBook

We needed a location to centrally locate all our clients historical bids records to for reporting needs and easy access to data. It also allows us to manage our active bids.

Andrew

Construction, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed August 2019

Great Product

Multifamily New Construction Projects The CRM Evangelist team worked with us proactively to import our bid and project data, tailor our business process, reports and train the team. The team at BidBook has been very responsive. And helped us with adoption and request unique to our business.

PROS

Airo Mechanical has been experiencing growth with our specialty Multifamily New Construction Projects. And researched “software to help all incoming and outgoing bids from GC's.” We came across BidBook for Salesforce. It did everything we wanted. And room to grow.

CONS

Some customization is needed and not exactly tailored to my line of business (Mechanical Contractor). But the implementation team did a great job adjusting what we needed in a quick manner.

Reason for choosing BidBook

With BidBook we are operating at a better level of insight, and efficiency than ever before. We achieved our original objective. And able to continually improve our commitment to customer service excellence.

Jillian

Construction, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

BidBook works great for Bid Management

BidBook has helped us stay organized and I have had a pleasant experience using it.

PROS

This product helps us stay organized with the multiple bids that we have come in daily. It lets all users stay on the same page and helps us work together to win projects.

CONS

Some of the steps seem to be less user friendly than others. Some users that aren't a fan of change had a harder time accepting it because of this.

Reason for choosing BidBook

n/a

Reasons for switching to BidBook

to integrate into salesforce.

Vendor Response

Glad you are enjoying BidBook. And, thank you for the feedback Jillian. We will contact you to explore any suggestions for improvement.

Replied November 2022