Best-In-Class Solution: Bidsketch vs Proposify
Are you looking for a faster, more professional way to get your proposals in front of your clients?
In this post, we will take a look at Bidsketch and Proposify, two online proposal software options that will help you write your proposals in less time while keeping them organized and looking 100% professional.
Users save a lot of time using Bidsketch or Proposify to create winning proposals against Google Docs or Microsoft Word.
Bidsketch
Bidsketch’s proposal software platform offers a drag and drop builder, electronic signatures, analytics, and real-time collaboration features between you and your teammates. It comes with a starting price of $23 per month; it also comes with a guided help module that can efficiently generate a text and image proposal. This makes it a perfect choice for non-creative users as well as for those with little time but wants to create a proposal like a professional quickly.
Bidsketch features
Quickly create proposals from predefined templates
Publish a special message for customers as soon as they sign the proposal
send proposals via email or save them as a PDF
Allow customers to comment and sign proposals online
Get notification when someone views, sign, and accept your proposals, as well as the number of times it was viewed.
Bidsketch Pricing
Solo plan
The solo plan gives you access to the company's document builder. At 29$ per month, you have access to proposal analytics, your domain as well as electronic signatures. This feature corresponds to all the features of the other entry-level business proposal packages on the market. However, this plan only supports one user with an unlimited proposal and unlimited clients per month.
Team plan
The BidSketch team plan cost 79$ per month and has all the features of the Solo plan with a guided help feature that generates a quick layout for your proposal. All you have to do is to invent the text and insert images as you wish. Making a proposal here takes a fraction of the time, as happens in competing systems. It is limited to 3 users with real-time collaboration and team management.
Business plan
The Business plan cost 149$ per month and has all the features and functionality of the Team package. The only significant difference over the team plan is that it supports up to 8 users.
You can save up to 40% if you opt for an annual plan. Annual packages available for $15, $23, $47, and $119 per month, respectively
Pros
Submit consistent and professional proposals with custom designs.
Define the design of your brand with the colors, logos, and URLs of your domain.
All signed documents are archived, and subsequent changes are disabled, protecting you and your customer.
Beautiful models that are easy to modify, a reasonable price for the proposed value, a streamlined user interface, considerable time savings
The design is immaculate, and the user interface is very intuitive, it is designed to make your life easier and faster if you do not have a lot of time to create productive proposals.
Do you want to see all the features offered by Bidsketch? Click here now for a 14-day free trial. No credit card required.
Proposify
Proposify’s software platform provides a quick and easy way to track and manage proposals, work closely with teams, and create custom, reusable templates so you can quickly make new proposals with time spent discovering the content.
Proposify features
Drag and drop sections of content
Powerful modification of custom design in the cloud
CRM and FreshBooks integration
Embedded videos in the proposal
Sending customer proposals via the browser at a marked landing
Sales metrics
Extremely responsive customer support
Pricing
Proposify is available in three separate plans. Here are the details:
Tall Plan
With a starting price of $19 per month, the Proposify Tall plan includes a core set of features including interactive quoting, a content library, notifications and metrics, online signatures, and administrative support. The interactive quoting feature allows you to insert interactive price charts directly into the proposal. Potential customers can view the options, click on the boxes for the add-ons, and get a personalized price according to their needs. You can only have five active proposals at a time in this plan. The active proposals are ones that are draft, sent, or viewed. Archived, won or lost proposal don't count against your active total
Grande plan
The Grande plan costs $49 per month, with all the features of the tall plan, and some extra features like custom fields and variables, standard integration, user roles and permissions, and unlimited proposal.
Venti Plan
This plan is ideal for enterprises of all size. You must contact their support for a personalized quote if you are interested in this plan. It has all the great features of the Grande plan, as well as other incredible features such as advanced reporting, premium integration, and onboarding services.
Pros
Fully customizable templates that allow you not to start with an empty screen
It's incredibly easy to use and lets you see when people see your proposals and the areas in which they spend more time.
Extensible possibilities with custom fields
You can find all the proposals you have made for your customers, and duplicate offers based on their content.
Customer support is exceptional and very responsive.
Click here for a free 14-day trial to see all the features of Proposify.
Final thoughts
Proposify is an ideal application for small and medium-sized businesses, particularly companies that require a proposal for new projects. With Proposify, companies have a platform that simplifies the entire proposal writing process without any compromise to quality.
Also, Bidsketch allows you to create branding proposals based on content and reusable designs. You can embed images and videos that your customers can see online. You can customize your proposal using your HTML / CSS drawings. You can export proposals to PDF. You can also upgrade your customers by including the ability to mark individual commissions as optional.
However, what matters is not the system, software or platform you use to create your project proposals. The most important thing is the content of your proposals. Regardless of the tools you use, your proposals are as exceptional as you make them.
Looking for more automation?
Are you looking for a software that will completely automate the process of sending proposals, getting contracts signed, and getting your invoices paid? Checkout our review of the all-in-one business management software, Dubsado.