How it works
One job: get every quote an answer
Bidador is not a CRM and not estimating software. It sits behind the mailbox you already use and makes sure the work you quoted gets a yes or a no.
Start a free trialA preview of the Bidador dashboard showing $184,750 of open quote value, a breakdown by state, and the customers waiting on a reply.
It reads the mail you already send
Connect Gmail or Microsoft 365 and Bidador looks at your sent folder for estimates. It pulls out the customer, the project, the total and the date, and keeps the thread with it.
When it is not sure — the total is inside a PDF it cannot read, or there are two numbers in the thread — it says so and asks you to confirm rather than quietly inventing a record.
It tells you which ones are going cold
Every quote has a state: waiting, follow-up scheduled, needs attention, hot, going cold. Open the app and the first thing you see is how much quoted work is unresolved and who is waiting on you.
Nothing is ranked by recency alone. A customer who asked to book yesterday outranks a bigger quote that has gone quiet.
It follows up from your address
Two days, seven days, twenty-one days — edit the wording and the timing, or turn any step off. Messages send through your own mailbox, in the original thread.
The sequence stops the moment the customer replies. It also stops if the message would mention a price, offer a discount or promise a start date.
It reads the reply and decides who handles it
Replies are sorted: ready to book, a question, a price objection, a scheduling question, a delay, or not interested. Anything that needs a human decision comes to you with the customer's own words attached.
Every read comes with a reason and a confidence level, and you can overrule it. When Bidador is not confident, it says so instead of guessing.
And then, BidGuard
Once your endings are on file, it starts reading them back
Every quote that reaches a yes or a no is a row in your own record. BidGuard counts those rows — by trade, by price band, by whether the customer had bought from you before — and uses them to say whether a new request is worth an afternoon.
Until there are enough recorded endings for that to mean anything, it withholds the recommendation and tells you exactly what is missing. Getting the advice is a matter of marking old estimates won or lost, which the app asks you to do a few at a time.
Ellen Braithwaite
Asked 2 days ago · Decks & Porches · Address given
Put an estimate together for this one.
SupportedRead from 26 jobs with a recorded ending
And the back catalogue
Everything you quoted before you had this
The first scan goes back six months on Solo and twelve on Pro, and the trial is a Pro trial. Every unresolved estimate is grouped by how worth reopening it is, with the reasons written out. You decide which ones get a note.
See pricingUnresolved historical quotes
$286,400
16 estimates from the last 12 months that never got a decision
- Customer was pricing financing, not rejecting the work.
- Largest unresolved estimate in the scan.
- No rejection anywhere in the thread.
- Customer asked to revisit after the fall — that date has passed.
- Customer replied positively and never declined.
- Thread went quiet 112 days ago with no follow-up.