BidCraft Tile vs. a spreadsheet, honestly.
A spreadsheet is free and does exactly what you build it to do. BidCraft does the parts a spreadsheet can’t: it reads your photos and voice notes, drafts the scope, prices it on your rates, gets it signed on the homeowner’s phone and carries the job through payment.
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Task by task.
| Task | In a spreadsheet | In BidCraft Tile |
|---|---|---|
| Measurements | Typed in from your notes, after the walkthrough. | Read from your photos, walkthrough video and voice notes. You confirm them before anything is priced. |
| Pricing | Formulas you build and keep working. | Your day rate, per-square-foot and per-linear-foot prices, and tile-size and pattern difficulty, applied line by line. |
| Line descriptions | Copied from the last bid and edited by hand. | Drafted for this job in your voice, with exclusions and material notes on each line. |
| Materials | A separate list, if there is one. | Pulled from a catalog with over 7,000 Schluter products and Laticrete's setting materials, at your cost. |
| Sending it | Export a PDF, attach it to an email. | A link the homeowner opens and signs on their phone. You see when it's viewed and signed. |
| Deposits | A separate invoice from another tool. | A payment schedule on the proposal and online payment by card or bank transfer. |
| Change orders | A new file, retyped. | Started from the signed proposal. |
| Job cost | Another sheet, if you get to it. | Receipts filed to the job by photo, voice or memo, with estimate against actual. |
| Crew and schedule | A different app, or the whiteboard. | Tasks from the job type, a schedule, clock-in and weekly timesheets. |
| Cost | Free, or part of software you already pay for. | From $97 a month or $997 a year, after a 14-day free trial. |
When each one makes sense.
- Stick with the spreadsheet
- You bid a handful of jobs a month, every job looks the same, your formulas are current and nobody else touches the bid.
- Switch to BidCraft
- Bids are eating your evenings, prices drift from one bid to the next, homeowners wait days for a proposal, or the job after the signature lives in five different places.
- Either way
- Know your all-in day rate. A spreadsheet or an app is only as good as the numbers you put in it.
Questions about switching.
Is a spreadsheet good enough for tile bids?
It can be, if you bid a few jobs a month, your formulas are current and you don't mind retyping. Most contractors outgrow it when bids start taking evenings, when prices drift from bid to bid, or when the job after the signature lives in five other places.
Can I bring my spreadsheet prices into BidCraft?
Yes. Your day rate, your per-foot prices and your services go into your rate card and price book once, and every bid after uses them. Uploading a few past proposals also teaches BidCraft how you write.
Do I have to stop using my spreadsheet?
No. Plenty of contractors keep a sheet for their own tracking. BidCraft replaces the part that costs you the most time: building, sending and getting the bid signed.
Bid your next bathroom in BidCraft.
Fourteen days on your real jobs, with your own rates and your own proposal style. The Growth Community and the Tuesday call come with it.
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