Features
Everything between “what do you need?” and “signed.”
Bidas covers the whole arc of a service-business proposal: setup, composition, design, pricing, delivery, signature, and follow-up — in one desktop app.
Proposal Builder
Build
From blank page to priced proposal in minutes
The builder is a two-pane editor: structured sections on the left, the real paginated document on the right. Type, drag, price — the document keeps up.
Guided flow
Client → meta → services → pricing → terms → extras. Every section maps to a part of the final document.
Live preview
The preview re-renders in under 100 ms per keystroke and is byte-identical to the PDF export.
Fearless editing
60-step undo/redo, autosave every 600 ms, and ⌘S version checkpoints you can roll back to.
Live pricing math
Per-line totals, discounts, tax, and multi-year escalation with year-by-year tables — calculated as you type.
Design
Fifty templates. One hundred themes. Zero designers.
From Executive and Modern Grid to Brutalist, Nocturne, and Zine — fifty distinct multi-page layouts, not five recolored ones. Any theme re-skins any template per proposal.
Real document structure
Cover, leadership letter, credentials, numbered scope cards, investment summary, terms, signature page, thank-you closer.
100 named palettes
Corporate Navy, Forest, Burgundy, Charcoal Gold, Terracotta… every theme verified against every template.
Print-perfect PDF
US Letter, fixed-layout tables, page-break-safe cards. Nothing clips, nothing shrinks to fit.
Seeded per industry
Seven markets ship with real catalog services, terms packs, sample letters, and a demo proposal.
Send & sign
Meet your client where they say yes
Attach a PDF, send a hosted link, or both — from your own email address. Then watch the status change as your client opens and signs.
Accept & Sign
Hosted links carry a signature page: typed name, drawn signature, timestamp, IP, and user agent as a legal audit trail.
Reply watch
An optional IMAP watch matches client replies to sent proposals and badges them on the Replies page.
Your voice, your address
SMTP/IMAP presets for Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, Zoho, Fastmail — plus Google/Microsoft OAuth with no password stored.
Auto-tracked statuses
Draft → Sent → Viewed → Accepted/Declined, with Expired set automatically when validity lapses.
Get paid on the page
Print how you take payment — Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, check — with a scannable code your client taps to pay.
Get paid
Invoice the work you won
Invoices sit next to your proposals and use the same clients and the same price list. Nothing gets typed twice.
Bill a proposal in two clicks
Choose the proposal, confirm the customer. Services, quantities, discount and tax come across as they were agreed.
Your own price list
Add lines from Services & Pricing, or type a new item and save it to the list for next time.
An invoice your client's bookkeeper expects
Letterhead, bill-to, invoice number, terms, due date and balance due, with your payment QR codes at the bottom. In English, Spanish or Portuguese.
Know who owes you
Record deposits and part payments. Overdue invoices flag themselves, and the dashboard shows what's outstanding, overdue and collected this month.
Run
A serious foundation for a daily tool
Bidas is local-first engineering: fast, private, and resilient — with a cloud layer only where it earns its place.
Offline by default
Everything works without a connection. Only hosted links, email relay, license activation, and AI assist need the network.
Teams & multi-business
Company workspaces with revocable access tokens, plus fully isolated businesses under one install — each with its own numbering.
Privacy controls
Export everything as JSON, delete your server copy, and keep credentials in the OS keychain — encrypted at rest.
Website scan onboarding
One click reads your public homepage and pre-fills company name, contacts, address, and logo. Entirely optional.
Try the whole toolbox free
The free tier includes 3 proposals a month, 13 templates and 15 colour themes. Upgrade only when you're winning.