Estimates for commercial photographers and videographers
Fees, usage, crew, kit and expenses under the headings a producer expects, built from your own rates in minutes. Then approved online and turned into an invoice without typing anything twice.
Type the days in plain words, such as “3 Nov prep, 4 to 5 Nov shoot, 6 Nov wrap”, and BidWrap works out each day and what kind it is.
Add fees, crew, kit and expenses from your own rates. Day rates multiply by the days, kits bring their parts, and every line lands under its heading.
Email it from BidWrap with the PDF attached. The client opens a link, reads it and approves it by typing their name. No account needed.
Turn the approved estimate into an advance invoice, a final invoice, or both, with the same job number and nothing typed twice.
Creative fees, crew, talent, kit hire, studio and locations, post production, travel and more, each with a subtotal. Rename or reorder them to suit you.
Keep your licence wording as templates and adjust it for each job: media, territory and term. It prints with the estimate and the invoice.
Rework the bid as the brief changes. Every revision is kept, and the one the client approves is the one that gets invoiced.
Receipts linked to the job can be recharged on the invoice, with your markup added, so nothing bought for the shoot is forgotten.
Bid in pounds, euro, dollars or any other currency, with UK and Irish VAT, Canadian GST and HST, or US sales tax set up for you.
Prep, build, recce and wrap days are kept apart from shoot days, so kit hire can be charged for the shoot days only with one click.
No. They open the link in the email, read the estimate and approve it by typing their name. You see when they opened it and when they approved.
Yes. Usage can be its own line under fees, and the written licence prints with the estimate, so the client sees exactly what they are buying.
Yes. Each job has its own currency, and the estimate, the invoice and the reports all follow it.
A draft invoice can be updated from the changed estimate in one click. A sent invoice stays as the client received it, and you can void it and make a new one with the same number.
Yes. Your Blinkbid jobs list and PDFs can be imported. There is a page about moving from Blinkbid. Read it here.
BidWrap is free while it is being tested by a small group of photographers and videographers. Ask for an invite and send your next estimate from it.