PowerBid Features

In a perfect world you wouldn't need to create a bid -- clients would simply send you storyboards and a blank check. Wrapping a job would mean just packing up at the end of the day.

Unfortunately the world of production is far from perfect. Bids must conform to strict guidelines and all final costs must be accounted for in exacting detail.

Our mission at the Production Resource is to give you the tools you need to take control of bidding and actualizing and free you to do what you do best -- producing the final product.

PowerBid is available for both Windows and Macintosh. If accounting is on Windows and production is on the Mac, no problem. Just get the appropriate license for each team, and pass bids and actuals back and forth seamlessly.

Here's an overview of PowerBid's features:

        Bidding

  • Currency conversion
  • Email bids to Excel users who don't own PowerBid
  • Instant revisions
  • Includes Post production
  • Fully customizable
  • Exports bid data to popular accounting software

        Actualizing

  • Sends actuals to the AICP bid form
  • Payroll, Purchase Order and Petty Cash logs
  • Imports payroll files from payroll services
  • Exports actuals to popular accounting software
  • Handles any size job, including multi-week shoots
  • Seventeen different custom actuals reports

With PowerBid, you can reduce the time it takes to put together a complete and accurate cost estimate by up to 80% and drastically reduce the time it takes to wrap a job.

Below is a closer look at some of PowerBid's features: