Bidancer Docs
How B2B procurement works on Bidancer — enquiries, tenders, catalogs, franchise and trade shows — plus guides and a glossary of the terms involved.
Documentation for the Bidancer platform, organised by tool. Pick one from the switcher at the top of the sidebar, or start below.
Start here
Every tool inherits the same four rules — verified participation, paid intent, contact privacy until acceptance, and an auditable wallet. Learning them once means the tools only differ in what they are for.
The tools
Six of them, in three families. Which family a tool belongs to tells you what it is for — whether you are reaching someone, being found, or showing up in person. All tools compares them side by side and says which one fits what you are trying to do.
Connect & procure
Tools for engaging a counterparty. You know roughly what you want; these are how you approach someone about it, on terms both sides have committed to.
Enquiries
A structured enquiry from a verified sender to one chosen business.
Tenders
Host a tender with your own eligibility rules and award it on record.
Market signals
Tools for being discovered. You publish what you can do, in enough structure that somebody can decide to approach you without a phone call first.
Product Signals
Product listings with specifications, variants and buying context.
Service Signals
Service listings with scope, delivery terms and commercial fit.
Franchise Signals
Franchise offerings, models, and enquiries from verified investors.
Market presence
Being somewhere in person, with everyone else who matters in your industry.
They work together
A signal is what makes you findable; a connect-and-procure tool is what somebody does about it; presence is where both happen face to face. A business with no signals receives vague enquiries, because vague is all anyone could infer.
Reference
Guides
Long-form walkthroughs — floating a tender, verifying a supplier, organising a show, writing an RFQ.
Glossary
Forty terms B2B procurement in India actually uses, with what each means here.
Reading this
Pages are written for whoever does the thing, so a tool's sections are split by who is acting — a trade-show organiser and an exhibitor read different pages. Where a tool charges credits there is a Costs page saying who pays for what, and what is earned back.
Nothing here requires an account to read.