Acting contexts
Bidancer actions are taken from a seat — personal, sales agent, business, or a trade-show role — and the seat decides what you can do.
Bidancer does not have "accounts with roles". It has seats. One login can hold several, and the seat you are currently in decides which actions exist.
The four kinds
| Seat | You are acting as | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | Yourself | Raising an enquiry as an individual, managing your profile |
| Sales agent | A verified agent | Raising enquiries and bidding on behalf of your practice |
| Business | One of your businesses | Everything a business does — catalog, tenders, hosting |
| Trade show | A role within one show | Your organiser, exhibitor or sponsor seat at that event |
The switcher lives in the app shell. A business option appears for each business you belong to; the sales-agent option appears only if your account is one; and a trade-show option appears for every show you hold a role at.
Sales agents are not businesses
This is the distinction most often assumed wrong. A sales agent seat can:
- raise enquiries and see the ones it sent
- see enquiries routed to it
- place bids and see the bids it sent
- keep bookmarks and personal settings
A sales agent seat cannot publish a catalog, host a tender, or hold a trade-show seat. Those are business-context actions. An agent participates in flows a business opened; it does not open them.
Trade-show seats are per show
A trade-show seat is not "you are an organiser". It is "you are an organiser of this show", and it carries the permissions that role was granted. The same account can be an organiser of one show and an exhibitor at another, and the seats stay separate. See Trade Shows.
Why the seat is explicit
An action taken from the wrong identity is hard to unwind: a tender hosted personally instead of by the business, an enquiry that reaches a counterparty under the wrong name. Making the seat a deliberate choice rather than something inferred from context means the record of who did what is correct at the moment it is written, not reconstructed afterwards.
Introduction
The four rules every Bidancer tool inherits — verified participation, paid intent, contact privacy until acceptance, and an auditable wallet.
Overview
Your personal account — what it is for, what it can do on its own, and the settings behind it — profile, language, security, notifications and your data rights.