Getting started
Sign in, learn the screens you’ll use most, and settle into a short morning routine.
Sign in
- Go to bidtroller.com/login.
- Enter your work email and click Email me a sign-in code.
- Open the email from BidTroller and type the 6-digit code into the page.
- There are no passwords. You get a new code each time you sign in.
- A code works for 10 minutes. If it runs out, click Send a new code.
- No email after a minute or two? Check your Junk or Spam folder.
- Still nothing? Your email may not have a login yet. Ask your company admin to add you.
What you see first
After you sign in, you land on the Opportunities dashboard. It lists the open jobs BidTroller found for your company, soonest bid date first.
The links across the top of every page:
- Opportunities: the job list. See The dashboard.
- Calendar: bid dates and pre-bid meetings by month. See Calendar and export.
- Notifications: what reaches your inbox. See Notifications.
- Setup: your company’s forwarding address and a check that forwarded email is arriving. See Email forwarding.
- Feedback: tell us about a missed bid or anything that looks wrong. See Feedback and sign-offs.
- Help: this guide.
If you belong to more than one company, pick the company from the menu next to the BidTroller name.
A simple morning routine
- Read the 6:00 a.m. digest email. It lists new jobs that match your rules.
- Open the dashboard. Check the Pre-bid column first. A missed mandatory pre-bid means you can’t bid that job.
- Open each job that looks right. Read the details and flags, and open the bid documents.
- Set a status, like Reviewing or No bid, and add a reason. Your team sees it.
- Click 👍 or 👎 on Worth our time? Your votes help BidTroller learn what you bid on.
- Saw a bid somewhere that BidTroller doesn’t have? Send it on the Feedback page.
All times in BidTroller are Central time.