A Bidsketch alternative with AI drafting and online deposits

Where Bidsketch is better

• Several people in one proposal

  Realtime collaboration and team management are on every Bidsketch plan. An agency where a strategist writes the approach while an account manager sets the fees can work on the same document together. OneCraft allows one editor at a time.

• Comments on the proposal

  Clients can comment on a Bidsketch proposal from its landing page, which keeps clarifications in one place. OneCraft has no comments; the client either accepts, declines with a reason or emails you.

• Your own domain

  Proposals can be served from your own domain on every Bidsketch plan. OneCraft's client links sit on the OneCraft address, which some agencies will see as a branding gap.

Where OneCraft is different

• Deposit collected, not requested

  Bidsketch's approval message tells the client how to pay the deposit. In OneCraft the deposit is an issued invoice the instant they accept, emailed to them, with a Pay deposit now button that opens Stripe Checkout. The balance invoice waits as a draft until the work is done.

• Each proposal written for the client

  A research step reads the client's website, or looks up the company name, before the AI writes. The opening sections then talk about that business, and the model is told not to invent figures beyond what it found. Prices you supply are kept to the cent.

• Expiry enforced

  Every proposal has a valid until date. Once a daily check finds it past that date unaccepted, the proposal moves to expired and cannot be accepted, so a price written in March cannot be accepted in July without you sending it again.

A finished example

Business proposal template with the fixed fee on page oneMade with OneCraft, exactly as the generator and editor left it. Open the page for the full breakdown.

Reuse against drafting

Bidsketch speeds up proposals by reuse: templates, saved pricing items, a content library and designs that drop into a new document. That is the right model when most proposals are 80% the same. OneCraft speeds them up by drafting: the brief and the price hints become a complete proposal, and the 18 templates give a service its usual structure. Most agencies have both kinds of work, so the question is which kind takes more of your week.

What happens after the signature

Bidsketch's approval message is a page of instructions shown after signing, which an agency can use for a deposit request, a welcome guide or a file upload link. OneCraft replaces the instruction with the invoice itself. With a 25% deposit, acceptance issues an invoice for a quarter of the accepted total, due that day, and emails it to the person who accepted. If Stripe is connected on a paid plan, the client can pay on the spot.

Teams and simultaneous editing

OneCraft Proposals is built for one owner, or one person at a time. There are no seats inside Proposals, no roles and no live co-editing, and the account plan is priced per account rather than per user. For a three person agency that rarely edits the same document at once this is simpler; for one that works on proposals together, Bidsketch's collaboration is a real advantage.

How the columns were checked

Bidsketch claims are quoted from its home page and pricing page, read on 13 October 2026. Where those pages do not describe a capability, such as collecting card payments, the cell says not listed rather than guessing. Plan prices are left on Bidsketch's own pricing page. OneCraft cells name rows of a ledger compiled from the product's source code.

Who should stay with Bidsketch

Stay with Bidsketch if several people build each proposal together, if clients comment on the proposal itself, if proposals must come from your own domain, or if your library of reusable sections and fees already does most of the writing. OneCraft fits the studio that wants drafting and deposit collection handled.

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