Managing Projects | Drafting Marketplace

Signing up for any new software can be intimidating at first. But here at Drafting Marketplace, we want your experience to be positive; that’s why we put together a series of blog posts in order to help users learn the ins and outs of our platform. In this post, we’re going to walk you through the steps of managing projects via your Drafting Marketplace dashboard.

After registering on our platform, you’ll be taken to your main dashboard. You will find projects under the main dashboard navigation menu item on the left hand side of the screen.

Once the dashboard menu item is clicked, users will be taken to a screen that shows 4 tabs.

Drafter & Engineer Dashboard

The drafter’s dashboard will show the following tabs:

• Open Projects: This tab will show all of the projects you have been accepted for and are currently working on.
• Bids: The bids tab shows projects that you have placed bids on and are waiting for approval from a glazing contractor.
• Bid Requests: Here’s where you’ll find requests from glazing contractors who want you to bid on one of their posted projects.
• Past Projects: The past projects tab features information about, well, your past projects!

Glazing Contractor Dashboard

The glazing contractor’s dashboard will show these tabs:

• Open Projects: This tab shows all projects that you have posted to the platform. 
• Receiving Bids: Here’s where you’ll find pending bids on your projects. 
• Past Projects: This is where you can view past projects that have been completed and have submitted reviews. 
• Needs to be Posted: If you started posting a project and left it as a draft, the Needs to be Posted tab is where you can revisit a project and post it to the marketplace for bids. 

While this may take some getting used to, we tried to make our platform as user-friendly as possible. After a few reps, you’re going to be a pro at navigating your projects through your dashboard.