Curate is a full operations platform for established event businesses. If what you really need is a polished, accurately priced proposal your client can accept online, BloomBid does that from $0, with Pro at $29/month. No demo, no sales call.
No credit card required. Free forever up to 3 proposals.
Two good tools aimed at different-sized shops.
| BloomBid | Curate | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free for up to 3 proposals. Pro is $29/month, unlimited proposals. | Not published on its site; quoted after a demo. Third-party listings have shown plans from about $275/month. |
| Getting started | Sign up and build your first proposal the same day. No credit card. | Demo first, then an onboarding call with their Customer Success team. |
| Client proposals | Shareable link or email. Clients accept or request changes online. | Proposals and a customer portal on every plan. |
| Pricing and margins | Price book with live margin and profit as you build. AI suggests wholesale cost and retail price for new items. | Product pricing on every plan; recipes on Growth and up. AI tools included, with more usage on Partnership. |
| Contracts | Your terms appear above the Accept button; acceptance is recorded. | Contracts with e-signatures on every plan. |
| Recipes, shopping lists, purchase orders | Not included. | Growth plan and up. |
| Integrations | None yet. | QuickBooks, Google Calendar and staffing tools on Growth and up. |
| Best for | Small shops and solo designers who want proposals done fast. | Larger event businesses running production and ordering in one system. |
Curate details are from curate.co/pricing and Capterra, checked October 2026, and may change. Curate is a trademark of its owner; BloomBid is not affiliated with Curate. Spot something out of date? Email hello@trybloombid.com and we'll fix it.
Everything between the client inquiry and the booked job.
Sections for each part of the event, mood board photos, a cover image, and your shop logo on Pro. Clients open a link on their phone, no download or login.
Every item carries cost and price, and the builder shows margin and profit live as you edit. Not sure what to charge? AI suggests a wholesale cost and retail price.
Clients click Accept or ask for changes from the proposal itself. You see when they first open it, and the status updates on its own.
An honest take, from the BloomBid side.
Not for every shop. Curate is a broader operations platform with recipes, shopping lists, purchase orders, production notes and accounting integrations. BloomBid focuses on the proposal itself: building it, pricing it with live margins, and getting it accepted online. If proposals are where you lose the most time, BloomBid covers that for much less.
Curate doesn't publish prices on its website; you book a demo for a quote. Third-party listings such as Capterra have shown Curate plans starting around $275 per month. BloomBid is free for up to 3 proposals, and Pro is $29 per month with unlimited proposals.
Yes. If your items are in a spreadsheet, export it as a CSV and use Import CSV in the BloomBid price book. BloomBid reads your column headers and suggests which column is the name, price and cost, so any layout works.
No. Clients open a link on any device, review the full proposal, and click Accept or request changes. No login or download needed.