Features → TDABids.com Database
Originally created and developed by the Translatus operations team, the TDABids Database has played a key role in the company’s success in the translation and localization industries over the past eight years. The internal database contains an informative profile on translators contracted by Translatus from all over the world. The operations team maintained clear records of contact information, specialties, education and working experience, languages, program and software experience, pricing agreements and rates, along with continuous internal feedback on performance, delivery times and communication. The project managers relied on this information to match the best candidate to each client’s project needs. Over the years, the project managers have built long standing relationships with the translators and now TDABids.com shares this knowledge with you.
The database contains over 2000 professional translators, proofreaders, interpreters, technical writers, desktop publishing specialists, graphic and web designers, and video production engineers, among others. TDABids.com gives buyers online access to the individual profiles of every language professional in the Translatus database — including contact information, background experience, areas of specialty, software, prices and capacity, billing information, ratings and feedback. The new system includes a quick search tool to facilitate searches based on language, name, location, and experience.
The TDABids.com database is hosted and maintained by Translatus. The database is growing everyday as Translatus adds new qualified professionals from all areas of the language service industry. A team is continuously updating and verifying the language professionals’ profiles so that buyers have access to accurate and up-to-date information.
Furthermore, TDA Direct Buy gives buyers the possibility to build a custom database by adding their own language professionals directly to a project. Language professionals are not charged any fees to join TDABids.com nor do they pay commissions to work on projects. The system is completely free to professionals in the language service industry.
Searching a custom database is simple and easy. Buyers can mark language professionals as ‘favorites’ to remember for future projects as well as browse a list of recommended freelancers provided by the corporation’s internal language service department (LSD).
Every language professional’s profile contains a section on ratings and feedback. Ratings are scored as negative, neutral, or positive and display the total count of buyer votes for each category. The feedback section also displays comments and reviews written by other direct buyers. Feedback left by colleagues in the system will be attributed to user posting the comment. Global feedback is displayed anonymously. Buyer ratings and reviews gives TDABids.com buyers the information they need to make informed choices when choosing language professionals for their projects.