Features Index

Workflow management - Group your projects into campaigns and ensure that your colleagues and any relevant third parties, such as agencies and consultants, only see the projects or activities that they are directly involved with.

Personal dashboard - Your individual dashboard provides a clear overview of all ongoing projects, including any pending tasks and outstanding actions. You can now say goodbye to missed deadlines and stressful workflows, and concentrate on branding perfection.

Customised workflows - Because the quantity and naming of your workflow stages are customizable, every one of your jobs is a perfect reproduction of your project’s creative process. To save time, you can even predefine your creative and collaborative processes with the help of presets. This will enable account users to create new jobs via one click that predefines all tasks, responsible parties, fields and structures.

Deadlines, tasks and notifications - Impending deadline? No problem. With the help of “tasks” and easily assigned responsibilities, you can effectively monitor a project’s process and enjoy smooth collaboration with your team. Automated email notifications will update your co-workers of new and upcoming tasks while ensuring everyone knows about upcoming deadlines.

Online proofing - Bynder’s creative project management module allows you to review designs and documents online. Directly annotate assets and approve or reject files without even downloading them. Offering multiple viewing possibilities, such as enhanced zooming and the ability to flip through multipage PDFs, it's now simple to send files back to the designer for improvements or store in your asset bank once approved.

Version control - Because the first draft of a project is rarely the final one—reviewing and reworking is an integral aspect of artwork creation. In order to ensure that you and your team are not confused by multiple drafts floating around, Bynder offers a clear overview of versions handled. If a new version of a media file is uploaded, a new version number is automatically displayed above the file. You can easily switch between versions and even compare them side by side.

Communication and collaboration - Do you wish you could centralize and organize all the communication between a project’s stakeholders? To navigate any lost messaging, predefine responsibles for your project stages and make sure that the person whose input is needed next is automatically informed via e-mail. Besides automated notifications, you can also communicate by leaving comments for team members within each stage or attached to a specific media file.

Track production hours - It is vital that chosen partner agencies are invoiced correctly, and that contractors are paid for the right amount of time invested in a project. Using our “book time” function, you can easily monitor the amount of time spent per project per person and enjoy a clear overview of project budgets.

Marketing calendar - Bynder’s marketing calendar provides your stakeholders with an instant and live overview of all your worldwide marketing activities. As the calendar is accessible centrally from your brand portal, your colleagues and any relevant external parties can access your projects at any given time.

Sharing brand guidelines - If you want to share your guidelines in full or in sections, you can share externals access rights with chosen stakeholders or create a PDF document and share it at the click of a button.

Online brand manual - The brand identity guidelines is your online brand knowledge base, helping you to facilitate brand consistency both internally and externally. This central brand manual will help you effectively communicate your brand's story and make specific branding elements such as logos, colors, banners, etc., accessible to both your colleagues and external partners.

Easy-to-use dynamic editor - Our editor is so user friendly anyone can work with it. Simply drag and drop text elements, such as headlines and images, or add chapters and subchapters. Features such as autosave and versioning make sure that you never have to do work twice and the automatically-generated table of contents allows you to track and, if necessary, reverse changes.

Embedding brand elements - Facilitating brand consistency, our smart integration with our digital asset management module allows you to directly embed all brand elements into your brand guidelines and make them available for download. All brand elements in your brand guidelines will be automatically updated once you upload a new version in your digital asset bank.

Smart templates - Our smart module converts your InDesign files and enables you to create your own branded online templates. Ensure that your colleagues can create and update marketing collateral themselves without being dependent on the skills of designers or agencies, they can now work with a host of approved batches set up for their needs. You can also completely predefine the behavior of your templates and make certain elements editable, but not others.

Easy-to-use inline editor - Bynder’s advanced inline editor is the most user-friendly on the market. Built on advanced technology, you can now edit both image and text files directly. Images can be chosen from a predefined selection, or retrieved from your asset bank, and cropped in the template. Thanks to an in-built DPI check, all documents produced will be of print-quality, and our instant feedback and no loading times ensure that you can see your changes and corrections in real time.

Create documents in multiple languages - Translating documents inevitably increases your time to market. Bynder’s web-to-print module helps you to produce translated documents much faster. Simply choose the language you need from the predefined drop down menu and the language-specific fixed elements for your template will adjust accordingly.

Automated conversion and print fulfilment - The documents you create in Bynder’s web-to-print module are generated instantly via our InDesign server as either a web-version or print-ready PDF. You can also send your documents with all necessary information to your chosen printer. Country-specific cropping marks will be attached automatically. Alternatively, you can also make use of our extensive global network of printers and benefit from one-day global delivery at the cheapest rate possible.

Approval workflows - Enabling your colleagues to create media using templates can save time, however, screening for errors is still a necessary step in order to ensure high quality. After creation, new documents will be automatically sent to the responsible person who will review and approve the files, and, if needed, send them back to be reworked.

Seamless integration - Native integration with other Bynder modules makes document creation even faster. For example, personal information in business card templates can be automatically pre-filled based on data sourced from the user’s account details, which can be synced with your company's active directory.

Web-based online shop - Sales departments, resellers, and partners can access your brand store to order stationery, advertising materials and customizable marketing collateral online at any time from anywhere in the world.

Interactive product catalogues - Want to ensure you’re ordering the right materials? A clear presentation of your products— complete with imagery, descriptions and an overview of the specifications—removes any doubt.

Shopping cart - Thanks to the handy shopping cart functionality and an automated checkout process, ordering advertising materials is as easy as shopping online.

Customization of advertising materials - Need to change the contact details on a flyer? By integration our publishing on demand feature, employees and external parties alike can customize marketing materials and adapt them to local needs during the ordering process.

Automated fulfilment - Choose company suppliers or use our global network of printers. Thanks to a fully-integrated tracking service, you’ll always know where your order is and when it will be delivered.

Order processing and stock control - Automatic inventory adjustment and smart integration with your budgeting or external tools—such as SAP—creates transparency throughout the entire ordering process. The brand store allows you to assign budgets to different departments and automate order processing and invoicing. Tier pricing and budgeting features will also help you stay in control of costs and stock.

Synchronize product information - Product information is typically stored and maintained throughout several ERP systems, such as SAP. Bynder can easily connect to your existing IT infrastructure and will automatically retrieve relevant product information and display it directly next to your product assets. This will make sure that you are always working with the most up-to-date data and that there is no room for human error.

Product view - In addition to the asset-based view, where you can filter for all your digital media, Bynder also allows you to switch to a product-based view. This means that images, videos, documents, and product information will be automatically grouped. Subsequently saving you a lot of time if you are looking for all available shots of the same product.

Maintain product data - The Bynder PIM module facilitates the maintenance and communication of product data. The module collects and displays all desired meta-information alongside the relevant product image by automatically retrieving this data from all other systems. With just a click, you can then share this information with third parties, such as retailers.

Embed product information - Not only will product data be displayed, but you can also use it directly when creating marketing materials or within marketing channels such as your e-commerce system.

Web-to-print - If you’re creating a brochure with Bynder’s web-to-print module and add an image, the attached product information will be taken automatically and added to the layout. The data is still linked to its original source, so once it is updated, it will also be relevant for next month’s edition.

E-commerce - You can easily connect Bynder to your e-commerce system, such as Demandware. All current media and attached product information can be pushed directly from Bynder to you webshop.