NFR Online
Working NFR
One of the more forgiving portals to bid into, and one where you can measure your own approval rate reliably — because approval is stated rather than inferred.
Getting a bid approved
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Approval is marked on the invoice
NFR prefixes approved work on the invoice itself. That sounds administrative, but it means a vendor here can actually count what they won without guessing, which is the first step to improving anything.
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Grounds work does well; interior work does not
Across our book, grass, tree and vine work approve at meaningfully higher rates than interior debris, drywall and plumbing. That pattern holds broadly, and it should shape how much effort you put into each write-up rather than whether you submit it.
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Measurement carries the bid
As everywhere, the quantity is what a reviewer can check against the photographs. A bid with a measured figure and a photo showing the measure is very hard to decline.
Submitting and invoicing
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The invoice number is your work order, suffix and all
Unlike most portals, do not strip the trailing segment. A number with a dash and further digits is a genuine reference and altering it breaks the match.
Getting paid
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Credits are settled on the same remittance
Negative lines are credits against earlier work, and the cheque total is invoices net of them. Reconcile to the cheque total rather than the line sum and it balances every time.
In practice
Because NFR states approvals, it is the portal we would use to start measuring your own bid performance. Get a baseline here, then apply what you learn to the portals that never tell you.