Q-Hub
£245/month
Essentials — up to 3 full and 50 basic users
- Implementation included — no setup fee
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Comparison
Q-Hub vs EcoOnline
EcoOnline is an EHS platform built around chemical safety, and for chemical-heavy sites it is genuinely strong. Q-Hub is a QHSE system built around ISO certification. The question is whether your compliance is led by substances or by standards.
Compliance Report · Q1 2026Export PDF
Compliance 94% +3.2
Open NCRs 12 -5
On-time close 88% +6.1
Overdue 3 -2
Compliance trend
Compliance by site
The short answer
Read this and you may not need the rest of the page.
Choose EcoOnline if…
Chemicals are the centre of your programme. You need an SDS database, chemical inventory, COSHH at scale, and lone-worker monitoring with a panic button. That is what they are built for and we are not.
Choose Q-Hub if…
You are certifying to ISO 9001 alongside 45001 and 14001, and you need document control, CAPA and an audit programme in one system — with the price on the website.
Choose neither if…
You need both a full chemical safety database and a certifiable quality system. You are looking at two products, and it is better to say so now than discover it in week three.
At a glance
Every row is checkable. The EcoOnline column reflects what they publish on their own solutions list. Source: ecoonline.com/pricing, read 21 September 2026.
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| Feature | EcoOnline | Q-Hub |
|---|---|---|
| What each covers | ||
Built for EvidenceTheir solutions list names EHS Software, Chemical Safety, Control of Work, Incident Management, Risk Management, Emergency Response and ESG. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | EHS, led by chemical safety | Quality, health, safety and environment |
Quality management EvidenceTheir solutions list names EHS Software, Audit & Inspections, Control of Work, Incident Management, Risk Management, Chemical Safety, Emergency Response, Crisis Management, StaySafe Lone Worker, ESG Software and Training & eLearning. Quality management is not among them. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not named in their solutions list | Yes — ISO 9001 in the same system |
| Audit management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Risk management | ✓ | ✓ |
Training EvidenceTheir solutions list names "Training & eLearning (LMS, eLearning Content, Access Control)". Source · checked 2026-09-21 | ✓ | ✓ |
Document control with version history EvidenceDocument control is not named among their solutions. Chemical Safety includes "SDS Authoring", which is document authoring for safety data sheets rather than controlled-document management. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not named in their solutions list | ✓ |
CAPA / corrective actions EvidenceCAPA and corrective actions are not named among their solutions. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not named in their solutions list | ✓ |
| Commercials | ||
Published pricing EvidenceTheir pricing page contains no figures, currency amounts or pricing tiers. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not published | Yes — from £85/month |
Implementation EvidenceTheir pricing page makes no statement about implementation, onboarding or setup fees. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not stated | Included with every subscription |
| Where they go further | ||
Chemical safety and SDS management EvidenceTheir solutions list names Chemical Safety with "Chemical Distribution, COSHH Risk Assessment, Chemical Management, SDS Authoring", plus a free SDS database. Q-Hub ships COSHH assessment templates inside risk assessment; it does not manage a chemical inventory or safety data sheets. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Yes — full module with an SDS database | COSHH assessment templates only |
Lone worker monitoring EvidenceTheir solutions list names "StaySafe Lone Worker" including "app, reporting hub, outsourced monitoring, satellite mode, panic button, low signal mode". Q-Hub covers lone working as procedures and records, not live monitoring. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Yes — StaySafe, with panic button and monitoring | Procedures and records only |
Control of work / permits EvidenceTheir solutions list names "Control of Work". Q-Hub does not offer permit-to-work or control-of-work management. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Yes — named module | No — not offered |
Emergency and crisis management EvidenceTheir solutions list names "Emergency Response Software" and "Crisis Management Software". Q-Hub does not offer these. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Yes — named modules | No — not offered |
ESG and carbon accounting EvidenceTheir solutions list names "ESG Software (ESG Framework Reporting, Climate Risk Software, Carbon Accounting)". Q-Hub covers ISO 14001 environmental compliance. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Yes — framework reporting, climate risk, carbon accounting | Environmental compliance, not carbon accounting |
Competitor pricing as published by each vendor. Figures marked ≈ are converted from the currency they were published in at today’s rate, for comparison only.
Competitor details read from their own published materials, last checked 2026-09-21.
Where Q-Hub is the better choice
Five differences that change the day-to-day, not a feature list.
ISO 9001 in the same system
Quality is in the system, not missing from it
- EcoOnline
- Not named in their solutions list
- Q-Hub
- Yes — ISO 9001 in the same system
EcoOnline’s solutions list runs EHS, Audit & Inspections, Control of Work, Incident, Risk, Chemical Safety, Emergency Response, Crisis Management, StaySafe, ESG and Training. Quality management is not among them. If you certify to ISO 9001 as well as 45001 and 14001, that is a second system and a second set of evidence to reconcile.
CAPA that closes the loop
- EcoOnline
- Not named in their solutions list
- Q-Hub
- Yes
Corrective and preventive action is not named among their solutions. In Q-Hub an audit finding, a near miss and a supplier non-conformance all enter one register with root cause, owner, due date and an effectiveness check.
Document control, not document authoring
- EcoOnline
- Not named in their solutions list
- Q-Hub
- Yes
Their chemical module includes SDS Authoring — writing safety data sheets. That is a different job from controlled-document management: version history, approval routing, sign-off, and downloaded copies watermarked as uncontrolled.
£85 a month, published
You can see the price first
- EcoOnline
- Not published
- Q-Hub
- Yes — from £85/month
Their pricing page carries no figures. Q-Hub publishes its plans, so you can build a business case before anyone books a call.
4 weeks to go live, included
Implementation is included, not quoted separately
- EcoOnline
- Not stated
- Q-Hub
- Included with every subscription
EcoOnline's pricing page makes no statement about implementation or setup fees. Q-Hub includes discovery, configuration, data migration and role-based training with every subscription, with no separate professional-services charge.
Where a chemical incident actually closes
EcoOnline does not name CAPA in its solutions list. Here the incident, the audit finding and the supplier non-conformance all raise the same corrective action, with effectiveness verified before it is signed off.
CAPA-142 Forklift near-miss — corrective & preventive action BS Due 12 Mar
✓Raised ✓Root cause 3Action 4Verify 5Closed
Root cause · 5 Whys
Segregation not enforced during peak unloading — no physical barrier and SOP silent on pedestrian route.
Action items
Re-train loading-bay team on segregation
Install physical barrier + floor markings
Update SOP-014 and re-issue
Where EcoOnline is the better choice
Cases where we would tell you to choose them, because a comparison page that never concedes is not worth reading.
Chemicals are your core problem
- EcoOnline
- Yes — full module with an SDS database
- Q-Hub
- COSHH assessment templates only
They run chemical distribution, chemical management, COSHH risk assessment, SDS authoring and a free SDS database. Q-Hub ships COSHH assessment templates inside risk assessment — useful, but not a chemical inventory. If substances are the centre of your programme, they win this outright.
You need lone workers monitored
- EcoOnline
- Yes — StaySafe, with panic button and monitoring
- Q-Hub
- Procedures and records only
StaySafe gives them an app, a reporting hub, outsourced monitoring, satellite mode, a panic button and low-signal mode. Q-Hub covers lone working as procedures and records, not live monitoring. That is a real gap, not a positioning difference.
You run permits or crisis response
- EcoOnline
- Yes — named module
- Q-Hub
- No — not offered
Their list names Control of Work, Emergency Response and Crisis Management. Q-Hub offers none of the three.
What you would actually pay
Set your team size and see the Q-Hub price. EcoOnline does not publish figures, so nothing on their side is estimated — their column quotes their own pricing page.
EcoOnline
Not published
Published pricing is not available, so the figure depends on a quote.
- Implementation: Not stated
Q-Hub figures are our published prices. EcoOnline does not publish prices, so nothing is estimated on their side — their column quotes their own pricing page, read 2026-09-21.
Feature deep-dive
EcoOnline is an EHS platform led by chemical safety, and on that ground it is genuinely strong: a full SDS database, StaySafe lone worker monitoring with a panic button, control of work, crisis management, and carbon accounting with climate risk reporting.
Their solutions list does not name quality management, document control with version history, or CAPA. If ISO 9001 sits alongside your safety programme, the quality half has to live somewhere else, and the evidence for an audit has to be assembled across two systems.
Q-Hub covers all four letters of QHSE, so a chemical incident, an audit finding and a supplier non-conformance all close through one CAPA register with one controlled document set behind them. What we do not have is their chemical depth, and for a COSHH-heavy site that may well decide it.
- ISO 9001 in the same system as safety and environment
- Document control with full version history and sign-off
- CAPA that closes the loop on any finding, wherever it started
- Published pricing from £85/month
SOP-042 Quality Manual.pdf Approved Read & Understood 278/280
Version history
v3.0 Approved 28 Feb 2026
Annual review — updated Section 4.2 management responsibilities
v2.1 Archived 15 Sep 2025
Minor correction to Appendix C references
v2.0 Archived 02 Mar 2025
Full revision for ISO 9001:2015 transition
Switching from EcoOnline
What a move actually involves.
What comes across
Documents, training records, audit history, risk assessments and asset registers, with folder structures and permissions mapped rather than flattened.
What stays behind
Chemical inventories and safety data sheets. We do not hold them, so if you move you keep a chemical system or change how you work. Better to know now.
Run both for a while
Most customers run old and new in parallel for two to four weeks. Nobody is asked to cut over on a Friday and hope.
What we cannot promise
We have not migrated an EcoOnline tenant end to end. Bring your export format to the call and we will tell you what we know and what we would need to test.
Trusted by compliance teams worldwide
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“Qhub provides a visible, intuitive way to manage data and workflows, revolutionising our approach to operations”
Fowlers of Bristol (Engineers) Ltd
Operations director
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“Qhub helps us to... proactively use our QMS... and increase efficiency”
Anglia Cathodic Protection Services
Business manager
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“Really made a difference with providing compliance during audits – both regulatory, customer, and internal.”
Auxitrol Weston
Quality manager
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“QHub has supported us in achieving a higher compliance rate.”
BMC Analysis
Technical Manager/ Quality Manage
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“We can't believe how fast we were able to get it up and running.”
Cawood Group
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“Managing NCRs are now so much easier”
Enviromesh
Quality manager
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“Where was this 2 years ago... we're blown away”
Jaltek
Compliance manager for Jaltek
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“Qhub has improved our safety management system no end, making it very efficient”
Rocal Endurance Doors
Compliance manager
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“We use it for as much as possible.”
Scottish Leather Group
Compliance manager
Integrations
Connects with the tools you already use
Q-Hub connects to your existing tools via REST API, webhooks and SSO, with bespoke connectors on request. More integrations coming soon.
Microsoft 365
SharePoint
Teams
Slack
Google Workspace
Power BI
Jira
SAP
Salesforce
Enterprise Security
Your data is safe with us
Each certification and commitment, with the detail behind it.
ISO 27001 Independently audited information security management, certified to ISO/IEC 27001.
Cyber Essentials UK Government-backed certification against the most common cyber attacks.
GDPR Compliant Full compliance with UK & EU data protection law.
99.9% Uptime SLA Guaranteed platform availability, backed by our SLA.
UK Data Centres All customer data hosted in ISO 27001-certified UK data centres.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
No. Q-Hub ships COSHH assessment templates within risk assessment, but it does not manage a chemical inventory or hold safety data sheets. If chemical safety is the reason you bought EcoOnline, keep it.
Yes, all three in one system, sharing a document library, one CAPA register and one audit programme. Quality management is not named among EcoOnline’s solutions.
Q-Hub publishes £85, £245 and £530 a month with implementation included. EcoOnline publishes no figures, so you would need a quote to compare. We will not estimate their price for you.
Not as live monitoring. We hold lone-working procedures and records; EcoOnline’s StaySafe does check-ins, alerts and a panic button. If that is essential, they are the better answer.
Four weeks is standard: discovery, configuration, data migration and role-based training, included in the subscription. Larger rollouts run six to eight.
Yes. Unlimited phone, email and live chat on every plan, from the UK, with no ticket limits and no premium tier.
Yes — the three standards share a harmonised ten-clause structure, which is why BSI, the UK national standards body, runs them as a single integrated management system: “an integrated management system for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001”. Q-Hub runs all three as one audit programme, so a finding closes once against whichever standard it belongs to instead of being re-entered somewhere else. EcoOnline leads on chemical safety and does not name quality management in its solutions list, so ISO 9001 would sit somewhere else.
Keep the safety programme, add the quality half
Bring your ISO 9001 document set. We will show it running alongside incidents, risk and training in one system, in about 30 minutes.
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