This article compares Q-Hub and EcoOnline. Both operate in the EHSQ space helping organisations digitise safety, chemical, and compliance workflows.
If you’re shortlisting platforms, this page clarifies where Q-Hub delivers greater flexibility, speed, and long-term value.
Q-Hub starts with transparent pricing from £75/month, scaling cleanly from small teams to multi-site enterprises.
The result is a pricing structure that stays accessible for SMEs while remaining competitive for complex, regulated organisations with thousands of users.
EcoOnline uses a quote-based pricing model; official listings direct prospects to contact sales for plans and costs.
Because EcoOnline’s pricing is not openly published, budgeting often starts with discovery calls to map modules, seats, and identity options. This can make side-by-side cost comparison harder and can mask add-on costs for analytics or integrations.
Q-Hub delivers a massive range of eQMS capabilities with an emphasis on configurability and customisation.
Unlike rigid, older-heavy systems, Q-Hub lets administrators shape screens for different user groups, making tasks simpler for operators and giving richer insights to leaders. Q-Hub focuses on providing a suite of tools that allows an entirely bespoke and tailored experience unmatched by any other system.
EcoOnline promotes a broad EHS suite—incident management, audits/inspections, risk management, training, chemical safety, and ESG.
EcoOnline’s breadth is attractive for organisations with safety, chemical, and ESG needs under one umbrella. However, configurability depth varies by module, and chemical-centric dashboards may not replace a general KPI builder for quality leaders.
Q-Hub is designed for speed and clarity. The interface uses clean layouts, smart defaults, and role-based workspaces so users see only the tasks and data they need.
These features help to reduce training time dramatically for frontline teams. Unlike older systems that enforce one “best” way of working, Q-Hub adapts to your processes. The net effect is a modern app that people actually enjoy using, which drives adoption and better data quality.
EcoOnline’s UX has some options for enterprise EHS operations, offering practical, form-driven screens across modules. Users can build audits, complete inspections.
This utilitarian approach suits large safety programmes, but it can feel less tailored to different personas without additional configuration. EcoOnline provides the essentials; Q-Hub goes further with role-based home views and no-code UI shaping, so different roles each get what they need out of the box—cutting clicks and training time.
Q-Hub offers a growing range of integration options to suit small businesses or large enterprise data integration.
Q-Hub’s customer success team helps to set up popular scenarios like pushing non-conformance data to ERP, syncing approved supplier lists to procurement.
EcoOnline supports enterprise identity and user lifecycle management, alongside SSO configuration guidance for Okta and SCIM provisioning.
EcoOnline seems to focus more on SSO/SCIM than on open, module-level REST endpoints and webhooks. This may limit data accessibility that can be taken from the various systems.
Q-Hub features a modern, uncluttered interface that keeps essential actions a click or two away. Rather than locking users into rigid screens, Q-Hub lets you shape pages, fields, and layouts to match how your business actually works. Role-based home views give teams focused to-dos, while leadership sees live KPIs without digging. That clarity accelerates adoption, reduces training, and raises data completeness—making audits smoother and improvements easier to prove.
Q-Hub ships with ready-to-use templates for deviations, CAPA, change control, audits, training, suppliers, and more. Admins can adapt them with no-code builders and push changes safely via sandboxed configuration—so you launch quickly, then evolve without costly projects. Unlike platforms that require jumping tiers to unlock flexibility, Q-Hub keeps core customisation, automation, and analytics accessible as you grow. Start with one site, add departments, then expand globally without re-implementation.
Q-Hub embeds practical AI to save hours on creating compliance resources. The future AI summarises, will automate long investigations, flags similar issues to prevent duplicates, suggests risk prioritisation based on context, and drafts action items your team can refine. Because the AI is woven into the application, inboxes, and dashboards, people use it where work happens—not in a separate tool. The outcome is faster triage, clearer narratives, and better insight density for managers.
Q-Hub bakes in the controls quality leaders expect: versioned documents with controlled distribution, read-and-understand tracking, e-signatures, audit trails on every configuration change, and granular permissions down to the field. Identity integrations (SSO/SCIM), and robust validation documentation keep IT and QA aligned. The platform’s audit-ready design helps you pass inspections with confidence while still moving quickly day to day.
Q-Hub’s open API, webhooks, and connectors make it part of your architecture—not a silo. Sync people and training from HRIS, push CAPA milestones into project tools, feed data warehouses for BI, and automate notifications in collaboration suites. Live dashboards transform quality data into decisions: trend defects, track cycle times, watch training completion, and measure audit preparedness. With scheduled exports and governed datasets, stakeholders get trusted numbers without manual spreadsheet work.
“We wish that we had this sooner, its made NCRs so much easier to manage, the team can now focus on getting the issues resolved rather than all the admin”
We have now been able to roll it out to the entire UK group with almost no resistance or issues, allowing the central QHSE team full visibility and management.
There are so many activities that used to fall on quality but now because o Q-Hub we are able to involve all the departments.
