QScope

Collaboration

Bring the client in without giving anything away

Clients want to know where they stand. What they must not see is your cost report, your risk register and what you are holding from subcontractors.

  • No account and no licence for the guest, just a link
  • Choose per guest whether they can view, comment or edit
  • Commercially sensitive sections hidden from guests by default

30 days free, no card.

Project team
Access on 11 Essex Road
PersonLevel
J. Smith, Buildco, clientView only
A. Wilson, Torabuild, subcontractorComment
R. Hall, architectView only
Cost report and risk registerHidden
Seats used against your plan0

QScope charges for the people who sign in and nothing else. Invite as many clients, subcontractors, architects and site managers as the job needs.

Guests are free, on every plan

Software that charges per user teaches you to keep people out of it.

So the client emails for an update, you export, redact, format and attach, every month, on every job. QScope charges for the people who sign in and nothing else. Invite as many clients, subcontractors, architects and site managers as the job needs.

Practice

Your own surveyors, each with their own login

A shared practice password makes every entry in the audit trail say the same thing, which is the same as recording nothing at all.

  • Invitation by email, password set by the person themselves
  • Seats used shown against your plan before you invite someone
  • Two people opening the same project is detected, not silently overwritten
Practice
Surveyors and seats
Seats used
4 of 5
Guests
Unlimited
R. HartwellOwner
M. LewisSurveyor
S. OkaforSurveyor
Invitation pending, j.reed@Sent

Invite each surveyor by email. They set their own password on a one-time link that expires after 72 hours, and from then on the record shows who actually prepared each certificate.

Project record

What a guest can add, and where

Access is not only about what a guest can see.

  • Guests add photographs and files where you allow it
  • Every upload recorded against the guest who made it
  • Drawings and contracts stay read only for a guest
Project record
Files on 11 Essex Road
DocumentGuest
Site photographs, week 14, 18 filesAdded
Drawing A-102 rev C, gable elevationView only
Correspondence, delay notice 4 AugAdded
Contract, JCT SBC 2016, signedView only

Give a guest comment access and they can add photographs and files where you allow it, each upload recorded against them in the audit trail.

See it running before you sign up

Client Valuations

What the client is allowed to see

A client guest should see their own position: the certificate, the amount due and the dates.

  • Client sees the certificate, the amount due and the dates
  • Subcontractor valuations hidden from client links
  • Margin and the CVR never shown to a guest
Client Valuations
What the client sees
Due this certificate, exc VAT£14,031.00
Final date for payment29 Aug 2026
Retention held£4,205.00
Cost report and marginHidden

The valuation a client opens shows the net due and the statutory dates, with the cost report and the subcontractor valuations hidden by default.

Dashboard

The screen the link opens on

A guest link does not dump a spreadsheet on the client.

  • The contract position, cut to what the guest may see
  • Retention held, with its release date
  • Commercially sensitive panels hidden from the guest
Dashboard
What the client sees
Contract sum
£220,250
Certified to date
£84,115
Left to certify
£14,031
Retention held£4,205
Final date for payment29 Aug
Cash positionHidden

The four figures, the certificate and the dates are there. The cash position, the risk register and the subcontractor side are not.

Answers by link

The client answers by link, without an account

Send a valuation, a variation or a contract by link and the other party answers on the page it opens, with no account to create.

  • On a valuation: I agree to this amount, a payment notice for a different amount, or a pay less notice
  • A notice button disappears once its deadline has passed, and a pay less notice needs a reason and an amount for each
  • On a variation: accept, reject, ask a question or propose a different figure; on a contract, accept it
Answers by link
Your answer · VAL-04
I agree to this amount£55,435.90
Answered bythe client, by name
Recordeddate and time
Link opened3 times

Answers go by an explicit button press, never by opening the link, and a draft valuation cannot be agreed. Earlier answers stay in the history and the audit trail.

Project portal

One personal portal for every project a guest is on

A client or consultant on several jobs gets one personal project portal with an access code, instead of a link per project.

  • Sent from Team, under Portal link and code
  • Any of the person's project codes also opens the portal
  • Each project opens with exactly the access that person was given
Project portal
My projects
ProjectAccess level
PC-04 · Meridian Houseview + comment
PC-07 · Elm Roadview only
PC-09 · The Maltingscan edit
Projects in the portal3

What each project shows is cut on the server for that person's party, so the portal never carries margin, cost reports or another subcontractor's package.

Every other function on the Client and team access screen

30 functions the sections above do not cover, each as it works in the program.

Functions 1 to 15

01The access code is shown once when you create the invitation and is then stored scrambled, so nobody can read it back.
02Every guest, even on View only, can raise and answer tasks and RFIs.
03A guest with Can edit saves into the project, and each change is recorded under their name.
04A guest gets a short menu: Ask a question, Send a photo, Upload a file and To approve.
05The Team screen lists everyone on your account with company, phone, number of projects, last login and status.
06Add a person once with name, email, company and phone, then give them access to as many projects as you need.
07Set one access level per project for each person and copy the invitation with link and code in one click.
08See your people as one list, grouped by project, or project by project under Who has access.
09From Who has access you can change a level, resend an invitation or remove someone from one project only.
10Export the user list to CSV.
11Once the link exists you can email it, send it again or withdraw it, with the addresses of people on the project offered.
12On a payment notice or pay less notice the other party can put their own figure against each line, and the lines must add up to the amount they declare.
13On a contract the other party can also ask you a question, and once both sides accept, the contract is concluded and locked.
14A cost plan sent by link is cut to the recipient's side, full prices for the client and only their own package for a subcontractor.
15A subcontractor guest must be tied to one package, and until you pick it their link carries no figures at all.

Functions 16 to 30

16Under each guest QScope says in one sentence what that person will receive.
17Send invite emails the link and the code, and the card remembers when and where the last invitation went.
18Sending an invitation again issues a new code and the old one stops working, and QScope asks before it does that.
19After repeated wrong codes the invitation is locked for a while and the guest is told who to ask.
20A guest who types a code from an older email is told that a newer invitation replaced it.
21Every wrong code is recorded in the project's activity, so guessing does not go unnoticed.
22A guest never sees the audit trail or the project settings, and the header states their access level.
23Guests can print the client reports, but notices, retention release and the final account agreement stay with you.
24The Team screen shows who is online now and when each person was last seen.
25The recipient gets an email titled with the document number and the project, for example VAL-04 for your review.
26If a valuation went out without payment dates, the page says so and leaves only agreeing and asking a question.
27When the other party answers you get an email, for example VAL-04 agreed, with a button that opens the document.
28Their answer appears on your valuation with their amount and basis, and you can issue the certificate on their figures or on yours.
29If the date for a payment notice passes with no notice, the valuation says the sum was not challenged in time.
30A withdrawn, expired or replaced link tells the person exactly that instead of opening the document.

Who it is for

One paper trail, four people behind it

You are applying

The record defends your own figures

You keep the record that defends your own applications: who changed which figure, and the documents behind every line.

Applying for payment
the same measurement

You are certifying

The trail holds when yours are challenged

You certify on the strength of the record, and when a figure is challenged the audit trail is what stands between you and an argument.

Certifying payment

You are doing both

The file protects the one who kept it

You keep the paperwork yourself, and the file that assembles as you go is the one that protects you when memories differ.

Doing both yourself

You are reporting

The record is all the site you see

You rely on the record more than anyone: bonds in force, access controlled, every figure traceable, because you were never on site.

Recommending a drawdown

The client, the architect and the tenderer are not on this list. They are the people you let in on a link: they see the one document you sent them, answer it, and that answer is written into the record. No account, no licence, no charge, on every plan.

FAQs

The questions this page raises most often, answered without a sales pitch at the end.

No. Clients, subcontractors and anyone else on the project are guests. They open a link, see what you allowed, and never count towards your plan. This is deliberate: software that charges per user teaches people to keep the client out of it.

No. The subcontractor side is hidden from client guest links, and the CVR with its margin is hidden from every guest. A client guest does see the risk register, without your probability, cost or days, and the Cost Report.

Revoke the link. Access stops immediately and the revocation is recorded in the audit trail, so you can show when it happened.

QScope detects it and warns the second person rather than letting one silently overwrite the other. Losing an afternoon of valuation because a colleague had the job open is not an acceptable failure mode.

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Bring the client in without giving anything away

Clients want to know where they stand. What they must not see is your cost report, your risk register and what you are holding from subcontractors.

30 days free, no card.

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