For research groups

Code together. Disagree productively. Ship the paper.

Manage group membership, invite collaborators to a canvas, calculate intercoder agreement, and review a project audit trail — for research groups, methods courses, and labs.

Designed for
Principal investigators
Research labs
Methods courses
Health-research groups
What teams ask first

Three things, all in one project.

Shared codebook

Editors on the same canvas work with the same codes, transcripts and memos. Changes are shared through the collaborative canvas.

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Intercoder agreement

Run Cohen's κ or Krippendorff's α on attributed coding work when you are ready to compare coders.

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Project audit trail

Authenticated project requests are logged with action and timestamp. Canvas owners can review and export the available audit data.

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Team membership and canvas access are managed separately. Add people to your team, and invite the researchers who need access from each canvas's Share panel. Each person who codes with you uses one paid seat; viewers are free.
What's in the Team plan

Everything in Pro, plus the team layer.

Team management

Add and remove registered QualCanvas users by email, with owner, admin and member team roles.

Per-seat billing

One seat for you and one for each person who codes on your canvases or belongs to your teams — a person counts once. Viewers are free. You see the prorated charge and confirm it before a seat is added.

κ + α calculator

Calculate Cohen’s κ or Krippendorff’s α from coding attributed to multiple researchers.

Canvas collaboration

Invite registered users to a canvas as an editor or viewer and work in the same project.

Controlled access

Canvas owners can change a collaborator’s role or remove access; revoked live sessions are disconnected.

Audit log

Review authenticated project requests with action and timestamp from the Quality panel.

Team questions
How does per-seat billing work?
You hold one seat, and every coder on your canvases or member of your teams holds one more — a person who is both counts once. Read-only viewers are free. Adding a coder shows the prorated charge for the rest of the billing period and asks you to confirm it; if the card is declined, nobody is added and nothing is charged. Removing a coder, or making them a viewer, frees the seat at once and credits the unused time to your next bill.
I am on Pro. What happens when I invite a coder?
Pro is a one-person plan: you code, and viewers are free. When you invite a coder, QualCanvas offers the upgrade to Team, with one seat for you and one for each coder, and shows what it costs today and at renewal. Nothing is charged until you confirm. You can add the person as a free viewer instead.
Can students on a methods course use Team?
Yes. The verified-academic-email discount applies to eligible Team subscriptions. The per-seat structure supports methods courses, but instructors should confirm their participant count and data-governance requirements before purchase.
How is intercoder κ calculated?
Run it on demand after multiple attributed coders have worked on the same material. Choose Cohen's κ or Krippendorff's α based on the agreement method you need. The method walk-through is at /methodology/intercoder-reliability.
Can we export the audit log?
Yes. Canvas owners can download the project audit entries currently shown by the Quality panel as CSV.
What if we need SSO?
SAML/OIDC SSO and SCIM are not currently available. Treat either requirement as a deployment blocker and review the Institutions page for the current capability statement.

Bring your lab.

Team access is billed per seat. Review the current limits and pricing before checkout.

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