Comparison
Fullbench vs. Q360: a sourced comparison for school districts
Q360 Workforce Solutions, a division of Quantum Education Professionals, describes itself as a free, full-service "Open MSP" for education: one contract, vendor coordination, credentialing support, and consolidated billing, funded by a vendor participation fee its site describes as typically 5%. Fullbench operates in the same category — free to districts, funded by agencies. Since neither costs a district anything, the comparison that matters is what your schools actually get: how many agencies genuinely compete for each opening, what stops an unapproved start, and how much of the program you can see working before you sign.
Side by side
What's published, and what isn't
| Question | Fullbench | Q360 (per its public materials) |
|---|---|---|
| Cost to the district | $0 — published. You set the maximum bill rate on every posting. | $0 — published. Both programs are vendor-funded. |
| Who competes to fill your openings | Every approved agency, every opening, at one recorded instant — when one agency has nobody, the rest are already working it. Agencies can't advance their own candidates; your office holds every decision. | Describes an "open" network where districts keep final selection. No published release-timing, submission-window, or requisition-distribution rules were located as of August 2026. |
| Does the operator's own staffing company come first? | No agency can — and we invite the mirror question. Every participating agency, including any connected to the operator, gets the same release timestamp, passes the same credential gate, and pays within the same published fee band. No priority mechanism exists in the software, and the release record proves it — ask to see it in the walkthrough. | Q360's site markets "priority access" to professionals from Quantum, its affiliated staffing company, and no buyout charge for permanent Quantum hires. Whether Quantum pays the same vendor fee is not published. |
| What stops an unapproved start | The software: no start date while any submitted document awaits review, never without a district-approved file. No one is in front of students on a promise. | Describes credentialing and compliance support as part of its service. Published enforcement mechanics were not located. |
| Seeing it before you sign | A walkthrough is 30 minutes on the live platform — release record, credential gate, remittance ledger, on screen. | Promises real-time reporting and centralized workflows. No public product portal, login, or product documentation was located as of August 2026. |
| How it's funded | A published 3–5% agency participation fee, deducted when the district's payment is collected and itemized on every remittance. | "Typically 5%" per its website; fee mechanics beyond the percentage are not published. |
Based on publicly available information as of August 2026, principally Q360's own pages at quantumedpro.com. "Not published / not located" means exactly that — it is not a claim about what Q360 does or doesn't do internally. Q360 and Quantum Education Professionals are trademarks of their owner. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll correct it.
The takeaway
Free and free aren't the same program
Both programs cost a district nothing, so choose on what your schools get: whether every agency genuinely competes for every opening — the mechanism your coverage depends on — whether the software or a policy manual stops an unapproved start, and whether the operator's own staffing company plays by the same rules as everyone else. Fullbench will show you all three working, on screen, in 30 minutes.
Next step
Request a walkthrough
Thirty minutes on the live platform — your roles, your rate ceilings, your agencies' names on the screen. No slideware.
- Watch a requisition release to every agency at one recorded instant
- See the credential gate hold a start date until the file clears
- Trace approved hours into the one consolidated invoice your business office pays