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Research operations

Manage shared equipment, services, and lab inventory.

ConductCommons schedules shared instruments, checks training before each booking, charges each session to a project, and tracks your lab’s reagents and freezer locations.

Free for labs. The Core plan is $1,500 per core per year, with a 30-day trial.

Week view of an example behavior core: water maze, fear conditioning, operant chamber, and open field bookings with their status.
Example data from the demo core.

Who it is for

Labs, core facilities, and animal facilities

Laboratories

Track reagents, expiry dates, and freezer locations, keep equipment records, and share instruments inside your lab. Free.

Core facilities

Booking rules, training checks, service requests, usage charges, and monthly invoices for cores that charge other labs for use.

Animal facilities

Book rooms and instruments here. Animals, cages, census, and per diem stay in ConductColony, and one ConductScience account signs you in to both.

How a core runs it

How booking and billing work

One workspace holds the calendar, the access rules, and the usage record your business office needs.

  1. Add rooms and instruments

    Set each room or instrument’s booking limits, required training, approval, and rates, or paste them from a spreadsheet.

  2. People book and check in

    Researchers see open times, book one session or all of a protocol’s sessions in one step, and check in and out at the instrument.

  3. Bill the month’s use

    Completed sessions and requests become invoices by project or paying account.

Features

What you can do in ConductCommons

Scheduling

Day, week, and timeline calendars with training checks, approvals, repeat bookings, and check-in.

Service requests

Service lists with prices, request forms, sample lists, quotes, and assignment.

Core plan

Billing

Price groups, pricing rules, projects with budgets, invoices, and a journal file.

Core plan

Inventory

Reagents, lots, expiry dates, freezer locations, and QR labels that open each record.

Pricing

Free for labs. The Core plan is for cores that charge for use.

Free

$0 No time limit

For labs that share equipment and do not charge for use.

Core

$1,500 per core per year

For core facilities that recharge labs for use.

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Every new workspace includes the Core plan for 30 days. After that, booking stays free; rates, invoices, and service requests need the Core plan.