The Future of Financial Accounting Includes Carbon

Help your clients measure, reduce, and report their carbon emissions - with our easy-to-use platform and expert support.

Expand Into Carbon Footprinting With Seedling

As businesses come under increasing pressure from regulators, investors, and customers to measure and report their emissions, more accounting firms are building out ESG and carbon footprinting services in response.

Seedling helps accountancies do this quickly and confidently - with our easy-to-use carbon accounting software, clear methodology, and expert delivery support, you can launch and scale an offering without the overhead of building a specialist team from scratch.

Fully Integrated With Your Existing Accounting Proccesses

Carbon accounting is an extension of the work accounting firms already do.

You already manage much of the financial and operational data required to calculate emissions, and carbon reporting follows the same annual cycle as financial reporting - aligned to the fiscal year.

That makes your firm uniquely positioned to help clients measure, understand, and disclose their environmental impact alongside their financial performance.

With Seedling's accounting integrations (Xero, Sage, QB), auto-categorisation tools and one-click reports (including SECR and others), we work seamlessly alongside you and your client's existing processes.

Why partner with us?

Designed for your clients

Seedling is designed for small to mid-market businesses - those without a full-time ESG team. We're easy-to-use with an affordable pricing model that scales with the client's size and complexity.

Flexible partnership model

We can simply provide our software (with your team delivering in-house), or you can fully outsource to Seedling, with our experts taking your clients through the process end-to-end.

Built for accountants

Our fully auditable process, accounting software integrations, and one-click reporting (including for SECR) mean we integrate seamless with accounting firms' existing workflows.

What our clients say

Hear from our satisfied Seedling clients

"Seedling’s carbon footprint platform is refreshingly easy to use and makes reporting much more straightforward than I would have believed possible. I’m so pleased with how effortlessly it simplifies our carbon reduction calculations, dramatically reducing the time it takes to produce a Carbon Reduction Plan."
Consulting
Emilie Smith
Operations & People Lead
,
Create Change
"It's so nice to speak with someone who clearly knows what they’re talking about when it comes to footprinting. I’m so much happier working with a company like that, than a faceless SaaS product that offers no relationship."
CONSULTING
James Eades
Managing Director
,
Systemagic
"We wanted to understand and reduce our carbon footprint but felt overwhelmed and didn’t know where to start. Seedling guided us through the process every step of the way, their easy-to-use platform made collecting our business data straightforward, and the team gave us tailored support to build an emissions reduction plan. Thanks to Seedling, we’ve started our journey to Net Zero with confidence."
Creative agency
Ursula Fairlie
Senior Content Manager
,
Rationale
"We needed to report carbon data and a decarbonisation plan to our client, Microsoft. We needed the output to be high quality and credible, but didn’t have loads of time to dedicate to measuring emissions. Seedling’s software plus support model meant the process wasn’t too time intensive for us as a busy team. The fact that our calculations were checked by Seedling us confidence in the output."
Software
Marcell Csomor
Business Operations Manager
,
Janea Systems
"Seedling has enabled us to play around with our strategy and understand the impact of any changes we make. For instance, if we want to switch 60% of cotton to recycled, we can quantify the impact that this will have. This is so helpful because once we've set targets, the key challenge is understanding how we get there."
Fashion
Mica Phillips
Sustainability Manager
,
Margaret Howell

FAQs

Your questions answered

Is Seedling a good fit for my clients?

Seedling is built for small to mid-market businesses without an internal ESG or carbon team. We have clients ranging from 10 FTEs right up to 1000+ FTEs. We're less suitable for large multinationals / listed businesses with 5000+ FTEs. These tend to have complex needs and are better suited to working with a consultancy or enterprise-focused platform.

What standards does Seedling align to?

Seedling is built on the GHG Protocol - the global gold standard for carbon accounting and reporting. We also support ISO 14064 measurement and verification.

Do we need any carbon footprinting expertise to offer this?

Not at all. You can use Seedling as a fully supported delivery partner, where our team handles the technical carbon calculations and methodology behind the scenes. If you prefer to build in-house capability, we also provide the software, training, and support your team needs to deliver carbon reporting independently.

How does pricing work?

Our base pricing is determined by the client's size and complexity (see our Pricing page). We then offer discounts to our partners which depend on volumes and the level of involvement we have (software-only vs fully-outsourced). Get in touch for more details!

Is carbon reporting something our clients actually need?

As you probably know, all "large" (>250 FTE) businesses need to report some energy and carbon under SECR alongside their annual financial reporting. Alongside this, it's increasingly common for businesses of all sizes to face requests from clients, investors and other stakeholders for carbon data - for example, as part of tenders for government contracts.

Still have questions?

Book a demo or get in touch and we'll be happy to help. Or follow this step-by-step guide to measuring your business's carbon footprint.

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