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 Processes

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

"As a recently certified B Corp, finding a way to measure and reduce our carbon emissions as a business was a massive priority but we weren't really sure where to start. Seedling have been fantastic from the start at guiding us through the process, taking the time to explain and helping us improve our own knowledge, and their software has made everything a breeze! With an incredibly quick turn-around time, we have now received our insights and are looking forward to implementing the actions and targets that the team help us set in order to reduce our emissions and sharing that with our community through the integrated engagement functionality. I highly recommend Seedling and their great team, it was a pleasure to work with them and we look forward to doing so again."
Financial services
Anna Stevens
Operations Associate
,
Kene Partners
“The Seedling platform made it simple to manage and input complex data, and meant that we could complete an accurate carbon footprint within just a few days – meeting our tight client reporting deadlines with time to spare! We’ve now got a well-evidenced Carbon Reduction Plan which we trust, and we’re confident sharing with clients."
Utility Services
Nicholas Lang
SHEQ Manager
,
ArchServices
“It’s been incredibly reassuring using Seedling to help us measure, report, and feel confident in the process. We’re now able to provide full Scope 3 reporting, supporting our continued ability to serve NHS hospitals in line with evolving requirements. The ideas and guidance from the team have been highly valuable in shaping our approach.”
Medical Device Distribution
Carly Rushton
Operations & Quality Manager
,
June Medical
"We love the Seedling product! The footprinting process was easy and comprehensive, and we were surprised at the speed of turnaround. Our public page is a great addition to our environmental communications which really helps us to stand out."
Software
Sam Holding
Strategic Partnerships Lead
,
BibliU
"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

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 up to 2000 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.

Ready to get started?

Book a demo with one of our experts today, or get started right away for free.