Pricing for any business
(GHG, PPN 06/21, B Corp, others)
FAQs
Your questions answered
Why should I use Seedling?
Designed for SMEs, we make it easy for you to measure an accurate, full-scope footprint, helping you to make confident, informed decisions, backed by data and climate science.
Our mission: to help you make genuine, measurable progress towards Net Zero - without being too time-intensive or breaking the bank.
How do you measure emissions?
Our carbon accounting methodology is aligned to the GHG Protocol, the international gold standard for carbon accounting.
If you need to report your emissions to your stakeholders (e.g. suppliers, regulators), you can rest assured that they've been measured compliantly.
How long does it take to measure my emissions?
Once you start adding your data to the platform, your emissions are calculated instantly.
However, collecting the data can take time, especially if you've not measured your footprint before. We would generally recommend allowing 4 weeks to give you enough time to collect the right data for your business. This assumes your day job carries on as normal, and you spend around 1-2 hours per week finding data (4-8 hours work in total).
If you're in a rush and able to focus, there's no reason you won't be able to complete your footprint in a matter of days.
What data do I need?
There are two types of data that we use for your footprint: spend data and activity data.
Spend data comes from your expenses system: it's the amount you've spent on the goods and services you have purchased as a business.
Activity data covers a much broader range of data sources, and varies depending on what your business does. It includes energy data from bills (in kWh), the distance your fleet has travelled (in miles), and the amount of material you have used in your products (in kg) - among many others.
While spend data is useful for an initial high-level analysis of your hotspots, it doesn't capture everything and it's often inaccurate. As such, you should try to use more accurate activity data as far as reasonably possible.
Seedling is designed to make it easy for SMEs do just that.
How does your employee survey work?
During the process, you'll be able to send out an employee survey via the platform, enabling an accurate assessment of your homeworking and commuting emissions - whilst engaging and educating your employees on sustainability.
After customising the survey for your business, you'll receive a unique link that you can email to all employees, and track responses via the platform.
We'd usually recommend allowing 1-2 weeks to get a good sample.
Still have questions?
Book a demo or get in touch and we'll be happy to help.