Compare Your Footprint
Many organisations would love to measure and reduce their carbon footprint, but are held back by the initial financial barriers of taking on expert consultants.
Compare Your Footprint provides a cost-effective alternative in the form of an online carbon calculator and benchmarking tool which comprehensively assesses your organisation's carbon footprint.
Features
- Provides comprehensive online carbon reporting (Scopes, 1, 2 and 3).
- Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) policy compliant.
- Adheres to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol.
- Monthly or Annual carbon results and reporting.
- Plug-in to Xero, online accounting software available.
- Benchmark against others in your industry.
- We can offer APIs to plug-in to your business system
- Our software can compensate for incomplete data sets
Benefits
- Benefit from expert consultants without the cost!
- Identify carbon and financial savings opportunities.
- Measure unlimited projects and facilities.
- Fellow certified B-Corporations receive 20% discount.
- FREE for organisations with <£1m turnover (annual package).
- 10% Public Sector discount.
- Reduce emissions year-on-year and receive equivalent % discount year-on-year.
Pricing
£20.00 a licence a month
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
Framework
G-Cloud 12
Service ID
5 0 2 5 3 0 2 8 2 2 3 6 2 1 4
Contact
GREEN ELEMENT LIMITED
William Richardson
Telephone: +44 131 677 0183
Email: info@greenelement.co.uk
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- Yes
- What software services is the service an extension to
- Plug-in to Xero, online accounting software.
- Cloud deployment model
- Hybrid cloud
- Service constraints
- We are still in the Beta stage of development.
- System requirements
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- Modern browser, within the last 3 versions released.
- Older browsers may work but not officially supported.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Support is offered by email within 24 hours (or quicker depending on the issue). Our contact times Mon - Fri between 9am - 6pm, but we will answer enquiries outside of these times if very urgent.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
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There are different levels of support depending on the service package purchased. At a minimum, we offer email support for user / technical queries, at a maximum we offer a dedicated account manager with access to a support team covering software development and environmental management.
The upload of energy usage data and guidance on how to measure your footprint will be offered via online support (email and video call). This helps to reduce our own carbon footprint!
At an additional cost our sister organisation, Green Element, can offer on-site environmental management services to assist with carbon reduction planning and implementation. - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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Users will have access to a user guide and a demonstration video to help them to get started with CompareYourFootprint.com.
We are also happy to conduct a demonstration call and answer any questions the user may have.
Once the user is set up the first step requires data. The more data the better. However, the model has been designed by experienced environmental management consultants who have enjoyed many years of overcoming the challenges of incomplete data sets so although pristine data sets are welcome, the model has also been adapted to cope with less than perfect data.
The basic data requirements is energy usage. In order to calculate an intensity ratio, the total meter square coverage of buildings, number of full time employees and / or turnover. This can be entered over a time period of your choice and as either a total for the company or ideally as a total per facility. The same is true of all other data such as water usage, waste tonnage, business and freight travel, paper usage, IT procurement, catering costs; the list is endless. The tool combines simplicity with an exhaustive reporting structure enabling a comprehensive carbon footprint. - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
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Users data will be available to them at the end of the contract via their login.
If users want to extract their data they can request it from hello@compareyourfootprint.com. - End-of-contract process
- At the end of the contract users will still have access to their data and the reports the have paid for. Additional costs will only be required if clients want more reports or assistance with the reports of carbon footprint reductions.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari 9+
- Opera
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- No
- Service interface
- No
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
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Users are able to send in their carbon usage/consumption through the API and obtain back a result / impact assessment.
The API could be used to insert usage data in to a CYF account, and potentially retrieve the input data. Currently report data is not available through the API. - API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
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- Other
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- No
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- We have started moving all our servers into a ‘serverless’/on-demand infrastructure. Hence once user demand increases, so do our servers. This way no client is impacted by another client’s activity at the same time.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
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We currently collect customer feedback via surveys and direct contact with our clients. Additionally we track site visitors via Google analytics.
We are working towards measuring service availability metrics. - Reporting types
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- Real-time dashboards
- Regular reports
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Staff screening not performed
- Government security clearance
- None
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- United Kingdom
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- Never
- Protecting data at rest
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- No
- Equipment disposal approach
- A third-party destruction service
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
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Raw data inputted is currently not exportable via the interface.
Report Data and summary can be exported to PDF and Excel.
Raw data exports currently require the client contacting the team to generate the CSV. - Data export formats
- CSV
- Data import formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data import formats
- Excel
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Please find within our terms and conditions.
- Approach to resilience
- This information is available upon request.
- Outage reporting
- Email alerts
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Currently the team is small enough that there is no restrictions in management interfaces/support channels. As the team grows we will implement restrictions at various levels of access.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- Never
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- No audit information available
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- No audit information available
- How long system logs are stored for
- Less than 1 month
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- No
- Security governance approach
- We are working towards ISO 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- We use Amazon web servers: https://aws.amazon.com/security/
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- The components of our application are regularly updated. All changes are assessed for potential security impact. Details can be found within our Terms and Conditions.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- Our services are run through Amazon web servers, they will manage all potential threats.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- Our web server is provided by Amazon web servers: https://aws.amazon.com/security/
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- We are in regular email contact with users. In addition we have a web chat bot for users to immediately report issues.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Pricing
- Price
- £20.00 a licence a month
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
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Includes:
- Access to online carbon calculation
- Video 'How to' demo and user guide
- 14 day free trial
- Set up unlimited organisations and facilities
- Review carbon footprint report online
- Follow-up Q&A
Excludes:
- Report downloads
- Dedicated account manager / support - Link to free trial
- Get in touch for a free trial: hello@compareyourfootprint.com