your carbon footprint, measured from your invoices.
When a customer asks for the carbon footprint of what you supply, they want a figure that holds up when they check it. Carbon reporting works it out from the quantities on your invoices: the litres, kilos and units you bought and sold, not what you paid for them. We set it up with you, and every figure opens to the invoice line or ledger balance behind it.
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why quantities, not spend
Most quick carbon estimates start from what you spent. They take your fuel bill, say, and multiply the dollars by an average for fuel. That gives a rough figure fast, but it moves with prices: if diesel goes up, the estimate says your emissions went up too, even if you burned exactly the same amount.
Carbon reporting reads the 2,000 litres on the fuel invoice, not the dollar total, and does the same for the ingredients, packaging and materials you buy and the goods you sell. This is quantity-based measurement, sometimes called activity-based. The same fuel gives the same figure, whatever it cost that month.
what's measured, and what's estimated
Some costs only reach your accounts as a dollar amount, with no quantity to read. Those are converted from spend. They open to your ledger rather than to an invoice, so you can always see which figures were measured and which were estimated.
what you get
Scope 1, 2 and 3, with a total. Scope 1 covers what you burn yourself, such as gas and fuel. Scope 2 covers the electricity you buy. Scope 3 covers the rest of your supply chain, and it's broken down by category.
A report for any period. Choose the period each time you run a report.
A report for each invoice, and one for your customer. You can see the footprint of a single invoice, and hand your customer a report on what you supplied them.
Figures you can trace. Every figure built from your invoices opens to the lines behind it, naming the invoice each line came from, and from there to the invoice itself.
Reporting that learns your business. When your team classifies a line, that becomes a rule for your business and is suggested next time. Corrections made while reading invoices become rules too.
works from what you already have
Carbon reporting reads your Xero file through a read-only data connection: your ledger balances, your invoices and the PDFs attached to them. Nothing in Xero changes. If some of your invoices live outside Xero, your team can upload them.
how it starts
Carbon reporting is set up for each business, so it starts with a conversation. We go through your invoices with you, set up how your purchases and products are measured, and run your first report. Setting up takes days, not months.
If you'd like a first look before we talk, the free carbon snapshot gives you an estimate from your Xero file in about 3 minutes. It works from what you spent, so it's a starting point rather than a measured figure.
built on 
Carbon reporting is one of the uses of Pyxta, the platform Beljay Labs builds on, set up in advance for this job.
talk to us about your carbon reporting
Tell us who's asking for your carbon figures and what they need, and we'll talk you through how it would work on your invoices.