Carbon reporting software comparison
How Sumday compares to carbon calculators and enterprise ESG software
We believe businesses of every size should have access to affordable carbon accounting software and support to produce audit ready reporting.
Our subscription model is accessible, allowing customers to allocate resources towards business-specific support and advice from their advisors.
Affordable but far from audit ready
Businesses and accountants need to understand both the why and the how behind carbon accounting. All Sumday subscriptions provide access to the Sumday Academy. This includes access to practical courses and templates to rapidly up-skill your team. With Sumday, you'll have the expertise to take control of your company or client’s carbon accounting and make a real impact. All of our courses are self-paced.
We operate from an education-first standpoint. So we’re continually evolving and developing learning materials to stay on top of changing standards, and emerging carbon accounting requirements.
Our team of Chartered Accountants and Certified Practicing Accountants are highly experienced in the sustainability standards landscape.
No matter your query, we’re here to help as you navigate this exciting but new area of accounting.
Leverage your existing accounting platform for the purposes of carbon accounting with our easy Xero integration.
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Carbon accounting relies on conversion factors, or emissions factors, to convert your data (like $ or litres) into an equivalent amount of carbon. At Sumday, we understand the importance of being audit ready, you need to know what makes up your footprint and the source of that data. Sumday's Carbon General Ledger Report sets out every transaction, the emissions factor database and specific number that was used in the calculation.
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Sumday is built upon transparency and rigour - we take a best practice approach. Sumday supports a transaction based assessment while encouraging the use of activity data. Every transaction can be assessed and have an emission factor applied - you have the control to make a professional judgement call and where relevant, you can make appropriate disclosures around your assumptions because...
"our software magically gave us the number" probably doesn't cut it.
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Very few
Sumday’s worksheet-based approach provides a complete audit trail, you can see what is making up your emissions beneath every category.
Some limited form of this
Some limited form of this
Visualize your data across interactive dashboards.
Measure and report on emissions across every category.
A library of excel based workpaper templates and business case tools to support a robust audit trail and emission reduction strategies.
Our focus is on accurate data collection. Scope 3 is a challenge and we take an education first approach to it. With Sumday you can pass on free access to software, training and support to every business in your value chain for 10 weeks. Help them get started with audit ready accounting and improve your own data quality over time as you replace averages with actuals.
Some may enable you to pass on access to their software, but limited training or support is provided to help the business get started.
Your accountant can use Sumday to complete your carbon accounting to an audit ready standard. It's designed for them to do it right.
Value chains are global and your operations might be too, so we’re built to support multiple languages.
on request
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Here to help
Whether it’s product or accounting support, we have a dedicated team to guide you through the process. We’re here when you need us.
