Measuring your Emissions
To measure your company's greenhouse gas emissions and deliver an exhaustive assessment, information about the goods and services purchased by your company is needed. This information is retrieved through analysis of the accounting data you will provide to Greenly.
In this article, you will find a description of the available possibilities to provide your accounting data to Greenly, according to your situation.
Please note that the quality of the analysis and the time spent on them (by your company and Greenly) will highly depend on the quality of the data provided – please make sure to follow the instructions presented in this article.
It is recommended to send this article to your accounting/finance department so that they can assist in retrieving the data.
We take the use of your accounting data very seriously, learn more about it:
To upload your financial data, please go to Data > Accounting upload.
You will have three options to import your data :
Option 1: Connect your accounting software
Greenly can directly connect to some accounting softwares, allowing to extract all of your company's journal entries for your GHG assessment.
This process eases the data collection and processing for both your company and Greenly.
We have partnered with a trusted third-party service to seamlessly connect to your accounting software, ensuring a secure and efficient integration process. For more information, visit this link.
You can check the connection status and disconnect the software at any time on the Greenly platform under the accounting upload tab.
Here's a list of the accounting softwares supported by Greenly:
Clear Books
Dynamics 365 Business Central
Exact (Netherlands)
Exact (UK)
FreeAgent
FreshBooks
KashFlow
Oracle NetSuite
QuickBooks Desktop
QuickBooks Online
Sage 50 (UK & Ireland) on-premise
Sage Business Cloud Accounting
Sage 200cloud Standard
Sage Intacct
Xero
Zoho Books
If the direct connection to your accounting software is not chosen as a solution, you can suggest a new software to integrate ⧉ if your software is not yet available and provide us with an accounting file.
Option 2: Upload a list of expenses
This option allows you to transform your General Ledger or other accounting file so that it is correctly understood by our algorithm.
Depending on the carbon assessment methodology you are following, you can find all the information you need about how to upload a list of expenses with our templates:
Option 3: (French only) Import of the Fichier des écritures comptables (FEC) 🇫🇷
The FEC (not to be confused with the General Ledger) is a standard accounting file for most French organizations, containing all your company's accounting entries for a given period: your accountant should be able to send it to you.
You can find all the information you need about the format and expected content of this file, the data filtering you can optionally apply, and how to import it on the platform by clicking on the button below:
What if your accounting files have different currencies?
No worries! When uploading your file, you will be able to choose a currency under "Complementary file information".
For each currency, you can import the dedicated accounting file separately, while indicating its currency so we can correctly process it.
Make sure not to upload a file containing multiple currencies at once.
Important: Greenly uses the exchange rate corresponding to the profile year (until 2023)
Use Case 1: If a transaction is in a currency other than EUR (e.g., USD) and no matching Market Emission Factor (MEF) exists for that currency (like Exiobase), the French MEF for the Purchase Category is converted to the transaction currency. The exchange rate used corresponds to the profile year (e.g., 2023, USD -> EUR).
Use Case 2: In the categorization module, there may be transactions in different currencies. The “total amount” displayed at the top right is calculated using exchange rates that align with the profile year.
When your upload is complete, you can start Categorizing your expenses.