Setting up your account

Using just your business revenue for a full financial year and your industry, we can give you a rough picture of your emissions when compared to other businesses in your sector. It gives you an opening figure, before you have entered more detailed information.

You will be prompted to set up a Sage ID. This is a unique protected login and password that gives you access to the Sage suite of tools.

Choose monthly or annual payments, and enter your business’s card details. The first payment will be taken once the software is connected.

You will then continue with the integration and be taken through a series of steps that are managed by your accounting software.

Sage Earth works by analysing your business’s spend, assigning a carbon emissions conversion factor to every transaction. See our Methodology page for more information.

Here we ask you to provide us with your registered company name, and the Standard Industrial Classification for your business (also known as a 'SIC code').

SIC codes help to identify your business’s industry. Sage Earth uses these codes to help make appropriate categorisations for your spend. Refer to our methodology here. You can identify the SIC codes allocated to your business easily with a quick search in Companies House online.

Top tip: A business can have multiple SIC codes applied to it, so please enter all those that are applicable to your business.

Once you are connected, you will be asked to identify and confirm your business’s accounting and spend codes. You can choose to do this now, or alternatively you can come back to this later from within the platform.

Once you are in the platform, follow the Welcome product tour to get an overview of the platform features.