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Setting up your account

Follow these steps to set up your SCA account, get your Industry Average footprint and then connect with compatible accounting software.

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Step 1 - Enter details to get your industry average footprint

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.

Step 2 - Set up a Sage ID (if you don't have one) to access the Sage suite.

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.

Step 3 - Subscription and payment

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

Step 4 - Connect your accounting software

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.

Step 5 - Enter registered company name and SIC code.

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.

Step 6 - Enter and confirm accounting codes

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.

Step 7 - Continue to the platform

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

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