Skip to main content
The questions below come up most often, from people about to start and from people partway through their first assessment. If yours is not here, get in touch and ask us directly.

​
Getting started

With your accounting platform connected, you will have a complete spend-based draft within days, most of which is review time rather than data entry. Upgrading your major categories to activity data, meaning electricity, fuel, and flights, typically takes another week or two of chasing bills and records. See What data you’ll need for a realistic collection plan.
No. The platform handles classification, factors, and calculation. Understanding the basics does make your results more useful, though, and Carbon accounting in 10 minutes covers what you need.
No. Connecting your accounting platform is the quickest route to broad coverage, but you can import from CSV or enter data directly. Everything works either way. The connection saves you the export step, nothing more.
Yes. That is what event and product assessments are for, and they run alongside organisation assessments in the same workspace.

​
Data and accuracy

No. An assessment with transparent gaps and documented estimates is standard, accepted practice. Year one establishes a baseline and coverage improves each year after it. Waiting for perfect data usually means never starting.
Because that is genuinely where most organisations’ emissions sit. For service businesses, events, and most SMEs, the large majority of the footprint is in purchases, travel, freight, and the supply chain. A Scope 3-heavy result is a sign your coverage is good, not that something has gone wrong.
Almost always one of three things: a different emission factor source or year, a different boundary, or spend-based versus activity-based data in a given category. See Emission factors for how to trace it. Two credible tools can produce different numbers for the same company without either being wrong. What matters is that the method is documented.
Yes, in the sense that matters. Every figure traces back through its category and entries to the underlying data and the factor applied, with sources. See How emissions are calculated.

​
Reporting and requirements

Salvidia produces GHG Protocol-structured emissions results, which is the input AASB S2 disclosures require. If you are a reporting entity, your accountant or advisor assembles the disclosure and Salvidia gives you the measured emissions to put in it. If you supply large reporting entities, expect them to start requesting your data for their Scope 3. See Standards and frameworks.
For the large majority of client and tender requests, a GHG Protocol-aligned footprint with a stated boundary and period is exactly what is being asked for. Where a specific certification or third-party verification is required, the assessment gives the verifier everything they need to work from.

​
Account and support

Yes. Each company gets its own workspace with data kept separate. This is how consultants and advisors typically use Salvidia.
Reach out to the team at salvidia.com. We are a small team and we answer directly. Feature requests and integration suggestions are genuinely welcome: much of the platform exists because a client asked for it.

​
Where to go next