Product release highlights
Stay informed about our latest features, improvements, and innovations. We’re continuously enhancing our platform to help you achieve your sustainability goals with greater efficiency and accuracy.
September 2025 product release highlights
Goal: Upgraded core framework to maintain system integrity and security compliance
✓ Completed a critical upgrade to the latest secure version of our core framework, ensuring our systems remain compliant with current standards. This positions us well for security audits, while operating behind the scenes with no changes to user workflows.
Goal: Complete annual SOC 2 compliance audit
✓ Completed this year’s SOC 2 Type II audit, demonstrating our continued commitment to data security and operational controls. This annual certification validates that our systems and processes meet rigorous industry standards for protecting customer data. The successful audit reinforces trust with our clients and remains a critical requirement for enterprise partnerships.
Goal: Lay the foundation for a new product to beta test and launch early 2026
✓ Our engineering team is currently working on developing the core architecture and reusable design system for our next-generation application. This foundational work will enable us to beta test the new product in early 2026. The early investment in scalable components will accelerate future feature development and improve long-term maintainability.
Goal: Improve day-to-day workflows
✓ A dedicated team of engineers continues to address bugs and make improvements in the Greenplaces platform. This month we made small improvements to footprint and procurement data visualization and export, Greenpage documentation access requests, and our expert footprint analysis tools.
August 2025 product release highlights
Goal: Help customers quickly identify emission hotspots, understand year-over-year progress, and analyze procurement data to identify high-impact vendors — all through enhanced My Footprint reporting.
Redesigned My Footprint Reporting
✓ Users can now view their emissions footprint, as reported by Greenplaces, with year-over-year trends, downloadable charts, and actionable next steps—such as sharing with Greenpage or inquiring about RECs and Offsets.
✓ This new My Footprint view is available for all complete footprints within the Greenplaces platform.
New Purchased Goods & Services Visualization
✓ Users can now explore their imported procurement data through grouped tables and customizable chart views, all within the platform.
✓ These tools are accessible under Scope 3, Category 1, and via CTAs throughout the Footprint Visualization section.
is available for complete footprints where detailed procurement data has been provided.
✓ PG+S visulalization is available for complete footprints where detailed procurement data has been provided.
Goal: Simplify file management with drag-and-drop uploads and searchable lists.
✓ Users can now drag and drop files into a new universal upload modal across the application, replacing a previous third-party tool.
✓ Multi-select fields—for long lists such as Locations and Categories—are now searchable during the file upload flow and on the file details screen.
Goal: Improve the efficiency of importing external accounting data for climate consultants.
✓ The Carbon Accounting Importer (CAI) allows climate consultants to seamlessly import Purchased Goods & Services data via a Google Sheets integration. This data feeds directly into the new PG+S visualization pages.
✓ Additionally, data can be imported across all 24 GHG Protocol-aligned emission categories, supporting audit readiness.
Goal: Stay aligned with evolving global standards by expanding emission factor coverage.
✓ Australian DCCEEW electricity emission factors have been added to the Purchased Energy tools. Australian electric grids are automatically assigned to a location upon import of location into the application for ease of use in Purchased Energy tools
Goal: Increase carbon accounting efficiency and auditability for consultants.
✓ Footprint Automation tools now support double non-standard unit conversions and reverse conversion factors. The system can convert energy units to weight and/or volume using density and calorific values from the UK BEIS database.
✓ This enhancement reduces the number of manual conversions required by the Climate Team, streamlining workflows and increasing accuracy.
Goal: Simplify in-app data collection with more flexible file uploads and grouping related tasks.
✓ Users can now efficiently bulk upload files for multiple data collection tasks directly from the task list page, eliminating the need to navigate between individual tasks.
✓ Longer data collection task lists are now organized by related task types, creating a more digestible view of in-progress work, while shorter lists maintain the familiar tile layout.
June 2025 product release highlights
Goal: In-platform support for expanded offerings
✓ Tasks added to Data Collection for the purpose of supporting framework reporting. Users can now upload files mapped to SBTi, SB 253 & 261, CDP, and EcoVadis.
Goal: Support system infrastructure
✓ Comprehensive database updates and new table schemas designed to handle complex entity relationships within a customer’s profile. This foundational work sets the stage for upcoming features around organizational structure management and location-to-entity mapping within customer datasets.
May 2025 product release highlights
Goal: Improved File Organization and Discoverability
✓ Updates made to files and data collection to improve file organization. Files uploaded to the application are now automatically added to Data Collection, ensuring all data is properly tracked and accessible.
Goal: General fixes & improvements to footprint automation
✓ Onsite renewable energy generation accounting capabilities were added to the Purchased Energy Footprint Automation tools. Consultants now have the ability to record customer’s onsite renewable energy for the purpose of successfully tracking total energy consumption for framework reporting.
✓ Improvements to Utility Meter management, enabling flexibility for complicated addresses.
Goal: Enable granular time-based data tracking
✓ New date range functionality enables monthly data submissions, delivering granular insights and trend analysis previously unavailable to customers.
Goal: Infrastructure improvements
✓ Developed a comprehensive data versioning system that creates an audit trail for all organizational changes. The system guarantees compliance readiness and will be the foundation for future features focused on providing clear visibility into emission patterns to drive strategic environmental initiatives.
April 2025 product release highlights
Goal: Improve support for footprint auditability
✓ Newly released emission factors added to calculation tools. Includes releases from EPA, IEA, ECCC, and DCCEEW.
✓ Carbon Accountant Notes fields added to Footprint Automation tools to better capture fine detail on footprint decisions made based on contextual information from clients, these notes are included in the Audit log as well.
✓ Custom Energy Use Intensities (EUIs) added to Stationary Combustion and Purchased Energy automation tools to allow for customer-specific calculation support. These custom EUIs are recorded in the Audit Log.
✓ Expanded data provided for Footprint Audit exports to enable smoother audit interactions and reducing requests for additional data.
Goal: Expand footprint data management in application
✓ Expanded our ability to record Scope 3 Category 11 downstream emissions from sold products in the application.
Goal: Improve editing capabilities within the Files section of the application
✓ Bulk editing actions enabled for Clients in the Files section.
March 2025 product release highlights
Goal: Improve customer onboarding and data collection flow to
- Deliver an intuitive data submission experience
- Support storage and organization of customer data for new reporting products
✓ Platform navigation redesign: Streamlined and reorganized our Side Navigation Bar to allow our customers to more easily navigate to their destination, reducing frustration and lost time. This is also critical as we grow the offering and need a cleaner structure for future components.
✓ “Locked” page states: Sections that are “Complete” or “Work Paused” are now locked and require a reason to be noted if unlocking. This helps us to create a controlled and documented source of truth in Footprint Data to prepare for further automation and more complete Audit details.
✓ Improve File Review flow: Streamlined our file review process to reduce the number of clicks required to Edit recently uploaded documents.
Goal: More automated, higher quality preparation of Purchased Goods & Services data, enabling detailed in-application reporting on PG&S.
✓ Procurement Data Automation: We’ve expanded the capabilities of our internal tools for analysis of procurement data, now with better categorization and cleaning capabilities as well as a deeper integration with our application. This enables us to expose more detailed data in our upcoming detailed Purchased Goods and Services reporting.
February 2025 product release highlights
Goal: Enable better understanding of progress of Data Collection
✓ A key element of Data Collection is sourcing data for each location that will feed into the broader footprint for the organization. Our update allows users to track completion of Data Collection tasks on a per-Location basis. This makes it much easier to work with local location managers to ensure timely collection of data.
✓ Task Completion and new Admin Quality Assurance statuses now drive helpful cards at the top of the Dashboard indicating progress of current Data Collections. This makes it easier for users to determine logical next steps in the process.
Goal: Improve user experience
✓ Colors were updated throughout the application to reflect new brand colors, changing the primary UI color from orange to green. This change complements our recent navigation changes.
Goal: Improved data protections after completion of Data Collection
✓ In a step toward a controlled, in-platform source of truth for annual footprints, Data Collections in “Complete” or “Work Paused” QA statuses now transition to a view-only state in which a user must provide reasoning to resume work or make changes to the data.
Goal: Continued maintenance and improvements
✓ As always, we continue to improve and expand our footprint methodology tools and user interface for our Carbon Accountants increasing our flexibility, reliability, and reducing time to footprint completion. This includes updates to our unit conversions tools, allowing more complex conversions between non-standard units – increasing our ability to leverage more industry databases and tackle more complex footprints.
✓ Our vendor ingestion tool now calculates emissions from business loans, corporate bonds, and equity investments using PCAF’s DQ2, DQ4, and DQ5 methodologies. These calculations leverage supplier-specific emissions and industry financial data. This enhancement democratizes access to investment emissions calculations and increases our capacity to handle more of these type of footprint calculations.
January 2025 product release highlights
Goal: Improve Location Management experience when managing many locations
✓ Expanded our Location Management capabilities; users can now bulk import new locations and update existing ones via CSV imports as well.
Goal: Enable internal and external communication system
✓ Activity log and comments features were added to Data Collection, streamlining internal communication (between admin users) and external communication (between clients and admins). Integrating these tools directly into the existing data collection workflow eliminates the need for separate communication channels, keeping all project-related discussions centralized and contextual.
Goal: Expand Carbon Accounting infrastructure
✓ Achieved full automation of fugitive emissions calculations, completing a critical component of our carbon accounting system that strengthens data accuracy, reduces operational overhead, and ensures regulatory compliance readiness.
✓ Rolled out advanced calculation adjustment capabilities across the complete footprint automation platform, delivering sophisticated parameter customization that scales to meet diverse operational and regulatory reporting requirements. Users can now add, subtract, and account for missing months to supplement customer-provided data, ensuring complete and accurate carbon accounting even with incomplete datasets.
