Setting up your Facilities on Compare Your Footprint

After setting up your organisation, the next step is to set up your facilities within Compare Your Footprint. Facilities refer to the sites, locations, or virtual entities where your data will be recorded. 

There’s no limit to the number of facilities you can create, and every piece of data you enter must be linked to a specific facility. For a complete list of available facility types, refer to the Industries & Facility Types Guide in the Resources & Support section.

1. Access the Facilities section

Navigate to ‘Facilities’ from the left-hand navigation panel.

2. Add a new facility

Click on ‘Add a Facility’ and fill in the following required fields:

• Facility Name: This could be the official name of the location or an internal name. The facility name will appear on your report.
• Facility Type: Choose the type of facility based on the ISIC definitions.
• Country: Select the country where the facility is located.
• Postcode: Enter the facility's postcode. If the location is virtual or your country doesn’t use postcodes, enter a location identifier instead.
• External ID (optional): This is an optional field that can be used as a second way to identify a facility. For example, when two sites have the same postcode. 
• Primary Facility: Indicate whether this is your organisation’s primary location or office. You can only designate one facility as the primary location.
• Exclude from Organisation Footprint: If you want to perform basic scenario modelling, you can choose to include or exclude a facility from your reports. For example, you could test the impact of switching to renewable energy at one office by creating a test facility, adding the theoretical data, and then toggling its inclusion in your reports.

3. Save your facility information

After entering the basic details, save your information by clicking the save icon in the top right corner.

4. Add facility metrics (optional)

You can add additional metrics for each facility, such as square meters (m²), annual revenue, or FTE employee numbers.

5. Bulk import facilities (optional)

If your organisation has many facilities, you can bulk import them using an Excel template. On the Facilities homepage, select ‘Import Facilities,’ click ‘Excel’ to download the template, fill it in, and then click ‘Upload File.’ Select your completed template and start the import process.

Up next: Now that you've set up your facilities, learn how to add your data by exploring our Add and Update Business Activity Data article.