From annual estimates to weekly evidence.

Every journey is converted to tCO2e using the latest UK DESNZ greenhouse-gas conversion factors, based on the actual transport mode and distance each employee logs — not a desk-based estimate. That covers walking, cycling, public transport, cars and vans, and electric micromobility such as e-scooters and e-bikes. Each employee also carries a confidence score so you know how complete their data is.

METIMO Employee Commute is purpose-built for Scope 3, Category 7 (employee commuting) under the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain standard, and its methodology is aligned to ISO 14064-1 and independently verified to ISO 14064-3. Your own figures are prepared in accordance with the GHG Protocol and ISO 14064-1, ready for your wider greenhouse-gas inventory and any independent verification you choose to commission.

No — and that's deliberate. Offsetting is voluntary and personal: an employee can offset their own commuting footprint through the app, and the carbon credits are retired in their name. Under the GHG Protocol and ISO 14064 a company must report its gross commuting emissions, so buying or retiring credits never subtracts from your reported tCO2e. In the compliance report we surface how much employees have voluntarily offset as a clearly-labelled memo item shown alongside — never netted into — your gross figure, which keeps the inventory audit-ready and avoids double-counting. To actually lower the reported number, the underlying commuting activity has to change (greener modes, car-sharing, home working).

Yes. Alongside walking, cycling, public transport and cars, employees can log their commute by e-scooter or e-bike — including shared-fleet schemes. Because these are electrically powered, we don't treat them as zero-emission: each journey is calculated from the electricity it uses (an energy-per-mile figure — 30 Wh/mile for e-scooters, 18 Wh/mile for e-bikes — multiplied by the UK Government (DESNZ) full-lifecycle electricity conversion factor for the year travelled, covering generation, transmission and distribution losses and well-to-tank) and its distance, so the small footprint of charging is captured. They sit within Scope 3, Category 7 as low-carbon micromobility, and the exact factors and energy assumptions are published in our methodology so they're traceable and audit-ready.

No — they're different parts of the GHG Protocol. Commuting between home and a regular workplace is Scope 3, Category 7, which is exactly what METIMO Employee Commute measures. Business travel — flights, hotels, trips to other sites — is Category 6 and sits outside this tool. Keeping the two separate is important for a clean, defensible inventory.

A working-from-home day has no commute journey, but it isn't zero. When an employee logs a day as working from home, we apply the UK Government (DESNZ) homeworking conversion factor — office equipment and heating, per FTE working hour — and include those emissions in that week's tCO2e total automatically. Home working sits within Scope 3, Category 7 alongside commuting, so your inventory reflects both the journeys made and the days worked from home, each traceable to the published factor used.

During onboarding, anyone who commutes by car, van or motorbike is asked whether that vehicle is owned or provided by their employer. If it is, those vehicle journeys belong in the employer's own Scope 1 or Scope 2 emissions — not employee commuting — so we exclude them from your Scope 3, Category 7 figures to avoid double-counting. The excluded emissions aren't lost: they're totalled and reported separately in the dashboard's coverage panel, and affected employees are flagged, so admins can see the amount and feed it into the right part of their inventory. If an employee also uses public transport or active travel legs, those stay counted in Category 7 as normal.

Everyone in the car selects “Car share” for that journey. Car sharing is built on the UK Government (DESNZ) car conversion factor and shared per person, but we calculate it leg by leg rather than assuming a fixed two-person split. A journey can be entered as an ordered list of legs — for example a driver travelling alone to the first pick-up, then two, three or four people once passengers join — and each leg's emissions are divided equally between the people actually in the car for that leg. Legs a person wasn't in (such as the driver's solo run to collect them) aren't charged to them. Add up everyone's shares and they equal the whole journey exactly once, so the footprint is split fairly by real occupancy and, in line with the GHG Protocol, each unit of commuting activity is counted a single time without double-counting. If a journey is logged simply, it falls back to an equal per-person split across the whole distance.

Distance is based on the journey between home and workplace for the modes each employee logs. We keep personal data to the minimum needed to calculate emissions. To respect GDPR data minimisation, employer admins only ever see aggregated company figures — never an individual's commute distance or emissions — and employees can request deletion of their data at any time.

It takes a single click. Employees confirm their standard commute week in one tap — or quickly amend the days they worked and the transport they used if something changed — and the app handles the rest. There are no spreadsheets or annual surveys to chase.

Your reporting stays complete. When a past week isn't confirmed, the app auto-completes it using that employee's normal commute pattern and clearly flags the week as "estimated" rather than employee-confirmed — a method permitted under the GHG Protocol where primary data is unavailable, and disclosed in your methodology statement. Weeks fully covered by booked holiday are recorded as holiday with zero commuting emissions instead. Admins can always see how much of the data is confirmed versus estimated.

Signing up is voluntary, so some employees may choose not to take part. Admins can import an expected roster, and the dashboard produces a participation report showing who hasn't signed up yet and who has missed weeks, so you can send reminders. For anyone who still doesn't take part, they are attributed the average commuting distance of registered staff for a full 5-day week across the period they're employed (so emissions are never under-counted), while registered staff who miss a week are filled from their own usual commute — so your inventory reflects real headcount without forcing participation. This participation view is the one place admins see names and emails; it exists for reminders and roster management, not for viewing anyone's individual commute or emissions.

The app respects holiday calendars and automatically pauses during annual leave and time off, so it never sends disruptive notifications when someone is away and their reporting stays accurate.

Yes. Business plan admins can export their organisation in one click as an aggregated CSV — company totals by month with miles, tCO2e and the DESNZ factor vintages behind each figure — ready to drop straight into your ESG software, annual report or CDP disclosure. To protect employee privacy the export contains no names, emails or per-person rows, and breakdowns are collapsed for reporting groups under five people.

Business plans are a flat monthly fee based on your headcount band, not a per-seat charge — £25/month for Micro (up to 50 employees), £50/month for Micro Plus (51–100), £125/month for Small (101–250), £250/month for Mid (251–500), £500/month for Large (501–1,000), £1,225/month for Corporate Core (1,001–2,500) and £2,450/month for Corporate Plus (2,501–5,000). Organisations of 5,001+ employees get a custom Enterprise quote. Choose annual billing and get two months free. Every plan unlocks the same Business features.

Both. Monthly is the default, or choose annual billing and get two months free — you pay for ten months and get twelve. You pick the interval at checkout.

Yes. Business admins manage everything from the Stripe-powered billing portal — update your card, download invoices, upgrade or downgrade your band, or cancel. There's no lock-in.

Your dashboard automatically compares your active employees against your paid band and flags when you've outgrown it, prompting you to upgrade to the right tier so you stay correctly licensed. Nothing breaks in the meantime — you simply get a clear nudge.

Company data is scoped to your organisation and only visible to your authorised admins, who see aggregated reporting rather than individual employees' commute data. We follow GDPR best practice — including data minimisation and small-group suppression — and individuals can request deletion of their account and data at any time.

It depends on your size. Companies up to 500 employees (SME, Mid-Market and Upper Mid-Market) can subscribe online in minutes — pick your plan, pay securely by card through Stripe, and start inviting employees straight away. Larger organisations, or anyone who needs a purchase order or custom terms, can request a Business plan and our team will confirm pricing and set you up. Either way you get invite links to onboard your whole workforce.