# Avarni Help Center > Help center for Avarni ## Getting started - [Add your team and set permissions](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169440-add-your-team-and-set-permissions.md): You need admin access to add or remove people. - [Getting into Avarni: logins, SSO and access](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169438-getting-into-avarni-logins-sso-and-access.md): Avarni is at app.avarni.co. ## Reporting - [Build graphs and read the Overview](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169445-build-graphs-and-read-the-overview.md): The Overview gives you your headline figures. Graphs let you build your own views. - [Emissions Hub: find, filter and export](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169443-emissions-hub-find-filter-and-export.md): The Emissions Hub holds every row of emissions data. Use it to find a number, check a row against its source, or export. - [Forecasting and scenarios](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169461-forecasting-and-scenarios.md): A scenario projects your emissions forward under a set of assumptions. Use it to see whether a plan gets you to your target. - [Get your numbers out for your annual report](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169447-get-your-numbers-out-for-your-annual-report.md): There is no single report button. What you use depends on who is receiving the numbers. - [Set a reduction target](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169459-set-a-reduction-target.md): A target in Avarni is a percentage reduction against your baseline year, for chosen scopes, by a date. ## Getting your data in - [Upload a data set on Avarni - Try it out yourself!](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/9205869-upload-a-data-set-on-avarni-try-it-out-yourself.md) - [Add and review emission entries by hand](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169503-add-and-review-emission-entries-by-hand.md): Most data arrives by upload. Use a manual entry when you have a single figure with no file behind it. - [Build and edit a Method](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169481-build-and-edit-a-method.md): A Method decides how your uploaded data becomes emissions. It sets the scope and GHG category, and it assigns an emission factor to each row. - [Custom fields: when you need one and how to set it up](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169493-custom-fields-when-you-need-one-and-how-to-set-it-up.md): A custom field is a label you attach to emissions data so you can filter, group and report by something Avarni does not track as standard. - [Fix data: re-uploading, duplicates and deleting](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169479-fix-data-re-uploading-duplicates-and-deleting.md): Read this before you upload a file a second time. - [Invoices: what Avarni can read](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169462-invoices-what-avarni-can-read.md): Avarni reads your utility bills and pulls out the consumption, the period and the amount. You upload the bill and review what was extracted. - [Load historical and prior-year data](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169491-load-historical-and-prior-year-data.md): You need at least one prior year to show a comparison. Many organisations load several. - [Review the data Avarni extracted from your invoices](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169508-review-the-data-avarni-extracted-from-your-invoices.md): When Avarni reads an invoice it pulls out two things: the line items, and the invoice total. It then adds up the spend on the line items and compares that... - [Run an employee commuting survey](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169502-run-an-employee-commuting-survey.md): Employee commuting is Scope 3 Category 7. It covers your staff travelling between home and work, and in most frameworks the energy they use working from home. - [Sending us your data](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169506-sending-us-your-data.md): There are two ways data reaches Avarni: you upload it, or it arrives through a channel we set up with you. - [Upload templates: what each one needs](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169460-upload-templates-what-each-one-needs.md): Avarni has separate upload templates for different kinds of data. Each one asks for its own columns. ## Frequently asked questions - [Frequently asked questions](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/9262464-frequently-asked-questions.md) ## Reference - [Avarni Templates](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/9817534-avarni-templates.md): This guide will provide you with essential templates, including the data requirement template and custom emission factor upload templates. - [Emission factor sources in Avarni](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/9205845-emission-factor-sources-in-avarni.md): This guide will outline the existing emission factor sources within Avarni. - [Country codes and units](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169496-country-codes-and-units.md): This page lists what Avarni accepts in the Country and Input Unit columns of an upload. - [Glossary](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169494-glossary.md): Assessment. The container for one reporting period. Holds your trial balances, your general ledger, your account inclusions and your classification rules.... - [What each rule operator does](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169484-what-each-rule-operator-does.md): The same operators appear wherever you build a condition: Method branches, General Ledger rules, rule suggestions and data feed rules. ## Suppliers and surveys - [Build a supplier survey](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169516-build-a-supplier-survey.md): A survey template is the set of questions you send to suppliers. Build it once, then send it to as many suppliers as you need. - [Send a survey and chase responses](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169517-send-a-survey-and-chase-responses.md): Once your template is ready, send it to a group of suppliers as a survey send. - [Supplier Hub: suppliers, contacts and cohorts](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169521-supplier-hub-suppliers-contacts-and-cohorts.md): Supplier Hub lists every supplier Avarni has identified in your data. - [Track your suppliers' SBTi targets](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169522-track-your-suppliers-sbti-targets.md): The Science Based Targets initiative publishes a register of companies that have committed to, or already set, science-based emission reduction targets. ## Setting your boundary - [Base year, rebaselining and restatements](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169485-base-year-rebaselining-and-restatements.md): Your base year is the year you measure progress against. Everything you claim about reduction is relative to it. - [Buy or sell a business part-way through the year](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169475-buy-or-sell-a-business-part-way-through-the-year.md): When your group changes during a reporting period, you count emissions for the part of the year you had control. - [Choose your consolidation approach](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169441-choose-your-consolidation-approach.md): Your consolidation approach decides which parts of your group appear in your emissions inventory, and which emissions count as yours. - [Decide what is material and leave things out](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169473-decide-what-is-material-and-leave-things-out.md): You do not have to calculate everything. You do have to justify what you left out. - [Decide which entities go in your report](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169467-decide-which-entities-go-in-your-report.md): Your consolidation approach decides the test. This article applies that test to the entities in your group. - [Entities and facilities replace sub-organisations](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169464-entities-and-facilities-replace-sub-organisations.md): Use Entities and Facilities for your organisation structure. Sub-organisations under Settings › Organisation Structure are being retired. - [How Avarni matches your data to a facility](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169488-how-avarni-matches-your-data-to-a-facility.md): When data arrives, Avarni tries to work out which site it belongs to. It does this by comparing identifiers in your data against the identifiers you... - [Leased sites, landlords and tenants](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169476-leased-sites-landlords-and-tenants.md): Leases decide which scope an emission falls into. The answer depends on your consolidation approach and on the type of lease. - [Set up your entities and facilities](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169465-set-up-your-entities-and-facilities.md): Entities are the companies in your group. Facilities are the sites those companies operate. Build entities first, because every facility links to one. ## Your financial data - [Build classification rules and set their order](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169511-build-classification-rules-and-set-their-order.md): A classification rule tells Avarni how to treat a group of general ledger transactions. It sets the emission factor, the GHG category and the review status. - [Chart of accounts: what to include and what to leave out](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169497-chart-of-accounts-what-to-include-and-what-to-leave-out.md): Your chart of accounts decides which spend Avarni reads for your Scope 3 calculation. - [Check your general ledger is complete against your trial balances](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169524-check-your-general-ledger-is-complete-against-your-trial-balances.md): Your Scope 3 spend comes from your general ledger. If transactions are missing from the ledger you loaded, your emissions are understated and nothing else... - [Review suggested rules from a ledger analysis](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169525-review-suggested-rules-from-a-ledger-analysis.md): Ledger Analysis reads the general ledger you uploaded and suggests a classification rule for each group of transactions it recognises. You decide which... - [Start a new financial year](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169523-start-a-new-financial-year.md): Each reporting period is a separate assessment. Create a new one when your financial year rolls over. - [Upload your chart of accounts and trial balance](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169500-upload-your-chart-of-accounts-and-trial-balance.md): Upload your chart of accounts first, then your trial balances, then your general ledger. Each one depends on the last. - [Upload your general ledger](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169510-upload-your-general-ledger.md): Ledger Import is where you upload your general ledger. Once it is loaded, Ledger Analysis reads it and suggests classification rules. See Review suggested... ## Scope 3 from your ledger - [Do not count the same emissions twice](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169449-do-not-count-the-same-emissions-twice.md): Double counting happens when the same emission arrives through two routes. The usual cause is holding both an invoice and a general ledger line for the same... - [Reading your general ledger to find Category 1 and 2](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169436-reading-your-general-ledger-to-find-category-1-and-2.md): Scope 3 Category 1 is purchased goods and services. Category 2 is capital goods. Both are calculated from your general ledger. - [Spend-based or activity-based: when each is acceptable](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169437-spend-based-or-activity-based-when-each-is-acceptable.md): Spend-based means you calculate emissions from money spent, using a factor per dollar. Activity-based means you calculate from a physical quantity, such as... - [Which Scope 3 categories apply to you](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169448-which-scope-3-categories-apply-to-you.md): The GHG Protocol defines 15 Scope 3 categories. Few organisations report all 15. ## Checking and filling gaps - [Completeness: what it checks and how to read it](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169442-completeness-what-it-checks-and-how-to-read-it.md): Completeness shows what data has arrived, by facility, emission source and month. - [Estimate what you cannot measure](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169446-estimate-what-you-cannot-measure.md): Every reporting period has missing data. Assurers accept estimates. They do not accept undocumented ones. - [Sense-check your numbers before you report](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169456-sense-check-your-numbers-before-you-report.md): Before you publish, check that your numbers are plausible. Most errors are large and obvious once you look for them. - [The three completeness checks, and what each one tells you](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169455-the-three-completeness-checks-and-what-each-one-tells-you.md): Avarni has three checks with similar names that answer different questions. Knowing which is which saves confusion. ## Emission factors - [Add your own emission factor](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169483-add-your-own-emission-factor.md): Add your own factor when a supplier publishes one for their product, or when your sector requires a factor Avarni does not ship. - [Exchange rates and inflation on spend-based numbers](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169486-exchange-rates-and-inflation-on-spend-based-numbers.md): Spend-based factors are published in a currency and for a year. When your spend is in a different currency or a different year, Avarni converts it before... - [Find and change a factor in Factor Explorer](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169469-find-and-change-a-factor-in-factor-explorer.md): Factor Explorer is where you look up what factors exist. Changing the factor on a row happens in the Emissions Hub. - [Global warming potential: AR5, AR6 and NGER](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169482-global-warming-potential-ar5-ar6-and-nger.md): Global warming potential converts each greenhouse gas into a carbon dioxide equivalent. Methane and nitrous oxide are converted using a factor from an IPCC... - [How Avarni picks an emission factor](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169468-how-avarni-picks-an-emission-factor.md): Every row of activity data gets an emission factor. This article explains how that factor is chosen, and how to change it. ## Calculating each emission source - [Business travel: flights, hotels and travel provider data](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169514-business-travel-flights-hotels-and-travel-provider-data.md): Business travel is Scope 3, Category 6. It covers flights, accommodation, hire cars, taxis and rail for work. - [Freight and transport](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169509-freight-and-transport.md): Freight you pay for is Scope 3. Inbound is Category 4, upstream transportation. Outbound that you pay for is also Category 4. Outbound that your customer... - [Fuel, fleet and contractor vehicles](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169507-fuel-fleet-and-contractor-vehicles.md): Fuel you burn in vehicles and equipment you control is Scope 1. Fuel burned on your behalf by someone else is usually Scope 3. - [Market-based Scope 2: LGCs, GreenPower and on-site solar](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169495-market-based-scope-2-lgcs-greenpower-and-on-site-solar.md): Market-based Scope 2 reflects the electricity you contracted for. Location-based Scope 2 reflects the grid you drew from. Most Australian reporters disclose... - [Refrigerants and other fugitive emissions](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169498-refrigerants-and-other-fugitive-emissions.md): Fugitive emissions are gases that escape rather than being burned. For most organisations this means refrigerant leaking from air conditioning and... - [Waste](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169515-waste.md): Waste your operations generate is Scope 3, Category 5. What matters is the material and where it ended up, not the weight alone. - [Which Scope 1 and Scope 2 sources Avarni can calculate](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169519-which-scope-1-and-scope-2-sources-avarni-can-calculate.md): Avarni calculates an emission when it has two things: a quantity of activity, and an emission factor for that quantity. - [Working from home: what to count and how to estimate it](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169518-working-from-home-what-to-count-and-how-to-estimate-it.md): Working from home is the energy your staff use in their own homes on working days. It sits in Scope 3, Category 7, alongside commuting. ## Audit and assurance - [Evidence and the audit trail](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169474-evidence-and-the-audit-trail.md): Your assurer will pick rows at random and ask you to show where each number came from. This article covers what Avarni holds and how to find it. ## For your suppliers - [How to answer a survey you have been sent](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/17169499-how-to-answer-a-survey-you-have-been-sent.md): One of your customers has asked you for emissions data through Avarni. This page explains what they need and how to provide it. - [How to calculate your emissions to achieve a supplier-specific factor](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/11836093-how-to-calculate-your-emissions-to-achieve-a-supplier-specific-factor.md): A helpful guide for suppliers that have received a request for data through Avarni - [How to set SBTi aligned targets](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/11836214-how-to-set-sbti-aligned-targets.md): A simple guide to help suppliers set science-based targets \(SBTi's\) to align with their customer's goals and become an preferred supplier - [Managing your Received Surveys](https://guides.avarni.co/en/articles/10055398-managing-your-received-surveys.md): Learn how to view and manage the surveys that have been sent to your organization.