Autumn 2025 Calculator Improvements - Live blog
Welcome to the improvements blog!
Our current development cycle runs August - November and this is the place to find details of improvements and new features as they are released. Got feedback? Let us know here.
Coming next: Tags and filtering for your Final Footprints and Early Insights
Coming later: AI Measurement
w/c 29th September
Lighten the load by collaborating more easily - and with more companies!
Now you can add collaborators when you set up a Final Footprint
If you're working on a production with other companies, why not share the load and add them to your Final Footprint? Now, when you create a new one, you’ll be given the chance to add your collaborators, whether that's the brand, agency, production company, production consultancy, post house or supplier. Simply search for them, and add them.
Note that you can remove companies, change restrictions and add more collaborators after creating your project simply by going to the Details button when looking at your Final Footprint, and clicking Manage in the Companies Involved section. Clicking the 3 dots for the Final Footprint when in the project list view and selecting 'Manage Access' will also show the same pop up.
Company not there? Invite them to register and add them to your Final Footprint in the process
If the company you’re searching for doesn’t come up, it means they’re not yet using the carbon calculator. Good news - just select ‘+ Add new’, fill out a couple of details, and they’ll receive an email with sign up instructions.
The company will show up in your list of companies with access, but with ‘Pending set up’, until they complete the quick registration process.
Once registered and logged in, they’ll see your Final Footprint on their dashboard and be able to add their activities to it straightaway!
Note that you can remove companies, change restrictions and add more collaborators after creating your project simply by going to the Details button when looking at your Final Footprint, and clicking Manage in the Companies Involved section. Clicking the 3 dots for the Final Footprint when in the project list view and selecting 'Manage Access' will also show the same pop up.
Got an NDA project? Restrict access to your Final Footprint with the new visibilty feature
You’ll notice as you add each new company, you have the option to specify only certain people who can view the project. If you’re working on a highly sensitive project and need to restrict access at your own company, and/or that of any collaborators, you can! Projects with restrictions on visibility (whether at your company or a collaborators), are shown with a lock symbol in the project list.
FYI Parent companies cannot see Final Footprints of their child company if any restrictions are in place for their child company’s users.
Note that you can remove companies, change restrictions and add more collaborators after creating your project simply by going to the Details button when looking at your Final Footprint, and clicking Manage in the Companies Involved section. Clicking the 3 dots for the Final Footprint when in the project list view and selecting 'Manage Access' will also show the same pop up.
w/c 15th September
Post house or supplier? Now you can sign up for the tool too!
Previously, we’ve focussed on encouraging production teams to use the carbon calculator, but many of you wanted to collaborate with your post-production houses and other suppliers too - such as camera rental houses, and caterers. Good news - now when they sign up, they can indicate they’re a post house or supplier, and you can add them to any Final Footprints you choose!
w/c 8th September
Easier input for generators!
Benchmark now available in Final Footprints as well as Early Insights
Lots of you found the generator benchmarks in Early Insights so helpful that you requested they were added to Final Footprints too. Good news, they're now available! So if you’re not sure how much fuel you used in your generator, just select the benchmark option on your shooting spaces form.
More visibility for company admins
Now you can sort users by name, email, date added and last logged in
To give company admins greater understanding of how their teams are using the tool, the list of users can now be sorted by name, email, and date added - great for companies with lots of staff using the carbon calculator. In addition, you can now see when they each last logged in, and this is sortable too.
To see these, click on your company logo top right, and 'Manage Users'. Here you can also invite new users and promote them to admins, and delete existing ones if they have moved on or no longer need access. Note that you will not see the 'Manage Users' option if you're not an admin.
Edit a Final Footprint's details even if it's finished...
Want to tidy up your project names without reopening all of your Final Footprints? Now you can - click on the burger menu (the 3 dots) and click 'Edit Details' to change the name, additional info, budget info, key dates, and shoot days for any Final Footprints your company has created.
Fun fact: more burger menu updates coming soon and then we'll record video to show you the new menu options.
Why did we add this option? Reopening your footprint and then finishing it again updates the ‘date closed’ - which may change the dataset year it falls into. This change gives users the option to amend details without amending the project’s metadata which we use to track project completion, and build our annual datasets.