Compensate for WooCommerce

Compensate is a nonprofit on a mission to make every purchase decision a step towards carbon negativity. We calculate the climate impact of your customer’s order and shipment, and enable you to take action with your community.

Most likely yes! The app is currently available on Shopify to retailers around the world and on WooCommerce and Magento in the EU and UK. The supported end user currencies are EUR, USD, SEK, DKK, GBP and CAD. Supported end user languages are English, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Finnish. If that’s not you and you’d still like to work with us, message us via info@compensate.com.

We calculate the climate impact of your customer’s order and shipment when they add items to their cart. In the shopping cart, your customers will see a checkbox enabling carbon negative delivery. If they click 'yes' and choose to compensate, we’ll add a small fee to their order and keep it clear by marking it as a new product in their cart. Other than that, the checkout process remains the same. Once the order is placed, you’ll ship it as you normally would – and we’ll get busy compensating for the climate impact!

The Compensate app comes with:

• Built-in overcompensation to double the climate impact
• Multiple languages for the customer plugin (English, German, French, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch)
• Multiple currencies (EUR, USD, SEK, DKK, GBP, CAD)
• Information right in the app: Your customers don’t need to abandon their carts to learn more about Compensate

Compensate uses 100% of the received compensation payments to purchase certified carbon credits, meaning we take no cuts from your customers’ payments. We manage a carbon capture portfolio which is always on the lookout for the most sustainable, cost effective and reliable methods. We’re supported by leading climate scientists through our Scientific Advisory Panel.

The offset calculations depend on three things: the type of transportation, the weight of the delivery, and the distance of the shipment. On average, the cost of offsetting an international shipment weighing 1kg is 0.40€. On average, the cost of offsetting a domestic shipment weighing 1kg is 0.05€.

Carbon negativity means that some human action actually doesn’t add CO2 to the atmosphere, but rather removes it. In technical terms, something qualifies as carbon negative if the total carbon emissions attributable to that action are lower than the total amount of carbon dioxide that is removed as a result of the action. There’s already too much CO2 in the atmosphere. To fight climate change, we have to reduce our carbon emissions AND remove that excess CO2 from the atmosphere. We know and can do that with carbon capture. And as said above, we have a historical responsibility to remove CO2, because the “safe levels” of CO2 (350 ppm) were surpassed in 1987 – this is why going just “carbon neutral” is not enough to solve the climate crisis.

Any questions? Contact us via support@compensate.com

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