Sharing puts a modelled product's per-kg footprint on the Registry for the customers you choose, or for everyone. The figures are calculated from your model; you only decide who can find them.
Sharing needs a plan that includes it (Footprinting and above) and the Global Admin, Global Super User or LCA Expert role. Only sold goods can be shared, not drafts or products in development.
Share from the product
Click Share on a sold product's header, or in its row menu on the products list. The Share sheet opens:
- With: the customers you work with on the Registry, as chips you can pick, plus Someone by email. Opened from a customer's ask, that customer is already picked, and the sheet says which of their items it answers.
- Who can find it: Selected customers (only the ones you share it with) or Everyone (any buyer on the Registry can find and use it, under your company name). Whoever can find it can use it, and you are told who does.
- More options: how precisely its origin is shown, whether buyers who see it may ask you for data or for contact, and whether it contributes to anonymous benchmarks.
- Preview: what they will see. Your product, your company name, its country, how many impact categories it carries and how it was calculated, with the date.
Every product you share declares its allocation: by mass, with the rules behind its figures (co-products by mass up to the step they leave, by-products cut off, and any co-products or residues the product uses). Buyers see the rules beneath the allocation method, and the footprint statement carries them. Listings shared before this are sent again with them.
Click Share with {customer} (or Share). A customer you already work with on the Registry can use it straight away. Anyone else is sent an offer, and can see and use it once they accept. Someone not on Sustained yet is emailed an invitation. A product not yet on the Registry is shared for the first time in the same step.
The product then shows Shared with: each customer it is shared with and since when, offers waiting on a customer, and asks still waiting on you.
Shared data
Registry > Shared data lists everything you share, sorted into Needs attention (expiring, expired, or an answer from the email form waiting for your review), Live and Withdrawn. Click one to see its figures, who can see it, how many organisations use it in their models, its evidence, and what you can do with it. When a buyer starts using figures you share with everyone, Customer requests tells you which organisation. Sharing defaults sets what every new share starts with.
Evidence
Under Evidence, attach the documents behind your figures: an LCA report, a PCF certificate, a verification statement or other. Files can be PDF, PNG, JPEG, XLSX or CSV, up to 25 MB each and 20 per product. Each is scanned for malware before a buyer can download it. Evidence supports your figure; it is not a verification by Sustained.
Figures calculated in Sustained also come with a footprint statement a buyer can download and anyone can check. See How do I check or share a footprint statement?
Keeping it in date
Shared figures are Expiring in their last 60 days, and Expired ones can no longer be found. You can extend their validity for up to another year, within 24 months of the footprint's calculation, or recalculate them from the product to refresh them in place. Customers using them are told an update is available, and apply it when they choose.
Withdraw stops sharing immediately. Organisations that already use it keep their last figures and see that they are no longer shared.