You don't need to calculate a PCF for every product. Prioritise products your customer has specifically requested, your highest-volume products, products with high suspected emissions, and products you're actively working to reduce. Lower-volume or simpler products can follow later.
If the only difference between several products is the dimension, you can calculate one PCF on a mass basis and apply it across the whole range rather than repeating the work.
How to tell which products your customer has asked for
Requested products appear in your profile alongside the request, with its deadline. Each requirement shows its own compliance status, so you can see at a glance what is outstanding. See Understanding Compliance Levels and How to Meet Your Customer's Requirements.
Who can see your PCFs
Your sustainability profile, including any Product Carbon Footprints you have published, is shared with your Green Project buyers by default. They can see what you have already built without asking you first. The point is to save you answering the same questions repeatedly: customers only come to you when something is genuinely missing.
If you would rather approve each customer individually, switch the Public profile toggle off. Your profile then becomes request-only, and you decide who gets access. You can also revoke an individual customer's access, set an expiry date on it, and switch between the two modes whenever you like.
Full detail: Managing Your Profile and Customer Requests and What Data Does Green Project Share with Customers?
A PCF that is still in progress can be kept as a draft. It becomes shareable once it has passed Green Project's quality checks.
Keeping your PCFs current
As your products or processes change, create a new version of your PCF rather than editing the old one, so customers can see your improvement trajectory. If a customer needs something changed, for example an updated reference period, you will receive a revision request through the platform.
A lower-carbon PCF is a genuine selling point. It builds customer trust, supports their sustainability targets, and differentiates your products in procurement decisions.
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