Pickler

Creating a product, improving your data, adding compliance data, using the API and spreadsheets import and export.

Hands on guides for using Pickler

In this article we go through how you find your way in Pickler from the products page.

Managing your products from the products page

Set up product, pack, case, and pallet layers for accurate impact calculations.

How packaging layers work in Pickler

Guide on using Draft and Verified statuses in Pickler: when to apply each, and verification criteria.

Draft and verified product status

How to work with the products overview page

Navigating in Pickler 

How to set up a product and understand the footprint steps in the sidebar

Product Setup and general product data

Your product’s impact starts with its materials. Add accurate materials, weights, and processing for the best results.

Materials and Processing

Packaging, used to ship, transport, or sell your product. By including it in your calculation, you get a complete picture of the total environmental impact.

Additional packaging

Transport captures all movements from processing to your warehouse, helping your footprint reflect the real journey of your product.

Transport

End of Life captures how your product is treated after use. Pickler applies regional recycling, incineration, composting, and landfill data automatically.

End of life

Compliance data

The best way to learn how Pickler works. Full guide of the product form, including general data, materials, components, transport, end of life, and compliance fields.

Creating and Managing Your Products in Pickler

Ensure accurate impact calculations by correctly mapping your materials, production processes, and transport locations to Pickler's data

Quick Guide: Data Mapping

After you fill out- or import your products, you map your input data to the values in Pickler to start your calculations. Here's how.

Map primary data to IDEMAT database

What is mapping, what are the benefits and how does it work.

Data mapping introduction

What to do if your material is not in the list.

I can't find the right material

Are there certain materials that you would like added to the IDEMAT database? You can now use the form below to request them!

Request form: New materials in IDEMAT

How to map your data to IDEMAT secondary data, what to map, and where to get help if materials are missing.

Mapping your data to IDEMAT database

Bulk management of product data, footprint calculation inputs, and Digital Product Passport readiness

⭐ Guide: import product data using spreadsheets

Learn how to use the import template in Pickler.

Import product data using the import template

Walkthrough of importing product data in to Pickler.

Import product data using Excel

Export data in Pickler

How to manage larger datasets using spreadsheet import — what it is and how to use it.

Import and export

Sync product and footprint data with our API

Guides on what the API is and how to integrate your product data automatically.

Integrate Using the API

Learn how to add a custom production method and energy use when needed.

Using energy allocation to enter energy use per product

Why to only add energy that was physically consumed at the processing location

Why your energy data needs to be location based

Why we locking the end of life stage for inventory products protects you from greenwashing.

How to add primary end of life data

How automatic calculation works, what the risks are and best practices.

How to use automatic route calculation

Learn how to manually calculate land, sea, rail, and air transport distances in Pickler.

Calculate transport distances manually

A workaround to include transport from warehouse to customer

How to include transport to customer

How do we deal with different thicknesses of foil in Pickler? And does it affect our results, since the scores are compared per kg?

Yes, sustainability Impact Metrics established a methodology to translate EPDs/LCAs to eco-costs

Can existing EPD/LCA be used in Pickler?

How can I submit or request new materials to Pickler?

Pickler uses IDEMAT’s public End-of-Life data to apply realistic regional recycling, incineration and landfill percentages to your packaging.

Where can I find end of life region sources that Pickler uses?

Common questions

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