Compensate for WooCommerce
About Compensate
Who we are
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.
How to get started
It takes just 5 minutes to install the Compensate app. We’ll walk you through the installation, and with a few clicks and questions, you’ll be ready to go. If you need support, we’d love to help! For more information, visit our FAQ page, or get in touch with us.
Features
- Built-in overcompensation to double the climate impact
- We direct all the compensation funds received towards carbon capture
- Multiple languages for the customer plugin (English, German, French, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch)
- Multiple currencies (EUR, USD, SEK, DKK, GBP, CAD)
- Info right in the app: Your customers don’t need to abandon their carts to learn more about Compensate
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 check out 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! We don’t take any cuts from your customers’ payments, but use them in full towards carbon capture.
We’ll also let you know the impact achieved: your customer will see it in their receipts, and you’ll see it in your dashboard.
The emission calculations we use are based on the weight of the package and the distance of the delivery. 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€. Our calculations are verified, and you can read more about the math on our website.
Privacy considerations
The Compensate for WooCommerce provides a service which enables your store customers ways to offset the CO2 emissions generated by the shipping of their purchases, to store owners who use WooCommerce to power their stores.
Please check more information at our website
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.