Getting started with Nextera Track

Producing a carbon footprint number quickly is easy. Producing one you can still defend months later — when somebody asks where it came from — is another matter. Nextera Track settles that simply: every number in your summary comes from a single activity you can open one by one, and the factor value used is stored on that activity.

This page explains how to use it, from the first screen to your first activity record.

Before you start

What you need

• An Android or iOS mobile device, or a modern browser.
• An internet connection. GPS Tracking keeps running when the device loses its connection and uploads the journey later; Insert Flight, Manual Emission Entry and Offset refuse to run offline and show a No internet connection message.
• A user account, which you create yourself through Register — no invitation needed.
• Location permission on the device, if you intend to use GPS Tracking.

The small decisions that set the quality of your numbers

Nextera Track does not ask you to fix a boundary or a methodology. What sets the quality of your numbers is three small habits instead:

1. The vehicle you choose. The CO₂ value per kilometre is attached to the vehicle you pick in Select Your Vehicle, not to the journey. Choosing the wrong vehicle produces the wrong number, and nothing will correct it for you.
2. When you press Stop. A GPS Tracking session runs until you stop it and confirm Are you sure you want to stop tracking?. A session you forget to stop turns up in Active Tracking Sessions and has to be closed by hand.
3. Completeness. Your summary only totals what was recorded. A journey that was never captured will not show up anywhere as a gap — it is simply missing.

Working through it in the product

1. Getting Started, Register and Sign In

On first opening, the app shows the Getting Started screen with the Nextera Track wordmark. Swipe up to reach Sign In.

A new user taps Register and fills in Full Name, Username, Email and Password. Once that succeeds, you sign in through Sign In with either Username or Email together with Password.

2. Getting to know the tab bar

The main navigation is the tab bar at the bottom, with five tabs: Home, Footprint, Offset, Activity and Account. Almost everything you do starts from one of them.

Home greets you by name, shows the Ready to track? button, the Quick Actions row — GPS Tracking, Flight, Manual and Board — then Feeds & Updates and the Top CO2 Producers board.

3. Record a journey with GPS Tracking

Tap Ready to track? on Home, or GPS Tracking in Quick Actions, to open the Tracker screen.

1. Choose a vehicle in Select Your Vehicle. The list is grouped by vehicle type and comes from the master data synchronised to your device.
2. Start recording. While it runs, the app shows elapsed time, distance travelled and running CO₂ on one line, with the map below it.
3. You can change vehicle mid-journey; the distance after the change is calculated using the new vehicle’s value.
4. Press the stop button, then confirm Stop Tracking.

A journey is stored on the device first and uploaded afterwards. Where the upload has not yet succeeded, that journey appears in the Pending Uploads section of the Activity tab with a status of Waiting to sync or Failed and its reason. From there you can tap Retry for a single journey, Retry All for all of them, or delete a journey you did not mean to send.

4. Record a flight

Quick Actions → Flight opens the Insert Flight screen.

1. Fill in Flight Date.
2. In Flight Route, choose Departure then Destination. For a connecting flight, tap Add Connecting Flight — the extra segments appear as Connection 1, Connection 2 and so on.
3. Tap Preview. The app shows Flight Details per segment: Distance, Aircraft, Passenger CO₂/pax/leg, Cabin Class and Aircraft Fuel Burn/leg.
4. Tap Save if it looks right, or Reset to build the route again.

Flight figures come from route data rather than from a generic distance calculation — which is why you choose airports instead of typing in a distance.

5. Enter a journey manually

Quick Actions → Manual opens Manual Emission Entry, for journeys you did not get to record over GPS.

1. Fill in Activity Name, Date, and Notes where you need them.
2. In Vehicle Entries, tap Add Vehicle, choose a vehicle in Select Vehicle Type, then fill in Distance (km). The emissions for each entry appear underneath it immediately.
3. Add as many entries as you need — one record can hold several vehicles at once. The Summary section shows Total Emissions.
4. Save with the tick at the top right.

6. Read the Footprint tab

The Footprint tab is your Overview screen. The period selector at the top left governs everything on it: Today’s, Past Week’s, Past Month’s, Past Year’s or All Time.

• The status line at the top tells you how much of that period is not yet offset, or congratulates you when your offsets have overtaken your emissions.
• Carbon Produced shows one card per activity type — GPS TRACKING, MANUAL ENTRY, FLIGHT and DEVICE USAGE — with its total. The add button on each card takes you straight to the matching recording screen, and tapping the card body opens the Activity tab already filtered to that type. DEVICE USAGE is still marked Coming Soon.
• Carbon Offset shows the OFFSET card, which is also still Coming Soon.

The tree figure that appears on Home and Footprint uses a fixed conversion of one tree to 500 kg of CO₂, rounded up. Treat it as a communication aid, not as a claim about carbon sequestration.

7. Trace it through the Activity tab

The Activity tab is the full list that every number on Footprint rests on. Filter by Type narrows it to All Types, GPS Tracking, Manual Entry, Flight, Food or Device Usage, and the Results section carries the activity name, its date and its emissions.

Tapping a row opens Activity Detail, which shows Total CO₂ Emission, Activity Type, and the detail particular to that type — each flight leg with its distance and cabin class, for instance. This is where the chain from a summary number back to the original event can be traced, and it is the only evidence this product holds.

8. Offset

The Offset tab shows the partner projects you can support, but it is still marked Coming Soon and cannot yet be used. When it goes live, the flow is to pick a project, look at Your carbon footprint against Will be neutralized, enter an amount in rupiah — or tap Offset All to cover the whole remainder — then Proceed to Payment. Each contribution is recorded in Offset History with its Serial Numbers and a Download Certificate link. Payment Methods under Account is still Coming Soon as well.

Worth knowing from the outset: offset contributions are recorded alongside your activities, not linked to particular emissions. So Nextera Track gives you evidence that the contribution happened, not evidence that a specific tonne was dealt with.

9. Groups and account

The Account tab holds your profile and its housekeeping.

• Groups — Create New Group or Join with Invite Code. The group types available are Family, Friends, Work, Community and Other.
• Invitations — incoming invitations, which you can accept or decline.
• Your Groups — the groups you belong to with their member counts; the ADMIN role is marked with a badge. In Group Detail, an admin manages the Invite Code (copying it or regenerating it), the Auto-approve setting, Join Requests, Pending Invitations and the Members list.
• General — Edit Profile, Change Profile Picture, Sync Master Data to refresh the vehicle and offset project lists, and Active Tracking Session to close a session that never got stopped.
• Other — Logout and Delete Account.

The Leaderboard opened through Quick Actions → Board shows Top CO2 Producers with Filter by Activity Type. It is global across every user of the app, not per group — weigh that up before pushing your team to use it as an internal competition.

What “done” looks like

Your use of Nextera Track is in good order when:

1. Every journey that matters is recorded as an activity — through GPS Tracking, Insert Flight or Manual Emission Entry — rather than estimated afterwards.
2. No journey is left hanging in Pending Uploads, and no session is idling in Active Tracking Sessions.
3. The vehicle on each record really is the vehicle you used.
4. Every number on Footprint can be traced down to its row in Activity and Activity Detail.
5. You know which period is on display, because the period selector changes every number on the screen.

Point 4 is the difference between a record and a guess. The rest is completeness, and that is purely a matter of habit.

If what you need is an organisation-level inventory

Nextera Track holds none of the decisions below, and produces no disclosure at all. This section is here anyway, because this is the real work behind an emissions inventory and because the boundary between the two needs to be clear before anyone promises it to an auditor. For the theory, read Carbon accounting concepts.

Decisions your organisation must make

1. Organisational boundary. Equity share, financial control, or operational control. Operational control is the most commonly chosen because it aligns with what you can actually change. Whichever you choose, apply it consistently, disclose it, and be ready to explain any difference from your financial consolidation basis — your auditor will ask.
2. Base year. Which year, and why. It needs reliable data, because every target and every reduction claim is measured against it.
3. Recalculation policy — before you need it. What structural change triggers a base-year recalculation (acquisition, divestment, outsourcing, methodology change, error correction), and at what significance threshold. Without this, an organisation can “reduce” emissions by selling a factory, which changes nothing in the atmosphere and everything in the report.
4. Scope 3 categories in scope, and the honest reason. Which of the fifteen you will measure now, which you will estimate, and which you will exclude with a stated justification. For a financial institution, category 15 (investments) is normally the dominant category, and excluding it makes the inventory close to meaningless.
5. Reporting frameworks. Which disclosures you must produce, because they determine the granularity you need to collect at.
6. GWP set and emission factor sources. Which IPCC assessment report’s GWP values, and which factor libraries. Both are stated methodology choices, and changing either changes your whole history.
7. Data quality ambition. Where you will accept spend-based data for now, and what your plan is for improving it. Spend-based data responds to inflation as though it were emissions, so an improvement plan is not optional if you intend to set targets.

Data you must gather

Input	Typical owner	Why it is needed
Entity list with ownership and control status	Finance / legal	Organisational boundary
Site list with locations and grid regions	Facilities / operations	Location-based Scope 2 factors are grid-specific
Fuel consumption — stationary and mobile	Facilities, fleet	Scope 1
Refrigerant inventory and top-up records	Facilities	Scope 1, and the most frequently forgotten source
Electricity, steam, heating and cooling purchased	Facilities / procurement	Scope 2, location-based
Renewable energy contracts and certificates	Procurement	Scope 2, market-based
Procurement spend by category	Procurement / finance	Scope 3 categories 1 and 2
Business travel and employee commuting data	HR / travel	Scope 3 categories 6 and 7
Waste and water data	Facilities	Scope 3 category 5
Portfolio / investment data	Finance, investment teams	Scope 3 category 15 — dominant for financial institutions

Refrigerants deserve their own note. Leakage from air conditioning is a Scope 1 source with GWPs in the thousands, and it is almost never in the first draft of an inventory.

People you need available

• A sustainability lead with authority to set boundary and methodology.
• A facilities or operations contact per site, because activity data is site-level and finance does not hold it.
• A procurement contact for spend data and for renewable energy contracts.
• A finance contact for the entity list and the consolidation basis.
• For financial institutions, an investment or portfolio contact for financed emissions.
• Your assurance provider, if the inventory will be assured — early, so the evidence standard is known before data collection begins rather than after.

Business travel and employee commuting data (categories 6 and 7) is the only row in the table above that touches Nextera Track. If you intend to use it as a source, be aware that the product offers no double-counting control against other sources — keeping them apart is something you have to arrange yourself, outside the app.

Getting access

Your Nextera contact will confirm the address that applies to your organisation. Accounts are provided by the product administrator in your organisation.

Next

• Carbon accounting concepts
• Nextera Track module map