🌳 Getting-started guide for companies
Welcome to Tree-Nation! This guide walks you through the essential steps to launch your company’s planting initiative with Tree-Nation.
1. 🧭 Introduce your company & define your objectives
Start by clarifying:
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What your company wants to achieve (offset emissions, engage customers, employee engagement, marketing campaigns, etc.)
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The scale and frequency of your planting actions
- What planting initiative do you have in mind, and when would that be successful
You have three options:
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Fill out the Collaboration Intake Form
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Explore our most popular planting habits to see what fits your goals
- Reach out directly to our chat, and clearly share your company's insights as mentioned above
The goal of this step is alignment. It is important to have your objective clear.
Want to explore our platform first? That is possible and gain free trees by doing so!
Create a company account for free and navigate to the Get Started Page to get free trees!
2. 🌍 Discover how Tree-Nation works
Goal: Understand what Tree-Nation offers businesses: our model, how we offset CO₂, and the benefits of climate-positive action.
Before launching, we recommend reviewing: 🔗 Tree Planting for Companies
This article explains:
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Certification and CO₂ calculations
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Project selection & Pricing
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Impact tracking, reporting, and transparency
This avoids misunderstandings later and answers most strategic questions upfront. Want to know even more, go to: Discover Tree-Nation
3. 🏡 Set up your forest and account
Goal: Create your company account and set up your branded forest - while getting free trees.
Your forest is:
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Your public impact page
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Your communication hub
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Your carbon-offsetting tool
Once logged in, navigate to the Get Started Page. This is your company's onboarding home base. It breaks setup into a handful of small, guided missions, automatically checks off tasks as you complete them elsewhere on the platform, and rewards you with a free tree for every mission you finish.
4. 💳 Add billing information
Before launching any planting action, you must add:
This ensures that VAT is not applied, if applicable, and invoicing is accurate.
5. ⚙️ Activate your planting habit – automation or manual
Goal: Decide how to execute your planting habit: automation, API, or manual tree gifting.
Once your account and billing are ready, you can:
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Launch one of our 🔗 planting habits
OR
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Activate the planting solution discussed with your Account Manager
This is where your planting officially begins.
6. 📣 Launch your communication
Once your planting is active:
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🔗 Must-have communication - Announce your commitment internally and externally
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Integrate planting into campaigns, products, or employee programs
- 🔗 Add Website widget
Your impact becomes visible in real time through your impact page.
7. 🎯 Monitor, report, scale
After launch:
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Adjust or scale your planting habit as needed
Your initiative should evolve as your company grows.
Additional steps
📜 Regulatory & CO₂ considerations
Goal: Understand offset certification, ESG/CSRD compliance, and reporting needs (if applicable).
🔗 CO₂ and certification
✅ What’s Next?
If you’re unsure about:
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Project selection
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Certification standards
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CO₂ methodology
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Long-term engagement strategy
Review: Tree planting for companies
Or Contact support or chat with our Tree AI at any time for tailored guidance.