Insights · As of September 2026
Getting VS metrics out of your accounting
Your receipts already know your carbon footprint. Electricity, fuel and travel invoices already pass through your accounting. Automate those processes, and the right metrics come along for free.
Where the data comes from
- Electricity, fuel and travel invoices already pass through your accounting.
- Automate the capture of these receipts, and kilowatt-hours, litres and kilometres are read along with them.
- That way, metrics emerge without a second, separate data collection.
What the VS standard asks for
The Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard (VS, formerly VSME) bundles the metrics that banks, large customers and supply-chain partners request most often.
These include, for example, energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) metrics per site. A share of these metrics already sits inside your accounting data.
Limits of the bridge
- Expenditure-based Scope 3 values (upstream and downstream emissions along the value chain) are estimates based on emission factors, not measurements.
- That is why we deliberately do not speak of an "automatic ESG report." ESG data comes along as a by-product when receipts are processed automatically anyway.
- Approving the metrics remains with your team.
How to get started
- We check together which VS metrics already sit inside your receipts.
- The analysis runs on your own servers, with documented rules instead of a one-off analysis.
- Every result can be traced back to its source.