Customer PCF report templates let you produce structured, shareable Product Carbon Footprint reports from your Altruistiq data. Each report covers one product, one facility, and one reporting period. You save a copy of the template, configure it with your product and contextual details, and export it as a PDF or Excel file.
Altruistiq offers three customer PCF report templates — PACT v3.0.3, PEF, and ISO 14067. The workflow described here applies to all three. The only difference is how the final report is structured. See What's included in my customer PCF reports? for a breakdown of each report type.
What you need: Access to the Analyse data area with at least one calculated Product Carbon Footprint available in your workspace.
Tier: AQ Advanced
Product(s): Product Carbon Footprinting
Save your own copy of the template
When you first open a customer PCF report template, the report will appear mostly empty. This is expected — the template needs to be configured for a specific product before it can display any data.
Open the customer PCF report template you want to use (PACT, PEF, or ISO 14067).
Click Save As in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
Choose a location in your workspace and save.
This creates your own copy of the template that you can configure and reuse. The original template remains unchanged for future reports.
Configure your report
Once you have your own copy, you can start building your report.
Navigate to Configure and select Build Report from start.
Select a PCF from the available table. You can browse the list or use the search function to find a specific product.
Select the analysis month for the report.
Selecting a PCF is the only mandatory step — the remaining configuration steps are optional but recommended.
Altruistiq's PCFs are highly granular. Each footprint is specific to the processing facility and month of production, rather than a broad global or regional average. This means your reports reflect the actual conditions of production.
Add optional contextual information
The remaining configuration steps let you add contextual data that strengthens your report. This is where you can meet framework-specific requirements and provide important explanations about your methodology and boundaries — useful context because carbon footprint data often involves judgement calls rather than absolute figures.
You can optionally provide:
Field | What to include |
Methodology commentary | Custom text explaining your calculation approach and any methodology choices |
Lifecycle boundary comments | Details about what is included or excluded in your lifecycle boundaries |
Exempted emissions | Any emissions outside the platform boundary, along with a description |
Verification details | Whether the calculation model was verified, who verified it, the verification date, the standards used (e.g., PACT 3.0), and any additional comments |
Review and finalise your report
The final configuration step lets you review your inputs and set a report status.
Review the data summary to confirm everything is correct.
Choose a status from the options below and click the corresponding button.
Status | When to use |
Work in progress | The report is still being built or refined |
Ready to share | The report is complete and can be shared with customers or partners |
Tip: The "Ready to share" status is particularly useful when the person generating the report is different from the person who will share it — for example, a sustainability analyst preparing reports that a sales team member will send to customers. Setting this status lets teams proactively prepare reports that are ready to go when needed.
Edit or reset your report
After configuring a report, you can make changes at any time:
To update details, go to Configure and select Edit PCF Report details.
To update report status, got o Configure and select Update report status
To start over, from the configure page select Reset report in the top right. This clears all custom inputs and the selected PCF, returning the template to a blank state ready to be used again.
Export your report
You have two export options, each serving a different purpose:
Export option | What you get |
Export PDF Report | A polished, comprehensive PDF document of the full report — ready to share with customers and partners |
Export Excel Data | An xlsx file containing two tables for deeper analysis or quick upload to web portals |
The Excel export includes:
Summary table — A single row with all columns and contextual information for the selected PCF, including the footprint value and data quality score.
Lifecycle stage breakdown — The same information broken down by granular lifecycle stages, enabling detailed analysis of where emissions occur.
What's next
To understand exactly what each report contains and how the three framework templates differ, see What's included in my customer PCF reports?.