This guide will walk you through the features and widgets we have on the BeCause platform, so you have a good understanding of the platform💡.
Guide Agenda:
Checklist
Your checklist will appear on your Get Started page. As you progress through the checklist by completing or skipping the steps, you will see the checkbox's status change accordingly ✅.
*You do not need to complete the steps on your Getting Started page - this is only for internal use at the BeCause platform, and it will not be shared externally.
Connect to your company: when you successfully have found your company profile and your User has claimed that profile.
Add basic information to your company: when you go to Collect --> General Info and fill in information about your company, this will be marked as checked. This is optional, and you can follow this guide for more information.
Home
Under Home, you will find our Help Center and Get Started with detailed step-by-step guides.
You will also find the BeCause live chat at the bottom right corner 🤝.
We are very grateful to help 💜.
Collect
The BeCause Collect with 10 items allows you to input your company's information and sustainability-related commitments, policies, impact, and other sustainability performance data in our digital platform 💻.
To upload/edit your company 🔋
General Info - here you can edit and complete your company profile:
NameUsername
Summary
Description
Company sectors
Public contact information
Channels
This is optional and when you edit and Add basic information to your company by filling in information about your company your get started page steps will be completed.
Statements - edit your strategy and representative statements.
To upload/edit your company's sustainability-related information ♻️
Performance
SDGs
Awards
Certifications
Commitments
Policies
Reports
Calculators
Coordinate
Under Coordinate, we have Tasks, Groups and Applications 👥.
To help gather suppliers, portfolio members, or other stakeholders into a group where you can set tasks for them to complete, collect their sustainability information, etc. to ensure alignment and info-sharing across their ecosystem.
Tasks:
If you have pending tasks you can find and create them here in To Do.
You can move the task forward if you progress in your task.
A task could be an example of answering a Survey or filling out an Application.
Groups:
If you are the manager of the group, you can create a new group at Groups and invite your members afterwards.
If you are invited to join the BeCause platform through a group, you will find your invitations at Group Invitation.
Applications:
Please visit our Standard Application Manager guide for more information on how to fill out your application.
Communicate
Under Communicate, you will find different possibilities such as Website Widgets and Create Reports 📑.
Widgets:
These widgets are designed to help you simplify your communication. The widgets automate the sustainability information that you provide into specific report formats while live-streaming selected information into your platform profile👤.
Please read more in our Help Center -Understanding Types of Widgets.
It allows more people to learn about you & your company's sustainability contributions 💯.
Import/Export
For your technical department in order to set up your API 🔐 .
After your technical department has set up your API Keys you are able to access or update your data through BeCause' APIs and then you can download reports showing the results of the most recent API request.
Under Export and Import, you can either export or import data files that have been shared with you 🤝.
Settings
Under Settings, you can edit Users, Languages, Plans & Billing.
Users: Give/remove the permission for your colleagues to access to BeCause platform.
Languages: Edit/add your local language to the content while filling out the information.
Plans & Billings: Edit/Update your billing methods and subscription plans.
My User
At My User, you see My User, My Companies, and Add company 👀 .
My User: Edit the account owner's information, such as First name + Last name.
My Companies: List of the company that you have access to.
Add Company: Claim your company/ Add a new company if you can not find your company profile.