Our API allows you to add sustainability features to your consumer-facing applications. It offers features for carbon calculation, reversals, ekko’s post-purchase solution ImpactPay as well as carbon compensation and contributions to reputable and vetted impact projects.

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See our API reference for full details on payloads.

All records are immutable for audit integrity.

Impact Calculator

What it does: Calculates the carbon impact of a transaction in real time and returns a footprint (grams/ ounces) plus a compensation amount.

When to use it: Show customers the carbon impact of their purchase and give them the option to compensate or contribute to sustainability projects.

Funds allocation

POST: /funds

What it does: Makes a contribution or compensation to a portfolio of impact projects, with allocations handled automatically in the backend.

When to use it: Contribute to multiple projects in one call without needing to specify each project individually.

Brand Onboarding

What it does: Onboards a new brand under an organisation.

When to use it: Set up one or more brands for your organisation to start processing impact transactions.

Reversal

What it does: Reverses a portfolio transaction in one go, including all individual contributions that were split and allocated in the backend.

When to use it: A customer requests a refund of a purchase that included a sustainability contribution — ensuring records remain accurate and ekko billing excludes the contribution.

Projects

What it does: Returns a list of available impact projects, including details such as description, logo, and website.

When to use it: Give customers clear information about the projects their contributions support.

Impact Records

What it does: Retrieves a list of impact transactions (contributions, compensations, and reversals) over a specified time range.

When to use it: Perform reconciliation, reporting, or auditing of impact activity.

Impact Records - Single transaction

What it does: Retrieves details of a single impact transaction using its referenceId.

When to use it: Look up a specific transaction for reconciliation or audit purposes.

Impact Sessions

What it does: Calculates carbon impact and a compensation amount for a transaction, and returns a clientSecret plus impactPaySessionId.

When to use it: Enable the ekko ImpactPay post-purchase experience via the SDK.

Checkout Sessions

What it does: Calculates carbon impact and a compensation amount for a transaction, and returns a clientSecret plus checkoutSessionId

When to use it: Power the ekko Checkout SDK for pre-purchase impact experiences directly in checkout.