Title: CarbonGuru Embedded Merchant Offsetting
Author: carbonguru
Published: <strong>August 18, 2026</strong>
Last modified: September 8, 2026

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# CarbonGuru Embedded Merchant Offsetting

 By [carbonguru](https://profiles.wordpress.org/carbonguru/)

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## Description

CarbonGuru Embedded Merchant Offsetting connects your WooCommerce store to your 
CarbonGuru account (Plus plan or higher required):

 * **Per-product carbon footprints** displayed on your product pages — from actual
   analysis of your products, not order-level estimates.
 * **Automatic offsetting** of every paid order — merchant-settled: your shoppers
   are never charged and never see a payment surface. Nothing is added to your checkout
   total or your payment flow.
 * **Your choice of offsets** — you pick the specific carbon offsets or carbon removals
   your store supports from CarbonGuru’s catalog of project portfolios, and you 
   can change your choice at any time in your CarbonGuru panel.
 * **A configurable footprint card** — the carbon footprint always shows; everything
   else is up to you. Optional fields: the offset or removal price, the other option’s
   price, the estimated climate impact in dollars, product category details and 
   a “how this was calculated” link in a more-info tooltip, and the carbon portfolio
   you support (name, image, and a link to its information page). The footprint 
   badge can also follow through to cart and checkout line items.
 * **Footprints on your shop and category pages** — switch on listing tiles and 
   every product in your shop, category, tag and search grids carries its own footprint
   tile automatically. For pricing pages, collections and landing pages you build
   by hand, your CarbonGuru panel generates a tiles block with one tile per active
   product.
 * **Per-item control** — footprint cards and offsetting switch on and off for each
   item in your catalog, so you decide exactly which products participate.
 * **For any seller** — B2C and B2B stores, marketplaces, and catalogs alike can
   embed footprints, offsetting, or both, as they choose.
 * **No code**: the plugin places the display card, reports paid orders, and gives
   you the display settings in WooCommerce  CarbonGuru  Display. Offsets, payment,
   and consent are managed in your CarbonGuru panel.

**How it works**

 1. One-click connect: sign in to CarbonGuru, accept the merchant terms, and your keys
    are provisioned automatically — nothing to copy or paste.
 2. Your product catalog is analyzed for carbon footprints (within your plan’s allowance;
    nothing is analyzed or charged without your confirmation).
 3. You review each footprint and switch on the products you want live — from your 
    WooCommerce Products list or your CarbonGuru panel.
 4. The footprint card appears on your product pages automatically — and, if you switch
    on listing tiles, a footprint tile under each product on your shop and category
    pages.
 5. When an order is paid, the plugin reports its line items; with automatic offsetting
    on, the order’s carbon is offset through the offset or removal portfolio you’ve
    chosen and billed to the payment method saved in your CarbonGuru account.

**External service disclosure:** this plugin communicates with carbonguru.io. Terms
of service: https://carbonguru.io/merchant-terms/ — Privacy policy: https://carbonguru.
io/privacy/

 * Product pages load the CarbonGuru display card script. The card sends only your
   embed key and the product page address — never anything your customer types, 
   and no cookies are set.
 * When an order is paid, the plugin sends the order’s line items (product identifiers
   and quantities) and an order reference to your CarbonGuru merchant account — 
   no customer names, emails, or addresses.
 * Offset purchases are billed to the payment method saved in your CarbonGuru account.
   Retired carbon cannot be un-retired — offset purchases are non-refundable.

## Screenshots

[⌊The carbon footprint card on your product pages — shown to shoppers, offset at
purchase.⌉⌊The carbon footprint card on your product pages — shown to shoppers, 
offset at purchase.⌉[

The carbon footprint card on your product pages — shown to shoppers, offset at purchase.

[⌊One-click setup: connect your CarbonGuru account, then choose where the card appears
and what it shows, all from WooCommerce → CarbonGuru.⌉⌊One-click setup: connect 
your CarbonGuru account, then choose where the card appears and what it shows, all
from WooCommerce → CarbonGuru.⌉[

One-click setup: connect your CarbonGuru account, then choose where the card appears
and what it shows, all from WooCommerce  CarbonGuru.

[⌊Manage every footprint from your Products list: per-product Activate / Deactivate/
Re-analyze / Remove row actions, live/off state, and bulk actions.⌉⌊Manage every
footprint from your Products list: per-product Activate / Deactivate / Re-analyze/
Remove row actions, live/off state, and bulk actions.⌉[

Manage every footprint from your Products list: per-product Activate / Deactivate/
Re-analyze / Remove row actions, live/off state, and bulk actions.

[⌊Your shop page with listing tiles on — a footprint tile under every product you
have switched on.⌉⌊Your shop page with listing tiles on — a footprint tile under
every product you have switched on.⌉[

Your shop page with listing tiles on — a footprint tile under every product you 
have switched on.

[⌊The CarbonGuru meta box on the product editor — per-product footprint, live/off
state, and quick actions.⌉⌊The CarbonGuru meta box on the product editor — per-product
footprint, live/off state, and quick actions.⌉[

The CarbonGuru meta box on the product editor — per-product footprint, live/off 
state, and quick actions.

[⌊Footprint tiles on a listing page — one tile per product on your shop and category
pages (the Display option), or on any page via the tiles block your CarbonGuru panel
generates.⌉⌊Footprint tiles on a listing page — one tile per product on your shop
and category pages (the Display option), or on any page via the tiles block your
CarbonGuru panel generates.⌉[

Footprint tiles on a listing page — one tile per product on your shop and category
pages (the Display option), or on any page via the tiles block your CarbonGuru panel
generates.

[⌊The footprint badge on cart line items — the same footprint follows the shopper
into the cart and checkout when you switch those Display options on.⌉⌊The footprint
badge on cart line items — the same footprint follows the shopper into the cart 
and checkout when you switch those Display options on.⌉[

The footprint badge on cart line items — the same footprint follows the shopper 
into the cart and checkout when you switch those Display options on.

[⌊The offset card on the order-received page — the order's carbon amount and offset
status, shown to the shopper right after checkout (also available on the My Account
order view and as a receipt link in the order email).⌉⌊The offset card on the order-
received page — the order's carbon amount and offset status, shown to the shopper
right after checkout (also available on the My Account order view and as a receipt
link in the order email).⌉[

The offset card on the order-received page — the order’s carbon amount and offset
status, shown to the shopper right after checkout (also available on the My Account
order view and as a receipt link in the order email).

## Installation

 1. Install and activate the plugin (USD stores; WooCommerce 8.0+; single-site — network
    activation is unsupported).
 2. Open WooCommerce  CarbonGuru and connect your CarbonGuru account.
 3. Set up payment and activate products in your CarbonGuru panel.
 4. Turn on automatic offsetting. Done — every paid order is offset automatically.

## FAQ

### Which offsets does my store use?

Your choice. Automatic offsetting purchases from the carbon offset or carbon removal
project portfolio you select in your CarbonGuru account’s Offset preferences — CarbonGuru’s
catalog covers both offsets and removals — and you can change your selection at 
any time. Every offset purchase is made against the portfolio you have chosen at
that moment.

### What can the footprint card show?

The carbon footprint always shows. Everything else is opt-in, off by default, and
configured by you in WooCommerce  CarbonGuru  Display: the offset or removal price,
the other option’s price, the estimated climate impact in dollars, product category
details and a “how this was calculated” link in a more-info tooltip, and the carbon
portfolio you support. You can also choose to show the footprint badge on cart and
checkout line items, and whether shoppers see the order’s offset card after checkout.
Prices are never shown unless you choose to show them.

### Do my customers pay for the offsets?

No. Offsetting is merchant-settled: purchases are billed to the payment method saved
in your CarbonGuru account. Your shoppers never see a charge, a fee, or a payment
surface; the only thing they can see in the cart or at checkout is a read-only footprint
badge on each line, and only if you turn it on.

### Where do the carbon footprints come from?

Each product is individually analyzed by CarbonGuru from your actual product data—
not estimated from order totals or category averages. You review every footprint
before switching a product on; nothing displays and nothing is offset until you 
do.

### Can shoppers see footprints on my shop and category pages?

Yes. In WooCommerce  CarbonGuru  Display, tick “Show a footprint tile under each
product on shop, category, tag and search pages”. Each product in the grid then 
carries its own tile (classic themes and block themes alike). Tiles render only 
for products you have switched on, and listing pages are never analyzed as products
themselves.

### What does the plugin change on my store?

Two things only: it renders the footprint card on product pages for products you’ve
switched on (plus, if you turn them on, footprint tiles on shop pages and a footprint
on cart and checkout line items), and it reports paid orders to your CarbonGuru 
account. It never changes your cart or checkout behaviour, sets no cookies for your
shoppers, and sends no customer personal data.

### Does it work with my theme?

Yes — block and classic themes. You can choose where the card renders relative to
the add-to-cart button in the plugin settings.

### What are the requirements?

WordPress 6.0+, WooCommerce 8.0+, PHP 7.4+, a store trading in USD (v1), and a CarbonGuru
account on the Plus plan or higher. Single-site installs only — network activation
is unsupported.

### How do I activate, deactivate, re-analyze, or remove a product’s footprint?

Per product, right in your store: hover any product in the WooCommerce Products 
list for **CarbonGuru: Activate / Deactivate / Re-analyze / Remove** actions, or
use the same buttons in the **CarbonGuru** box on the product edit screen. For many
at once, tick products and use the **Bulk actions** menu (activate / deactivate /
analyze). The CarbonGuru column shows each product’s live/off state and footprint.(
Removing is permanent and starts a 30-day cooldown, so it always asks first — to
just hide a product, use Deactivate.) You can also manage everything from your CarbonGuru
panel; the plugin remote-controls that state rather than keeping a second copy of
it.

### Can I turn it off?

Any time. Pause automatic offsetting from your CarbonGuru panel, or deactivate the
plugin — deactivation disconnects your store server-side: keys are revoked, no further
orders are reported, and no new purchases are made. Orders already charged are still
fulfilled (retired carbon cannot be un-retired).

### Are offsets refundable?

No. Once carbon is retired it cannot be un-retired, so offset purchases are final.
You confirm this explicitly before automatic offsetting is ever turned on.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“CarbonGuru Embedded Merchant Offsetting” is open source software. The following
people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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## Changelog

#### 1.1.1

 * Fixed: the customer order email was missing the offset receipt link when that
   option is on. The order is now reported through the order object WooCommerce 
   hands the plugin at payment time, so the email that follows sees the result.

#### 1.1.0

 * Display settings in your store: WooCommerce  CarbonGuru  Display now carries 
   every card option — what the card shows (price, climate impact, category details,
   calculation link, portfolio) and where the footprint follows through (cart and
   checkout line items) — alongside card position and listing tiles. They are your
   CarbonGuru display settings, saved to your account from your own admin.
 * Fixed: the footprint now actually follows through to cart and checkout line items.
   The plugin only ever loaded the footprint script on product pages, so the cart/
   checkout setting did nothing for plugin users. The cart URL is never sent as 
   a product lookup, so cart and checkout pages are never queued for analysis.
 * Fixed: the offset card after checkout now shows on the shopper’s first view of
   the order-received page. Orders are reported to CarbonGuru at the moment they
   are paid (with a scheduled retry if CarbonGuru is unreachable), and the card 
   is rendered by the same CarbonGuru script that renders the product card. New 
   toggles for the order-received page, the My Account order view and the customer
   order email.
 * Fixed: on block themes whose store still uses WooCommerce’s default (legacy) 
   single-product template, the product card had no placement and fell to the bottom
   of the page. Both injection paths are now active on every theme, with one card
   per page.
 * Fixed: one footprint tile per product on block-theme shop grids (the product-
   button block could receive two).

#### 1.0.5

 * Listing tiles: a new Display option shows a footprint tile under each product
   on shop, category, tag and search pages and in product grids on other pages (
   classic loops and block product collections). Off by default. Tiles resolve by
   the same identifier the plugin already reports for orders (SKU, else the product
   id), so nothing new to configure.
 * Description and FAQ updated for the tiles; the loader carries data-cg-page=”off”
   on listing pages so they are never treated as products.

#### 1.0.4

 * Renamed to CarbonGuru Embedded Merchant Offsetting (display name only — nothing
   changes in your install: same plugin, same settings, same connection).
 * Expanded description and FAQ: choosing your store’s offsets or removals from 
   the CarbonGuru catalog (changeable anytime), the full set of configurable footprint-
   card fields, per-item control of cards and offsetting, and B2C/B2B stores, marketplaces,
   and catalogs.
 * “Send my catalog” now submits your whole catalog for analysis (subject to your
   plan’s allowance) instead of only the first 500 products; order-status notices
   no longer reference a spending cap.

#### 1.0.3

 * Directory review round 2: all internal names (classes, defines, options, transients,
   AJAX actions, script handles) renamed from the 3-character cgm prefix to cgmof,
   per the directory’s 4-character prefix minimum. Existing installs migrate their
   stored settings and connection automatically on update.

#### 1.0.2

 * Directory review round 1: order-confirmation offset poller moved to an enqueued
   static file (no inline script); dependency/currency admin notices scoped to relevant
   screens only; external-service disclosure links reformatted.

#### 1.0.1

 * WordPress.org readiness (Plugin Check): enqueue the embed loader via wp_enqueue_script
   + [data-cg-mount] positioning (no inline script tag); readme “Tested up to” 7.0;
   short description trimmed; sanitize the connect secret input.

#### 1.0.0

 * First stable release. Embedded Offsetting for WooCommerce: one-click connect,
   per-product carbon footprints on your product pages, in-store footprint management(
   per-product and bulk), automatic merchant-settled offsetting of paid orders, 
   order confirmation surfaces, and signed one-click updates.

#### 0.8.0

 * Per-product footprint controls in the store: Activate / Deactivate / Re-analyze/
   Remove as row actions in the Products list and as buttons in the product-edit
   CarbonGuru box (no longer bulk-only). Remove is confirm-gated. Uses the same 
   server operations as the bulk actions.

#### 0.7.0

 * Signed self-hosted updates: one-click updates from carbonguru.io with sha256 
   + Ed25519 manifest verification against a pinned key.
 * Server-advertised minimum supported version: too-old plugin versions go inert
   with an admin notice instead of failing dirty; queued orders are preserved and
   rescheduled.

#### 0.6.4

 * Configurable service base URL for staging stores.

#### 0.6.3

 * SKU-coverage preflight now shown before connecting (duplicate-SKU and missing-
   SKU checks where fixing them is cheapest).

#### 0.6.2

 * Display default written at provisioning; order-ceiling attention email; “Analyzing…”
   state for in-flight products; SKU-coverage preflight on the settings page.

#### 0.6.1

 * Deactivating the plugin now performs a full server-side disconnect (keys revoked,
   products switched off).

#### 0.6.0

 * In-store catalog management: CarbonGuru column in the Products list, activate/
   deactivate/analyze row and bulk actions, product-edit metabox.

#### 0.5.0

 * One-click Connect with CarbonGuru (secure one-time-code flow — no keys to copy),
   with terms acceptance and store domain binding.

#### 0.4.0

 * Catalog push at connect: products analyzed within your plan allowance, with explicit
   confirmation.

#### 0.3.0

 * Order confirmation surfaces: thank-you page offset status and hosted receipt 
   link.

#### 0.2.0

 * Product-page display card injection and paid-order reporting.

#### 0.1.0

 * Scaffold: connection (paste keys + test), encrypted secret storage, setup-status
   mirror, USD gate.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.1**
 *  Last updated **13 hours ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.1**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/carbonguru-merchant-offset/)
 * Tags
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   [sustainability](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sustainability/)[woocommerce](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/)
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