Overview
Organize your data, settings, and results by reporting period.
A project holds one organization's purchases for one reporting period. Each project has its own Collect data, project settings, pinned factor datasets, and results. Keeping periods in separate projects lets you compare them and keeps every result reproducible.
Create a project
On the Projects page, click Create project and fill in:
| Field | Required | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Yes | The name in the project selector and the project URL | Aamu Foods FY2025 |
| Description | No | The scope, purpose, or focus of the data collection | Purchased goods and services of all Nordic sites |
| Reporting period | Yes | The year or quarter the project reports on | 2025 |
The reporting period labels your results, for example on the Impacts Method tab. It doesn't change the calculation. Instead, each activity's Activity year, the year of the purchase, decides how Nios adjusts its spend for inflation. See Methodology.
When to create a new project
| Situation | New project? | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| A new reporting year | Yes | Create "FY2026" and compare it with "FY2025" |
| A different organizational scope, such as one business unit | Yes | Import only that unit's activities |
| A scenario, such as switching a supplier | Yes | Export the base project, import it into the new project, edit the activities, then compare |
| Corrections to your data | No | Edit in place. Version history keeps every earlier version |
Compare projects
On the Impacts page, Compare with project shows other projects next to the current one, for example last year's. See Impact dashboard.