Shopify and ecommerceConnected by Widget, API and Gmail

How CollectaComic adds impact to every order

CollectaComic buys, sells and consigns graded comic books. It funds impact three ways: on site traffic, at order confirmation where the customer picks, and on every shipment. So far that is 1,438 trees, 733 lb of carbon removal, 623 lb of ocean plastic and 190 coral fragments.

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1,438trees planted

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Projects: 8
Countries: 5
Partners

1clickimpact.com/profile/collectacomic

This is a reading, not a final count. The running total moves as more is funded, so the profile may be ahead of this page.

Sector: Shopify and ecommerce
Based in: United States
Sells: Graded comic books bought, sold and taken on consignment
Connected via: Widget, API and Gmail
Website: collectacomic.com ↗

who they are

About CollectaComic

The stock is slabs graded by CGC or CBCS, each one picked by hand. CollectaComic buys them, sells them and takes them on consignment. Buyers get a book whose grade a third party has already certified. The slab is sealed, and the certificate travels with the book.

Every book ships. A graded slab goes out in a double-walled reinforced mailer with shock-absorbing padding and full insurance.

in their own words

“I sell books where the entire point is that somebody else certified the grade. So I was not about to put “we plant trees” on the site and leave it there. Now there is a link and people can go and count it themselves. The widget took an afternoon. I had one question about the order confirmation flow and got a real answer back the same day, which honestly is not what I expected.”

Founder, CollectaComiccollectacomic.com ↗

the reason

Why they added impact

CollectaComic sells books whose value rests on a third party certifying the grade. The founder did not want to put a tree-planting claim on the site that nobody could check. With 1ClickImpact there is a link, and anyone can go and count what has been funded.

Shipping is the other reason. Each parcel has a footprint, and offsetting per shipment ties the impact to the parcel that caused it.

the setup

What they chose

TriggerTraffic, checkout and every parcelImpact is funded on site visits, at order confirmation and on each shipment.
Per site impression
Carried byWidget, API and GmailThe widget handles traffic. Orders and shipments come through the API, and the Gmail add-on covers email.
Delivered byFrontier, Mossy Earth, Planting on Demand, Plastic Bank and Trees for the FuturePlanted and logged in 8 countries, project by project.
On the recordThe public profile updatesAnyone can open it and check the same figures this page shows.

Tree Planting1,438 trees funded

48.2%

1,438 of 2,984 funded units

Carbon Removal733 lb CO₂ funded

24.6%

733 of 2,984 funded units

Ocean Cleanup623 lb plastic funded

20.9%

623 of 2,984 funded units

Coral Restoration190 fragments funded

6.4%

190 of 2,984 funded units

CollectaComic funds impact at three points. The climate widget funds impact for each site impression, so something is funded before anyone has bought. At order confirmation the customer picks which impact their order funds. Each shipment is then offset on its own.

It funds four impact types across ten projects: trees, carbon removal, ocean plastic and coral restoration.

CollectaComic also uses the Gmail add-on. It funds impact straight from the compose window and credits it to the person the email is sent to. The full breakdown is below: every project, the country it is in, who delivers it, and how much CollectaComic has funded there.

the record

Impact to date

Every project CollectaComic has funded, with the country, the delivery partner and the units. Read from its public profile, not reported by us.

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Impact by country8 countries

Trees
Carbon
Ocean
Coral

Tanzania73525%
Brazil73325%
Uganda44415%
Philippines32011%
Thailand30310%
Indonesia1906%
Sierra Leone1455%
Vietnam1144%

Units are trees, pounds or coral fragments, counted the same way as the cards above.

Tree species mix

agroforestry41.2%
plant17.7%
endangered14.8%
nutritional9.6%
medicinal8.4%
fast growing8.3%

The share of each species group across the trees this business has funded, as its profile reports them.

Every project CollectaComic has funded through 1ClickImpact, with the delivery partner and the units funded.
Project	Country	Delivery partner	Funded
Terradot, São Paulo	Brazil	Frontier	733 lb CO₂
Friends of Lake Tanganyika (FOLT)	Tanzania	Planting on Demand	455 trees
Forest Garden Program	Uganda	Trees for the Future	394 trees
Plastic Bank - Manila, Philippines	Philippines	Plastic Bank	320 lb plastic
Plastic Bank - Rayong, Thailand	Thailand	Plastic Bank	303 lb plastic
Forest Gardens in Tanzania	Tanzania	Trees for the Future	280 trees
Wilder Reefs	Indonesia	Mossy Earth	190 fragments
Partners in Rural Integration and Development Organization (PRIDO)	Sierra Leone	Planting on Demand	145 trees
Green Youth Collective (GYC)	Vietnam	Planting on Demand	114 trees
Dream International Uganda	Uganda	Planting on Demand	50 trees

Read from CollectaComic's public impact profile. Project names link to the project's own page.

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