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Pricing

Priced in naira, month to month.

Every plan has every feature. You pay for how many plots and packs you need. Dollar figures are a guide, at about ₦1,410 to the dollar.

Free

₦0

No card needed to start

Map and check your first plots and build one proof pack.

  • 25 plots checked
  • 1 pack a month
  • 150 Forestline AI reads a month
  • Forest Watch, run when you want
  • 2 people

Starter

₦30,000a month

about $21 a month

For a cooperative or a buying agent with a few hundred farmers.

  • 500 plots checked
  • 10 packs a month
  • 3,000 Forestline AI reads a month
  • Forest Watch, run when you want
  • 5 people

Pro

For exporters

₦100,000a month

about $71 a month

For an exporter or processor shipping to several EU buyers.

  • 3,000 plots checked
  • 50 packs a month
  • 20,000 Forestline AI reads a month
  • Forest Watch, run when you want
  • 20 people

Enterprise

From ₦350,000a month

about $248 a month

20,000 plots and more, unlimited packs, your own data export and set-up help.

  • 20,000 plots and more
  • Unlimited packs a month
  • 150,000 Forestline AI reads a month
  • Forest Watch, run when you want
  • As many people as you need

Satellite photos and maps are open data, so the cost of a check is small: about three US cents of Forestline AI for a plot. Cancel any time; nothing is locked in.

How we count

What a plot, a pack and a read are.

A plot checked
One plot that holds a check result in your workspace. Checking the same plot again does not use another.
A pack
Each time you build a proof pack for a shipment, in any language, it counts as one pack for that month.
A Forestline AI read
One photo, receipt, paper, voice recording or question read by Forestline AI, counted each calendar month. Maps, rules and files do not use reads.
Forest Watch
A re-check of your checked plots for new alerts. You run it when you want, and it writes a short note on what changed.

Questions

Before you pay.

What are the dates?

The cut-off date is 31 December 2020. Cocoa or rubber from land where forest was cut after that day cannot be sold into the EU. Large and medium EU buyers must follow Europe's no-deforestation rule (EUDR) from 30 December 2026. Micro and small EU buyers have until 30 June 2027.

What does standard risk mean for Nigeria?

The EU sorts countries into low, standard and high risk. Nigeria is standard risk. So EU buyers must run the full risk check and take steps on every shipment. Each year, 3% of buyers handling standard-risk goods are checked. Ghana and Togo are low risk and get a lighter process.

What counts as forest?

Land of more than half a hectare, with trees taller than 5 metres covering more than a tenth of the ground, that is not used for farming. Cocoa farms, cocoa under shade trees and rubber plantations count as farmland, not forest. The test is whether forest was cut after 2020 to make the farm.

Do I need a point or a farm edge?

A plot of more than 4 hectares needs the full farm edge. A plot of 4 hectares or less can be one point. Either way, the coordinates need 6 decimals. Forestline can do both. It checks the farm location file before you send it.

My cocoa grows under shade trees. Will the EU map call it forest?

Often, yes. The EU's 2020 forest map is not binding, and it is wrong over shaded cocoa in many places. When that happens, the plot shows as Check, not Stop. Forestline says why. It lists the proof to gather: the year the farm was planted, old photos, cooperative records and the age of the trees.

We cut old rubber and replanted. Is that deforestation?

No. Rubber is a farm crop. Cutting old rubber and planting again is tree loss, not forest cut. Cutting forest to plant rubber is deforestation. Replant or Clear looks at the satellite photos and the loss record to tell the two apart. A person decides.

Does every farm get a review before it goes in a pack?

Not every farm. Four separate things happen. First, the satellite check gives Clear, Check or Stop. Second, a person reviews every Check. A farm where the maps and Forestline AI disagree is always a Check, never Clear. Third, Forestline traces every bag to a cleared farm, keeps lots apart and checks the weights add up. Fourth, a named person approves the handoff. Until then the pack is a draft.

Can I mix bags by weight?

No. The EU does not allow mixing by weight. Bags from plots that are Clear must be kept apart from bags of unknown origin, and from bags of plots that are not Clear. One bad plot in a mixed lot spoils the whole lot. Kept Apart follows each bag to its plot, so you see this before you load.

Who files the EU form?

Usually the EU buyer. The first company in the EU to receive the goods files the EU form (the due diligence statement) in the EU Information System, the EU's online system. Your job as the Nigerian supplier is to give that buyer the plot data and the proof. Forestline builds those files in the proof pack. For goods coming in from Nigeria, the buyer files the EU form as an import.

What does Forestline not do?

Forestline does not file the EU form. It does not say your goods are allowed into the EU. It does not replace the EU buyer's own risk check. Forestline's own checks are not an answer from the EU Information System. Satellite records are a guide, not proof. Forestline does not survey land, does not decide who owns a farm, and gives no legal advice.

Does it work with no phone signal?

The Walk Mapper does. It keeps the walk on the phone and sends it when there is signal. The satellite Check runs on the server, so it needs a connection.

Can a farmer sign up by voice?

Yes, in English. The farmer speaks, the words are written down, and Forestline AI fills the record from them and marks anything it was not sure of, so a person can ask again. For a farmer who speaks Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa or Pidgin, a field officer adds the record by hand.

Where does the satellite data come from?

Open sources, credited by name: the EU Joint Research Centre Global Forest Cover 2020, the University of Maryland Global Forest Change record, Global Forest Watch alerts, Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite photos and OpenStreetMap. Every result lists the records it used.