Manage your forest assets in the Metsäverkko service

Metsäverkko is an online service, offered free of charge to Metsä Group’s customers, which makes it easier for you to manage your forest assets. Wood trade is also easy to conduct online – as well as safe, using your banking codes or mobile identification. You can log into Metsäverkko to review and update your forest plan, request a quote, and place an order for forest management work. You can also examine your forest plan virtually and hold a video conference with your forest specialist.

As an owner-member, you can use Metsäverkko to invest in participation shares, handle your forest tax accounts and monitor the growth and value development of your forest. You will get the most out of Metsäverkko when you are our owner-member and have uploaded your forest plan into the service.

In Metsäverkko, all your information and necessary documents are always in the same place and up-to-date. By using electronic authorisation, forest partnerships and other organisations can authorise a single person to handle all the matters concerning the customer relationship.

You can acquaint yourself with the service, using test credentials, at Metsaverkko.fi.

Metsäverkko is available to all forest owners

If you own forest in Finland but are not an owner-member of Metsä Group, you can still use the Metsäverkko service free of charge. You will then have access to many Metsäverkko functions, including the forest plan and virtual forest, wood trade, agreements and the archive. By joining as an owner-member, you will have access to all the features of Metsäverkko. You can submit your membership application in Metsäverkko.

If you are not a member of Metsäliitto Cooperative, you can register as a Metsäverkko user via this link. To register, log in to the service using a strong authentication method such as banking codes.

Metsäverkko is available in Finnish and Swedish.

Metsäverkko functions

Your forest plan is always up-to-date

Your forest plan is always up-to-date

All the essential information about your forest assets is in the forest plan. Once you have uploaded your forest plan into Metsäverkko, you can easily maintain it by updating the stand information and ticking off planned measures. You can also add images and notes. The annual growth calculation enables you to follow the growth of your forest assets.

Metsäverkko displays comprehensive information about the growing stock in your forest, as well as the planned and proposed harvesting and forest management measures for individual stands. For each proposed measure, you also see the area of the stand, the budget and the proposed date for the measure.

The value of growing stock is displayed for individual forest estates and stands, which allows you to better estimate and monitor the value development of your forest assets. In addition, our contract customers have access to diverse simulation and optimisation models for forest assets.

If the Metsään.fi service contains open forest resource data on your forest estates, you can upload them directly into the Metsäverkko service. You can use the material in Metsään.fi in the same way as a forest plan to manage and make plans for your forest assets.
Conduct wood trade and order forest management work

Conduct wood trade and order forest management work

In Metsäverkko, you can request a quote for wood trade and forest management work from our forest specialists, as well as conduct wood trade and place forest management orders conveniently with a single electronic form. The easiest way to make an offer is if you have uploaded your forest plan to the service, but this is not necessary. You can request an offer for either standing sales or delivery sales.

You can accept an offer securely with an electronic signature, i.e., by using your online banking codes. If the forest estate has several owners, all the owners can accept the offer electronically, which streamlines the process considerably.

If you conclude a deal in Metsäverkko, you avoid handling and posting paper documents. What is more, all the documents related to electronic trade are stored safely in Metsäverkko. In addition, you can browse your forest management invoices in Metsäverkko, where they are stored and archived safely.
Monitor the progress of wood trade and forest management work

Monitor the progress of wood trade and forest management work

Metsäverkko keeps you up-to-date on the progress of the measures after you have concluded a wood trade or placed an order for forest management services with Metsä Group. In the Open Deals section, you can monitor the progress of your agreements and orders step by step, from scheduling to completion. You can also monitor the actual values of the measures and compare them to the values in the agreements and orders at a glance.

Metsäverkko provides very comprehensive reports on the agreed work. All the agreements and other documents are also stored safely in the service, and you can review them at any time. The Agreements section contains wood trade agreements, forest management orders and annual plans. Other documents, such as the annual summary of wood trade, interest certificates and measurement certificates, can be found in the archive.
Personal service through video conferencing

Personal service through video conferencing

In Metsäverkko, you can have personal video conferences with your own forest specialist. In a video conference, both parties see the topics of discussion at all times – as if you were at the same table. When discussing an offer, any proposed changes can be agreed during the negotiation, and the forest specialist can then submit an amended offer for approval. Video conferences can be attended by several people involved in the membership, such as the different parties in a forest partnership.

The Metsäverkko video conference offers many advantages compared to normal communication tools, such as Teams or Zoom, because it has been developed as a tool to facilitate forestry planning with a forest specialist. Efforts have been made to ensure information security, and strong identification is required for video conferences.
A forest plan that is always at hand

A forest plan that is always at hand

With the Metsäverkko mobile application, your forest plan is always at hand. The application helps you navigate to the stand you want, check up on any urgent work, and prepare a quote for wood trade and forest management work.

You can easily enter the expenses and revenues from forestry in your tax accounts, as well as take photos of forestry receipts accumulated over the year and send them to the Metsäverkko tax tool to wait for the year-end tax return. Adding entries to the driver’s log in the mobile application is also easy. This ensures that you can immediately enter all your information in the Metsäverkko service.

Log into the mobile application with your banking codes. You can begin to use the application once your forest plan or forest resource data have been uploaded to Metsäverkko and you are registered in the service. Your customer information must also be up-to-date.

Read more about the mobile application here.
Virtually in your own forest

Virtually in your own forest

If you have uploaded your forest plan or forest resource data to Metsäverkko, you can inspect your forest assets virtually. Walks are possible in your own virtual forest, and you can compare the results of harvesting and forest management work before and after the measures, as well as estimate the impacts of the measures on the environment and your finances.

You can use the virtual forest in a browser and on your mobile. To make the experience as detailed and impressive as possible, use VR equipment connected to your home computer. This allows you to actually walk in the forest and examine the information and value of each tree in greater detail.
Examine the development of your forest assets

Examine the development of your forest assets

In the estate account, you can examine the value and cash flow of your forest assets based on the forest resource data in Metsäverkko. The cash flow consists of past expenses and revenues and future estimates. In the tool, you can examine data for different forest estates and time spans.
Easier communication for forest estates with several owners

Easier communication for forest estates with several owners

Metsäverkko makes it easier to handle matters if the forest estate has several owners. For example, in the case of a forest partnership, the partners can authorise a single person to handle many of the matters concerning their customer relationship in Metsäverkko. However, all the partners can access the information in the service, such as electronic offers. The partners can easily approve a deal using their banking codes, without having to circulate documents.

The viewer role can be assigned to users to give them the right to view information, such as forest plans, in Metsäverkko, which makes it easier for large foundations and forest partnerships, among others, to handle matters in Metsäverkko.

Metsäverkko video conferences can be attended by several people involved in the membership, such as the different parties in a forest partnership. A forest specialist can invite partners when scheduling the conference, but participants can also be invited later, even during the conference.
Handle your forestry accounting and tax return online

Handle your forestry accounting and tax return online

The Metsäverkko tax tool is a service offered to our owner-members to manage forestry accounting: you can pick the income from your wood trade with Metsä Group and the expenses for forest management work ordered from us and add the data directly into your tax accounting.

During the year, you can also add any other forestry income and expenses to the tax tool, as well as entries in the driver’s log. The Accounting section in the Metsäverkko mobile application allows you to enter and save receipts and update the driver’s log.

Accounting serves as a basis for the tax return, making it easier to prepare the tax return and even easier to submit it to the tax authorities: directly from Metsäverkko. Your accounting from previous years remains stored in Metsäverkko. Forest deductions, provisions and write-offs are automatically transferred to the following tax year, if the data have been entered in the service.
Manage your investments in participation shares electronically

Manage your investments in participation shares electronically

As an owner-member, you can use Metsäverkko to manage your Metsäliitto Cooperative investments in participation shares and make further investments in the service. The bonuses accumulated from your investments and wood trade and their date of expiry can be viewed in Metsäverkko. You can easily manage your investments on your own, for example, subscribe participation shares and pay for them through your online bank.
All your documents in a single location

All your documents in a single location

All your agreements and other documents are also stored safely in Metsäverkko, and you can review them at any time. The Agreements section contains wood trade agreements, forest management orders and annual plans. Other documents, such as the annual summary of wood trade, interest certificates and measurement certificates, can be found in the archive. You can also read the latest issue of Metsä Group’s Viesti magazine as well as older issues archived in Metsäverkko.
Insect damage displayed on your phone screen

Insect damage displayed on your phone screen

The Metsäverkko mobile service has a separate application for insect damage that uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and remote surveying data. The application is available in the forest planning section as a separate map layer that you can enable in the map layer menu. The application detects changes in trees that indicate the trees are under heavy stress. Based on the data it collects, the application makes an assessment of potential forest damage. The application detects damage at a very early stage, sometimes even before it is visible to the human eye. The application assesses both the probability and severity of damage. Forest damage is most typically caused by an insect such as the bark beetle. The data are restricted so that potential damage is only displayed for the forest owner’s own estates. The damaged areas are displayed as reddish pixels.

If the application indicates potential forest damage, the forest owner should visit the spot to have a closer look. If the area shows signs of resin-soaking or of drying trees, it is time to contact the forest specialist.

The insect damage application has been developed with CollectiveCrunch, a company applying artificial intelligence.