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So I am almost done basing my company and I should be starting to paint sometime this week.

I was wondering how people differentiate their squads and such on the field. I was thinking about putting small markings that would be easy to see on the back of the bases, maybe something like that:

Platoon 1: All have the back edge of the base painted red.
Squad 1: one white line in the center
Squad 2: two white lines
Squad 3: three white lines

Platoon 2: All have the back edge of the base painted blue
Squad 1: one white line in the center
Squad 2: two white lines
Squad 3: three white lines.

Would that be distracting?

Not distracting, no. But you don't really need to get that in-depth.

For me, each platoon has a particular color tab on the back of the base. Red, blue, grey, purple-grey, yellow, etc. It helps when platoons and teams start getting jumbled.

I used different colors of static grass.
1st platoon = bright green
2nd platoon = straw colored grass
3rd platoon = green + straw (or no grass)

Would not this preclude experiments with mixing and matching different lists? For example, let's say I have two platoons with 3 squads each (6 stands). After some gaming experience, I decide to take support unit (let's say combat attachment) and realise that I don't really need to put all 6 stands now, but can instead only field 4, maybe take two stands away from the second platoon and field a new third platoon with 2 squads made by stands taken from the other two. If they are all marked differently, it might get confusing, or it is best to paint the new markings over?