Software · vendor-neutral
The market for DPP platforms is growing faster than the legal landscape – and every vendor calls itself “DPP-ready”. We consult without licence interests: which solution fits your volumes, systems and budget is decided by hard criteria, not by sales slides.
01 — Options
There is no universally right route – only the one that fits your portfolio, volumes and system landscape.
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SaaS solutions with a ready-made registry connection, templates per product group and hosting of the passport data. Strengths: time to market, compliance updates. Risks: running costs per SKU, data sovereignty, vendor lock-in in a young, consolidating market.
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Keep product passport data where product data already lives – and expose it machine-readably via interfaces. Strengths: one data source, no parallel world. Risks: you own the registry API, access rights and hosting obligations yourself (EN 18222/18223).
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For special cases: very high volumes, unusual data models, strict data-sovereignty requirements. Strengths: full control, no per-SKU fees. Risks: standards conformity, maintenance and compliance changes rest entirely with you.
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Master data in PIM/ERP, publication and registry connection via a lean platform or your own publishing service. Combines data sovereignty with a ready-made compliance layer – but demands clean interfaces. Exactly our craft.
Send it over – we check the candidates against standards and practical criteria and tell you which questions to ask in your next vendor meeting.
02 — Criteria
Since the EN standards package of May 2026 these are no longer matters of taste but verifiable criteria:
Identifiers per EN 18219, data carriers per EN 18220, APIs per EN 18222, storage/archiving per EN 18223 – demonstrated, not claimed.
Automated registration via the EU DPP registry’s REST API, EORI handling, GS1 Digital Link – as standard, not as a “roadmap feature”.
Clean interfaces to your ERP/PIM/PLM instead of CSV uploads; changes in the source systems must reach the passport automatically.
What does the solution cost at your real SKU and batch volumes in year 3? Per-passport prices look small and add up brutally.
Where does the data live, who owns it, and how do you get it back out when switching vendors? In a young market, a matter of survival.
Tiered views (consumer/authority/recycler) and multi-brand capability, where relevant.
03 — FAQ
That is the wrong question – there is no universal “best”, only a right fit for your volumes, product group and system landscape. A battery manufacturer with item-level passports needs something different from a fashion brand with model-level passports and 20,000 SKUs. That is why we always start with the requirements profile, never with the vendor list.
No. The DPP requires standardised identifiers, machine-readable formats, tiered access rights, guaranteed availability across the life cycle and registration in the EU registry. A product detail page fulfils none of this – but it can be fed from the same data.
The requirements profile and the market assessment: now. The contract signature: as soon as the delegated act for your product group finalises the data requirements – then you decide in weeks instead of months. For the battery passport (mandatory 18 Feb 2027) the decision should long since have been made.
The range spans from a few hundred euros per month for lean SaaS solutions to six-figure enterprise projects. What matters is the model (per SKU, per passport, flat rate) relative to your volumes. We run the scenarios transparently as part of the selection process.
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