Online forms
Product information can be entered directly in forms built from each product group's template. Required fields are marked, and a readiness panel shows what is still needed before publication.
Cloud DPP Platform
The technology platform behind Digital Product Passports
DPP Network provides the dedicated cloud infrastructure for creating, managing and publishing Digital Product Passports. Structured product-group templates, automated checks and integration options make DPP technology accessible to professionals across industries, through a web browser, spreadsheet imports or an API.
How it works
Your data in, passports out
The platform takes product information from wherever it is managed today and turns it into published passports that open when their QR code is scanned.
Product information comes in
Through online forms, Excel or CSV uploads, or API connections from existing systems.
The platform checks it
Against the product group's template: required fields, value formats and publication rules.
The passport is published
Each published version is sealed and kept; later changes are published as new versions.
QR codes connect product and passport
Each passport has its own identifier and QR code, leading from the physical product to its passport.
Your data
- Enter data in your browser
- Upload an Excel or CSV file
- Send it through our API
DPP Network
- Validate
- Build
- Publish
Your passports
- QR codes and identifiers
- Passport pages with the economic operator's name and logo
- Public and restricted views
Data entry and integration
Three ways to bring product information in
Product information can be entered in the browser, imported in bulk or connected from existing systems, and the three can be combined.
Excel and CSV imports
For larger product ranges, each product group has a downloadable template with one row per product. Large files are processed in the background; rows with errors are listed with the reason, and the other rows are imported.
API and webhooks
Existing product information can flow in directly from ERP, PIM or PLM systems. The EN 18222 API, documented in OpenAPI 3.1, creates and updates passports; webhooks notify connected systems of changes.
Capabilities
A complete platform for Digital Product Passport management
Through access to dedicated DPP infrastructure, each organisation gets the tools to manage passports from first draft to published version.
Browser-based platform
Organisations and their teams work directly in a web browser.
Product-group templates
Dedicated fields and structures for each supported product group, with the publication rules its act sets where one applies.
Validation and readiness checks
Missing required fields and wrongly formatted values are flagged before publication. The checks confirm that data is complete and well-formed; the economic operator stays responsible for its accuracy.
Excel and CSV imports
Bulk updates for large product ranges, with row-level error reporting.
API and webhooks
Integration with ERP, PIM and PLM systems, so passport data can be kept in step with the source systems.
Print-ready QR codes
SVG files at a real print size, with the identifier printed below the code. The passport's PDF carries the same code.
Economic operator branding
Public passport pages show the responsible company's name and logo.
Sealed versions
Every published version is sealed and kept. The seal shows whether a version was changed later; the product information itself remains the economic operator's responsibility.
Roles and permissions
Owner, editor and viewer roles, and custom roles with a narrower set of permissions.
Two-factor sign-in and audit log
Optional two-factor sign-in, which an organisation can require, and an append-only audit log of significant actions for owners.
White-label and multi-organisation
One platform. Multiple organisations.
Each company works in its own organisational environment. Consultants, integrators and service providers are given access to the organisations they support, with the role each organisation assigns. Manufacturers and importers can also use the platform directly.
Separate organisational environments
- Each organisation has its own product data, users, permissions and branding settings, and its own domain where one is connected
- Organisations are set up by DPP Network, and each one's owner invites its team
- Partners are invited with a role: owner, editor, viewer or a custom role
- One email address gives access to every organisation a person is invited into, chosen at sign-in
The economic operator's identity
- Public passport pages show the economic operator's company name and logo
- QR codes carry the operator's own identifier or an address on its verified domain
- Printed QR codes keep working whichever provider the operator uses
- The economic operator stays responsible for its passports
Access levels
One passport, the right view for each audience
A passport can hold information with different access requirements. Every field has an access level, and the levels follow the legislation for each product group, so they differ from one group to another. The battery passport shows a demanding case: the Battery Regulation sets which audiences may read each part.
Public
Everyone
- Product identity and manufacturer
- Chemistry, capacity and warranty
- Hazardous substances
- Collection and recycling information
Restricted
Repairers, recyclers and others with a legitimate interest
- Detailed composition
- Part numbers and spare parts
- Dismantling information
- Safety measures
Restricted
Market surveillance, notified bodies and the Commission
- The repair and dismantling data
- Test-report results
Open standards
Built on European standards and open specifications
Passports are drawn up on the basis of the six harmonised European standards for Digital Product Passports (EN 18216, EN 18219, EN 18220, EN 18221, EN 18222 and EN 18223) and the open specifications they refer to. Standards-based identifiers and formats let other systems read the passports, and keep each economic operator independent of any single provider.
- EN 18222 API, OpenAPI 3.1
- The European standard interface for creating, reading and updating passports, described in a format that development tools read directly.
- EN 18223 passport format
- The European standard data format for passports. Every passport can also be exported in it.
- GS1 Digital Link
- Identifiers built on the GTIN that many products already carry in their barcode.
- W3C decentralized identifiers (DID)
- A permanent identifier for each published passport.
- HTML, JSON and JSON-LD
- One address for each passport: a page for people, and machine-readable data for systems that ask for it.
- 24 official EU languages
- Passport page labels in the visitor's language; the product data stays as entered.
The identifier on each product is the economic operator's own, or is built on its own verified domain; DPP Network hosts the passport behind it. As rules and standards develop, the platform is updated centrally.
Hosting and security
Reliable infrastructure. Hosted in Europe.
A passport has to stay available for as long as its product's rules require. DPP Network runs the infrastructure, so organisations can focus on their passports.
- Hosted in European data centres
- Automated daily backups
- Monitoring of the platform's operation and availability
- Two-factor sign-in, and strict separation of each organisation's data
- An audit log of significant actions, for owners
Getting started
A straightforward path to getting started
Account
DPP Network sets up the account and the organisations needed, and invites each organisation's owner.
Organisation and domain
Where QR codes should carry an address on the economic operator's own domain, a TXT and a CNAME record connect it. Passports can also use the operator's own identifiers.
Product data
Product information is added in the browser, imported from Excel or CSV files, or connected through the API.
Publication and QR codes
Passports are published once the readiness check is clear, with their QR codes ready to download and print.
The technology foundation for your Digital Product Passport services
By leveraging DPP Network's dedicated cloud infrastructure, consultants, integrators and service providers can extend their capabilities on a specialised DPP platform that DPP Network develops and maintains.