Knowledge base
Practical walkthroughs for every part of the workspace: the dashboard, products and passports, evidence, compliance, sustainability and publishing.
Collaboration
Collect supplier evidence
Request missing inputs and keep each supplier's documents tied to the right record.
Open guide 02 / CollaborationWork with suppliers, requests and risk
Request supplier data, certificates and photos, review private uploads and responses, and understand how supplier risk is scored.
Open guide 03 / CollaborationAnswer a data request as a supplier
For suppliers: how to open the secure link, answer the questions, upload documents and forward questions to your own supplier.
Open guidePublishing
Review and publish a passport
Use validation findings, the public preview and version history before a passport goes live.
Open guide 02 / PublishingSend product data to marketplace channels
Resolve channel attributes from your records, see what is blocking, and push or export a feed with a full audit trail.
Open guide 03 / PublishingTranslate passport content and review machine drafts
Author and approve content per language, and use machine drafting without letting it publish itself.
Open guide 04 / PublishingLabels, carriers and verifiable credentials
Print carriers for the physical product and let a third party verify a passport without an account.
Open guide 05 / PublishingPublish a passport: approvals, overrides and second-factor checks
Why publishing can ask for an override and a fresh authenticator code, who may approve, and how long an approval stays valid.
Open guide 06 / PublishingRegister a passport in the EU DPP Registry
Who can register, the identifier a registration names, how DPP Shield prepares and checks it, and how to record the Registry's answer.
Open guideAdministration
Manage team access
Invite colleagues and give each the smallest role that fits their work.
Open guide 02 / AdministrationManage users, roles, workspaces and your account
Give people the smallest role that fits, separate brands with workspaces, and check what you can do.
Open guide 03 / AdministrationSecurity, sessions, single sign-on and MFA
Control how people sign in, require a second factor, and revoke access immediately when you need to.
Open guide 04 / AdministrationAdd company rules and custom schema fields
Express your own requirements and fields without confusing them with regulation or inventing a new pack.
Open guide 05 / AdministrationUnderstand plans, usage and limits
What is counted, what happens when you reach a limit, and where to see usage before it bites.
Open guideGetting started
Read the client dashboard and analytics
What the readiness panel, the four metric cards, next actions and regulatory dates actually measure.
Open guide 02 / Getting startedWork with products, passports and versions
Create the record, draft the passport, validate it, compare versions and publish a shareable public view.
Open guide 03 / Getting startedClient dashboard: what every section does
A practical map of the DPP Shield client workspace: what each dashboard section owns, who can use it and the usual next step.
Open guide 04 / Getting startedImport products and passports from a CSV file
Which importer to use, the columns each one reads, how duplicates and plan limits are handled, and how to check the result.
Open guide 05 / Getting startedCreate your first product
Add a product name, SKU and category, then enter a GTIN if the product has one. Save the record before creating its passport.
Open guideEvidence
Compliance
Follow regulatory change with the watch
Capture pack versions, read classified rule diffs and see which passports a version bump breaks.
Open guide 02 / ComplianceUse validation packs and understand the score
What the packs contain, what a validation run evaluates, and where the engine's authority ends.
Open guideSustainability
Produce a product carbon footprint report
Compose the issuer declaration with supplier data, cross-check the two, and track a baseline over time.
Open guide 02 / SustainabilityScreen substances of concern and prepare a SCIP dossier
Check a composition against a versioned candidate-list subset, see the REACH duties, and find supply-chain gaps.
Open guide 03 / SustainabilityAssess repairability, recycled content and critical materials
Score the durability criteria, weight recycled content correctly, and see the ESPR gaps that remain.
Open guide 04 / SustainabilityClassify a chemical product and build the SDS package
Derive a CLP label from the declared composition, see why each hazard applies, and know what to author yourself.
Open guide 05 / SustainabilityConstruction products: DoP, EPD and Taxonomy
Check a Declaration of Performance, assemble an EN 15804+A2 package and screen the Taxonomy criterion.
Open guideData quality
Cross-reference documents against the passport
Attribute statements from test reports, compare them like-for-like, and resolve conflicts with a reason.
Open guide 02 / Data qualityUse AI assist within its limits
Draft fields from a document, understand the guard rails, and see why the platform degrades instead of guessing.
Open guideSupply chain
Integrations
Connect systems with API keys, webhooks and EPCIS
Issue a scoped key, subscribe to events, and stream lifecycle data to a partner.
Open guide 02 / IntegrationsConnect an ERP: SAP, Dynamics 365, NetSuite and Odoo
Set up an integration hub mapping that keeps products and passports in step with your ERP, with the exact settings for each supported system.
Open guide 03 / IntegrationsConnect a PIM: Akeneo, Pimcore, Salsify and Plytix
Bring product attributes from your PIM into passports: the settings for each supported PIM and how to map attributes to passport fields.
Open guide 04 / IntegrationsImport bills of materials from PLM: Teamcenter, Windchill, 3DEXPERIENCE
Keep each product's component structure in step with your PLM's single-level BOM export, and link components to their own passports.
Open guide 05 / IntegrationsFeeds, schedules and push in the integration hub
How DPP Shield fetches a source on a schedule, which authentication each feed supports, and how your system can push records instead.
Open guide 06 / IntegrationsSync products with Shopify and WooCommerce
Connect a store, import or export products, choose an automatic sync direction and show passport links on product pages.
Open guideGovernance
Audit trail, privacy, retention and regulator access
Answer who changed what, handle a data-subject request, set retention, and give a regulator read-only evidence.
Open guide 02 / GovernanceExport your data: CSV reports, CSRD summary, audit chain and AAS
What each export contains, who can download it, and which export to use for a regulator, an auditor or sustainability reporting.
Open guideDevelopers
Use the DPP Shield REST API
Authenticate with an API key, choose the right scopes, read and write products and passports, and handle rate limits and errors.
Open guide 02 / DevelopersWebhook events and signature verification
Every event DPP Shield sends, the delivery format, how to verify the signature, and how retries and replays work.
Open guideProduct categories
Build a battery passport under the Batteries Regulation
What the Batteries Regulation asks a battery passport to hold, what the battery pack checks, and how to build, restrict and publish it.
Open guide 02 / Product categoriesBuild a textile product passport
What applies to textiles today, what the textile pack checks while the ESPR textile act is pending, and how to prepare the passport.
Open guide 03 / Product categoriesBuild a passport for electrical and electronic equipment
RoHS, WEEE, energy labelling and the smartphone and tablet rules: what the electronics pack checks and how to prepare the passport.
Open guide 04 / Product categoriesBuild a furniture product passport
Furniture is an ESPR priority group without an adopted act yet: what the furniture pack checks today - substances, formaldehyde and deforestation-free wood.
Open guide 05 / Product categoriesBuild a food contact material compliance record
Traceability, declarations of compliance, migration limits and recycled plastic: what the food contact pack checks.
Open guide 06 / Product categoriesBuild a packaging compliance record under the PPWR
What the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation requires from 12 August 2026 and what the packaging pack checks.
Open guide 07 / Product categoriesPrepare a vehicle circularity record
What the automotive pack checks ahead of the Digital Circularity Vehicle Passport, and the data to prepare now.
Open guide 08 / Product categoriesBuild a cosmetics product record
Label particulars, CPNP notification and the product information file: what the cosmetics pack checks.
Open guide 09 / Product categoriesBuild a medical device compliance record (MDR and IVDR)
UDI, EUDAMED, notified body and safety summaries: what the MDR and IVDR pack checks.
Open guide 10 / Product categoriesBuild an agricultural product record: fertilisers, organic and EUDR
Three profiles in one pack: EU fertilising products, organic products and deforestation-free commodities.
Open guide 11 / Product categoriesBuild a tyre product passport
The tyre label and EPREL registration that apply today, and the data to prepare before the ESPR tyre act.
Open guide 12 / Product categoriesBuild a passport for iron, steel and aluminium products
Intermediate metal products ahead of the ESPR acts: grade, recycled content, carbon footprint and mill certificates.
Open guide 13 / Product categoriesBuild a toy product passport
CE marking, EN 71 safety and age grading today, and preparation for the passport the revised Toy Safety Regulation introduces.
Open guide 14 / Product categoriesBuild a passport for household and energy-related appliances
Energy labelling, EPREL and spare parts for white goods, heating and cooling appliances.
Open guide 15 / Product categoriesBuild a footwear product passport
Material labelling of uppers, linings and soles today, and preparation for the ESPR textiles and footwear act.
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