Digital Product Passport

Requirements#

• Not yet listed on the Shopify App Store. The app has been submitted and the review is in progress; early access is available by email.
• The data model is built for textiles: apparel, footwear, accessories, home textiles and workwear.
• Passports are served through the Shopify app proxy of the shop. The app proxy URL must not be changed in the Shopify settings once QR codes are printed, because printed codes point at it.
• The app is available in English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese. The public passport page is available in 11 languages.

Getting started#

1. 01

   Add the company data

   Open Company & design and enter the economic operator once: legal name, address, operator ID, EORI and EPR registration numbers. Name and address appear on every passport.

2. 02

   Create a passport

   Pick a product. Brand, SKU and GTIN come from Shopify. Add composition, processing countries, substances, care and end of life. Templates hold reusable data, and many passports can be filled at once by CSV import.

3. 03

   Publish

   The completeness check shows what is missing. Publishing is blocked until the required data is complete. Every published state is stored as a version with a SHA-256 hash.

4. 04

   Add the block to the product page

   In the Setup guide, click Add block in theme editor. The block Product passport shows a link to the passport, optionally with a QR code. Products without a published passport show nothing.

5. 05

   Print the QR codes

   Download the QR code in each passport, or export all passport links as CSV for label software. QR codes are also available as a ZIP file and as label PDFs.

6. 06

   Check the passport page

   Open a published passport on a phone. This is the page shoppers and market surveillance see.

Features#

Theme integration#

The theme app extension ships one app block for the product page.

• Product passportApp block

  Product template

  Shows a link to the Digital Product Passport of the product as a card or a text link, optionally with a QR code. Products without a published passport show nothing.

• The block reads an app-owned product metafield that holds the link to the passport. The app does not edit theme files.

Reference#

https://<shop domain>/apps/dpp/p/<id>
    public passport page

https://<shop domain>/apps/dpp/p/<id>?format=json
    machine-readable JSON

https://<shop domain>/apps/dpp/p/<id>?lot=<lot>
    page of one batch

https://<shop domain>/apps/dpp/01/<GTIN-14>
    GS1 Digital Link, resolves to the same passport

{
  "@type": "Product",
  "name": "...",
  "gtin": "...",
  "dpp:digitalProductPassport": {
    "id": "...",
    "schemaVersion": "...",
    "version": 3,
    "sha256": "...",
    "updatedAt": "...",
    "versionHistory": [
      { "version": 3, "sha256": "...", "date": "...",
        "content": ".../p/<id>?format=json&version=3" }
    ],
    "economicOperator": { ... }
  }
}

Access scopes#

The app requests these access scopes from Shopify. Shopify shows them before the installation.

• Products: read and write
• No scopes for orders or customers

read_products
write_products

The scopes of all apps are listed on Security & data protection.

Data and uninstall#

• The link to the passport is stored in an app-owned product metafield (Digital Product Passport) that the storefront can read.
• The app works with product data and the company data entered in the app. It has no access scopes for orders or customers.
• The app runs in the EU region of Heroku with its database on Amazon RDS in Frankfurt (eu-central-1).
• The app is embedded in the Shopify admin and uses the session authentication of Shopify.

app/uninstalled
app/scopes_update
app_subscriptions/update
products/create
products/update
products/delete
customers/data_request
customers/redact
shop/redact

Billing#

These are the plans the app is built with. Prices apply once the app is live in the Shopify App Store.

• Planned prices in US dollars, billed through Shopify once the app is live. Yearly billing costs ten monthly payments.
• Version history with SHA-256 checksum and the public JSON are part of every passport.
• The app is in production and has been submitted to the Shopify App Store; the review is in progress. Write to us for early access.

Plans and prices are the same as on the app page.

Troubleshooting and FAQ#

Support#

Support comes from the team that builds the app. Write to info@brandupfactory.com and include the shop domain and, for theme questions, the name of the theme.