Hi everyone,
One of our merchants is struggling with the new EU Digital Product Passport regulation. They sell battery products like e-bikes and similar items across Europe, and every product will need a Digital Product Passport and they have thousands of products.
Doing this manually is impossible. Each product needs its own data, such as composition, carbon footprint and recycling info, linked through a QR code. The deadline is not far.
I’ve looked at a few DPP apps in the app store, but most seem very new and I’m not sure they can manage bulk product. Building something custom feels risky too since the regulation changes often.
Has anyone here already figured this out for batteries or similar regulated products?
If anyone has any solution, please tell us what approach we should go?
Battery is actually the one DPP category that’s already locked in, not a maybe. The EU Battery Regulation puts the battery passport in place for LMT and industrial/EV batteries ahead of the wider ESPR timeline, so for e-bikes this deadline is real and close.
The thing that makes bulk feel impossible is usually the data model, not the volume. Most of what a passport needs (composition, carbon footprint, recycling info) is identical across every SKU of a given battery model. If you model that once at the model level and let SKUs inherit it, thousands of products collapse into a much smaller set of actual passports. The apps that choke on bulk are the ones that attach a flat metafield per variant and make you fill each one by hand.
Two things I’d check before trusting any app: does it separate model-level data from item-level data (some batteries need a unique per-item ID), or does it force one blob per product. And does it bulk import from CSV/API keyed on the SKUs you already have, or is it manual entry.
One more thing worth knowing: a full multilingual passport can blow past Shopify’s 128KB metafield limit, so the durable pattern is hosting the passport off-store and keeping only a stable ID plus the resolver URL in Shopify. The QR should point at that hosted page, not encode the data itself, otherwise any data change means reprinting labels.
Are these fixed battery models you sell repeatedly, or mostly one-off SKUs? That changes whether the model-inherit approach saves you much.
Hey @julien_Martin ,
I don’t think there’s a single proven Shopify solution for this yet especially at the scale of thousands of products.
If I were in that situation, I’d avoid creating DPPs manually. I’d look for a platform or service that specializes in Digital Product Passports and can generate and maintain the required data in bulk, then integrate it with Shopify for QR codes and product information.
Since the regulations are still evolving, relying on a provider that actively keeps up with compliance changes may be safer than building a fully custom solution from scratch. If you’re evaluating apps, I’d also ask the developers specifically about bulk import, API support, and how they handle future regulatory updates. This will likely matter more than whether the app is new.
Thank You !