Work per supplier, not per product. First measure the packaging yourselves — materials, weights and pack quantities are your own data, and the warehouse scanning screen collects them faster than any supplier will. Then send each supplier ONE blanket compliance declaration to sign. Hundreds of products usually mean only a handful of suppliers, so this collapses the job to a handful of letters.

It depends on who puts the product on the EU market. Your own brand or your own import from outside the EU: send the Supplier compliance declaration — the supplier attests, and YOU issue the Declaration of Conformity. A brand you only resell (another company placed it on the EU market first): send the Distributor compliance request to the brand owner — the Declaration of Conformity is theirs, and you ask for a copy, their producer registration number and a marking confirmation.

One signature that covers ALL packaging a supplier ships you, current and future — instead of one form per product. Use it as your first move with every packaging supplier. The per-product version is for exceptions that need product-specific detail.

No. A general confirmation letter is a goodwill gesture with no legal weight — such letters usually say themselves that they are not a Declaration of Conformity. File it as correspondence, then reply asking for the specific missing items: the Declaration of Conformity copy, the producer-register number, and confirmation of the on-pack markings. Never log a comfort letter as a DoC copy in the evidence register.

Yes — create a supplier portal link (Supplier requests tab). The supplier opens a secure, expiring page showing only their products' missing fields, fills them in, and uploads the signed declaration scan. You review every submission before anything is stored, and accepted values only fill fields that are still empty. The PDF route keeps working alongside it.

No — and nothing should. A test report is the laboratory's own record of what was measured, on which sample, by which method and with what uncertainty, and the Regulation requires the method behind your figures to be reliable and reproducible (Art 35). What the app generates is the Test report request & results sheet (Supplier requests tab): it tells the supplier which components need a report, what an acceptable report shows, and gives them a per-component table to transcribe the values into and sign. A report from the supplier's own laboratory is acceptable; an accredited laboratory's report is stronger evidence. When it comes back, attach the report to the component in the Substances tab or the evidence register and enter the values — a signed declaration alone keeps the ledger amber, measured values turn it green.

No — substance matters, format does not. If they send their own documents with the same facts (their real Declaration of Conformity, their register numbers, a marking confirmation), that is a complete answer. Our forms simply make responding easy for suppliers who have nothing prepared.

The binding recycled-content targets apply from 1 January 2030 at the earliest (or 3 years after the Art 7(8) implementing act enters into force, if later), so you do not need PCR declarations today — UNLESS you claim recycled content on the pack or in marketing, because a claim needs proof now. Collect the figures per supplier and material with the PCR worksheet (Supplier requests tab), not per product, and start asking well before 2030 so there is time to change suppliers if targets will not be met.

Not yet. Data collection is the foundation, not the finish line. You still need: producer registration in every market where you count as the producer (selling is prohibited before registration is granted), your own Declarations of Conformity for the products you are the manufacturer of (own brand, or an import Art 21 makes yours) and a copy of the manufacturer's for the products you import, the Article 55 end-user information published, and the market-specific labels on pack. The Audit tab shows exactly what is still open for each product.

The EU Declaration of Conformity (Annex VIII). The manufacturer draws it up (Art 15(2)): it is yours to give where you are the manufacturer — you make the packaging or have it made under your own name or trademark, or Art 21 makes you one. For products you import or resell, forward the manufacturer's or brand owner's DoC copy instead (an importer keeps that copy, Art 18(7)). The client confirmation letter is a friendly cover note; the DoC is the actual evidence.

The full compliance report is your INTERNAL working document — it shows open gaps, engine verdicts and notes, so sending it out would hand a client your to-do list. The Declaration of Conformity is the formal outward document. Internal: full report, technical file. Outward: DoC, client letter, public product page.

No. The technical file is for market-surveillance authorities on request, and for you. It is never sent to clients and this app deliberately cannot publish it.

No — and it says so honestly. It is a per-customer comfort letter with a document ID, an approval log and a verification link. It reports each product's DoC status truthfully, but it never replaces the DoC itself. (The same is true of the letters your suppliers send you.)

Turn on Publishing (above on this tab). Every product gets a stable public page with the consumer information and sorting labels — and the Declaration of Conformity where you opt it in and it validates. The WooCommerce sync writes each product's link into your shop automatically. Links never go stale because pages render from the live product record.