Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our new Digital Product Passport integration with Shopify. With the PicoNext Product Passports for Shopify app, merchants on the global e-commerce platform can rapidly create Digital Product Passports (DPPs) in order to comply with new European Union regulations.
Using the PicoNext Product Passports app, Shopify merchants can use generative AI that summarizes product data directly from Shopify into consumer-friendly DPPs that can be accessed by QR code or Web links. Digital Product Passports are soon-to-be-required for many product categories sold or distributed in the E.U., including apparel, textiles, electronics, batteries, furniture, and more.
Creating DPPs with the PicoNext Product Passports app for Shopify
With the PicoNext Product Passports app for Shopify, merchants can use the product data in a Shopify store as the source of truth for their Digital Product Passports, simplifying and accelerating their workflow. Store owners first select a target product within the Shopify admin panel. Then, they can also identify additional information from their store that should be used to create the DPP, like an existing "About us" or "Sustainability" page.
Then, merchants select a DPP template containing sustainability attributes for the product passport – including sections for materials origin, carbon footprint, environmental impact, recycling, and more. Using integrated generative AI from the PicoNext AI Assistant, the app automatically analyzes product data from the Shopify listing, and summarizes it into a DPP, which merchants can then review, edit, and publish to customers. Store owners can also download a QR code from the app that links to the Digital Product Passport and provides DPP access to customers.
View a video overview of the PicoNext Product Passports app for Shopify
Fibre For Good uses Shopify integration to publish Digital Product Passports
Fibre for Good, a Sydney-based children’s and essentials apparel brand, uses the PicoNext Product Passports app for Shopify to reduce the time and cost for publishing its DPPs. The apparel retailer has long used Shopify as its e-commerce platform, and places sustainability at the forefront of its organic natural color cotton baby wear products. Creating Digital Product Passports for each item in its new Heritage line posed a challenge, however, due to the amount of data, and time necessary to gather and organize it.
Using the PicoNext Product Passports app for Shopify, Fibre for Good selected the products in its Shopify store, and then quickly summarized that information into DPP templates using generative AI. Fibre For Good was then able to review, edit, and approve the data before finalizing its DPP.
“Using the PicoNext Product Passports app for Shopify helped us produce our Digital Product Passport more quickly, and at lower cost than we could otherwise have done,” said Carl Ludwig, Founder and CEO of Fibre For Good. “Instead of manually sifting through all of our sustainability data, we used AI to generate a first pass of our DPP directly from our Shopify store, which we then fine-tuned to achieve our final result.”
PicoNext Product Passports app for Shopify features
The PicoNext Product Passports app for Shopify helps simplify Digital Product Passport creation through various capabilities, including:
- Direct integration with Shopify. Accelerate DPP creation by accessing product data directly from within the Shopify admin panel.
- Generative AI. Quickly summarize product information into DPP templates using the PicoNext AI Assistant.
- Customizable DPP templates. Organize data with pre-configured DPP templates and sustainability attributes for a variety of product categories, or customize your own template unique to your product set.
- Turnkey DPP rendering. Publish Digital Product Passports instantly in the cloud and render DPP information using a pre-formatted, turnkey DPP viewer.
- DPP Planner. Organize, edit, and add DPP product information using a visual, template-based tool.
- QR code download. Download QR codes to distribute along with products and give customers easy access to DPP information.
With the PicoNext Product Passports app for Shopify, merchants can conveniently create Digital Product Passports from the product data they already have in their e-commerce platform. And with Digital Product Passports, companies can not only drive compliance with fast-evolving regulations in the European Union and other locations, but they can connect more deeply with customers around important sustainability and responsible sourcing efforts.
Request access to the PicoNext Product Passports app for Shopify
The PicoNext Product Passports app for Shopify is now available to Shopify merchants through a pre-release program. The app includes a free tier for merchants to gain experience producing DPPs from Shopify using generative AI. Request access to the pre-release at: https://piconext.com/request-commerce-access/
Learn more
- Fibre for Good DPP. View the Digital Product Passport for the Heritage line of Fibre for Good apparel
- Fibre for Good case study. Read more about how Fibre for Good used the PicoNext Product Passports app for Shopify to accelerate its workflow in a case study
- Request access. Request access to the PicoNext Product Passports app for Shopify app
