Digital Product Passport Software for Textiles and Fashion Brands: 9 Platforms Compared

Last updated: October 25, 2026

Textiles are on the European Commission's list of product groups for an ESPR passport, planned for 2027 in the Working Plan, but as of October 2026 no delegated act sets the requirements yet. That makes this a strange buying decision: you have to pick software before the final fields exist. The right pick is the one that gets your supplier data in order now and can follow the rules when they arrive.

This guide covers what digital product passport software has to do for textile and fashion brands, how nine platforms differ, and who each one suits. We make Veribl, one of the platforms below. Facts about other vendors come from their own websites as of October 2026, and we say where another vendor is the better fit. For the wider market beyond fashion, see our comparison of the best digital product passport software.

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Digital Product Passport Textiles: What the Software Has to Do

A textile passport is a record of what a garment is made of, where and how it was made, how to care for and repair it, and what happens at the end of its life, reachable through a QR code on the label or hang tag. Fashion has some jobs that other industries don't. Check each vendor against these six:

1. Collect data from many suppliers, many tiers deep. Fibre composition, recycled content, certificates and origin sit with mills, dye houses and cut-and-sew factories, often in PDFs. A fashion brand can have hundreds of suppliers, so the supplier experience decides whether anyone answers.
2. Work at style, color and size level. A passport per SKU variant, not one page per collection. Check how the software handles a style made in several factories and several batches.
3. Prove environmental claims. Footprint, recycled content and durability are the hardest data points. Look at whether the numbers come from a method you can explain, such as a life cycle assessment, or from a form field.
4. Put the right information in front of each reader. Shoppers see composition and care. Authorities and recyclers will need more. The software has to separate public from restricted data.
5. Stay current and traceable. Fashion products change with every season. You need versions and a record of what changed, and a way to publish updates after the garment has shipped.
6. Work for the person holding the garment. Care and repair guides, resale and registration give the QR code on the label a reason to be scanned for years, which a compliance page alone doesn't.

The textiles act isn't final, so a seventh check applies to every vendor: how easily you can export your data if the rules, or your choice of vendor, change.

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Digital Product Passport Software Compared at a Glance

"Not published" means we couldn't find a price on the vendor's own website.

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Digital Product Passport Fashion: The Platforms

Veribl

Best for: fashion and apparel brands, from small labels to mid-sized brands, that want to run their own passports without an implementation project, and want the QR code on the label to work for customers too.

Veribl gives each product a branded product page behind a QR code, at a GS1 Digital Link address, with an option to give every unit its own QR code and history. For textiles it checks which rules apply to each product through an ESPR rules catalog that says plainly whether a rule is in force or still planned, and shows readiness per product.

Supplier data is the part Veribl does for you. Missing fields go to the supplier who has them. Suppliers answer in the Veribl supplier portal: they sign in with a code sent to their email, with no password or sign-up form, and drop in the documents they already have, such as certificates and test reports. AI fills the requested fields and shows the file, page and quote each value came from. A supplier can mark "I don't have this" rather than leaving a gap you find later. Suppliers keep their documents in a library with reminders before certificates expire, so the next request takes a click. You review and approve before anything goes into a passport.

Open formats, ready for the UN Transparency Protocol. Textiles have no EU passport model yet, and the UN Transparency Protocol (UNTP) is one of the formats built for apparel supply chains. Veribl publishes passports as UNTP verifiable credentials and in machine-readable JSON-LD. Every published passport version is signed and chained, so a later edit would show.

The label works after the sale. The same QR code opens care and repair guides, a help center and manuals in many languages, and an AI chat that answers from your own content. Owners can register a garment, which matters when you sell through department stores and never see the customer. Add warranty plans and claims with rules that can auto-approve, owner import from a spreadsheet, and customer flows that send automated emails. AI assistant Vera, in the dashboard, helps with the data work. There's a REST API and SDKs, a Shopify app and Zendesk and Akeneo apps. See Veribl for textiles and apparel.

Pricing: free plan for 100 products; passports from $29 a month. Vera is $19 per person a month. Self-serve: sign up and publish the same day.

Not the best fit if: you need to map and verify every tier from raw fibre to finished garment with physical chain-of-custody tracking, or run footprint calculations for every SKU. Veribl collects and records what your suppliers declare. TrusTrace, Retraced and Carbonfact are built for those jobs.

Renoon

Best for: fashion and luxury brands that want a platform plus advisory and managed service.

Renoon describes itself as a Digital Product Passport provider for compliance and traceability, and says it has 30+ live case studies and over 10 million passport-ready products. Tod's is named on its homepage. It combines advisory (mapping where you stand), a modular platform that connects existing systems and supplier traceability, and managed services where Renoon takes on the operational work. Pricing isn't published. Its own blog puts compliance-only passports under EUR 15,000 a year and premium programs between EUR 15,000 and EUR 100,000 a year, as indicative market estimates.

TrusTrace

Best for: large fashion, footwear and textile brands that need supplier data across every material and tier.

TrusTrace focuses on high-volume traceability with primary data for fashion, footwear and textile supply chains, and offers an open API. Its DPP offering covers unique product IDs, permanent QR codes, a consumer interface, a product data repository and a resolver, and follows GS1 Digital Link. TrusTrace contributed to the Trace4Value project and applies its DPP data protocol, 126 data points across 9 attribute categories, as the foundation of its solution. Pricing isn't published.

Retraced

Best for: fashion and textile brands that want supplier collaboration first and a consumer-facing passport on top.

Retraced calls itself an AI-first platform for supplier lifecycle management and product compliance. It maps suppliers across tiers, validates supplier documents with AI, flags risk across 22 ESG factors and lets suppliers self-serve through questionnaires and document uploads. Its passports show up as a QR code or e-commerce integration; the outdoor brand Loeffler has 180 products traceable this way, with an interactive production map and certifications. Pricing isn't published.

Carbonfact

Best for: brands that want passports built on product-level life cycle assessments.

Carbonfact runs LCAs across a whole apparel and footwear catalog, including size, color and multi-sourcing variations, and turns any LCA into a published DPP with a QR code. Its method follows ISO 14040 and the EU PEFCR with all 16 indicators, reviewed by PwC, and it calculates the French Eco-Score. Hosting can be on your site, its servers or an external tool. It describes itself as either a full DPP solution or the environmental data engine feeding another DPP platform. Pricing isn't published.

Fairly Made

Best for: fashion brands, especially in France and Europe, that want traceability and impact measurement in one platform.

Fairly Made combines supply chain traceability, a dedicated supplier interface, product LCAs based on PEF, French Environmental Cost and digital passports with QR codes, URLs and widgets. It says it works with 100+ brands in 15 countries and that the platform is typically operational in around 8 weeks. Its own page describes its passports as a "DPP-like tool" that will be completed once the delegated acts are released. Pricing isn't published.

EON

Best for: enterprise brands that want one persistent digital identity for compliance, resale, repair and authentication.

EON has built product identity infrastructure since 2017 and says it works with more than 50 companies on DPP programs, and is a technology partner in CIRPASS-2. Its platform supports serialized IDs, EPCIS 2.0, GS1 Digital Link, 90+ integrations and any mix of QR, NFC and RFID carriers. Its resale offering connects customers to marketplaces including Poshmark, The RealReal, ThredUP and Vestiaire Collective. It's the strongest option here if resale and second-life revenue drive the business case. Pricing isn't published.

Kezzler

Best for: brands that need item-level identity, retail visibility and QR engagement at scale.

Kezzler gives each garment a digital identity at production, tracks it through distribution and point of sale, and supports passports with GS1 standards, with public and restricted views. Its QR engagement tools, from its Scanbuy business, give scan analytics on the care label. Norwegian brands Holzweiler and Viking are working with Kezzler and Trimco Group on DPP preparation. Pricing isn't published.

Circularise

Best for: textile supply chains where claims need evidence and commercial data must stay confidential.

Circularise connects supplier declarations, material data and certificates to the products they describe, with chain-of-custody records for sourced materials. Its textiles page covers fibre composition, recycled-content claims, chemicals and EPR and unsold-stock records, shared through QR codes, APIs and permissioned access. It says textiles are planned for 2027 with application dates not yet confirmed. Pricing comes from a configurator that ends in a custom quote.

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How to Choose Digital Product Passport Software for Textiles

If you're a small or mid-sized brand, your hard part is getting composition and certificate data out of 10 to 100 suppliers, then keeping care and repair information up to date. Look hardest at the supplier experience, at how fast you can publish a first product and at what it costs if you start with 20 styles.

If you're an enterprise brand with deep supply chains, you likely need multi-tier mapping and risk assessment, which TrusTrace and Retraced were built for, and possibly a separate layer for the customer-facing page.

If your environmental data is the weak spot, start from an LCA specialist, Carbonfact or Fairly Made, and decide whether to publish from there or feed another platform.

If resale, repair or authentication is the point, EON and Kezzler are built around a persistent item identity.

Then think about the label. You'll print the QR code on every garment for years. A page that only shows compliance data will be scanned by regulators. A page with care guides, repair help and registration will be scanned by customers, and that's how the passport earns its place.

The ESPR rules for textiles are still ahead, so don't pay now for a fixed field list. Pick a platform you can start small with, and test it on one capsule collection before committing a whole catalog. Our ESPR requirements checklist tracks the current status of each product group, and the textile passport guide covers the data fields in more depth.

Questions to Ask in Every Demo

1. Show me a passport for one garment variant, with the public view and the restricted view side by side.
2. How does a mill or factory answer a data request? Can they upload their certificates instead of retyping them?
3. Where does each value come from, and can I see the source document?
4. How are footprint and recycled-content numbers calculated, and can I explain the method to an auditor?
5. What happens to the passport when we change a supplier mid-season?
6. What can I export, in what format, if the delegated act changes the fields or we leave?
7. What does it cost at 50, 500 and 5,000 styles, in writing, and how long until the first live passport?

Want to see where your products stand first? Our free ESPR requirements checklist lists what applies now and what is still planned. Run the first products through the free plan, scan the QR code on a real label with your own phone and fix what breaks while there is still time.