Some DPP vendors pitch a single "data foundation" that does both your Digital Product Passports and your CSRD report. It sounds efficient. In practice the two live at different levels: a DPP is per-product (one passport per battery, per garment, per appliance), while CSRD/ESRS reporting is per-company (one consolidated sustainability statement covering the whole entity). Bolting them into one tool usually means one of the two is shallow.
TracePass is deliberately the product level done well. We don't write your CSRD report or compute your ESRS datapoints — but the product data we already capture for passports is exactly the granular evidence a serious ESRS process needs underneath the company-level numbers. So rather than replace your reporting tool, we feed it.
What TracePass feeds into your CSRD/ESRS process
Every passport already structures product-level data that maps onto ESRS datapoints. You export it as JSON-LD or EPCIS 2.0 and hand it to your reporting tool or auditor — product-level evidence, not a finished disclosure.
| ESRS | What TracePass feeds into your CSRD/ESRS process |
|---|---|
| ESRS E1 (climate) | Per-product carbon footprint / PEF results attached to each passport, with the source study linked — the granular input behind a company-level GHG figure. |
| ESRS E5 (resource use & circular economy) | Recycled-content percentages, recyclability and end-of-life data per product, with source attribution — exactly the circularity evidence ESRS E5 asks you to substantiate. |
| Supply-chain provenance | Critical-raw-material and due-diligence records captured per passport, exportable as EPCIS 2.0 events for the value-chain narrative. |
| Auditable evidence trail | Every field carries who entered it, when, and from which source document — the audit trail an assurance provider expects under CSRD limited assurance. |
What TracePass does NOT do
- We do not produce a CSRD sustainability statement or fill the ESRS disclosure templates. That's your reporting tool's or consultant's job; we supply the product-level inputs.
- We do not perform company-level consolidation, double-materiality assessment, or ESRS gap analysis.
- We do not replace a carbon-accounting / ESG platform. If you have one, we feed it; if you don't, you still need one for the company-level report.
- We will not call ourselves "CSRD-ready" or "CSRD-compliant" — a product-data layer cannot be either. Anyone claiming a single tool does both DPP and CSRD fully is overselling one of them.
Get the product data right first
CSRD reporting is only as good as the product evidence underneath it. Start with passports that carry confidence-scored, source-linked product data — then export it to whatever reporting tool you use. Start free.
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