Most platforms marketed as battery passport software will store your data and print a QR code. That is the easy half. The half that decides whether you are compliant on 18 February 2027 is whether the system can issue a record per battery, carry roughly 110 attributes of which 94 are mandatory, enforce three different access tiers on the same record, and keep it resolvable for years after the sale. This page is the checklist, and it says plainly where we are not the right answer.
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Article 77 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 makes the battery passport mandatory on 18 February 2027. Three categories are in scope:
Portable consumer batteries — laptops, phones, power tools — get labelling and collection rules but no battery passport. If a vendor tells you every battery you sell needs one, they have not read the scope.
One consequence people miss: Article 1 covers batteries incorporated into products. If you import a finished machine with a battery inside, you placed that battery on the EU market — not the cell factory in Asia. See imported products.
Feature lists are not comparable across vendors because almost nobody publishes specifics. These five are answerable with a yes, a no or a number — including by us.
| Capability | Why it decides compliance |
|---|---|
| Item-level records | Battery passports are per battery, not per model. A platform built around model-level records needs rework, and you pay for it. |
| The full attribute set | Roughly 110 attributes, 94 of them mandatory. Ask which field list they implement and what they reconciled it against — "battery-passport compliant" is not an answer. Our list is published free. |
| Three access tiers | 82 attributes are public, 26 are for legitimate interest, 2 are for authorities only. Ask to see the enforcement, not the roadmap. |
| Supplier data collection | About a third of the mandatory set originates upstream. Ask whether the platform chases suppliers or just gives you an empty form. |
| Persistence after you stop paying | Records must stay resolvable for the product’s regulated lifetime — up to 15 years. Ask what the URLs do on termination and what the export format is. |
Vendors serving this space fall into three groups, and the most expensive mistake is buying the wrong type rather than the wrong vendor within a type:
The fuller map, with our own row marked, is in the DPP software landscape.
PassPer issues item-level battery passports against the Article 77 field set, extracts data from documents you already hold (with human review — extracted values are proposals until a person applies them), collects missing fields from suppliers without making them create accounts, carries GS1 Digital Link data carriers, and submits to the EU registry. Hosting is in the EU. Pricing is published: €79 to €719 per month by passport volume, with a free 21-day pilot and no setup fee. eIDAS qualified sealing is built into the registry-submission path and activates once the qualified certificate is provisioned (QTSP onboarding is in its final stage).
Where we are the wrong choice. If you need multi-tier traceability across a supply chain you do not control, a blockchain-backed chain of custody, or serialization at hundreds of millions of units, the enterprise platforms above are built for that and we are not. If you have one battery variant and a spreadsheet, you may not need software yet — read consultant versus software first.
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