Yes, you can technically set up the technical side of the textile passport yourself: a database with product data, a unique identification code per article, and an environment that keeps that data available for ten years via a link behind a QR code. There is nothing in the regulation that reserves this for an external party. The question is not whether it can be done, but whether it is worth your company's effort, and that depends mainly on the size of your assortment and the time you want to structurally free up for maintenance.
The short answer: for a small, stable assortment, building it yourself is technically feasible. Once the number of articles grows, suppliers change, or data from multiple systems come together, maintenance becomes the biggest bottleneck, not the initial setup.
What the technical coupling entails
A digital product passport consists of two components that are often confused with one another. The first is the data carrier: the QR code on the label or in the clothing item, which points to a web address. The second, and the more challenging part, is what lies behind that web address: a system that displays the correct data per article, in the correct language, and that remains accessible for the retention period even if you switch web hosts or the product has long since sold out. Seeing those two components separately helps in assessing what you tackle yourself and what you outsource.
What you can do yourself
If your company already has an assortment system or ERP, you can have a developer build a connection that retrieves data from that system and displays it on a webpage per article. For a limited number of product lines, with fixed suppliers and few changes per season, this is a straightforward project. You determine the data model, languages, and design yourself, and you keep full control in-house. The choice between building yourself and outsourcing resembles comparable considerations you are already familiar with from other IT projects: build costs versus management costs, and the question of who maintains it if the developer is no longer available.
Where the complexity lies in practice
The challenge rarely lies in the first version, but in keeping it up to date. Suppliers modify fibre compositions, a collection is replaced after a season by a new one with slightly different data, and the ten-year retention period runs on long after an article is no longer sold. Anyone doing this themselves must also ensure that the system remains available, that the link behind the QR code never shows an error message, and that data that applies to multiple EU countries is updated consistently. This is less a technical problem than an organizational one: someone must give this ongoing ownership, even after staff changes. the knowledge base by topic you will find an explanation of what must be in the passport and who is responsible for it.
What a provider like texpas.eu takes over
A specialized party mainly takes over management over time: the hosting for the full retention period, the technical guarantee that the QR code continues to work, and the processing of changes as soon as a supplier submits new data. the page that shows where the data comes from shows how that process works, from submission to publication. For companies just beginning to think about the scale of this issue, it is also useful to first determine how many product lines and suppliers exactly fall under the regulation, before you make a build-or-buy decision.
How you make the choice in practice
There is no fixed threshold in numbers above which building it yourself is no longer advisable; it depends on the IT capacity your company already has in-house and how often your assortment changes. A direct way to get clarity on this for your own situation is getting an indication in a few questions of where you stand. That does not provide a legal judgment, but it does give you an initial picture of the scope of work ahead of you, whether you tackle it yourself or outsource it.
The regulation itself does not prescribe a building method; it sets requirements for the result, such as accessibility and accuracy of the data. Which route is best for your company, building it yourself or outsourcing, is a choice you can best make with concrete insight into your own assortment and systems, possibly with a lawyer or adviser if the details become complicated.
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