The Digital Product Passport, from the brand's side.
Darpan is where apparel brands take their suppliers' verifiable credentials, attest to them under their own authority, compose a product passport, and submit it for ESPR — then render it for shoppers however the brand needs. The mirror that turns supplier evidence into a passport you can stand behind.
Built on GS1 Digital Link and W3C Verifiable Credentials — the formats the regulation is converging on.
The passport is tomorrow's obligation. Verified sourcing is today's advantage.
The ESPR deadline is a multi-year horizon — but the supply base you'll build the passport from is a decision you make now. The same platform that will compose your DPP already lets you find and shortlist verified factories on Provena Source: capability and compliance graded by evidence, not self-declared. Source through it today, and that supplier evidence becomes your passport tomorrow.
Source on evidence
Browse verified, filterable factories — Bangladeshi and worldwide. Free to browse; Darpan-ready suppliers flagged for clean passport integration.
Compose the passport
When ESPR bites, the credentials from those same factories flow into Darpan — verified at origin, no re-collected paperwork.
What ESPR asks
Under ESPR, textile products sold in the EU will need a machine-readable Digital Product Passport — materials origin, recycled content, repairability, footprint.
Not issuing the data
Suppliers do that. The brand has to attest to it, compose it, keep it current, and put its own name behind the submission.
Not a one-time file
It has to stay fresh as products and suppliers change — and reconcile against what the supplier actually signed.
Proman issues. Darpan consumes.
Your suppliers issue signed Digital Product Passport credentials at the source, in Proman — cotton origin through cut-and-sew, each one cryptographically signed by the party that created it. Darpan is the exact inverse: the brand-side platform that receives those credentials, attests to them under your own key, and assembles the passport you submit.
Because both sit on the same record, you're never re-keying a supplier's data or guessing whether a certificate is current. What they signed is what you compose from — and you can see it.
From a supplier's credential to a submitted passport.
Darpan owns the full path. Five stages, each one building on signed evidence rather than re-collected paperwork.
Receive what suppliers signed
Supplier credentials arrive through the credential inbox — issued in Proman, or imported from existing sources. No re-typing; no chasing PDFs. The signature travels with the record.
Put your name behind it
The brand attests to supplier credentials under its own signing key — a brand-signed verifiable credential that says, on the record, that you stand behind this evidence.
Assemble the product passport
Attested credentials compose into a per-product Digital Product Passport — materials, origin, recycled content, repairability — with full per-field lineage back to the credential each fact came from.
Keep it true over time
A passport isn't static. Darpan tracks freshness — flagging when a supplier credential expires, a product changes, or evidence goes stale — so what's published stays accurate, not just accurate at launch.
Submit, and render for shoppers
Export to ESPR in the formats the regulation expects, and serve the consumer-facing passport behind the QR code — hosted by Provena, themed to your brand, or rendered on your own infrastructure via API.
However your brand needs the shopper to see it.
The same composed passport, three ways to put it in front of a customer — from zero setup to full control. Pick per product line; change later.
Hosted
The fastest path to compliant. Scan the QR, land on a clean Provena-hosted passport page. Nothing to build — it works the day you publish.
Wizard
Theme the passport to your brand — colors, logo, layout — through a no-code configurator, with an optional custom domain.
Custom
Fetch the passport via the Brand DPP API — GS1 Digital Link, W3C VC, and JSON-LD natively — and render it on your own storefront.
Made for brands who'll answer for every claim.
Brand-signed attestation
Every passport carries a verifiable credential signed under your key — your formal attestation, recorded, not a checkbox in someone else's database.
Per-field lineage
Every fact in a passport traces to the supplier credential it came from. When an auditor asks where a number came from, the answer is one click.
Freshness tracking
Expiring credentials and changed products surface before they become a stale public claim.
Credential inbox
A single place supplier credentials flow into — from Proman or imported — so intake is a queue you work, not an inbox you dread.
Standards-native export
GS1 Digital Link, W3C Verifiable Credentials, JSON-LD — the passport leaves Darpan in the formats ESPR and the wider ecosystem are converging on.
Consent-governed sharing
Suppliers control what each brand sees, brands see what they're entitled to, and both look at the same record.
Not a proprietary format you'll have to migrate off later.
Darpan speaks the standards the regulation and the supply chain are standardizing on — so the passport you compose today stays portable, verifiable, and machine-readable as the ecosystem matures.
The same signed records, every market.
Darpan is the EU brand's side of a record that runs from the factory floor to customs. The evidence is issued once and consumed wherever it's needed.
The factory side. Suppliers issue signed DPP credentials for every tier of the chain — and publish a verified profile to Provena Source.
The EU brand side. Attest, compose, keep fresh, and submit the Digital Product Passport.
The US importer side. The same records, turned into forced-labor readiness and a customs-ready dossier.
Make the passport yours to stand behind.
Whether the ESPR deadline is on your roadmap or already on your desk, let's walk through what your supplier data looks like today — and what it takes to compose a passport from it.
Darpan supports compliance with the EU Digital Product Passport regime; it is a data and submission platform, not legal advice on your specific regulatory obligations.