More Control, Visibility, and Efficiency for DPP Management with the New VERA Product Release
With the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and product-specific requirements set to roll out through delegated acts between 2026 and 2030, as well as the EU Battery Regulation introducing mandatory Digital Battery Passports from February 2027, organizations need to prepare for Digital Product Passport compliance.
The latest VERA platform release delivers new capabilities that make Digital Product Passport management more scalable, transparent, and easier to operate. From enhanced analytics and governance to automation and bulk operations, the new features help organizations reduce manual effort, gain greater visibility into their Product Passport ecosystem, and streamline collaboration across enterprise systems.
In this article, we take a closer look at the four key enhancements included in the latest VERA release and how they help organizations manage Digital Product Passports more efficiently throughout their lifecycle.
Measure Product Passport engagement with built-in analytics
The new analytics dashboard provides visibility into how your Digital Product Passports are being accessed and used. Organizations can monitor engagement, measure adoption over time, and gain regional insights into Product Passport usage, making it easier to evaluate performance, demonstrate value, and support data-driven decisions.
Centralize Your Product Passport Documentation
The new Documents & Media Library provides a central location to upload, organize, and manage documents across your Product Passports and Master Data. By uploading files once and reusing them wherever needed, teams reduce duplicate uploads, create Product Passport faster, and collaborate more efficiently.
Strengthen Governance with Complete Audit Trails
The new Audit Logs provide a complete history of activities across your organization, giving teams full visibility into who performed which actions and when. This improves transparency, strengthens governance, and improves traceability and auditing for Digital Product Passport operations.
Create and Manage Product Passports at Scale
The new Bulk Import & Export functionality enables organizations to create, update, and manage Digital Product Passports in batches. By automating repetitive tasks and reducing manual data entry, teams can onboard products faster, minimize errors, and efficiently scale Product Passport operations.
Secure Enterprise Integrations with Service Accounts
The new Service Accounts feature enables secure machine-to-machine authentication, making it easier to connect VERA with enterprise systems and external applications. This supports reliable automation, simplifies API integrations, and provides a scalable foundation for enterprise-grade Digital Product Passport operations.
Fill with AI - Intelligent Document-to-Schema Mapping
Fill with AI is an AI-powered assistant that automatically extracts data from unstructured source documents and maps it to the required DPP schema fields, reducing manual data entry and ensuring schema compliance.
Key Features:
Document ingestion: Upload PDFs, images, spreadsheets, or other source documents containing product data
Intelligent extraction: AI analyzes the document and identifies relevant information (materials, carbon footprint, compliance data, etc.)
Automated field mapping: Proposes values for DPP schema fields based on extracted content
Human-in-the-loop review: Users review and validate all AI-proposed mappings before applying them to the passport
Chat instructions: Users can also provide text instructions to the AI to guide extraction and field completion
Error awareness: Built-in safeguard reminder, "AI can make mistakes. Check important values before publishing."
Use Case:
Instead of manually copying data from a supplier's technical specification sheet, ESG report, or recycling guide, operators can:
Attach the source document to the DPP form
Let AI extract and propose field values
Review and correct any mismatches
Apply the data in seconds rather than minutes
Explore the New DPP Chat Bot
Veronika is an AI-powered chatbot widget integrated into VERA's Digital Product Passport viewer pages via Gleap. The chatbot appears as a bubble interface on live DPP pages and enables end-users to ask natural-language questions about the passport's data and details.
Key Features:
AI-driven answers: Uses generative AI to provide contextual responses about DPP contents (materials, sustainability data, compliance information, repair/recycling guidance)
No technical skill required: Non-technical users can interact naturally without understanding DID structures or verifiable credentials
Real-time support: Reduces friction for stakeholders (consumers, supply-chain partners, auditors) accessing passport information
Feedback integration: Captures user interactions and feedback through Gleap's platform for product insights
Use Case:
When a consumer or business user scans a DPP QR code and lands on the DPP viewer, they can click the veronika chat bubble to ask questions like:
"What materials are in this battery?"
"How do I recycle this product?"
"What's the carbon footprint?"
Instead of reading through structured data fields, the chatbot synthesizes the information into human-friendly answers.
Platform-wide Improvements for a Better User Experience
Beyond the major new features, this release includes a wide range of enhancements across the VERA platform. Updates to Master Data simplify editing, validation, and archiving of shared product information, while improvements to VERA Studio introduce more intuitive navigation, enhanced search and filtering, multi-brand support, and expanded language options. Also the public Digital Product Passport experience has been refined with improved accessibility, mobile usability, QR code handling, and credential verification.
In addition, this release delivers numerous performance optimizations, usability improvements, and bug fixes, resulting in a faster, more reliable, and more seamless experience across the platform.
Want to learn more about how VERA helps organizations meet the upcoming Digital Product Passport requirements? Get in touch with one of our DPP experts to discuss your specific use case today.
