- 1PPWR software produces the EU declaration of conformity and the technical documentation for each packaging type.
- 2Generators sell the declaration from €49, and dedicated platforms start at €279 a year.
- 3The company remains responsible for its role and for the declaration, whatever the tool.
- 4The choice depends first on the number of packaging types and of suppliers to manage.
This article is written by Projet Celsius, a consultancy that supports PPWR compliance. We do not publish any PPWR software, resell none and have no commercial link with any publisher mentioned. Each tool is described under the same headings, based on its public pages as checked on 11 November 2026 and reviewed on 12 November, and no publisher paid to be included. A publisher that spots an error can write to us: we correct it and date the correction.
Map of 14 PPWR software tools
Each tool is placed by how it is sold and by the functions its page describes: EU declaration, suppliers, EPR.
One-off payment€49 to €1,490
Subscription, published price€279 to €2,870 a year
On quote or after a demoprice not published
- Declaration generators
- Platforms with a published price
- Platforms on quote
- Suites for large groups
Published prices are those of the generators and the SME platforms. A function not described on the publisher's page is not counted, which does not mean the tool does not provide it.
Sources: public pages of the software publishers, checked on 12 November 2026 (links in the article). Logos: property of their publishers.
Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on packaging, known as the PPWR (Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation), has applied since 12 August 2026. Each packaging type placed on the market must have its EU declaration of conformity, signed by its manufacturer, and technical documentation that supports it, as summarised in our PPWR guide. An SME that sells 40 product references in 12 packaging formats therefore has 12 declarations to draw up, keep up to date and hand over to customers who ask for them. In November 2026, more than 20 publishers offer software to produce them, nearly half of them in Germany.
1What must a company produce for each packaging item?
The Regulation attaches its obligations to roles, whatever the size of the company. The manufacturer of a packaging item draws up the 2 documents that software can produce. The importer checks that they exist and keeps a copy of the declaration; the distributor checks the labelling and the identification of the manufacturer.
The declaration and the technical documentation
The technical documentation, described in Annex VII, gathers the evidence of conformity: the description of the packaging, the test reports and the calculations that support each requirement. In 2026, it mainly covers heavy metals, PFAS in food packaging and weight. The EU declaration of conformity (Article 39) follows the model in Annex VIII: a number, 8 headings and a signature.
The manufacturer keeps the 2 documents for 5 years, or 10 years for reusable packaging. Our articles on the PPWR declaration of conformity and on the technical documentation and supplier evidence go through them heading by heading.
Module A leaves the assessment to the manufacturer, with no notified body. Point 2 lists the documents in the file, from the description of the packaging to the test reports. These are the documents that PPWR software stores, links to suppliers and formats.
The company's role for each packaging item
The Commission guidance document of 10 June 2026 states that there is only one manufacturer per packaging item in a supply chain. For sales packaging, this is in principle the company that fills it, often the brand owner. The importer and the distributor have their own verification obligations (Articles 18 and 19), and they become manufacturers if they sell under their own brand or modify the packaging (Article 21). A micro-enterprise may see these obligations pass to its supplier established in the Union.
This role is set packaging item by packaging item, before anything is entered into a tool. It determines which declarations the company signs and which ones it requests from its suppliers. Our test PPWR: am I affected? helps with this first sort.
2What does PPWR compliance software do?
The tools differ in size and price, but their pages describe the same functions, which each publisher takes more or less far.
The common functions
Complete PPWR software covers 5 functions:
- The list of packaging items and their components, imported from a spreadsheet, a CSV file or the ERP, then sorted by packaging type or by product reference.
- Requests to suppliers, sent through a portal where they upload their certificates and data, with automated requests at VERSO and automatic reminders at Tanso.
- A check of the requirements in force, such as heavy metals and PFAS, which flags missing evidence packaging item by packaging item.
- Generation of the declaration and the technical documentation as PDFs, in up to the 24 official languages of the Union at PAQR or SUSYCHECK.
- Tracking of versions and countries of sale, to find the declaration valid on a given date and the extended producer responsibility (EPR) obligations of each market.
None of the tools described here builds the packaging list from scratch: they all start from an existing file, spreadsheet or ERP. An incomplete list produces incomplete declarations, however good the software.
The decisions that stay with the company
The publishers say so themselves, each in its own way:
- SAP states in its course on the PPWR that the organisation retains responsibility for the conformity decision, with the tool linking the data, the evidence and the approvals.
- Polygon One maps the role of each packaging unit, but writes that it does not assess it legally: the allocation of roles remains the client's decision.
- ConformaPack warns that it is not for anyone looking for legal advice or for someone to sign: the declaration is always signed by the company.
- SUSYCHECK lets a packaging supplier draw up the declaration on behalf of its client, the manufacturer within the meaning of the Regulation, which reviews it, signs it and keeps the responsibility for conformity laid down in Article 39.
VERSO announces on its PPWR page a classification of roles by product reference, without publishing the rule it applies. A role suggested by a tool therefore remains a hypothesis to be validated, especially for a retailer's own brand or packaging bought outside the Union.
3Which PPWR software tools are available?
The tools fall into 4 families, from the largest client to the smallest. The comparison below describes 14 of them under the same headings; the others are mentioned in the text of their family.
14 PPWR software tools compared
Choose a family of tools: each software tool is described under the same headings.
Described on the publisher's page Not described as of 12 November 2026, which does not mean the tool does not do it
Published prices are those of the SME platforms and the generators.
Sources: public pages of the software publishers, checked on 12 November 2026 (links in the article); prices as displayed by the publishers, final price with no VAT on top at PPWR-DOC. Logos: property of their publishers.
Suites for large groups
SAP Responsible Design and Production produces declarations by packaging composition, one PDF per region and per language: it serves groups already using SAP. osapiens collects supplier data and generates the declaration and the technical documentation as a PDF ready to sign. In June 2026 it announced a joint EPR platform with GreenDot. Recyda imports data via API, flags missing evidence and tracks each packaging item through to signature.
The product lifecycle management software Trace One adds a supplier portal and multilingual declarations, and relies on a partnership with Citeo for French EPR. None of these suites publishes a price.
Platforms priced on quote
They target mid-cap companies (ETI in French) and manufacturers that manage hundreds of product references and many suppliers. Tanso gives suppliers a free portal with no sign-up, with automatic reminders, and produces Annexes VII and VIII. Dcycle keeps one record per packaging unit, flags gaps article by article and assigns the project to a PPWR specialist. Coolset is aimed at manufacturers, importers and distributors, with a bill of materials per product reference and a history of decisions.
2 French publishers have added a PPWR module to an existing tool. Greenly, a carbon accounting platform, imports bills of materials from SAP, Oracle or Dynamics, and its campaign managers chase each supplier, one by one. Keendoo centralises the packaging data of food manufacturers for declarations to the French producer responsibility organisations (PROs, éco-organismes in French) Citeo and Léko or the Belgian Fost Plus, without describing any EU declaration of conformity. VERSO, SUSYCHECK, Polygon One, Packa and PackIntelX, which sells packages from 3,000 to more than 10,000 components, complete this family.
A real declaration, published in French, follows the Annex VIII model heading by heading: the manufacturer, its sole responsibility, the object declared. EPAL describes itself as the manufacturer within the meaning of Article 15 without producing the pallets, and states that this classification has not yet been definitively clarified.
Platforms with published prices
They are aimed at SMEs, with plans based on the number of packaging items. PPWR Connect counts in product references (SKUs), from 30 in the Starter plan to 500 in the Professional plan, and maps the EPR obligations of each country of sale from the smallest plan upwards. PPWRify counts in packaging units, from 40 to 500, and reserves its offer for business customers. PAQR produces declarations in the 24 languages of the Union, with a supplier portal and QR codes. The Slovak tool ELO offers 1 packaging item free of charge, then plans of up to 50 packaging items.
Whatever the software, the company sets its role for each packaging item and signs the declaration.
Declaration generators and free tools
A generator asks the questions of Annex VIII and returns a PDF. PPWR-DOC sells the declaration by the unit, as a PDF in 8 languages, and states that it does not examine the company's particular case. ConformaPack targets companies with 1 to 30 packaging types. SimpliDoC bills by the month, and dpp-tool combines the declaration with the Digital Product Passport. The EPR Representative generator is free: it formats the information entered, does not check the packaging, and the manufacturer remains solely responsible.
In France, the tools of the PROs serve another obligation, EPR for professional (B2B) packaging. The Cap Emballages Pro kit from Citeo Pro helps list professional packaging, and the Twiice tools tell a company whether it is affected. They are free and do not produce an EU declaration of conformity. Our comparison helps choose a PRO (in French).
Which family of PPWR software suits your company
Answer the 3 questions: the matching family of tools appears, with its price range.
How many packaging types?
How many packaging suppliers?
In how many countries of sale?
A platform with a published price keeps the declarations up to date and chases suppliers, for a few hundred to €3,000 a year.
Compare plans by the billing unit: the declaration, the packaging type or the product reference.
Sources: published prices of the software publishers, checked on 12 November 2026; decision thresholds from the article.
4How much does PPWR compliance software cost?
As of 12 November 2026, 8 publishers display their prices. The others work on quote, often after a demonstration.
Published prices of PPWR software
First-year cost, from the smallest to the largest plan, in euros, on a logarithmic scale: each gridline is worth 10 times the previous one.
On quote, with no published price: SAP, osapiens, Recyda, Trace One, VERSO, Tanso, Coolset, Dcycle, Greenly, Keendoo, SUSYCHECK, Polygon One, Packa, PackIntelX.
Sources: public price lists of the software publishers, checked on 12 November 2026; prices as displayed by the publishers, final price with no VAT on top at PPWR-DOC; a monthly subscription counts as 12 months.
Published prices
Public price lists range from free to a few thousand euros a year. The amounts are those displayed by the publishers, excluding VAT at ELO, PPWRify, ConformaPack and dpp-tool:
- Free: the EPR Representative generator, and 1 packaging item with no time limit at ELO.
- €49 per declaration by the unit at PPWR-DOC, whose displayed price is final ("Endpreis") with no VAT on top, and at ConformaPack; €149 for 10 packaging types at both. dpp-tool also charges €49 per declaration with its €9-a-month plan.
- €100 to €600 a year at ELO, for 3 to 50 packaging items, and up to €1,490 for unlimited declarations over 12 months at PPWR-DOC.
- €279 to €2,870 a year at PPWR Connect, for 30 to 500 product references, and €499 to €2,499 a year at PPWRify, for 40 to 500 packaging units.
- From €49 a month at PAQR, and €49 to €799 a month at SimpliDoC, for 200 to 10,000 declarations.
Billing units
The billing unit changes from one publisher to the next: the declaration at PPWR-DOC, the packaging type at ConformaPack, the product reference at PPWR Connect, the packaging unit at PPWRify, the component at PackIntelX. A company that sells 300 product references in 40 packaging items therefore pays for 40 units with one, and for 300 with another. Counting your packaging types and product references first avoids comparing prices that do not cover the same thing.
On top of this come the number of users, 1 in PPWRify's smallest plan and 10 in its largest, the countries of sale and the supplier portal. The main cost, absent from the price lists, is internal time: building the list, obtaining evidence from suppliers, validating the roles.
5Which software for which company?
The number of packaging types, the number of suppliers and the countries of sale are enough to point to a family of tools. The selection tool, earlier in the article, combines these 3 answers.
The 4 most common profiles:
- Fewer than 10 packaging types sold in a single country: a declaration generator or a free tool, for a few tens to a few hundred euros.
- 10 to 500 packaging types and a few dozen suppliers: a platform with a published price, from a few hundred to €3,000 a year.
- Several hundred types, hundreds of suppliers and several countries: a platform priced on quote, with a supplier portal and EPR tracking by country.
- A group that already manages its products in SAP or in product lifecycle management software: the PPWR module of that system, to avoid running 2 databases.
The questions to put to a provider, whether consultancy or software publisher, are in our article on choosing a consultancy for a PPWR audit.
6When is software not enough?
Software works on the data it receives. 4 situations call for upstream work that the tools described here do not do:
- The packaging list does not exist, or covers only sales packaging, without the cartons, films and transport pallets.
- The role is disputed: a group brand, an importer selling under its own brand, packaging modified by a distributor.
- Several companies in the same group buy, fill and resell the same packaging, with a different role for each.
- The producer liable for EPR is not always the manufacturer within the meaning of the PPWR, and in France membership of a PRO must be in place before 31 December 2026.
Depending on the case, 3 kinds of provider complement the tool. The PRO, free of charge for its members, guides the EPR declaration. A technical consultancy, such as Projet Celsius, draws up the packaging inventory and the company's role for each item, then prepares the evidence to request from suppliers. A lawyer deals with a role disputed with a supplier or with a contract clause.
For Projet Celsius, the software comes after the packaging list and the roles. A good tool fed a wrong list produces wrong declarations, which the company signs. Once the list is established, we recommend choosing the tool by the billing unit that matches the portfolio. A manufacturer with 300 product references in 20 packaging items is better off paying per packaging type than per product reference.
Our article on how to get support for PPWR compliance compares these providers and their prices, and our PPWR support describes ours. The penalties for non-compliance are still to be set by France by 12 February 2027, and the PPWR timeline adds requirements up to 2030. A list that is right today will also serve for labelling and for training the team that will keep it up to date.
7Key takeaways
- PPWR software produces the EU declaration of conformity and the technical documentation for each packaging type, from the list the company gives it.
- Published prices range from free to €49 per declaration for a generator, and from €279 to €2,870 a year for a platform such as PPWR Connect.
- The publishers say so themselves: the company sets its role for each packaging item, signs the declaration and remains solely responsible for it.
- The tool is chosen by the number of packaging types, suppliers and countries of sale, comparing prices at the same billing unit.
Before choosing the tool, our article on how to get support for PPWR compliance helps establish the packaging list and the roles.
- European Parliament and Council, Regulation (EU) 2025/40 of 19 December 2024 on packaging and packaging waste, Articles 15, 18, 19, 21 and 39, Annexes VII and VIII.
- European Commission, guidance document on Regulation (EU) 2025/40 (C/2026/3084), 10 June 2026.
- European Commission, DG Environment, FAQ on Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, 3 August 2026.
- SAP Learning, Supporting Conformity Assessment and Declaration Generation, consulted on 11 November 2026.
- Polygon One, PPWR manufacturer vs producer; ConformaPack, home page and pricing; SUSYCHECK, home page and FAQ, consulted on 12 November 2026.
- Price lists of PPWR Connect, PPWRify, ELO, PPWR-DOC, SimpliDoC, dpp-tool and PAQR, consulted on 12 November 2026.
- European Pallet Association (EPAL), EU declaration of conformity for EPAL Euro pallets, version 1.2 (French version), July 2026.
- EPR Representative, EU declaration of conformity generator (in French); Citeo Pro, Cap Emballages Pro (in French); Twiice, tools (in French), consulted on 12 November 2026.
