Most writing about the Digital Product Passport quietly assumes you already have your product data in neat digital systems. Plenty of small producers don't. The composition is in the maker's head, the supplier details are in a folder of emails, and the records are on paper in a drawer. If that's you, you are not behind — and you don't need to become a software company to get ready.

Start with what you have

The passport needs information, not a particular system. Paper records, a notebook, supplier invoices, an old order form — all of it counts. The first step isn't digitising everything; it's simply gathering what already exists in one place so it can be used.

You don't need perfect data to start. You need the data you already have, in one place.

What information matters most

You don't have to know everything. A handful of facts about each product does most of the work:

  • What it's made of — the materials and rough proportions
  • Where it's made — country of origin, and your main suppliers
  • Any certifications you hold, and the paperwork for them
  • How it should be cared for, repaired or disposed of

Most makers already know all of this. The job is writing it down once, not discovering it.

Let the platform do the heavy lifting

The parts that genuinely require expertise — the carbon, water and energy figures — are exactly the parts you shouldn't try to calculate by hand. This is where a tool earns its place. Luxima takes the basic facts about your product and computes those impact figures for you, from a curated database, rather than asking you to measure anything.

So the realistic path looks like this: you provide the simple, human knowledge you already have; the platform fills in the technical data and assembles the passport. You can even hand over a stack of paper or a single rough spreadsheet as a starting point — that's enough to begin.

You don't have to do it alone

If "getting your data ready" sounds like the hard part, that's the part we help with first. The goal of zero-touch isn't to hand you more homework — it's to take a messy, human starting point and turn it into compliant passports with as little work from you as possible.