Textiles
It is deciding how many passports your catalogue becomes, and finding the data for them. Most brands are out by a factor of a thousand on the first question and have not started the second.
Every figure on this page is measured from brands running on this platform. Nothing here is modelled.
One decision sets the number: what a passport identifies. It is the first thing to settle and the one most often left until after a budget has been written.
Nudie: one per waist and length, 138,677 passports. Data is entered once per style and inherited by everything beneath it, so the passport count and the workload are not the same number. That gap is the single most useful thing to understand before you budget.
Three textile brands on the platform, counted today.
ESPR Base defines 19 mandatory fields and 48 in total. They do not all come from the same place, and the balance is what decides how long a programme takes.
Product name, description, images, GTIN, article number, composition, care
Shopify, Centra, Akeneo and Delogue map straight through. A first sync is minutes, and every later change follows automatically.
Tier 1 and tier 2 factories, country of manufacture, production stages
Usually spreadsheets and email threads. This is where a passport programme actually spends its time, and no integration removes it.
GOTS, OEKO-TEX, RCS, OCS, Svanen — number, scope, validity
Registered once against a scope rule, then applied to every product it covers and re-checked automatically as expiry approaches.
Declarations of conformity, test reports, technical files
Where a brand publishes these, they can be matched by product name. For Pierce that linked 181 of 289 automatically; the remaining 108 were documents that did not exist yet.
There is no textile deadline yet. ESPR entered into force in 2024, but the delegated act that will set the requirements for textiles has not been adopted. The Commission's indicative date is 2027, with a transition period after it — and indicative dates move.
Anyone showing you a countdown to a specific textile date is showing you a number they made up.
Because the long pole is not the software, and it is not the regulation. It is getting tier-2 suppliers to answer questions they have never been asked, and finding certificates nobody has filed. That takes seasons, and it does not go faster because a date was announced.
The brands here are publishing passports today, voluntarily, because the data work has to happen either way.
A brand with 574 model-level passports and a clean PIM is a different piece of work from one serialising millions of items across fourteen languages. Quoting a monthly figure for both would mean one of them is wrong.
Tell us your catalogue and where your data sits, and you get a real figure for your case rather than a range that fits nobody.