Documentation

Odal Node creates, signs and serves EU Digital Product Passports on your own infrastructure, with your own keys. Anyone can verify a passport it publishes without going through Odal.

Start here

• Introduction: what Odal Node is and who it’s for.
• Quick Start: run a node and produce your first signed passport.
• Core Concepts: the three ideas the design rests on.
• Licensing: what is free, and where the line is.

Go deeper

• The Core: the regulatory library, and how you build on it.
• The Engine: how a production node runs.

Using the node

• Importing product data: spreadsheets in, draft passports out.
• A passport’s lifecycle: publish, correct, replace, suspend, retire, end of life.
• Handing over responsibility: moving a passport to another operator.
• Proof files and verification: the evidence dossier and how anyone checks it.
• Access credentials: letting repairers and recyclers see restricted parts.
• Your operator identity: operator details, identifiers and facilities.
• Integrations and statistics: webhooks, scan counts and machine-readable views.
• Electronic seals: sealing, seal status and trusted lists.
• The unsold-goods disclosure: the yearly report, which is not a passport.
• Webhook events, Error reference and Troubleshooting: what the node sends, what its errors mean, and what to do when something fails.

The law

• Regulatory Context: what the law requires, and how Odal meets it.
• Product groups under the law: batteries, textiles, toys, detergents, construction products, vehicles, and phones and tablets.
• Acts and standards: every act and standard the code relies on.
• API Reference: the node’s full HTTP interface.