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Battery passport: build it yourself or use a SaaS?

Building battery-passport infrastructure in-house means implementing unique identifiers, access tiers, QR generation and 10-year hosting yourself; a self-serve SaaS provides all of it, so DIY only pays off at very large, integrated scale.

Last updated 1 June 2026

You can build battery-passport infrastructure in-house. The question is whether you should. The regulation’s details — per-item identifiers, field-level access tiers, durable hosting, lifecycle state changes — are easy to underestimate.

ConcernDIYSelf-serve SaaS
Unique identifiersYou implement ISO/IEC 15459 + GS1Built in
Access tiersYou enforce Annex XIII server-sideBuilt in
10-year hostingYour responsibilityProvided
Time to first passportEngineering projectMinutes
DIY can make sense at very large scale with deep ERP integration. For most manufacturers and importers, a self-serve generator is faster and lower-risk.

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