# Editioned, full text > Concatenated plain-text of editioned.app's key pages for language models. Editioned is a Shopify app: numbered limited editions, a certificate of authenticity per buyer (hosted page + QR + PDF), ownership transfer, EU Digital Product Passport JSON-LD export. Plans: Free, Pro $29/month (300 editions per product), Studio $79/month. No per-certificate fees. Structured index: https://editioned.app/llms.txt --- # Editioned homepage Source: https://editioned.app/ Skip to content III Limited Editions Provenance Certificate 30-day Pro trial · no card ## Limited & numbered editions for Shopify, verifiable by default. Turn each product into a limited, numbered, verifiable edition with a hosted certificate, QR verification, and EU Digital Product Passport export. No NFTs, no crypto wallets, no per-certificate fees. Every install starts with 30 days of full Pro features, free. No card required. Install on Shopify → See how it works 30 days Pro free · no card GDPR webhooks respected Shopify PCD-approved your-store.com/products/limited-edition-piece - III EDITION OF VII Series I · Limited The Limited Edition Piece $340.00 Edition badge Edition III of VII Edition tracker I II III IV V VI VII Scarcity bar 2 of 7 remaining What your buyers hold ### The certificate, in the hand. Each piece ships with a DL-sized print certificate. The front identifies the edition; the back carries the data block, QR code, and unique verification token. Below is the bespoke variant we ship with our own Guild 79 atelier pieces. Hover to pause the flip · the back carries the QR code and verification token #### Scan the QR, and this opens. Every certificate's QR resolves to a hosted verification page for that exact edition: the number, the total run, the origin, and a live validity check. No login, no wallet, nothing for the buyer to install. Delete or revoke a piece and the same URL flips to a clear certificate-no-longer-valid page. Watch that lifecycle happen in the 28-second demo below, or read how the token system works. Four styles · One canonical artifact ### Print and web, in lockstep. Every edition has two surfaces: the printed DL card that ships in the box, and the hosted certificate page buyers see when they scan. Both share the same theme so the experience reads as one. Atelier is our own bespoke variant, Pro unlocks Light, Studio unlocks all three commercial styles. Atelier bespoke · Guild 79 Custom, on application The variant we ship from our own atelier: void black with antique gold, italic Cormorant Garamond, snake monogram. Built once for ourselves, available for established ateliers by conversation. Buyer-facing web cert Light · Pro+ Cream & gold Warm tinted white with restrained gold accents. The default for working merchants, neutral enough to ship with any piece, refined enough not to read as generic. Buyer-facing web cert Dark · Studio+ Onyx & copper Near-black field with warm copper-gold accents. The format for drops and limited series where the cert is meant to feel like an object, not a receipt. Buyer-facing web cert Minimal · Studio+ Pure black & white No color at all. Black on white, brackets and rules only. For merchants whose brand identity is the typography, most art galleries, most editorial-style fashion drops. Buyer-facing web cert See it in motion ### Two flows. Thirty seconds each. The real screens, not a talking head. First the setup walkthrough, then the lifecycle integrity flow. Both loop silently, click to pause if you want a closer look. Setup walkthrough · 35s Set the Edition Total, place an order, watch the edition auto-assign and the cert PDF download. No code, no config files. Deletion lifecycle · 28s Buyer scans the cert. Merchant deletes the product. Buyer scans again and sees HTTP 410, “certificate no longer valid.” Provenance never lies. How the certificates stay yours ### A unique token per piece, never enumerable. Every edition gets a cryptographic token at creation. Not a sequential ID, not a hash of the order number, not anything an outsider can guess. Same primitive Node uses for session tokens and JWT signing. Generated once. Validated at the certificate URL. Revoked the instant a piece is returned. Each certificate URL ends with a token like ?edition=III&token=hf7k2m9bpx 2.8 trillion possible tokens (36⁸ combinations) 10 chars · hf prefix + 8 random chars from a-z, 0-9 crypto.randomBytes · cryptographically secure randomness Not enumerable Apps using sequential IDs (/cert/1, /cert/2) leak every certificate to anyone who can iterate URLs. Editioned tokens can't be guessed even after seeing thousands of valid ones. Cryptographically random Generated with Node's crypto.randomBytes, the same primitive used for session tokens and JWT signing. Not Math.random(), which is predictable from a few samples. Collision-checked 2.8 trillion combinations make collisions effectively impossible. Even so, every token is checked against the database at creation time, with up to 5 retries. Belt and braces. Revocation rotates the token When you revoke an edition (return, cancellation, transfer), the old token dies and a new one is generated for the next buyer. Old QR codes can't be reused to view the active certificate. No NFTs. No wallets. No blockchain. Just a token your buyer's browser verifies in 30 milliseconds. We started with a simpler problem. Guild 79 ships hand-finished jewellery from a small atelier, and we needed a way to give every buyer a record of where their piece came from. The existing options asked our buyers to install crypto wallets. Most of them politely declined. So we built the wallet-free version we needed for ourselves, and made it work for anyone who numbers their work. Guild 79 How it works ### Three surfaces. One source of truth. Editioned writes once and shows everywhere: theme blocks on your storefront, a hosted certificate page per edition, and order metafields feeding your existing email tool. ▶ #### Six theme blocks. Any theme. Zero code. Edition badge, edition tracker, scarcity bar, remaining counter, certificate link, recently-sold proof. Drag, drop, save in Shopify's theme editor. - Works on Dawn, Sense, Studio, and any Online Store 2.0 theme - Reads metafields directly, no JavaScript runtime - 3 style presets per block (Pro): Light / Dark / Minimal Edition Badge block Edition III of VII Edition Tracker block I II III IV V VI VII Scarcity Bar block 2 of 7 remaining #### A certificate page your buyer wants to share. Every edition gets its own page at /apps/provenance with origin, studio attestation, materials, QR code, and a real verification trail. The buyer sees when they opened it first, how many times they've returned, and how many strangers have verified. A small detail that reads as care. - Hashed visitor ID (no raw IP or UA stored). GDPR-friendly - 1-hour dedup so refreshes don't inflate counts - Public scanners see total verification count; buyers see their personal trail Verification Activity You're the first to open this certificate. Recorded 12 May 2026. Returning buyer You first opened this on 12 May 2026. You've viewed it 5 times. Public verifications: 14. #### Your email tool, not ours. We don't send transactional email. Instead, every order gets edition metafields (certificate URL, edition number, token, fulfilled-at) written automatically. Your Shopify Email / Klaviyo / Omnisend / Mailchimp reads them and ships the cert inside your normal post-purchase flow. - One sender, one suppression list, one brand - No second email infrastructure to maintain - No per-email or deliverability fees on top of your existing tool // order.metafields.editioned cert_url "https://shop.com/...?edition=3&token=···" edition_number 3 edition_roman "III" edition_total 7 token_masked "···9LAW" product_handle "limited-edition-piece" fulfilled_at "2026-05-12T16:23:00Z" Everything in the box ### Built for merchants, not crypto. Editioned is the careful provenance app: real shipping inserts, real receipts, real buyers. No NFT minting. No wallet onboarding. No per-certificate fees, ever. Numbered editions Each piece gets a unique cryptographic token plus a Roman numeral. The cert URL survives ownership transfers; the buyer fields rotate on revocation. Six theme blocks That's it. Six. Edition badge, edition tracker, scarcity bar, remaining counter, certificate link, recently-sold proof. Drag, drop, save. Hosted certificates A page per edition at /apps/provenance with origin, attestation, materials, QR code, and a verification trail the buyer sees on every visit. Works whether they scan the QR from a shipping insert or type the URL by hand. EU-DPP export One click per edition. CIRPASS-aligned JSON-LD ready for your compliance partner when the ESPR delegated act reaches your sector. Batteries Feb 2027 · Textiles ~late 2028 · Electronics ~2027 to 2028. Pro · Studio Order metafields The cert URL lands on every order under the editioned namespace. Klaviyo, Omnisend, Shopify Email pick it up automatically. No second sender to manage, no per-email rent. Verification trail "You're the first to open this certificate." We log the first scan, the buyer's return visits, the public count. Hashed visitor IDs; no raw IP or UA stored. Honest scope ### What Editioned isn't. Easier to evaluate a tool when you know what it deliberately doesn't do. Pick us for what's below; if you need any of the things in the list, pick a different tool. Both are fine choices. Not on a blockchain. Some buyers might prefer that. We don't host data onchain and we don't intend to. Federated registries won the EU's bet for a reason. No NFTs. Ever. No minting flow, no marketplace integration, no wallet onboarding. If your roadmap depends on token-gated drops, this is the wrong tool. We don't send transactional email. Your existing tool already does it better. We write per-order metafields; you template them into your normal shipping confirmation. Not an inventory system. We track editions and certificates. Stock counts, suppliers, purchase orders, and warehouse moves all live in your existing ERP or in Shopify itself. No analytics product downstream. We don't sell merchant data. We don't sell buyer data. We don't have a separate "intelligence" SKU. The product you install is the only product we offer. Not a registrar. We export the EU-DPP JSON-LD record. Submission to the EU Central Registry is handled by your compliance partner, not by us. Direct registry submission may come later; today it doesn't. Honest comparison ### Wallet-free by design. Most provenance apps in the Shopify ecosystem were built for the NFT era. Wallet-first, per-certificate fees, crypto-native. Editioned is for merchants who want provenance without any of that. Editioned NFT-era apps | Per-certificate fee | $0 at every tier | $0.25-$0.75 per COA | Crypto wallet required | Never | For NFT features | EU Digital Product Passport export | Yes (CIRPASS-aligned JSON-LD) | Not mentioned | Theme blocks | 6 (badge, counter, tracker, scarcity, link, sold) | Fewer + redirects | Buyer view tracking on cert | "You opened this first" + count | No | Email integration | Order metafields → your existing tool | Built-in NFT flow | Free plan | 3 products, 5 editions each, cert PDF (watermarked) | Unlimited but per-cert fees apply Comparison reflects publicly documented features across NFT-based provenance apps in the Shopify ecosystem as of May 2026. Different audiences, different choices. Built for your craft ### Numbered editions, in your discipline. Setup guides written for the way your work actually sells. Jewelry brandsHallmarks, editions, resale trust Art print makersA COA with every print Streetwear dropsNumbered pairs, no NFTs Craft makersSmall batches, real provenance Spirits & distilleriesBottle numbers, batch certs Pricing ### Three tiers. No per-cert fees, ever. Annual billing saves ~17%. The certificate itself is always free at every tier. Only the monthly plan is billed. Every install starts with a 30-day Pro trial. Full Pro features unlocked: auto-assign on orders, EU Digital Product Passport export, all certificate styles, unwatermarked PDFs. No card required. After the trial your store auto-downgrades to Free unless you upgrade. No per-certificate fees at any tier. A Studio merchant generating 100,000 certificates a year pays the same $79/mo as one generating 100. Free For trial + small editions $0 Forever - 3 products · 5 editions each (15 total) - All 6 theme blocks - Web certificate page - Watermarked PDF cert (Light) - Order metafields → BYO-mail Install free Pro For working merchants $29/ month or $290 / year (save ~17%) - 50 products · 300 editions each (5,000 total) - Light cert style, unwatermarked PDF - Auto-assign on order + auto-revoke - Custom branding + analytics - EU Digital Product Passport export Start Pro → Studio For scaled brands + drops $79/ month or $750 / year (save 21%) - 500 products · 500 editions each (250K total) - Light · Dark · Minimal cert styles, all three - Series drops + low-stock animations - Removable "Powered by" footer - Everything in Pro Choose Studio Bespoke variant? Established ateliers occasionally want a print cert designed around their existing identity, custom typography, palette, signature marks. We do this case-by-case, by conversation. Get in touch. ✓ Approved on the Shopify App Store ✓ Built by a working atelier that ships its own numbered pieces with it Watch the 35-second setup ↓ EU Regulation · ESPR + Battery Regulation ### The Digital Product Passport is coming. The EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR, 2024/1781) is rolling out mandatory Digital Product Passports. Editioned exports your data as a CIRPASS-aligned JSON-LD record per edition, ready before the deadline for your sector. - - Heads up: if you sell batteries, the deadline is 18 February 2027. Textiles, electronics and others follow through 2028-2030. 19 Jul 2026 ESPR full application (in force) Applied 19 July. EU Central DPP Registry live since 20 July 2026. CEN/CENELEC EN 1821x standards published and harmonised. 18 Feb 2027 Batteries, mandatory EV + industrial >2 kWh + LMT batteries under Regulation 2023/1542 Annex XIII. ~2027-2028 Electronics, ICT Laptops, phones, peripherals under ESPR delegated acts. ~Late 2028 Textiles + apparel Delegated act adopted Q2 2027, mandatory ~18 months later. 2028-2030 Iron, steel, aluminum, furniture, construction Phased rollout across remaining ESPR product groups. What you can claim today: "DPP-ready architecture." Editioned exports JSON-LD aligned with the CIRPASS-2 Core Ontology (April 2025 proposal). The CEN/CENELEC EN 1821x standards are now published and harmonised (July 2026); Editioned swaps the schema namespace to the official URI as registries adopt it. No work on your end. Sources: ec.europa.eu/eco-design · cirpass2.eu · gs1.org/digital-link Common questions ### Things merchants actually ask. Do I need to enter a card to install? No. Every install starts with 30 days of full Pro features unlocked. You get auto-assign on orders, EU Digital Product Passport export, all certificate styles, unwatermarked PDFs. No card, no charges, no surprise bills. After 30 days your store auto-downgrades to the generous Free plan (3 products, 15 editions) unless you choose to upgrade. Do my buyers need a crypto wallet? No. Editioned is deliberately wallet-free. Buyers verify by visiting a URL or scanning the QR code on their cert. The page remembers them by hashed visitor ID. No account, no sign-up, no wallet. Do you charge per certificate? No. Unlike most provenance apps, Editioned charges only the flat monthly tier price. There are no per-COA, per-scan, or per-mint fees. A Studio merchant generating 100,000 certificates a year pays the same $79/mo as one generating 100. What is the EU Digital Product Passport (DPP)? A regulation under ESPR (Reg 2024/1781) requiring a digital record for every product placed on the EU market. The record covers manufacturer, materials, sustainability, repair, and recycling data. Mandatory for batteries from Feb 2027, textiles around 2028, electronics 2027 to 2028. Editioned exports a CIRPASS-aligned JSON-LD record per edition, ready for submission when the delegated act reaches your sector. See timeline. What email tool do you support? Whichever one you're already using. Editioned writes per-order edition metafields under the editioned namespace. Shopify Email, Klaviyo, Omnisend, Mailchimp all read them natively. We don't send transactional email ourselves; you keep one sender, one suppression list, one brand. Does it work on my theme? If you're on Shopify Online Store 2.0 (any theme released since 2021), yes. The six blocks are Theme App Extensions, so they drop into any section that accepts blocks. Verified on Dawn, Sense, Studio, and other Online Store 2.0 themes during Shopify's submission review and across the owner store's custom theme. What happens to a certificate if a buyer returns the piece? You revoke the edition from Editioned admin. The old certificate URL renders a "Certificate Revoked" page; the edition number returns to available and re-assigns to the next buyer with a fresh token. Each revocation generates a new token, so old QR codes can't be reused. The previous token stays in the database long enough to show the revocation page to anyone who scans an old QR after transfer. Can I export my data if I leave? Yes. CSV export of every edition is on the Token Generator page. DPP JSON-LD export per edition is in the product editor. All data is yours; you can take it with you. Who is behind Editioned? Editioned is built by Guild 79, a hand-finished jewellery atelier. The same provenance flow runs on Guild 79's own storefront, which means we dogfood the app. Listed at apps.shopify.com/editioned. ### Number the work. Let it prove itself. Install Editioned on your Shopify store in under two minutes. Every install starts with 30 days of full Pro features, free. No card required. After the trial your store auto-downgrades to the Free plan unless you upgrade. Install on Shopify → ✓ Shopify-approved ✓ PCD-approved for order webhooks ✓ No per-certificate fees, ever --- # Pillar guide: Shopify provenance certificates in 2026 Source: https://editioned.app/blog/shopify-provenance-certificates-2026-complete-guide Shopify provenance certificates in 2026, the complete guide - - - - - - - - - - - - - Skip to content Pillar guide 17 May 2026 · 14 min read ## Shopify provenance certificates in 2026, the complete guide 10 min readUpdated May 17, 2026 A provenance certificate proves that a product is what the seller says it is: where it was made, by whom, in what edition, and that it hasn't been revoked or duplicated. This guide covers what they are, why they matter in 2026, the four implementation approaches, the EU regulatory shift, and a five-minute Shopify setup walkthrough. Quick answer In 2026, the dominant Shopify provenance certificate is a hosted web certificate, a unique URL plus a QR code per individual piece, backed by a cryptographically random verification token. The buyer scans, the URL resolves to a tamper-evident page on the merchant's own domain. No crypto wallets, no per-mint fees, no NFTs. The EU's 2027 Digital Product Passport regulation chose exactly this architecture (federated registry + JSON-LD + QR), making it the de-facto standard for brands selling into Europe. NFT-era and blockchain approaches still have niche use cases (transferable digital twins, royalty enforcement) but are no longer the regulatory path or the buyer-friendly default. Most Shopify merchants who sell numbered editions, limited drops, or anything that can be counterfeited eventually need a certificate. Jewellery makers, art print sellers, sneaker collab issuers, small-batch spirit distillers, ceramic studios, every category has the same problem: how does the buyer prove what they bought is real, in three years, on a resale platform, in a different country? This guide is the long answer. It covers the definitions, the four implementation approaches and their trade-offs, what the EU regulation actually says, and a concrete five-minute setup for a hosted certificate using Editioned (the app we built for our own Guild 79 atelier and now ship to other Shopify stores). ### What is a provenance certificate? A provenance certificate is a verifiable record that ties a physical object to its origin story. For a Shopify merchant, the typical fields are: - Edition number (e.g. “Edition I of III”), establishes scarcity and individual identity - Studio or maker, who created it, often with a city or atelier name - Origin / site, where it was made, sometimes with geographic coordinates - Material composition, gold karat, fabric blend, paper grade, clay type - Verification token, a unique cryptographic string that proves the certificate URL hasn't been forged - Issue date and (optionally) buyer trail, when it was sold, who has scanned it The certificate itself takes one of four forms, paper hangtag, blockchain NFT, hosted web page, or hybrid. Most 2026 implementations are hosted web pages reached by a QR code or short URL printed on the product, packaging, or insert. If you want the deeper definition, our certificate of authenticity on Shopify post walks through the wallet-free COA workflow in more detail. ### Why provenance matters in 2026 Three things changed between 2022 and 2026 that made provenance certificates table stakes rather than a nice-to-have: - EU regulation pulled the goalposts. The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR 2024/1781) mandates a Digital Product Passport for every product sold into the EU across multiple sectors, rolling out from 2027 to 2030. See our EU DPP timeline post for the per-sector dates. - Resale platforms started authenticating. StockX, Vestiaire, The RealReal, and dozens of niche platforms now actively scan certificates before accepting consignments. A piece without a verifiable cert is increasingly worth less on the secondary market, sometimes unsellable on premium platforms. - Counterfeit production scaled. AI-assisted dupes, 3D-printed components, and high-quality fakes shipped via dropshipping have collapsed the cost of producing convincing replicas. Anti-counterfeit defense is no longer about hologram stickers; it's about verifiable digital records. See our broader anti-counterfeit playbook for Shopify brands. The brands who skip this in 2026 lose three things at once: resale support, EU sales access, and the trust premium that buyers increasingly demand at the high end. ### The four approaches, compared Every provenance certificate implementation is some combination of four primitives. Picking the right one for your brand depends on what you sell, where, and to whom. Approach What it is Best for Watch out for | Paper hangtag | Printed cert with serial number, sometimes a hologram or watermark | Small editions, gift-shop sales | Forgery, loss, no online verification | Hosted web certificate | URL + QR code per piece, page on merchant's domain, token-verified | Most Shopify merchants in 2026 | Lifecycle: what happens when product deleted? | NFT / blockchain | Token minted on a blockchain, wallet required to claim | Transferable digital twins, royalty enforcement | Wallet onboarding, per-mint fees, token volatility | EU DPP (federated registry) | JSON-LD record published per product, resolvable via GS1 Digital Link QR | Brands selling into EU, regulatory compliance | Currently only mandatory for batteries; rolling out by sector For why the EU chose a federated registry over a blockchain, see our deep-dive: Why the EU rejected blockchain for the Digital Product Passport. #### Issue your first certificate Editioned runs numbered editions and certificates of authenticity on Shopify. Install free, 30-day Pro trial, no card. Install free on Shopify ### What makes a good provenance certificate Independent of which approach you pick, five properties separate a robust certificate from a vanity badge: #### 1. Non-enumerable identifier If your certificate URL is /cert/1, /cert/2, /cert/3, an attacker can iterate through every certificate on your site by changing the number. A good tool uses cryptographically random tokens (10+ characters, 2.8 trillion+ combinations) so that knowing one certificate URL tells the attacker nothing about the next one. See our cert integrity section for the math. #### 2. Revocation that actually invalidates When a product is returned, transferred, or removed, the certificate should provably become invalid. Editioned does this two ways: revoked editions rotate to a new token (the old URL stops resolving), and deleted products return HTTP 410 Gone, a standard status code meaning “this resource is permanently gone, not just temporarily missing.” Here's the lifecycle in action, a real deleted product on our test store: Your browser doesn't support video playback. Download the MP4. 25-second walkthrough: a buyer scans a QR code, the cert page loads, the merchant deletes the product, the buyer scans again, and the cert page is provably invalid (HTTP 410 Gone). #### 3. No per-certificate fees If your provenance tool charges $0.25-0.75 per certificate, you're penalised every time you sell. A Studio merchant generating 100,000 certs a year would pay $25,000-75,000 just for the privilege of issuing them. The cleaner pricing model is a flat monthly subscription with unlimited certs, Editioned's structure at every tier. #### 4. Brand-controlled hosting The certificate URL should live on your domain (or a sub-path of it), not on a third-party SaaS domain. If the tool you picked goes out of business, your buyers' certificates shouldn't turn into broken links. With Editioned, the certificate lives at your-store.com/apps/provenance/..., even if Editioned disappeared, the data structure is open JSON-LD that you could re-host anywhere. #### 5. Export to standard formats The certificate data should be exportable as JSON-LD aligned with established schemas (Schema.org, GS1, CIRPASS). This is what makes the certificate portable across resale platforms, customs authorities, and the EU DPP registry. For the technical fields involved, see our DPP JSON-LD fields and schema validators walkthrough. ### How the EU Digital Product Passport changes everything The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR 2024/1781) mandates a Digital Product Passport for every product sold into the EU. The rollout schedule is sector-by-sector: DateWhat becomes mandatory | 19-20 Jul 2026 | ESPR full application (19th); EU Central DPP Registry live (20th) | 18 Feb 2027 | Batteries (EV + industrial >2 kWh + LMT) under Regulation 2023/1542 | ~2027-2028 | Electronics, ICT (laptops, phones, peripherals) | ~Late 2028 | Textiles + apparel (delegated act adopted Q2 2027) | 2028-2030 | Iron, steel, aluminium, furniture, construction products The practical implication: any Shopify merchant selling into the EU in a covered sector needs to publish a DPP record per product by these dates. The good news is that the schema is open, the technical primitives are simple (JSON-LD + QR), and tools that export CIRPASS-aligned records today (like Editioned) require no work on the merchant's end when the official CEN/CENELEC EN 1821x standards publish in late 2026, the tool swaps the schema namespace and continues working. If you sell jewellery, art, prints, ceramics, or general fashion outside the regulated sectors, you're not required to publish a DPP. But customers and resale platforms will increasingly expect a DPP-shaped record because the EU pattern is becoming the de-facto global standard. ### Choosing the right tool for your product type The right setup varies meaningfully by category. Pick the one closest to what you sell: Jewellery brandsNumbered editions, materials, weight, hallmark Art printsEdition runs, paper grade, signature Streetwear dropsSeries, collab credit, release date Numbered editions generalEdition sizes, blocks, auto-assign ### Setup walkthrough, five minutes Setting up a hosted provenance certificate on Shopify with Editioned takes about five minutes from install to first cert. Here's the path in motion: Your browser doesn't support video playback. Download the MP4. 35-second admin walkthrough: set the edition size, watch orders auto-assign editions with unique tokens, download the cert PDF. - Install Editioned from the Shopify App Store (apps.shopify.com/editioned). The install handshake takes ~30 seconds. Every new install starts with 30 days of full Pro features unlocked, no card required. - Pick a product to certify. Open it in the Editioned admin → Edition Total: set a number (e.g. 3 for a three-piece run). Editions are generated immediately with unique tokens. - Add provenance details. Studio name, origin, year, materials. Pick a Category (Jewellery, Art, Spirits, Fashion, Ceramics, General), this enables category-specific fields. - Pick a cert style. Pro unlocks the Light style (cream & gold). Studio unlocks all three (Light · Dark · Minimal). See the style options. - Download the cert PDF, DL card size, prints on standard 210×99 mm cardstock. Includes QR code, masked verification token, edition number on the back. Ships with the product. When an order is placed, the next available edition auto-assigns to the buyer. When returned or refunded, the edition revokes and the token rotates. The buyer's scanned QR resolves to a tamper-evident page on your storefront. #### Set up your first cert in 5 minutes 30-day Pro trial on install, no card required. Auto-downgrades to Free after the trial unless you upgrade. Install Editioned → ### Common implementation mistakes to avoid #### Using sequential certificate IDs The most common mistake we see in DIY implementations: certificates at /cert/1, /cert/2, etc. Anyone with a browser can iterate through every certificate you've ever issued. Use cryptographically random tokens with enough entropy that guessing one tells the attacker nothing about the next. #### Not handling deletion or returns If a buyer returns a product and you re-sell that edition, the original cert URL should stop validating the new buyer. Or if you delete a product entirely, the cert URL should not silently fall through to a different product with the same handle. This is the lifecycle problem; HTTP 410 + token rotation are the standard answers. #### Hosting certificates on a third-party SaaS domain If your certificate URLs look like https://provenance-saas.io/cert/abc123 instead of https://your-store.com/..., you're effectively renting your buyers' verifiable history. The day the SaaS shuts down, the certs go with it. Insist on URLs that live on your domain. #### Treating the printed certificate as the source of truth Paper certificates degrade, get lost, or get separated from the product. The printed cert should be a beautiful artifact, but the source of truth is the verifiable URL it points to. Scan-and-verify, not look-and-trust. #### Per-certificate fees that scale with success A per-mint fee structure punishes growth. If you go from selling 100 pieces a year to 10,000, your provenance bill grows 100x, for no additional value. Flat-subscription tools mean your unit economics improve as you scale. ### What about NFTs and blockchain? Blockchain-based provenance still has a real use case: transferable digital twins where you want the certificate itself to change hands when the physical product is resold, with on-chain royalty payments back to the original artist. For pure fine art, high-end auction-house pieces, and some collectibles, this can be valuable. For 99% of Shopify merchants, jewellery, fashion, prints, ceramics, spirits, accessories, the cost (wallet onboarding for every buyer, per-mint fees, gas volatility, ecosystem dependency) is dramatically higher than the benefit. The buyer who just wants to know “is my pendant real” doesn't want to install MetaMask. The EU agreed: their DPP architecture is explicitly federated, not blockchain-based. See our deep dive for the full reasoning. ### Frequently asked questions #### Do I need this if my products aren't luxury? Increasingly yes, especially if you sell anything that can be counterfeited or that has a secondary market. Even mid-tier streetwear and craft goods benefit from a verifiable trail, buyers screenshot the cert, share it in resell channels, use it as proof of legitimacy. #### Will my buyer actually scan the QR code? About 30-50% of buyers scan within the first week, based on view-tracking data from Editioned-using stores. Many more scan months later when they go to resell or gift the piece. The cert isn't valuable because every buyer scans, it's valuable because the buyer can. #### What if my Shopify theme is custom? Editioned's theme blocks work on any Shopify Online Store 2.0 theme, Dawn, Sense, Studio, custom themes built on the Liquid 2.0 architecture. The blocks read metafields directly with no JavaScript runtime, so they don't break theme updates or page-speed scores. #### How do I make my certificate visible to resale platforms? Two ways: (1) include the cert URL on the cert PDF and in your packaging insert, so the resale-platform authenticator scans it on intake; (2) embed the cert page link block on your product page so the certificate URL is part of the public-facing product record. Most authenticators check for both. #### Can I migrate from another provenance tool to Editioned? Yes, but each migration is a manual job, there isn't (yet) a universal import format. Editioned's data structure is plain JSON-LD, so you can also export out at any time if you ever need to migrate elsewhere. Lock-in is anti-pattern for provenance tools; insist on data portability. ### Where to go next If this guide answered your high-level question, the deep dives below cover specific angles: COA on ShopifyWallet-free COA workflow basics Certificate lifecycleReturns, revocation, HTTP 410 QR code certificatesCert card, encoding, GS1 Digital Link Numbered editions guideEdition sizes, blocks, returns DPP vs blockchainWhy EU chose federated registry EU DPP timelineSector-by-sector rollout dates DPP JSON-LD fieldsSchema validators, technical fields Anti-counterfeit playbookLayered defence, physical + digital For jewellery brandsMaterials, weight, hallmark For streetwear dropsSeries, collab credit For art printsEdition runs, paper, signature Sources - EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR 2024/1781), eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1781 - EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 (DPP for batteries from Feb 2027), eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1542 - CIRPASS-2 Core Ontology (April 2025 proposal), cirpass2.eu - GS1 Digital Link standard, gs1.org/digital-link - Schema.org Product specification, schema.org/Product ### Keep reading #### EU DPP Timeline 2026-2030: Ecodesign deadlines for Shopify EU DPP timeline by sector under the Ecodesign Regulation (ESPR). Batteries Feb 2027, textiles late 2028, electronics 202… #### Certificate of authenticity on Shopify (no NFTs, no wallets) Practical guide to adding a certificate of authenticity (COA) to Shopify products. Wallet-free verification, QR codes, h… #### Why the EU rejected blockchain for the DPP The EU spent four years considering blockchain for the Digital Product Passport. They chose a federated registry. The te… --- # For jewelry brands Source: https://editioned.app/for/jewelry-brands For jewellery brands ## Hallmark your editions on Shopify. Hand-finished, numbered, stamped. The jewellery you ship deserves provenance that survives the journey to its second owner, without sending buyers through a crypto wallet to verify it. Install free, 30-day Pro → See full features ✓ Shopify-approved ✓ No card required ✓ Cancel anytime Hallmark match #### Digital cert mirrors your physical mark Edition number on the cert matches the stamp inside the band. Studio name, hallmark year, material, gemstone source, all in one verifiable record. Edition tracker block #### Show "III of VII" on the product page Six theme blocks ready to drop into Dawn, Sense, Studio, or any Online Store 2.0 theme. Edition badge, tracker, scarcity bar. No developer needed. Lifecycle integrity #### Melt-down, return, transfer: handled If you melt down a piece and reuse the material, the certificate auto-revokes. Token rotates on transfer. Buyer-protection layer that NFT certs cannot offer (immutability cuts both ways). What your buyer receives The DL print certificate that ships with the piece The hosted page the QR opens Built by Guild 79, a luxury jewellery atelier Guild 79 ships hand-finished editions of rings, bracelets, and necklaces. They needed a way to give every buyer a record of the piece without sending them to MetaMask. The existing options all required crypto wallets, and most jewellery customers politely declined. So they built the wallet-free version they needed for themselves, and made it work for any merchant who numbers their own work. Visit Guild 79 → ### Number the work. Let it prove itself. 30-day Pro trial on install, no card. After the trial your store auto-downgrades to Free unless you upgrade. No NFTs, no crypto wallets, no per-certificate fees. Install Editioned on Shopify → --- # For art print makers Source: https://editioned.app/for/art-print-makers For art print makers ## Certificate of authenticity for every print. Whether you ship a 50-print lithograph run or a 2-of-2 dye-transfer, each piece needs a paper trail that a gallery or resale platform will trust. The old way was carbon-paper COAs and a binder. The new way runs in your Shopify storefront. Install free, 30-day Pro → See full features ✓ Shopify-approved ✓ No card required ✓ Cancel anytime Print + web in lockstep #### DL-sized card ships in the tube Every order auto-generates a printed certificate with signature line, edition number, and a QR back to the hosted record. Light, Dark, Minimal, or Atelier-bespoke styles: pick what matches your prints. Auto-numbering #### Edition 3 of 50 assigns when buyer orders Set the Edition Total once. Editioned assigns the next number on every order, first-come-first-served, no manual spreadsheet. Roman numerals on the storefront, plain numbers on the cert. Gallery-acceptable #### PDF format galleries already trust Standard A4 PDF, no proprietary viewer required. Includes provenance fields the secondary market reads: artist, edition, year, medium, paper, dimensions, signature. What your buyer receives The DL print certificate that ships with the piece The hosted page the QR opens Built by an atelier that ships numbered work The print-on-paper world has lived without proper digital provenance for decades. NFT certificates tried to solve it for the 2021 art market, and most galleries rejected them. Editioned takes the opposite approach: the certificate lives on your domain, prints on your card stock, and uses the same JSON-LD format the EU is now adopting for product passports. Read the full art-print COA guide → ### Number the work. Let it prove itself. 30-day Pro trial on install, no card. After the trial your store auto-downgrades to Free unless you upgrade. No NFTs, no crypto wallets, no per-certificate fees. Install Editioned on Shopify → --- # For streetwear drops Source: https://editioned.app/for/streetwear-drops For streetwear + sneaker drops ## Numbered drops without NFTs. StockX, GOAT, Stadium Goods, and Klekt verify based on what shipped with the piece. Make sure your drops have the cert that survives resale authentication 18 months later. Numbered. Verifiable. No wallet onboarding for your buyer. Install free, 30-day Pro → See full features ✓ Shopify-approved ✓ No card required ✓ Cancel anytime Scarcity bar block #### Live "2 of 7 remaining" on the storefront Reads from the same metafields that issue the cert. Drops feel scarce because they are scarce: no fake countdown timers, no inflated "almost gone" alerts. Just the actual remaining count. Per-piece QR cert #### Each pair, each tee, each hoodie has its own URL Buyer scans the QR printed on the woven label or shipping insert. The hosted cert page opens with no app to install, no wallet, no MetaMask. Page tracks first-open + total verifications. Resale-ready format #### Cert format authenticators recognise at intake JSON-LD record, GS1 Digital Link QR format, standardised provenance fields. The same architecture the EU chose for the Digital Product Passport, and what resale platforms will read from 2027 onward. What your buyer receives The DL print certificate that ships with the piece The hosted page the QR opens For drops that survive the secondary market Resale platforms reject pieces with bad documentation faster than they reject obvious fakes. The cert ships in the box, and 18 months later when the original buyer flips on StockX, the authenticator scans it. Editioned formats your provenance the same way the regulated supply chain will be formatting it, so today's drops are still valid tomorrow. Read how resale platforms authenticate → ### Number the work. Let it prove itself. 30-day Pro trial on install, no card. After the trial your store auto-downgrades to Free unless you upgrade. No NFTs, no crypto wallets, no per-certificate fees. Install Editioned on Shopify → --- # For spirits and craft beverages Source: https://editioned.app/for/spirits-distilleries For spirits + craft beverages ## Cask-strength provenance for your bottle releases. Single-cask, small-batch, distillery-only release. Each bottle gets a numbered certificate linking to cask data, distillation date, and bottling notes. Built for the collector secondary market that's already here, with EU DPP-ready data export if regulation ever reaches beverages. Install free, 30-day Pro → See full features ✓ Shopify-approved ✓ No card required ✓ Cancel anytime Custom cask fields #### Distillery, cask number, ABV, age: your data Configurable cert fields per product category. Show what matters: cask source, mash bill, water source, ABV at bottling, age statement. Custom fields use stable UUIDs, so you can rename freely without breaking old certs. Per-bottle numbering #### "Bottle 73 of 300 from Cask #428" Edition number assigns when the buyer orders. Print the number on the bottle label or shipping card. QR code on the back links to the full cert page: origin, cask, signature of the distiller. EU DPP-ready #### DPP-ready data, ahead of any mandate Editioned exports your data as CIRPASS-aligned JSON-LD per bottle. Beverages have no DPP mandate today; if one arrives, your records are already structured for it. The CEN/CENELEC EN 1821x standards are published, and the schema namespace swaps to the official URI with zero work on your end. What your buyer receives The DL print certificate that ships with the piece The hosted page the QR opens For releases that get collected, not just consumed Single-cask whisky, small-batch gin, distillery-only mezcal: these aren't supermarket products. Buyers expect the same provenance documentation they'd get from a wine merchant. Editioned makes that workflow self-serve on Shopify, with the EU's preferred JSON-LD format already baked in. Read the EU DPP timeline → ### Number the work. Let it prove itself. 30-day Pro trial on install, no card. After the trial your store auto-downgrades to Free unless you upgrade. No NFTs, no crypto wallets, no per-certificate fees. Install Editioned on Shopify → --- # For craft makers Source: https://editioned.app/for/craft-makers For ceramics, leather, glass + craft makers ## Edition tracking for the work of the hand. Wheel-thrown, hand-stitched, kiln-formed. Numbered batches of work that deserve more than an Instagram caption. A real record, hosted on your own domain, that your buyer can pass on to their grandchild. Install free, 30-day Pro → See full features ✓ Shopify-approved ✓ No card required ✓ Cancel anytime Material-aware fields #### Clay type, glaze, leather tannage, kiln temperature Cert fields adapt to the material category. Ceramics get glaze + clay type. Leather gets tannage + hide source. Glass gets kiln temperature + firing schedule. Pick what your buyer cares about. Maker signature #### Your hand-signed mark, digital twin Upload your studio signature or maker's mark once. Every cert reproduces it as the bottom-of-card sign-off. The atelier variant pairs it with Cormorant Garamond italic, the typography that art galleries already trust. Buyer verification trail #### Track who verified the cert, how many times "You opened this certificate first." "You've verified it 5 times." Hashed visitor IDs, no raw PII stored, GDPR-friendly. Reads as care, the kind of detail that turns one-time buyers into collectors. What your buyer receives The DL print certificate that ships with the piece The hosted page the QR opens For makers who number their own work You don't make hundreds of pieces a week. You make eight, or twelve, or twenty. Each one matters, each one is signed, each one has a person on the other end who wanted exactly that piece. Editioned gives them a record that lives on your domain forever, and it pays for itself the first time a buyer recommends you because of it. See full features → ### Number the work. Let it prove itself. 30-day Pro trial on install, no card. After the trial your store auto-downgrades to Free unless you upgrade. No NFTs, no crypto wallets, no per-certificate fees. Install Editioned on Shopify → --- # The dpp: JSON-LD vocabulary reference Source: https://editioned.app/vocab/dpp Skip to content Vocabulary ## The dpp: namespace Custom JSON-LD vocabulary for EU Digital Product Passport fields that aren't yet covered by Schema.org or GS1. Editioned uses this namespace in every per-edition DPP export. Status Placeholder URI. The dpp: namespace currently resolves to this page. The CEN/CENELEC EN 1821x standards are published (harmonised July 2026); the namespace URI will swap to the official one as adoption settles. Field names are designed to stay broadly stable across that swap, adopting the namespace today is a safe bet, not a rewrite trap. Open spec · v1.0.0 · CC0 The full dpp: vocabulary is published as an open JSON-LD specification on GitHub and npm. Schema validators, five sector examples, CI-validated. Released 2026-05-19. npm install @editioned/dpp-schema ### Why a custom namespace ESPR Regulation 2024/1781 and the CIRPASS-2 reference architecture define a set of fields that any EU Digital Product Passport must carry: edition number within a series, carbon footprint, recycled-content percentage, expected lifespan, conformity markings, and several more. None of these properties exist in Schema.org or the GS1 web vocabulary yet. Until the published EN 1821x URIs are broadly adopted by downstream tooling, JSON-LD records need a stable identifier so downstream tooling (validators, registries, marketplaces, AI agents) can resolve the fields. The dpp: namespace is that placeholder. It is documented here so any consumer can dereference https://editioned.app/vocab/dpp# and get a real, structured definition. ### Properties Every property below is in active use in Editioned's DPP JSON-LD exports. The blog post DPP JSON-LD fields, validators, and traps walks through each one with realistic values, units, and validator behaviour. Name Type Description dpp:editionNumber Integer This piece's number within the edition (e.g. 7 out of 50). dpp:editionTotal Integer Total number of pieces in the edition. dpp:euOperator Text The entity registered as responsible for the product in the EU (importer of record or EU-resident manufacturer). dpp:dateManufactured Date (ISO 8601) The date the piece was manufactured. dpp:carbonFootprint QuantitativeValue Embodied carbon as value plus unitCode (use KGM for kilograms CO2e per UN/CEFACT Rec 20). dpp:recycledContentPercent Integer (0-100) Percentage of recycled content by mass. dpp:expectedLifespan QuantitativeValue Expected lifespan as value plus unitCode (use ANN for years). dpp:repairInstructions URL Link to the care and repair instructions page for this product. dpp:conformityMarkings Array of Text Compliance marks the product carries, e.g. ["CE", "REACH", "RoHS"]. dpp:reachSvhc Text REACH Substance of Very High Concern declaration string (substance name + concentration when applicable). ### JSON-LD @context Add the namespace to your @context array alongside Schema.org and GS1: { "@context": [ "https://schema.org", { "gs1": "https://gs1.org/voc/" }, { "dpp": "https://editioned.app/vocab/dpp#" } ] } ### Stability and the CEN/CENELEC swap path Editioned commits to maintaining the https://editioned.app/vocab/dpp# URI through the publication of CEN/CENELEC EN 1821x. After publication: - This page will continue to resolve so historical DPP records do not break. - Where the field name is identical in EN 1821x, the official URI becomes the canonical reference and Editioned exports will start emitting it as the primary key with dpp: kept as an alias. - Where EN 1821x renames a field, this page will document the mapping so consumers can rewrite at their own pace. ### See also - Shopify provenance certificates in 2026, the complete guide, the operational pillar covering the four implementation approaches and the five-minute hosted-cert setup. - DPP JSON-LD fields, validators, and traps, practical walkthrough of every field, with example values and validator notes. - EU DPP timeline 2026-2030, when each sector's regulation lands. - Why the EU rejected blockchain for the Digital Product Passport, architectural context. - About Editioned, who built this and why. ### Number your own work, free for 30 days. Editioned ships per-edition DPP JSON-LD using the dpp: namespace defined on this page. 30-day Pro trial on install, no card. No NFTs, no crypto wallets, no per-certificate fees. Install Editioned on Shopify → ✓ Shopify-approved ✓ Protected Customer Data granted ✓ GDPR-friendly