PAQR is packaging compliance software from SynoptiCons, launched in May 2026. It collects component data from your suppliers, checks it against the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), and produces the Declaration of Conformity EU packaging has needed since 12 August 2026.
The reporting that comes after is not part of what they sell. This guide compares six PAQR alternatives on what each one publishes, which of them issue the declaration themselves, which carry the same packaging data into extended producer responsibility (EPR) reports, and which are a team you brief.
What PAQR is built to produce
PAQR comes from SynoptiCons, an EU company founded in 2019 that sold EPR compliance and packaging management before this product existed.
PAQR itself is new. The launch announcement is dated 6 May 2026, and the way in is a free 30-day trial rather than a sales call.
Their platform is organised into eight capability blocks. Four of them decide whether PAQR replaces what you do today.
- Supplier data collection. Integrated supplier catalogs import component specs straight from a connected supplier's database, and a Supplier Request Portal sends structured requests. Their Smart Locking freezes a component from edits while you wait for the answer.
- Assessment and declaration. An Assessment of Conformity report flags failures such as a recyclability rate below 70%, or heavy metal and PFAS limits being exceeded, then auto-populates what they call the official DoC template.
- Legislation mapping. Their AI maps each packaging to the frameworks and standards that apply, pre-checks the applicable laws and keeps a log of the recommendations you discarded.
- Codes on the pack. PAQR generates QR codes compatible with the GS1 Digital Link standard and hosts the record behind them, so a scan shows material and recycling data and can be updated without reprinting.
They name four kinds of buyer, and the fourth is unusual. Alongside small businesses, mid-market brands and enterprise compliance teams, they sell to packaging suppliers who list their own catalog on PAQR so customers import from it.
Where their published scope stops
Two things are worth knowing before you shortlist anyone against them.
The first is EPR. Nothing in the eight blocks, the navigation, the footer product list or their FAQ describes registering with a national register, producing a periodic EPR return or calculating scheme fees.
EPR declarations appear once on their site, in the consulting FAQ, and only as a service for companies based outside the EU. Everything after the declaration is therefore somebody else's job.
The second is price. There is no pricing page and no figure anywhere on the site. Their FAQ describes a flexible tiered model with specific tiers for micro-enterprises, which means what you pay comes out of a conversation.
Four alternatives that issue the declaration themselves
Very few platforms publish a way to produce the declaration at all, which narrows the field fast. These four do, and they come first because the declaration is the thing PAQR gets bought for.
1. Repax
Repax is an EPR and packaging compliance platform you run yourself, built so that one product record answers whatever the next market or scheme asks for. It is our own product, which is why it leads here, and each entry below says where a rival is the better buy.
Declare is the part that meets PAQR head on. Every declaration carries a named signer under Article 39, and Declare timestamps that signature, links it to the evidence and freezes the PDF.
Underneath sits the technical documentation required by Annex VII, sealed under Article 38.
Inside it a verdict is recorded for each of Articles 5 to 12, with a written reason wherever an article does not apply to that packaging.
Unique numbers are assigned automatically under Article 15(5), each with a QR code to a public verification page. Frozen PDFs are versioned and kept for the full retention term, five years for single-use packaging and ten for reusable.
Core is the half PAQR has no answer to. The same product record produces an EPR report per market, so a Danish filing and a French one come out of one catalogue rather than two spreadsheets, across more than 30 EPR categories.
Data arrives from your own systems rather than from your suppliers, by three routes.
- A webshop catalogue. Shopify, WooCommerce, PrestaShop and Magento connectors read your products where they already live.
- A spreadsheet you keep anyway. CSV and Excel imports, which is usually how a first catalogue gets in.
- Bookkeeping or your own code. Dinero and e-conomic for Danish books, and a REST API for anything else.
Each shipped order also locks in the spec at the moment of sale, so a filing from three years ago still reproduces exactly today.
Two limits belong here. Repax has no supplier portal, so getting a component weight out of a distant supplier is still your job, and that is genuinely PAQR's ground.
Core also prepares the filing rather than sending it, because submission to each scheme or national registry happens outside the platform today.
Prices are published, which is rare in this market. Core and Declare each start free at 0 EUR a month, and Declare's free tier carries one real declaration end to end, then 29 EUR and 59 EUR (ex VAT, as of August 2026).
Choose it over PAQR if the same packaging data has to come back out as an EPR report per market, not only as a declaration.
2. Recyda
Recyda is a German platform from Freiburg, and their PPWR page is headed from supporting evidence to signed DoCs. It is the closest software twin to PAQR on this list.
The flow starts with an API import of your packaging data, your file records and your supplier information. You then map which evidence belongs to which packaging, and Recyda identifies the applicable articles for you.
What comes out is a technical documentation summary and a declaration built from a standard or custom template, populated and ready for signature.
Each packaging then moves through a visible status, and every change of status is logged for an audit.
- Pending review, while the evidence is still being checked.
- Technical documentation approved, once the file behind the claim holds up.
- DoC issued, when the declaration itself has been generated.
- DoC signed, which is the state a market surveillance authority wants to see.
Recyclability is where they reach furthest. Packs are graded against Recyclass, CEFLEX, KIDV, the German ZSVR minimum standard, the APR design guide, COTREP and EN 18120, and the system flags where a CEN standard needs a laboratory test.
That matters because a recyclability grade moves the fee you pay, not just the box you tick.
Their EPR side calculates fees against country-specific rules in more than 20 countries and produces declaration reports, although the final step exports rather than submits.
The trade-off is scope and the buying route. Packaging is all they cover, and there is no public price, so the way in is a demo, with a self-serve plan named only in their terms of service.
Choose it over PAQR if the 2030 recyclability targets weigh on you as heavily as the declaration deadline did.
3. ecosistant
ecosistant is a Berlin team that sells the declaration as a service rather than as software, in three levels you choose between.
The work is led by a lawyer, Matija Kajic, who holds a PhD in law and specialises in EU packaging and producer responsibility. A separate readiness service closes the gaps in your portfolio before any document gets drafted.
The three levels run from a template you fill in to a finished file.
- A guided template pack you complete yourself.
- Full support, which they mark as most popular, where they fully prepare one or more declarations from your own tests and evidence.
- An expert review of declarations you have already written.
Their EPR side publishes a price ladder, which is unusual for a service. A single country plan starts from 24.90 EUR for twelve months, and all of Europe starts from 399 EUR for 30 countries, with Germany free (ex VAT, as checked in August 2026).
Two caveats matter. That self-service plan is explicitly for sellers to consumers, with business-to-business enquiries routed through a contact form, and the declaration service itself is quoted after a scoping call rather than priced on the page.
They also do not sell recyclability scoring, so a 2030 question needs someone else.
Choose it over PAQR if you would rather brief a lawyer-led team than fill in a platform yourself.
4. Valpak
Valpak, part of Reconomy, is a UK compliance scheme, and their PPWR conformity data and documentation service covers the EU and Northern Ireland.
Their own service is described as four steps, in this order.
- Scoping and onboarding. Confirming which PPWR duties apply to you, building the packaging dataset and identifying where the data is missing.
- Supplier data collection. Surveys sent to your suppliers through their Supplier Data Hub.
- Component-level organisation. The returned data structured down to the individual component.
- Declaration of Conformity. Structured declarations carrying unique IDs, manufacturer details, material descriptions and conformity statements.
You reach and store the finished declarations through Valpak's Members' Area rather than in a tool of your own.
What you buy is a scheme rather than a login, and the rest of the scheme is the real reason to look. UK packaging EPR, WEEE, batteries, deposit return and the plastic packaging tax all sit with the same provider.
The way in is a free consultation, and no price is published. Their free calculators and obligation tests all ask for your name, company, email and phone before showing a result, so treat those as lead generation rather than price transparency.
Choose it over PAQR if your obligations run through the UK as well as the EU and you would rather one provider carried both.
Two that hold the data behind the declaration rather than issuing it
These two solve the problem next door. Neither of them issues your declaration today, so neither is a straight swap, but both go further than PAQR does on the data underneath it.
5. prduct.com
prduct.com is a Danish platform from Aarhus that holds products, packaging, components, suppliers and sites in one data model. Their PPWR page has grown a great deal this year.
The obligation model is the part worth understanding. Nine obligation types, from EPR and the declaration through labelling, take-back, reuse, substances and deposit return, switch on according to your answers and your markets.
Fields tagged 2028 or 2030 stay out of today's score, so an upcoming duty does not make a compliant product read as at risk.
On EPR they go deeper than most. They cover 108 schemes across 27 EU markets, resolved per market by household or business category and by material, with net weight reports broken down by level, material, recyclability tier and scheme.
Filings are kept as immutable snapshots with a difference view between them, and per-market registration numbers flow through to reports and on-pack labels.
Supplier data collection is done without licensing anyone, in three steps.
- The supplier gets one link. No account and no seat, showing only the fields you actually asked for.
- They answer or import. A spreadsheet upload works as well as filling in the form.
- You approve field by field. Nothing reaches your master data until you do, and a decline generates a fresh request by itself.
The declaration is where they are not finished yet. Their own FAQ is precise about it, that today they structure and store your Declaration of Conformity and technical file evidence, and that a module to generate it is in development.
The page sells that module hard, under the heading your Declaration of Conformity generated not hunted down. Treat it as a roadmap rather than something you can use this month.
They are equally straight about the reporting. They report EPR per market and keep every submission as a snapshot, but they never claim to file it for you, and the one authority they name a direct filing to is the EU TRACES system for timber and deforestation.
Recyclability is graded A to E and tied to the fee tier, empty space is checked against the Article 24 minimisation limits, and take-back sheets come out in 31 languages. There is a free way in, then a 45-minute walkthrough, and no published price.
Choose it over PAQR if pulling data out of suppliers and reporting EPR across many markets matter more than issuing the declaration in the same tool.
6. Ecoveritas
Ecoveritas handle packaging data as a service, and their PPWR work is deliberately front-loaded. What you get first is an answer to which duties apply to you at all.
Their PPWR work comes in two phases, and the first is the reason to call them.
- The obligation assessment. A consultation about your supply chain, the packaging you handle and your role in placing it on the EU market, then a bespoke briefing from their policy team covering the regulation, the key timelines, the actions your business may need to take and the packaging data those actions will require.
- Data and conformity support. They gather packaging information from your internal teams and from suppliers across the chain, run validation and quality checks, then either structure it into a conformity report for you or hold and manage it on your behalf.
The briefing from the first phase comes with a conformity report template and a session going through the findings with your team. That template is not a declaration, and they are careful not to call it one.
Registration and reporting, packaging optimisation and their own recyclability assessment methodology are separate services alongside it. No price is published, and the route in is a booked assessment.
Choose it over PAQR if you do not yet know which PPWR duties apply to your packaging and want that settled before any document gets written.
Seen together, the six divide on something the two groups above do not show, which is who does the work. Three of them are platforms you sign into and three are teams you brief, and PAQR belongs with the first three.
The best PAQR alternative for what you have to produce next
Which one fits depends less on your size than on the next document somebody will ask you for. Find your situation here.
- A signed declaration, soon. Repax has a free tier that takes one declaration end to end, so you can produce a real one before spending anything. ecosistant will prepare it for you if you would rather not touch a tool at all.
- The technical file behind it. Repax seals an Annex VII file under Article 38 with every claim linked to its document. Recyda generates a technical documentation summary consolidated across all the components.
- An EPR return per market. Repax Core holds more than 30 EPR categories on one product record, prduct.com resolves 108 schemes across 27 EU markets, and Valpak takes the UK side as a scheme.
- Recyclability before the 2030 targets. Recyda grades every pack against seven named yardsticks including EN 18120. prduct.com grades A to E and ties the grade straight to the fee tier.
- Data that is still sitting with your suppliers. This is PAQR's strongest suit, and prduct.com matches it with one link and no supplier account, while Valpak and Ecoveritas do the chasing for you.
- Someone to tell you what applies. Ecoveritas assesses your obligations and hands you a briefing, and ecosistant's readiness service does the same before any paperwork starts.
Frequently asked questions about PAQR alternatives
A few questions come up every time producers weigh PAQR against the rest of this field.
Is PAQR any good?
For the job it is built for, yes. It generates the declaration, pulls component data out of suppliers through a request portal, and hosts the QR record for the pack, in four interface languages. The limit is scope rather than quality.
Does PAQR do EPR reporting?
Not as software. Nothing in their capability blocks, navigation or FAQ describes registering with a national register, filing a periodic return or calculating scheme fees. EPR declarations appear only as consulting, for companies based outside the EU.
What does PAQR cost?
They do not publish a price. There is no pricing page, and their FAQ describes a tiered model with specific tiers for micro-enterprises, so the figure comes out of a conversation. A free 30-day trial is the cheapest way to look.
Is there a cheaper alternative to PAQR?
Repax is the only one here publishing a price for the declaration work, free at 0 EUR a month and then 29 EUR (ex VAT, as of August 2026). ecosistant publishes a ladder for its EPR self-service instead, from 24.90 EUR per country.
Which PAQR alternative produces the declaration itself?
Four of them. Repax and Recyda generate it inside the software, while ecosistant and Valpak prepare it as a service. prduct.com stores it today and has a module in development to generate it, and Ecoveritas hand you a report template instead.
What should you use instead of PAQR for a supplier heavy catalogue?
prduct.com is the closest match, because a supplier gets one link with no account and per-field approval keeps unchecked data out. Valpak runs supplier surveys through its Supplier Data Hub if you would rather the chasing was done for you.
