Description
n8n-nodes-tracepass
This is an n8n community node. It lets you automate
TracePass — the EU Digital Product
Passport platform — in your n8n workflows.
TracePass generates compliant Digital Product Passports (DPPs) for EU
regulations (ESPR, the Battery Regulation, and more). This node lets
you create and manage products, passports, and GS1 EPCIS 2.0
supply-chain events directly from n8n — no code.
n8n is a fair-code licensed workflow automation
platform.
Installation ·
Operations ·
Credentials ·
Example workflows ·
Resources
Installation
Follow the
community nodes installation guide
in the n8n documentation.
In n8n: Settings → Community Nodes → Install, then enter
n8n-nodes-tracepass.
Operations
Product
- Create — add a product to the catalogue
- Get — retrieve a product by ID
- Get Many — list products, with category / search filters
- Update — update a product’s name, model, or description
- Create — create a Digital Product Passport (consumes a plan
- Get / Get by Serial — retrieve a passport by ID or by its
- Get Many — list passports, with status / product filters
- Get QR / Get QR by Serial — render the passport QR code
- Compliance — get a three-tier compliance verdict (compliant /
- Update Field / Update Field by Serial — set the value of one
- Suspend / Suspend by Serial — suspend a published passport
- Archive / Archive by Serial — archive a passport
- Export / Export by Serial — export a passport’s events as a
- Capture — submit EPCIS 2.0 events (requires the EPCIS add-on)
- Get Capture Job — poll an async capture job
- Query — query the EPCIS event store with the standard EPCIS
- Get Many — list the DPP category templates with their field
- Get — get the full regulatory field schema for one category
- TracePass API documentation
- TracePass
- n8n community nodes documentation
Passport
DPP slot — billable; opt in to overage with *Confirm Overage
Charge*)
serial number
(SVG / PNG / JSON), optionally in the company brand colour or an
explicit colour, by ID or by serial
compliantwithwarnings / incomplete) with regulation-cited findings —
missing required fields/parties, format issues, and per-category
conditional rules
passport field, by ID or by serial
(reversible), by ID or by serial
(irreversible — the public QR permanently 404s), by ID or by serial
The by-serial operations address a passport by your own serial number.
A serial is unique only within a GTIN, so if the same serial exists under
two GTINs in your account a serial-only call returns 409 — set the
optional GTIN (Disambiguator) field to resolve the passport exactly.
EPCIS Event
GS1 EPCIS 2.0 document, by ID or by serial (included on Starter plans
and up; the by-serial form takes the same optional GTIN disambiguator)
query filters (requires the EPCIS add-on)
Template
count, required-field count, governing regulation and version
(every field with its key, label, type, required flag, access
level and governing regulation reference)
Templates are read-only reference data — use them to discover what a
compliant passport in a category requires before creating products
and passports.
Credentials
The node supports both of TracePass’s auth methods. On the node, pick
one in the Authentication dropdown — n8n then shows the matching
credential type (you only fill in the one you chose):
| Authentication | Credential type | Best for |
|—|—|—|
| Access Token | TracePass API | A key you own — single user, server-to-server automation |
| OAuth2 | TracePass OAuth2 API | Acting on a specific user’s behalf, with scoped + revocable access |
Access Token (API key) — the simplest. In the TracePass dashboard,
go to Developer → API Keys, create a key (it starts with tp_),
then create a TracePass API credential in n8n and paste it. Use
Test to verify the key before building a workflow. The whole
workspace is reachable (all-or-nothing).
OAuth2 — for when the workflow should act as a particular user with
only the access they granted. Register an OAuth app in the TracePass
dashboard under Developer → OAuth Apps (a public/PKCE client works —
no secret needed), then create a TracePass OAuth2 API credential in
n8n and click Connect: you approve the requested scopes on a
TracePass consent screen, and n8n stores + auto-refreshes the tokens.
Request only the scopes the workflow needs (e.g.
passports:read passports:write offlineaccess — keep offlineaccess
so n8n can refresh). The user can revoke the connection any time under
Developer → OAuth Apps → Connected Apps.
For both, the Base URL defaults to https://app.tracepass.eu —
change it only for a self-hosted or staging deployment.
Example workflows
Shopify → TracePass — on a new Shopify order, create a passport
(product mapped by SKU, serial = order ID), then email the QR code
to the customer.
Daily analytics digest — a Schedule trigger lists yesterday’s
passports and posts a summary to Slack.
CSV → passports — read a CSV of serial numbers and create a
passport per row.
Supplier follow-up — a Schedule trigger lists supplier requests
older than seven days and sends reminder emails.
Compatibility
Requires n8n 1.x. Tested against the current n8n community-node API
(n8nNodesApiVersion: 1).