The General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR 2023/988) establishes the fundamental principles for ensuring product safety across the European Union. Effective from 13 December 2024, this regulation prompted us to create the GPSR Compliance extension for OpenCart. This tool helps online retailers adhere to the directive's requirements. If your business operates within the EU or Northern Ireland, compliance is mandatory, regardless of whether your products are shipped from outside the EU.

According to the GPSR, online sellers must do the following:

Provide information about the safety of the product
Add proper warning or hazard labelling
Provide clear information about the manufacturer and its contact details
Indicate the responsible representative in the EU
Provide documentation of product safety and conformity

Key features of the extension

Ability to add your own pictograms and hazard messages
Manage pictoram sizes
Has 6 positions to display the GPSR widget on the product page
Ability to customize appearance (colors and accordion type)
Bulk linking to products by category and manufacturer
Full multilanguage support + translations into any language
Compatible with Journal3 and other templates

Demo Product page
Demo Admin

Example of adding a module to a separate tab on the product page:

The GPSR OpenCart extension allows you to add the necessary information to product pages in bulk, according to their manufacturers and categories. The module has a basic set of icons, which includes GHS (Global Harmonised System) warning signs, age restriction signs (children, adults), Conformité Européenne (CE), ISO conformity, TÜV icon, and European Union flag icons. You can also add your own icons in two categories - Safety and restrictions, Danger, then these icons can be selected when creating GPSR blocks for product pages. You can also create a list of Hazard Statements translated into each of the system's languages, so that when you create GPSR widgets, you can quickly select the necessary messages from the list. If you are copying information from SDS (Safety Data Sheet) documents, we have provided a field for inserting a list of Hazard Statements with codes into a separate field. Other warnings can be left in the Additional information field.

In the standard form of adding and editing a Manufacturer in OpenCart, the extension adds a GPSR tab where you can add contact information in three fields: Manufacturer, Responsible person, Importer. Based on this data and the connection of the product with the manufacturer, the module will display contact information in special blocks on the product page.

The extension allows you to upload documents for the product and display them on the product page, these can be safety and conformity certificates, product safety documentation (SDS), instructions for use and operation, disposal instructions, warranty documents, and others. It is also possible to add external links to documents. The extension contains a set of icons for many popular document formats, such as pdf, doc, docx, rtf, djvu, xls, xlsx, as well as images, videos, and archives in various formats. These icons are displayed next to the files on the product page.

The module is fully compatible with the Journal3 theme and the default template. It also works with any other templates.