Everything packaging EPR asks of you, in one place
Ten groups of capability, from working out what you owe to proving how you
measured it. Every paid plan includes all of them. Plans differ by volume, seats and
entities, and Scale adds SSO, SCIM provisioning and priority support.
A spec is shared across many SKUs, so a family of variants uses one set of weights.
Four levels: primary, secondary, tertiary and transit, and e-commerce shipping.
Multi-material laminates with grams per layer.
Attributes per component: material and sub-material, colour and opacity, post-consumer recycled content, recyclability status, compostability evidence, reusability, PFAS-free declaration, labels and markings.
03
Get the data, with evidence
Measure it, collect it from suppliers, or estimate it with a documented method. Every figure shows which.
Measurement on a computer or a phone: the web capture installs to the home screen and works offline. Photograph the teardown, weigh each component, confirm the grams.
Scale input your way: type the reading next to its photo, or use a connected scale over Bluetooth, USB or serial from Chrome, or one in keyboard mode that types into the field.
Barcode to SKU, batch teardown, and an offline queue that replays when you are back online.
Supplier links and spec-sheet uploads. Supplier data is a proposal until you confirm it.
Sampling plans and estimates for catalogs too large to weigh in full, each with its method written down.
Material suggestions that a person always confirms, and automated checks on photo, reading and material. AI assist is optional. Manual entry is complete.
04
Pull units sold, by region
Weights become tonnage once they meet units shipped to each state, province and country.
File import is the foundation: CSV presets for Shopify exports, Amazon order and FBA reports, NetSuite saved searches and any other source.
Optional connectors for WooCommerce and BigCommerce. Shopify, Amazon, eBay, Etsy and NetSuite come in through their own exports, and every channel has a file import.
Only SKU, quantity, date and ship-to region are kept. Names, emails and street addresses are discarded on import.
Shipping-packaging profiles (shipper box, mailer, void fill) mapped to orders, for brands that pack their own parcels.
Allocation by actual sales, by population, or by a declared method. The method appears in the methodology document.
05
Produce the report and submit it yourself
Sealed figures for each jurisdiction, a regulator file where its format is verified, a methodology document, and a walkthrough for the portal.
Reporting periods per entity, jurisdiction and year, with a snapshot lock, a completeness score and a validation report.
A regulator file only where its layout has been checked against the official template: today Germany’s LUCID volume report and the UK’s RPD file and Plastic Packaging Tax return. Elsewhere the report page says the format is pending and you enter the sealed figures in the portal.
A methodology document generated from your evidence: sources, data-quality tiers, sampling, allocation and assumptions.
Sign-off by a named signer on your team, then the sealed figures, a file where one is verified, and a step-by-step walkthrough. You submit. Instica never holds your portal credentials.
The confirmation or receipt goes into your evidence. Amendments show a diff against the version you submitted.
For the EU and UK, a registration data pack for whichever authorised representative, licence provider or scheme you appoint.
06
Check the fees
Estimate before the invoice, check it when it arrives, and see what each SKU costs.
The published fee schedules Instica has on file, including eco-modulation where a schedule has it, in USD, CAD, EUR and GBP.
Invoice check that flags discrepancies against your reported data.
Fee per SKU and per unit, a next-year forecast, and an accrual export for accounting.
Where no schedule is on file or a rate is not published, the tool says pending rather than guessing.
Private scheme rates are entered from your own contract or invoice and labelled customer-supplied.
07
Hit the targets and labelling rules
See which packaging helps and which costs you, then test a change before you commit to it.
Source reduction, recycling rate and recyclable or compostable tracking for California SB 54.
Recyclability grade and recycled-content targets for the EU, and the UK Plastic Packaging Tax recycled-content check.
A redesign simulator that shows the fee and target impact of a material or weight change.
Labelling requirements per component and market, flagged when attributes conflict.
08
Stay current
Rules, rates and dates change. The platform watches for it.
A regulatory change feed with source watchers per jurisdiction. A change tells affected customers what changed and what to redo.
A deadline calendar per entity and jurisdiction, with reminders at 90, 30 and 7 days.
Supplier declaration renewals and re-measure triggers when sampled data drifts.
09
Prove it
The record behind every figure can be checked by someone who was not at your bench.
A signed evidence ZIP for each record and report.
A public verification page, so a signature can be checked without an Instica account.
Access for outside auditors and consultants that uses no seat: chosen entities until a date you set, read only or able to edit figures, never able to sign or change billing.
An audit log per record and per report.
Records are versioned. A re-measurement supersedes the earlier record, and both stay readable.
10
Run it as a company
Several entities, several brands, several people, and the controls IT will ask about.
Parent, legal entities and brands. Each entity has its own registrations, EPR numbers and reports.
Roles for owner, admin, contributor, auditor and supplier guest, plus a named signer and entity scope.
Passkeys, authenticator-app MFA, an organization MFA policy, and SAML or OIDC single sign-on on Scale.
SAML SSO and SCIM on the Scale plan, two-person approval before figures are signed, break-glass owners, an IP allowlist, and an audit log with a hash chain you can check and export as CSV.
A public API, webhooks for every event, and file flows for BI and accounting.
Data export and deletion, a DPA and a subprocessor list.
WHERE INSTICA STOPS
You submit. Instica prepares.
You or your signer submit each report. Instica is not a producer responsibility
organization, and your counsel decides what applies to you. You are liable for your weights.
Instica gives you the evidence and the written method behind them.
Read the details.
See a record, a report and a fee check on your own products
The free workspace includes ten measured records and one seat.
