Lodestone Product Compliance – GPSR for WooCommerce
The catalogue audit: how many products are missing information, and which field is missing most.
GPSR — the EU General Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988 — has applied since 13 December
2024. Article 19 says that when you offer a product at a distance, the offer itself must show the
manufacturer’s name and postal and electronic address, the EU responsible person where the
manufacturer is outside the Union, information identifying the product, and any required warnings
in a language your customers understand. A link to a separate page is generally not enough.
Lodestone Product Compliance adds those fields to WooCommerce products, shows them in the listing,
and — the part that actually matters on a real catalogue — tells you which of your products are
still missing something. Filling in one product is easy. Knowing that 340 of your 2,000 products
have no manufacturer address is the problem this solves.
It also handles the EU legal guarantee notice that becomes mandatory on 27 September 2026 under
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1960.
What it does
- Adds the GPSR Article 19 fields to every product, each labelled with the paragraph it satisfies.
- Stores manufacturers and EU responsible persons as reusable records. One importer behind 300
products is one record, so correcting an address is one edit and not three hundred. - Assigns an operator record to a whole product category in one action.
- Shows the information in the offer — a block under the add-to-cart area and an optional
product tab — and lets you switch either off if your theme already prints it. - Displays the EU legal guarantee notice, from the date the obligation starts or earlier if you
choose. - Audits your whole catalogue, with no limit on the number of products, and shows what is
missing most often so you can fix in bulk rather than one product at a time. - Works out when an EU responsible person is actually required, from the manufacturer’s country,
rather than asking you for one on every product.
What it deliberately does not do
This plugin never tells you, or your customers, that your store is compliant. There is no
badge, no seal and no tick. It checks that required information is present; it cannot check that
the information is correct, and it cannot assess whether a product is safe. A compliance badge
printed by a plugin is worth nothing to a market surveillance authority and moves a legal risk onto
you.
It sends nothing anywhere. No external service, no product lookups, no phone-home. Your
supplier and manufacturer details stay in your database.
Nothing here is legal advice.
Free forever
Every feature listed above is free, on unlimited products, permanently. Nothing is quota-limited,
time-limited, or switched off later to encourage an upgrade.
Pro adds evidence rather than taking anything away: dated snapshots of what each listing said,
a printable per-product compliance record, a CSV export, coverage over time, per-language warning
coverage for multilingual stores, the GARAN durability guarantee, and WP-CLI.