Glossary

App block: A building block you add to a page in the theme editor. It appears where you place it. Example: the GPSR Compliance block on a product page.

App embed: A switch in the theme editor (App embeds) that adds a feature to all pages of your theme. Example: the Guarantee notice (global).

CE marking: The mark showing that a product meets EU safety requirements. In the app it’s a checkbox on the product.

Compliance set: The GPSR data saved on a product. A product “has a compliance set” (shows Set) once a manufacturer is assigned. The dashboard counts these.

Entity: A manufacturer, responsible person or importer stored in the app and picked on products.

EU responsible person: A business in the EU that is responsible for a product’s compliance when the manufacturer is outside the EU.

GARAN: The EU label for a producer’s voluntary durability guarantee (more than two years, free of charge, covering the whole product).

GPSR: The General Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988.

H statement / P statement: Standard hazard (H) and precautionary (P) statements for chemical products, such as H302 “Harmful if swallowed”. See Safety Warnings & Hazards.

Importer: The business that places a product from outside the EU on the EU market.

Legal-guarantee notice (Annex I notice): The official information about the legal guarantee, shown in the shopper’s language.

Managed pricing: Shopify’s way of billing apps. Plans are chosen on a Shopify page and billed with your Shopify invoice.

Metafield / metaobject: Shopify’s way of storing extra data on products and in the store. The app saves your compliance data this way, in your own store.

Rule: An automated assignment of entities to the products of a vendor. See Automated Rules.

Theme editor: Shopify’s visual editor for your theme (Online Store > Themes > Customize).

Traceability: Batch number, serial number and date of manufacture of a product.

Vendor: The product field in Shopify that usually names the brand or supplier. Rules match on this field exactly.