Packaging Data Management and Reporting Software
Simplify your packaging data management with PackTotal
Packaging Compliance and Regulatory Intelligence
Navigating the packaging regulations can feel overwhelming. PackTotal's regulatory compliance software is designed to simplify the packaging waste reporting processes and tax calculations to make navigating the regulatory requirements easier.
To calculate EPR, PackTotal categorises and consolidates import and sales figures, cross referenced with your packaging data to produce total weights of all the materials used in each packaging activity and for each packaging class. From January 2025, the system will support RAM requirements, helping you track component relationships and maintain assessment documentation.
To calculate PPT, our intelligent data system identifies which packaging components are exempt and automatically calculates tax liabilities, credits, and exemptions based on manufactured, imported, and exported quantities.
PackTotal will help you meet UK waste regulations, stay current with plastic packaging tax compliance and extended producer responsibility requirements, and produce accurate data and reports.
User Friendly Packaging Database
PackTotal is designed with simplicity in mind, making it accessible for anyone to use. The easy-to-use dashboard gives you a centralised view of your packaging data, ensuring everyone in your organisation can easily access all the tools necessary to manage your reporting.
Packaging Data Management
Using the PackTotal data management system and data gathering tools, you can easily collect, manage, and view essential packaging information such as regulatory compliance data, customer and supplier details and material specifications.
As the packaging regulations require comprehensive data collection from a number of different departments, relying on manual spreadsheets with the potential for duplicated mismatching data is problematic. PackTotal eliminates the need for duplicated data entry and reduces potential errors.
Our innovative software collects all the necessary sustainability and materials data for every component of your product's packaging, building a reusable library that saves you time and effort.
You can also easily store and manage all necessary documentation for each packaging item. This simplifies the packaging waste reporting process and helps you stay prepared for audits.
Advanced Reporting
With all your data recorded within PackTotal and available to consolidate or compare, you can review and report on all aspects of your packaging activity.
PackTotal provides the required reporting information to align with the information required by HMRC, but the system and reports can also be tailored to meet your unique requirements.
In addition to HMRC/DEFRA submission data, PackTotal produces accurate, real-time tax calculations and reports on demand.
PackTotal understands that each business has unique needs. That's why we offer bespoke reporting solutions to fit with your specific requirements.
For instance, we have created templates to match the specific spreadsheets required by large retailers, which automatically populate with the detailed sustainability data relating to the products they have purchased.
Data Security
Our packaging data management software solution keeps your proprietary information secure by storing it in-house on your company's servers. With PackTotal, you'll have complete control over who has access to your valuable data, giving you the freedom to share information only with trusted partners.
Customer Support & Training
PackTotal offers continuous support and guidance ensuring smooth implementation of the software and ongoing success.
Key Features
Extended Producer Responsibility
UK EPR regulations can be complex, but compliance doesn't have to be. PackTotal can help with all aspects of EPR compliance, including capturing the increased amount of data producers must now record and report for all packaging they supply, use and discard.
For EPR reporting, your business's role in the supply chain is crucial, and PackTotal will help you navigate all your data reporting requirements including the new Recyclability Assessment Methodology (RAM) requirements starting January 2025. Our system helps you track which packaging components must be assessed together, maintain required documentation, and produce accurate submissions.
PackTotal will prompt you to enter the correct information, ensuring your data remains compliant as the regulations change.
Plastic Packaging Tax Calculator
PackTotal includes a built-in calculator to determine plastic tax liabilities accurately. PackTotal will calculate the total weight of liable plastic components manufactured or imported, the weight of all exempt components and the weight of components exported or classified as due for export. With an ongoing view throughout the quarter, you can monitor your PPT costs and be ready to submit values required by HMRC when the quarter ends.
B2B Packaging Reporting
One of the challenges you may face is handling requests for data from third parties, including major retailers and compliance schemes. That's where PackTotal comes in.
PackTotal can report on all aspects of your data, to external third parties or for internal information and improvements.
For example, it can produce Excel reports of the components shipped to each customer in formats demanded by different retailers.
What Our Customers Say:
We have been using the PackTotal packaging management software in anger for the last four Packaging Tax declarations with total satisfaction.
However, the tool is far more powerful than just for this purpose and we are able to draw down data reports for all our packaging outside of the tax requirements which allows us to provide exceptionally useful data for our customers.
We have a very complex packaging set up with, literally, thousands of SKUs with different packaging components from plastic bottles with standard closures to bottles with pumps with overcaps and to multi component packing in boxes with trays and brushes and the software has the flexibility, combined with simplicity of use, to handle everything we throw at it.
In an age where reporting of packaging is now mandatory, I cannot emphasise how useful we have found PackTotal to be.
Steve Woods - Packaging Manager
Mercona GB Ltd
Packaging data collection, analysis and reporting made easy
If you want to discuss your requirements, request more information or arrange a demo please contact us, we will be more than happy to help.