Fire Product Record
Trace a doorset back to the evidence it was sold on
Traceability starts with being able to say what a product was on the day it was sold. That is a versioning problem, and it has to be solved before batch numbers are worth anything.
Stable identity, moving record
Each product family gets a permanent public identifier and a permanent public URL. The record behind that URL versions as the product changes. A label, mark or QR code applied to a doorset points at the identifier, never at a version, so it stays valid for the life of the product.
Anyone arriving at the URL sees the current published record. Anyone holding an older publication number can reach that publication directly, clearly marked as superseded, with a link forward to the current one.
Revision history that answers questions
Every version records what changed, why, when it took effect and who approved it. That is what lets you answer a question about a doorset made three years ago without reconstructing it from memory and email.
Publications go further: each one is an immutable snapshot with a SHA-256 hash of its canonical form. If a customer produces a printout from 2027, the hash tells you whether it is the record you published.
Batch and item level, when you need it
Item-level traceability — this doorset, this order, this date, these components — is genuinely useful for some manufacturers and an expensive distraction for others. It is a separate module rather than an assumption, and it is worth switching on only when a contract or a scheme actually calls for it.
What is not optional is the product-level record underneath. A serial number that resolves to an uncontrolled product page has not achieved traceability; it has achieved a link.
What the law already asks
For products within scope of the Construction Products Regulation, the manufacturer must indicate a type, batch or serial number allowing the product to be identified, along with a name or trade mark and a contact address. That duty is current law. It does not require a database, a data carrier or an online record — those are choices you make on top of it.
What this product does not do
Fire Product Record helps manufacturers organise product information, configurations, performance claims and supporting evidence. It does not determine whether a product complies with applicable construction-product law or replace technical, conformity-assessment or legal judgement. Manufacturers remain responsible for the accuracy and approval of published product information.
Bring one product family under control first
Start with the family you get asked about most. One version, its configurations, its claims and the evidence behind them.