You sell other people's products. Here is what you answer for.
The passport obligation falls on whoever places the product on the European market. For a retailer that changes a great deal depending on what is being sold: a third-party brand already present in Europe, a non-European brand you import yourself, or your own private label.
The obligation is the brand's, the check is yours
If you sell a brand somebody else has already placed on the European market, that somebody else produces the passport. What concerns you is noticing when it is missing, before a customer or an authority does.
If you import, the obligation becomes yours
Bringing into Europe a brand that is not present in Europe means becoming the operator placing the product on the market, with everything that follows in terms of data you must hold and be able to prove.
On your own label you are a brand
On private label you count exactly as a fashion brand: the same chain to map, the same documents to collect, the same passport to publish. It is usually the part that surprises people most.
Collecting from the brands you sell
The same mechanism a brand uses with its suppliers works between you and the brands you carry: one request at a time, no account to create, and what they have already sent is not asked for again.
What the shopper sees on the shelf
They scan the code on the garment and land on the brand's page, not on yours. The passport belongs to the product, and stays that way even when the product changes sales channel.
Which brands are ready and which are not
With hundreds of brands in the assortment the useful question is not "are we fine?", it is "who is not". Analytics answers that one, brand by brand.