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GS1 Canada Coming Enhancements

To make sure you get more out of our industry managed solutions, tools, and services, we continually enhance and improve them for the benefit of your business and industry needs. We listen to our subscribers and develop upgrades, so our standards-based and industry-driven services provide the most up-to-date and accurate product information.

To find out more about our upcoming and most recent enhancements, click on the enhancement you are interested in below.


ECCnet Registry / ProSYNC

ECCnet Registry is Canada’s largest national product registry, enabling trading partners to rely on accurate and complete bilingual product data to fuel business processes.

In alignment with Canadian Industry requirements to support data completeness and accuracy, we are implementing the following updates to ECCnet Registry / ProSYNC:

  • Alignment of Global Product Classification Codes (GPC) with global standards
  • New code value and mapping updates aligning with GDSN release 3.1.18/3.1.19

Launch Date: Monday, May 30, 2022

For More Information: Please visit the ECCnet Technical Documents page.

Item Centre

Item Centre offers a simplified process for data recipients to access the content they need for multiple business processes from one place.

Updates to align with the planned attributes and standards enhancement for ECCnet Registry.

Launch Date: Monday, May 30, 2022

Product Certification

Product Certification helps brand owners ensure that their trading partners have access to certified content that is 100% accurate and complete.

Updates to align with the planned attributes and standards enhancement for ECCnet Registry.

Launch Date: Monday, May 30, 2022

The Vault

The Vault, GS1 Canada’s secure, online storage and distribution tool is a central hub for organizing, managing and sharing your Foodservice, Planogram and Marketing content.

Updates to align with the planned attributes and standards enhancement for ECCnet Registry.

Launch Date: Monday, May 30, 2022

eCommerce Content (formerly called The Vault - Ecommerce)

eCommerce Content is a secure storage tool to manage your ecommerce image and data content in one central location.

A better way to manage your ecommerce content! Starting May 2, 2022, access your content directly through the eCommerce Content link from the My Tools section of your myGS1 for faster, more efficient management and sharing of your ecommerce content.

From Friday, April 29, 2022 at 9:00 p.m. EST to Monday, May 2, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. EST, the Vault – eCommerce will not be available as we implement the updates.

Launch Date: Monday, May 2, 2022

ECCnet Recall

Recall is a standardized, industry-driven communication tool enabling trading partners to share real-time product withdrawal and product recall notifications with in a secure and efficient manner.

  • Thumbnail images of the recalled products will be added to all mobile and desktop reporting screens to improve reporting accuracy and turnaround time. Users can leverage the images from ECCnet or upload their own images.
  • Users of ECCnet Recall will be able to mass upload multiple items and multiple batch/lot variations through one upload file. This will drastically reduce the time to create a recall or withdrawal notification and alleviate the need to individually create separate forms for every item variation.

Launch Date: Monday, July 18, 2022




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