Guarantee Label

Guarantee Label

Permalink General information

The Guarantee Label informs consumers about a voluntary commercial guarantee of durability provided by the manufacturer. It identifies the manufacturer, the model identifier and the guarantee period. The label must be populated with the relevant product data for each affected product and displayed prominently on the product page before purchase.

The Guarantee Label is required if the manufacturer’s guarantee:

  • is provided to the consumer free of charge,
  • covers the entire product and not only individual components, and
  • lasts longer than two years.

Only guarantees provided by the manufacturer are covered. The Guarantee Label therefore refers to a voluntary manufacturer’s guarantee and is not the same as the Legal Guarantee Label for statutory rights in the event of defective goods.

The graphics required for the Guarantee Label are included in German Market and are provided automatically. No additional installation or integration is required.

Further information about the EU GARAN label can be found on the English-language EU page.

Permalink Settings

You can find the settings under:

WooCommerce → German Market → General → Products → Guarantee Label

Automatically Display the Guarantee Label on Product Pages

The option “Automatically Display the Guarantee Label on Product Pages” automatically displays the product-specific Guarantee Label on product pages. The producer, model identifier and guarantee period are taken from the product-specific Guarantee Label settings.

Under “Display Type on the Product Page”, the following values are available:

  • Nested display: A compact display that opens the complete label in a dialog when clicked. This is the default value.
  • Full display: The complete label with the product data is displayed directly on the product page.

Use “Maximum Width of the Nested Display (px)” to define the maximum width of the label in pixels. If you leave the field empty, the display uses the entire available width of the content area.

Checking the guarantee period

The option “Only Display the Label for Guarantees Longer Than Two Years” is enabled by default. It prevents the label from being displayed if the guarantee period stored for a product is two years or less. When this option is enabled, the value must be greater than 2 for the label to be displayed.

Fallback values for producer and model identifier

With “Use the GPSR Manufacturer if the Producer Name Is Empty”, the manufacturer from the product’s GPSR data can be used if no producer name has been entered for the Guarantee Label. Only the content before the first comma or line break is used.

With Use GTIN, UPC, EAN, ISBN or SKU if the Model Identifier Is Empty, German Market can determine the model identifier automatically from the product data. The “GTIN, UPC, EAN or ISBN” is used first. If none is available, the “SKU” is used.

Both fallback settings are disabled by default. They are only used if the corresponding field in the product is empty.

Output in customer emails

With “Display the Full Label for Items in Emails”, you select the customer emails in which the complete Guarantee Label with the product data is displayed below each affected item.

Permalink Product data

You can find the product-specific data here:

Products → Edit product → Guarantee label

The following fields are required for a complete Guarantee Label:

  • Producer name
  • Model identifier
  • Duration of the commercial guarantee of durability (years)

Use “Update preview” to update the preview. The product editor displays both the Nested display and the Full display. If “Only Display the Label for Guarantees Longer Than Two Years” is enabled and the guarantee period is two years or less, the corresponding notice is displayed instead of the preview-

If a producer or model identifier is not entered directly in the Guarantee Label, the activated fallback settings are used where applicable.

For variable products, the producer and guarantee period are inherited from the parent product. A separate model identifier can be entered for each variation. On the product page, the Guarantee Label is only displayed if the same complete Guarantee Label data can be determined for all variations.

Meta keys

If you use a plugin, interface or another tool to import product data, you need the meta-data keys. These are:

  • Producer: _german_market_garan_label_producer
  • Model identifier: _german_market_garan_label_model_identifier
  • Guarantee period: _german_market_garan_label_warranty_years

Permalink Product block

The dynamic product block “Guarantee label” is available for product pages. You can find it in the WordPress editor in the GERMAN MARKET PRODUCT ELEMENTS category.

The block provides the following settings:

  • Alignment: Left, Center or Right
  • Display type: Nested display or Full display
  • Maximum width (px): only available for the nested display
  • WordPress spacing settings for padding

Permalink Shortcode

For the full display, use:
[gm_product_garan_label]

For the nested display with a clickable full label, use:
[gm_product_garan_label_nested]

On a product page, the current product is used. Outside a product page, you can specify a product using its ID:
[gm_product_garan_label product_id="123"]
[gm_product_garan_label_nested product_id="123"]
Replace ‘123’ with the ID of the desired product. If no product is found or the required Guarantee Label data is missing, no output is generated.