The estimator
The estimator prices the EPR fees for a product that is not yet in your workspace. You upload the supplier's packaging specification, tell Oblifee which markets you intend to sell into and roughly how many units a year, and it returns an estimated fee per market. Use it to sanity- check a new line, compare two suppliers, or brief a customer before you commit.
It lives in the new product branch of the Packaging Builder wizard.
Run an estimate
- Open Packaging Builder and choose Get started → New product.
- Give the product a name, and optionally attach it to one of your businesses.
- Upload the supplier packaging spec - a PDF or a Word (
.docx) document, up to 15 MB. - Tick the markets you plan to sell into. Only markets the brain can price are offered.
- Enter an estimated annual volume (units per year) for each market.
- Run the estimate.
:::info Your spec file is never kept The uploaded document is malware-scanned before it is read, and it is not stored. Only the extracted components and the priced result are saved. A packaging spec is a document to price once, not a document store. :::
The estimate result
The result page carries:
| Section | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Total annual fee | The headline estimate, per currency, across all chosen markets. |
| Confidence badge | The reader's own confidence - high, medium or low - in how well the components and weights reflect the spec. |
| UK RAM 2027 rating | Where a GB market is priced, the red/amber/green recyclability rating and its effect on the fee. See Recyclability (RAM). |
| Fee per market | The estimated fee for each market and its annual volume. |
| Components | Each packaging component the reader found: its material, per-unit weight, and whether that weight was stated, converted or estimated. |
| Detailed fee lines | Every market × component fee, each with its confidence status (confirmed, illustrative or estimate). |
| Assumptions & observations | Every judgement call the reader made, and anything about the pack that affects recyclability or fees. |
:::warning An estimate, not a filing The estimator produces an estimate to sanity-check, not a compliance submission. Weights may be converted or estimated, material mappings are best-fit, and fees use current cited rates. When you are ready to file, add the product properly so its real packaging and volumes drive your live position. :::
When a component cannot be priced
If a market has no cited rate for a component's material, that line is listed as unpriced rather than guessed. The total reflects only what could be priced, so treat a large unpriced count as a signal to check the market's coverage.
Where to go next
- The builder - redesign a product you already have.
- AI redesign - the redesign concept, pack visual and PDF.
- Recyclability (RAM) - how the UK rating is derived.