ISTA Digital

To design packaging responsibly, minimize product damage, and achieve sustainability goals, it's crucial to understand your supply chains and distribution cycles.

ISTA Digital offers innovative tools empowering members to bring transparency to their distribution chains.

Understanding the Distribution Chain

To responsibly design and optimize packaging, you must truly understand your supply chains & distribution cycles.

You must understand the challenges they present to your packaged products while they are in transit to your customers.

You must understand how your packaged products perform within those environments.

ISTA Digital is a new cloud application focusing on data collection, collaboration, and packaging design.

Tailored for ISTA members, ISTA Digital introduces exciting new tools to streamline packaging design, development, and testing, while emphasizing damage reduction and goals for sustainability.

ISTA Digital not only enhances collaboration and knowledge-sharing but also empowers members to bring transparency to their distribution chains.

Collect | Connect | Design

Available NOW at no extra charge for all ISTA members!

• Distribution mapping of observational data.
  
• Collect and upload map segments, steps, metrics, photos, and videos to your timeline.
• Build distribution maps and associate product, package handling, equipment, storage, and distribution environment hazard data.
  
• View results using our Google Maps interface.
  

Coming Soon in 2025!

• Support for mapping and analysis of uploaded logger data, including shock, vibration, temperature, humidity, location data and more.
  

Coming Soon in 2025! ISTA Connect is our most-requested new feature.

• Development of this communication and collaboration tool is underway.
• ISTA Digital users will be able to connect with contributors and collaborators to document package and product damage, optimize costs, and improve sustainability.
• Enhance transparency across supply chains and distribution channels—from manufacturing and packaging to end-customer delivery.

Available NOW at no extra charge for all ISTA members!

Use ISTA Digital to:

• Document & share packaging design, development test project work & case studies, all with photos, videos, & project files. Keep your projects private for you and your team or share them publicly with the ISTA Digital community!
  

• Manage development projects and collaborate with stakeholders from day one of the project. 
  

• Track success of optimization projects over time.  Add important follow-up data up to and beyond implementation
  

• Create Packaging Solutions Libraries for you and your teams.
  

• Create a portfolio of projects tracking your work as you work to reduce damage, increase efficiencies and show how you're making a difference improving global sustainability.
  

Security

ISTA Digital is a premium privacy-first platform with options for secure sharing of project work with co-workers as well as vendors, suppliers, channel partners & other stakeholders around the globe.

ISTA Digital users can choose to keep all project data including photos, videos, & attachments completely private or choose to set up secure sharing with other users inside your company or organization.

ISTA members may also create project-specific teams for secure sharing with other ISTA members up the supply or vendor chains as well as those partners working down your distribution channels.

Non-Member Access

Non-Members can request a one-time, 7-day free trial of ISTA Digital.

Already registered as an ISTA Non-Member?
Visit digital.ista.org and click Sign Up to get started.

Not registered as an ISTA Non-Member yet?

• Register as a Non-Member here.
  
• After completing the registration, please wait at least 30 minutes.
  
• Then, visit digital.ista.org and click Sign Up.
  

ISTA Members enjoy free access to ISTA Digital!

Not a member yet?

• Become an ISTA member
  

Live Demo Recording

Watch a video recording of our recent live demo session, where we showcased the full capabilities of the ISTA Digital platform and answered questions about its features. Demo held on September 18, 2024.

Sign Up for Live Demo

Sign up now for our exclusive ISTA Digital Live Demo and discover the full potential of our platform on Wednesday, October 23rd, 11:00am-11:45am EST!

Support

To learn more about ISTA Digital and explore helpful tutorials, visit the ISTA Digital support page.

Policies

End User License Agreement (EULA)

This agreement governs your use of ISTA Digital's software. By using the software, you agree to comply with the terms and conditions set forth in this agreement.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information.

ISTA Digital is dedicated to maintaining a platform focused on its intended purpose. This policy restricts the inclusion of unsolicited marketing content and promotional material by users on the platform.

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