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Designing Certificate

Credential Cloud has its own design studio for creating dynamic certificates, plus a native Canva integration to use their templates and design tools easily.

Creating Credential Group

Creating a credential group is key to issuing credentials. It holds the course/program details shown on certificates and lets you set templates and manage settings—all from one place.
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Click Create/issue New Credential from your issuer account home page

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Choose the Credential Group from which you want to issue the certificate/badge

You can scroll horizontally to see more credential groups. or search by name from the top right search bar.
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3

Enter the recipient details

Option 1: Manually enter the recipient details in the form
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Option 2: Bulk Upload recipient details using a spreadsheet. To download the template click on the download Spreadsheet template button.Note: If your recipient details have International characters use XLSX format only to prevent data loss.
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Fill in the recipient details as given in the sheet and save (Note: Do not alter predefined rows)

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Attach the Spreadsheet and click Confirm and Continue

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Verify the details and click Generate Credentials

You can also set custom issue date and expiry date for the credentials at this step.
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Now you have successfully generated the credentials for the recipients.Note: The credentials are only generated and not published yet. To publish the credentials, follow the below steps.You will be taken to Under Review page, there you will find credentials that are ready for review.
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Review the credential

On clicking one the credential, you will be taken to review page, where you’ll see how credential will look like in recipient view.
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Found any mistake in Design or anywhere on credential?Learn how to edit under review or unpublished credentials
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Go back to Issuer Home and select Pending review from the home page

Ready for publishing all credential?
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Select all the credentials you want to publish and click publish now

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Hurray! you have successfully published your first credentials!
Last modified on February 21, 2026