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Use case

Certificates for HR and people teams

Service milestones, monthly recognition, training completion, the leaving do. The certificates a people team needs occasionally and urgently.

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The problem

Recognition that looks improvised isn't recognition

The gap between a considered certificate and a hastily edited Word file is obvious to the person receiving it, and it undoes the point of the gesture.

  • Design isn't your job, but it lands on you

    Nobody staffs a designer for a ten-year service award, so it falls to whoever has PowerPoint open.

  • It's needed today

    Recognition is time-sensitive. A certificate that arrives three weeks after the achievement is a filing exercise.

  • Inconsistency reads as favouritism

    If one person's certificate is beautiful and the next is a text box on a border, people draw conclusions.

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The generator is right here. Pick a design, fill in the details, download the file.

Best on a screen at least 900px wide. Certificates render at print resolution and are yours to use commercially. Fair-use limit: 10 downloads an hour, 40 a day.

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What you get

What this covers

  • Formal designs that suit a workplace

    Restrained layouts that fit a service award or a compliance record, not just a birthday-card aesthetic.

  • Nothing to procure

    No licence, no purchase order, no IT ticket. It runs in the browser and produces a file.

  • Wording examples for the awkward ones

    Long service, retirement, peer-nominated, and performance awards each have worked examples on the maker pages.

  • Print or send

    PDF for framing and filing, PNG for Slack, email, and LinkedIn.

  • Consistent across the team

    Using the same design each month makes the award a recognisable thing rather than a one-off.

  • No watermark

    Nothing on the certificate reveals which tool produced it.

Templates

Designs that fit

A starting point. Every design in the library is available in the generator.

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Frequently asked questions

Questions

Can we use these certificates commercially?
Yes. Businesses of any size can issue them, including for paid training and customer-facing programmes.
Can I add our company branding?
Not in the free tool. Logo upload, brand colours, and custom fonts are part of a CertSeal account — that's usually the first reason HR teams upgrade.
Is anything we type stored?
No account is created and nothing is saved between sessions, which also means employee names aren't retained anywhere after you close the tab.
How do we handle annual compliance training for 400 staff?
Not with this tool — it makes one at a time. CertSeal generates from a CSV and can issue automatically when someone completes training in your LMS or a Zoom session.
Can recipients verify a certificate is genuine?
Not from the free tool. Verification URLs and QR codes are a paid feature, and they're what makes a certificate checkable by a third party.

Other use cases

Somebody else's problem

Need more than one at a time?

Onboarding cohorts, annual compliance training, and anything HR has to prove to an auditor is where a verification URL and CSV issuing start to matter.

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