Attendance Certificates & Verification Guide | Planadar Help

Attendance Certificates & Verification Guide

Available on Growth plans and above, certificates let organizers reward and verify attendance with a branded, verifiable credential. For the step-by-step designer walkthrough, see Event Certificates; this guide covers how issuing and verification work under the hood.

How issuing works

From Organizer Admin → Certificate Designer, Issue to checked-in attendees grants a certificate to every attendee who has checked in and doesn't already have one. It's idempotent — re-running it only fills the gaps as more people check in, never creating duplicates. Each certificate is stamped with a unique certificate number and a separate verification code, and the holder is notified in-app (and by email if you use Email to attendees).

Public verification

Every certificate carries a verification code. Anyone can confirm a certificate is genuine by opening the public page at /verify-certificate/<code> — no login required — which is what an employer or school checks. Attendees reach it from the Share and Verify actions in their Certificate Wallet.

Branding & merge fields

The certificate renders the organizer's saved design (logo, colors, font, border, signature) with per-attendee merge fields — {{attendee_name}}, {{event_title}}, {{date}}, {{certificate_number}} — resolved at view time, so the same design serves every recipient.