The Certificate Generator API
for your platform
Milestone completed. Certificate generated. No one touched anything.
One API call fires when someone completes a course, a training, or a program, and a personalized PDF lands back in your product.
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Auto generate completion certificates for courses, trainings, programs, and events, straight from your own app
Use cases
Every certificate your product issues, one API
If your system knows who completed what, it can issue the certificate. These are the setups running on Templated today.
Course platforms and LMS
Final module passed, completion certificate in the student dashboard and in the completion email.
Corporate training and compliance
Safety training, HR onboarding, hospital compliance programs. The certificate is issued the moment the record updates, audit trail intact.
Events and workshops
Attendance confirmed at checkout or check-in, participation certificate before the attendee leaves the venue.
Memberships and awards
Association renewals, program milestones, employee recognition. Any record in your database that deserves a document.
Powerful Editor. Dynamic Templates.
Create stunning, professional designs in minutes. Just drag, drop, resize, and customize.
Real-time Canvas Editor
What you see is what you get.
See your changes instantly as you make them.Pre-designed Professional Templates
Browse our Template Gallery and customize ready-made designs in minutes.
Design with AI
Use our AI Template Generator to quick-start your own templates.
Import from
Import your templates from Canva and customize them in our editor.
White Label Editor
Embed our Editor to your site or app and let your users create and customize their own designs directly on your platform.
Pre-designed Dynamic Templates
API for Image, Video and PDF Generation
Render images, videos and PDFs at scale with a simple API.
Simple POST request with JSON payload
Render multiple images, videos or PDFs at once with a simple request.
Modify every layer of your template
Update text, colors, images, videos, and more of each layer through our API.
Multiple output formats
Choose from .jpg, .png, .webp, .mp4 or .pdf for your rendered files.
Client Libraries
Use our client libraries for Python, Node, Java, PHP, Ruby, and more.
curl -X POST https://api.templated.io/v1/render \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"template": "TEMPLATE_ID",
"format": "pdf",
"layers": {
"name": {
"text": "Sarah Mitchell"
},
"program": {
"text": "Advanced Data Analytics"
},
"date": {
"text": "May 12, 2026"
}
}
}'fetch('https://api.templated.io/v1/render', {
method: 'POST',
body: JSON.stringify({
"template": TEMPLATE_ID,
"format": "pdf",
"layers": {
"name": {
"text": "Sarah Mitchell"
},
"program": {
"text": "Advanced Data Analytics"
},
"date": {
"text": "May 12, 2026"
}
}
}),
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': `Bearer ${API_KEY}`
}
})import requests
requests.post(
"https://api.templated.io/v1/render",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
json={
"template": TEMPLATE_ID,
"format": "pdf",
"layers": {
"name": {
"text": "Sarah Mitchell",
},
"program": {
"text": "Advanced Data Analytics",
},
"date": {
"text": "May 12, 2026",
},
},
},
)# Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http templated \
https://mcp.templated.io/mcp
# Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client
https://mcp.templated.io/mcpThen run /mcp inside Claude Code and sign in when prompted. One-click setups for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor are in the MCP docs .
How to get started
- 1
Step 1: Create your account
Creating your account at Templated is easy.
Sign-up with just your email and password or use your existing Google account. - 2
Step 2: Pick a certificate template or design your own
After creating your account, pick a design from our certificate template gallery or build your own with the drag and drop editor. You can also import a design from Canva.
Then mark the layers that change per recipient: name, program, completion date, signature or logo. - 3
Step 3: Trigger renders from your app
Call the render endpoint from your completion handler with the recipient data in JSON. Each render returns a URL to the finished PDF or image.
Generating for a whole cohort? Send multiple renders in a single request, add a webhook URL, and each certificate posts back to your app as it finishes. Prefer no code? Upload a CSV or Excel file in the dashboard and generate the batch from there.
Plug & Play. Render.
Not building an app? Certificates also run through #nocode tools or a spreadsheet upload. Start with the Google Sheets tutorial or the Google Forms walkthrough.
Built for platforms
Design once. Render for everyone.
Everything you need to make certificates a real feature of your product.
A whole cohort at once
Send multiple renders in a single request. 500 completions on the same day is one API call, not 500.
Async by default
Add a webhook URL and each certificate posts back to your app as it finishes. Nothing blocks your pipeline.
Every tenant, one template
Override logo, colors, and signature per customer through the render payload. One design serves your entire customer base.
PDF and PNG from the same render
PDF for the completion email, PNG for the share button. Change one parameter, keep one template.
Template Editor
Drag-and-drop editor with different component types for you to design your base certificate.
No-Code Integrations
No code? No problem. Use Zapier or other no-code platforms to integrate with our API without having to write code.
Clear Pricing
No hidden fees or extra charges. Pick a plan that best suits your needs and don't have any surprises at the end of the month.
Tutorials
Explore our guides and tutorials and learn how to integrate with our API in the programming language you like.
Next Level Support
Ping us via chat anytime and we will help you integrate. We got your back!
White label
Your feature. Your brand. Your domain.
No Templated branding on files
Recipients download certificates from your dashboard and receive them from your email address. To them, your platform generates certificates.
Embed the editor in your app
Your customers design their own certificate templates with drag and drop, inside your product. You never build a design tool.
Import designs from Canva
Already have a certificate designed in Canva? Import it, mark the dynamic layers, and render from it.
Compare
Build vs buy, answered honestly
| Templated | Build in-house | Credential platforms | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to ship | An afternoon | Weeks | Days |
| Pricing | Per render | Your infra + maintenance | Per recipient |
| File ownership | Yours | Yours | Their domain |
| Design tooling for your customers | Embeddable editor | You build it | No |
| Verification pages | No* | You build it | Yes |
| Revocation | No | You build it | Yes |
*Add a QR code layer pointing to a verification URL your platform hosts.
Pricing
Per render, not per recipient
50
free credits to start
1
render = 1 certificate
0
recipient caps or seat math
10,000 certificates is 10,000 renders. No hidden fees, no annual recipient limits.
- Free templates
- 200+
- Images per month
- 2M+
- Videos & PDFs per month
- 1M+
- Templates created
- 200K+
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"Very reliable platform. Almost no errors ever. Easy to setup templates and use the API. And AMAZING support!"
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"Amazing API, perfect support and a lot of new features on a monthly basis."
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Can I trigger certificates from my own app's events?
Can I generate certificates in bulk?
Should I generate PDF or image certificates?
Does Templated verify certificates?
Can I import my Canva design?
Can my customers design their own certificates?
What happens after the 50 free credits?
Ship certificates this sprint
Your first render is five minutes away. Start free with 50 API credits
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