About Sertifika
A certificate is a promise someone else has to trust.
Most certificates are a JPEG in an inbox. They look official, they cost the person who earned them real work, and there is no way to tell a real one from one made in twenty minutes.
The actual problem
It was never hard to make one. It is hard to check one.
Design software has been good for years. What nobody has is a way for the person on the other end, the employer, the client, the next school, to confirm a certificate in less time than it takes to lose interest.
So they don't. They glance at it and move on, and the eight weeks behind it get a fraction of the credit they earned.
- A PDF in an inbox
- Nothing to check against
- A photo of a print
- Anyone can make one
- A page with a number
- Checked in a second
One page per certificate. That's the whole idea.
Its own page
Who earned it, what they did, who gave it, when.
Permanent, public, and readable by anyone who opens the link.
Its own number
A code nobody else has.
Printed on the certificate and typed into the checker when someone only has the paper.
No account
Nothing to sign up for.
No app, no wallet, no download. Ask a stranger to register and the checking simply stops happening.
Everything else here, the sending, the designs, the join codes, exists to get certificates onto those pages without an instructor doing data entry all evening.
Who it's for
People who teach on their own.
Coaches, tutors, workshop hosts, trainers, small schools. The ones who do the teaching and the invoicing and the follow-up emails, and who are not going to buy a learning management system to issue forty certificates a year.
If you have a department that handles this, you probably don't need us.
If handling it means you, at eleven at night, renaming files, that is exactly who this was built for.
Four things we decided early.
None of them are up for negotiation, and each one costs us something.
The link outlives the subscription.
Certificates you have already sent keep working whether you keep paying us or not. Downgrading limits new certificates, never old ones.
A certificate that stops being checkable because someone changed plan was never proof of anything.
No blockchain.
It gets suggested constantly. It solves a problem we don't have, and asks the person checking to understand something they shouldn't have to.
A permanent page opens instantly, and everyone alive already knows how to use one.
Students never sign up.
They get an email with the certificate attached and a link to their page. Nothing to join, ever.
Their email address is never shown on the public page.
Mistakes are normal.
Names get typed wrong. Fix it and send again: the number and the link stay the same, so anything already shared still works.
The page notes the date it was corrected, rather than quietly pretending it was always right.
How we make money
You pay us to send. That's the only way money comes in.
The free plan covers 25 certificates a month and doesn't ask for a card. Bigger plans send more. If we ever can't make the numbers work, we'll say so plainly rather than quietly turning your students into the product.
- Selling your data
- Never
- Advertising to students
- Never
- Charging people who check
- Never
Try it on one certificate.
Send one to your own email and see exactly what your students get. About four minutes, and no card.
Something that should work better? hello@getsertifika.com. A real person reads it.