How to Generate Certificates Online

There are several reasons for you to create digital certificates: to award a student with proof of skill or accomplishment, to reward an employee for completing a given training, to verify attendance at a webinar, or to honor participants of a charity event.

You can design and create certificates online from scratch or use given ready-to-use templates to promote your brand or yourself by using several tools online. To give you a head start on this topic, I will list different options you may consider for designing professional-looking, beautiful certificates.

If you haven’t checked our previous blog about “How to Design Certificates Online” you can directly check your other online certificate designer options.

Top Tools to Generate Certificates Online – How to Generate Certificates Online

Crello

Crello is one of the most popular web designers around and you can create different designs from custom Instagram posts to posters. With Crello, now you can easily create certificates online. It also offers a wide variety of certificate templates that you can easily use. There is one downside of using Crello; while there are a lot of different templates available for other content types, all certificate designs are offered for premium accounts and premium accounts cost $7.99 per month. But you can still design a certificate for free from scratch!

Creatopy

Like Crello, Bannersnack is also a popular web designer. There is not much difference in terms of using them, they are both simple and reliable. Unlike Crello, Bannersnack offers you a couple of free certificate templates to use while there are also premium templates. You can directly download your certificate design in PNG and JPG formats but other file formats like PDF are only offered for premium users. You can create up to 10 designs with a free account and premium plans cost from $7 to $36 per month.

Visme

Visme, unlike Creatopy and Crello, provides more free design elements while editing your certificate. With Visme, it’s easy to create certificates online. It also offers a wide variety of design templates other than certificates just like the previous web design tools. Unfortunately, there are not many ready-to-use certificate templates available. High resolution and PDF download is only for premium accounts’ use but you can still download in PNG and JPG formats but the app adds its watermark to your designs. There are different paid account options for individuals and businesses from $14 to $75 per monthly use.

Venngage

Other than the other options Venngage provides a lot more free certificate templates for your use. Venngage is also a web designer which you can, not only design certificates but also different types of art pieces. The most important difference of Venngage is that you can directly download your design in PDF format. Business and premium plans offer more design templates and icons and so on for $49 and $19 monthly.

Adobe Spark

Like Canva, Adobe Spark is also a popular web designer. There is not much difference in terms of use they are both simple and reliable and you can export designs as PDF files on both platforms. There are 2 differences you need to consider while choosing between them:

Photoshop

As you might have guessed, photoshop is one of the first options that comes to mind. But keep in mind, unless you already have Adobe Creative Cloud, it is not worth buying it just to create certificates online. There are much better ways that allow you to create certificates for free.

Canva

Canva is the most popular web designer, and of course, it has some certificate templates for you to use and customize. Canva’s interface is user-friendly and you have the option to use it for free. Canva also gives you the option to file in PDF format.

Sertifier

Have you considered automating your online certificate-sending process? Do you expect more information about the background of a certificate other than the things written on it?

Sertifier is an all-in-one education data collection tool in which you can automate your certificates and make them smart certificates with a lot of information attached to them.

You can design professional certificates from templates, add the details about the event that resulted in you issuing a certificate, attach related skills, upload your participant Excel list, and directly send those certificates to your recipients’ inboxes.

Plus, certificates do not get lost in space anymore. You can track them in your reports whether they are being used or shared on social media; see how much you reach out to the world by shares and how much marketing spending certificates are saved on behalf of. If you’re interested, try Sertifier now!