How to Use Accredible?

Accredible is an application to efficiently design, send, and manage digital credentials: education certificates and badges. It can be used as a web application but its APIs allow for integration with other tools such as WordPress or other Learning Management Systems (LMSs) such as Canvas.

They also offer insights about the information related to certificates such as Job Market Insights, to let their customers know about the impact of the credentials and accurate analysis tied to skills, and marketing features.

How does Accredible work?

Inside the application, you can design your certificates or badges as you can see below. Although it is a good tool for creating certificate and badge designs, it seriously lacks the variety in template designs. Although it may seem unimportant at first glance, a well-designed certificate is much more effective in achieving its objectives.

After your design is completed, you are asked to create a group of receivers and then you can bind the group with the credential and then complete the issuing. While creating the group, you can assign the skills associated with the education activity that the certificate represents. This will later on allow Accredible to analyze the data and offer you the related insight and skills reports. Groups will look like this, in your dashboard, once they are created. You can directly add the receiver’s information as an Excel Spreadsheet file, which makes it easy and fast to use.

After the issuing is completed, you can track your credentials: how many have you issued in a week, month, etc., and share on social media such as Linkedin. You can see that part of the dashboard below.

There’s also an analysis tab on the navigation bar, which allows you to access a little bit more on recipient engagement and marketing reach. However, this site does not provide that much information on both ends, which is a tad unsatisfying.

Is there an Accredible alternative? Meet Sertifier

Sertifier is one of the strongest alternatives to Accredible. It covers everything Accredible provides to its customers and adds more on top.

Accredible has a designer, as explained earlier. However, the lack of different design templates and the limitations in changes to be made are problematic. Sertifier contains lots of professional-looking certificates, with a superior design tool that allows for more changes such as colorings, etc.

Groups and credential systems may be understandable for an experienced user in Accredible, but it does not clearly direct the user to the necessary tabs in the menu. Sertifier has better on-site navigation that creates less user friction.

Maybe the greatest advantage that Sertifier allows for its customers is that it offers a broader and more detailed report section. Sertifier, with its extensive skill library and unique algorithms, can give a better understanding and mapping of skills provided and how the future should look in the sense of course planning. It also has a superior marketing analysis that allows for platform-based analysis and more.

Finally, there is the pricing. Accredible prices by recipient count on an annual commitment and does not publish its rates on the website, which can put it out of reach for smaller issuers. It does offer a free trial covering up to 20 recipients, per its help center. Sertifier is free for up to 250 unique recipients per year, then $1 per unique recipient per year beyond that, with volume discounts at higher tiers. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.

Weighing a move? The Accredible alternatives guide compares six options honestly on pricing, standards, and fit.