Design
Upload your own artwork or start from a template, then place names, dates, QR codes and seals by drag and drop.
- Long names shrink to fit automatically
- English, Bangla and right-to-left Arabic layouts
- Badges in three shapes and levels
Digital credential platform
Credentials the world can verify.
Meritleaf is for universities, institutes and training providers. Design certificates and badges, issue them to one person or ten thousand, and give every recipient a page that anyone can check in seconds.
Free for up to 250 credentials a year. No card required.
Valid credential
- Signature
- Matches issuer key
- Revocation
- Not revoked
- Checked
- Just now, no login
Built on open standards
Open Badges 3.0W3C Verifiable Credentials 2.0Bitstring Status ListEd25519 signaturesThe platform
From first design to employer check, in one place.
Issue
Issue one by one, from a spreadsheet, through the API, from your LMS, or let people request their certificate through a form.
- Typos, duplicates and missing fields caught before anything is sent
- Branded emails with reminders for unopened credentials
- Expiry dates, renewals and corrections
Verify
Every credential gets a public page that checks the signature, expiry and revocation live. No login, no phone calls.
- PDF, image and signed JSON downloads
- One-click “Add to LinkedIn profile”
- A recipient portal with all their credentials
Track
See what happens after you issue: opened, viewed, downloaded, added to LinkedIn and shared.
- Analytics per template and over time
- Webhooks to your own systems
- A tamper-evident audit trail of every action
Trust
A credential is only as good as the proof behind it.
Meritleaf signs every credential with a key that belongs to your institution. Anyone can check it independently, and it keeps working even if you change platform.
- 01
Issue
Your organisation's key signs each credential the moment it is issued.
- 02
Hold
The recipient keeps a public page, a PDF with a QR code, a LinkedIn entry and the signed file.
- 03
Verify
Anyone checks the signature against your public key. Any Open Badges 3.0 verifier can do it too.
- 04
Revoke
Withdraw a credential and every later check shows it, without revealing anyone else's status.
- Cryptographic signature on every credentialINCLUDED
- Revocation and expiry checked on every viewINCLUDED
- Encrypted connections and encrypted signing keysINCLUDED
- Two-step sign-in for every userINCLUDED
- Roles, team invitations and audit trailINCLUDED
- Full export in open formats, any timeINCLUDED
- SAML single sign-onIN DEVELOPMENT
- Apple and Google Wallet passesIN DEVELOPMENT
For institutions
Built for organisations that answer to regulators.
Awarding bodies, universities and professional institutes need more than a certificate generator. They need control over who issues, evidence of every decision, and credentials that survive an audit.
- Roles for every team memberOwner, admin, issuer and viewer, with invitations and two-step sign-in.
- Requests with approvalLearners request a certificate through a form; nothing is issued until you approve it, or they enter an access code you gave them.
- Audit trailA hash-chained log of who issued, corrected or revoked what, and when. Edits to the log are detectable.
- Revocation with reasonsWithdraw a credential after an appeal and show verifiers the reason you choose.
- No lock-inDownload every credential as signed files plus a spreadsheet. They verify without Meritleaf.
Why institutions switch
What buyers tell us, and what we do about it.
| Need | What buyers report today | With Meritleaf |
|---|---|---|
| Price clarity | Prices only after a sales call, onboarding fees, and long contracts. | Public prices, a free plan and no onboarding fee. |
| Add-ons | Custom branding, your own sender name and a verified issuer badge sold separately. | Branding, sender name and verification are part of every plan. |
| Open standards | Older badge formats that a third party cannot check on its own. | Signed Open Badges 3.0 by default, verifiable with any compatible tool. |
| Leaving | Exports that leave the credentials behind, so switching takes months. | Full export of signed credentials whenever you want it. |
| Mistakes | A typo in a spreadsheet becomes a wrong certificate in someone's inbox. | Every row is checked before anything is sent, and corrections reissue cleanly. |
Pricing
Transparent, with nothing held back for an add-on.
Every plan includes the full product. Plans differ in how many credentials you issue each year, team seats and support.
Free
Everything you need to start
$0forever
250 credentials a year
- The full product: designer, templates, badges
- Signed Open Badges 3.0 and verification pages
- Spreadsheet issuing with checks
- Your logo, colours and sender name
- Reminders, expiry, request forms
- API, webhooks and LMS triggers
- 1 seat
Professional
For a single institution
$129a month, billed yearly
2,500 credentials a year
- Everything in Free
- 5 seats
- Email support within one working day
- Help setting up your first templates
- Invoice or card payment
Business
For large and growing programmes
$349a month, billed yearly
10,000 credentials a year
- Everything in Professional
- 20 seats
- We migrate you from your current platform
- Onboarding call with your team
- Priority support
Enterprise
For awarding bodies and universities
Custom
Volume pricing
- Everything in Business
- Unlimited seats
- Data processing agreement
- Security questionnaire support
- Single sign-on (in development)
- Named account manager
Prices in US dollars, excluding taxes. Start on Free and move to a paid plan from Settings → Plan at any time; we invoice and switch you over the same day.
Global by design
Every script, every direction.
Most platforms are designed in English first. Meritleaf lays out right-to-left scripts correctly and uses proper typefaces for Bangla and Arabic, for institutions that award in more than one language.
EnglishবাংলাالعربيةUrduHindiEspañolFrançais
Filled: certificate layouts available today. Outlined: planned.
Verify a credential
Received a Meritleaf certificate?
Enter the credential ID printed under the QR code, or paste the credential link, to see whether it is genuine.
Questions
What institutions ask before they switch.
What is Open Badges 3.0, and do we need it?
It is the current open standard for digital credentials, built on W3C Verifiable Credentials. Each credential is cryptographically signed, so anyone can check it without contacting you. You do not need to understand the technology: Meritleaf signs every credential this way and explains it to recipients in plain language.
What happens to our credentials if we leave?
You can export everything at any time as signed files and a spreadsheet, and those files keep verifying with any standards-based tool. After an account closes, its verification pages stay online for 12 months so recipients are not left with broken links.
How do we move from our current platform?
Export your recipients from the old platform as a spreadsheet, create a template in Meritleaf, and upload the file. Meritleaf checks every row before issuing. On the Business plan we do the migration with you. Start before your old contract ends, because some platforms remove access when an account is cancelled.
Can learners request their own certificate?
Yes. Each template can have a public request form. Requests wait in a queue for your approval, or are issued instantly to people who enter an access code you gave them.
Does it connect to our LMS?
Every template has its own trigger link. Any LMS, Zapier or Make workflow that can send a webhook can issue a credential when a course is completed. There is also a full REST API with webhooks on every plan, including Free.
Where is our data stored?
On servers in the United States, with encrypted connections, encrypted signing keys and daily backups. See our Privacy Policy for details, and ask us if you need a data processing agreement.
See Meritleaf with your own credentials.
Create a free account and issue your first certificate in ten minutes, or book a 30-minute walkthrough with your own template and recipients.