Generate a Certificate of Completion Online
Four details become a landscape certificate of completion in 7 ordered sections, from the heading to the date, such as Jordan Lee for Advanced Project Management on July 25, 2026. Your template adds fonts, seals and signatures. Free in your browser.
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Worked example
- Recipient name
- Jordan Lee
- Achievement title
- Advanced Project Management
- Issuing organization
- Northwind Learning Institute
- Date
- July 25, 2026
- Document type
- certificate_of_completion
- Issued date
- July 25, 2026
Create a consistent certificate of completion from four essential details: the recipient, the completed course or recognized achievement, the issuing organization, and the display date. The generator validates those values and returns a structured document layout with ordered heading, presentation, recipient, recognition, achievement, issuer, and date sections. Use the result as a dependable source for an HTML template, PDF renderer, email attachment workflow, learning platform, or internal records system without rebuilding certificate wording and field placement in every application.
Prepare accurate certificate details
Begin with the recipient name exactly as it should appear on the finished certificate. Include preferred capitalization, middle initials, professional suffixes, and relevant diacritics at this stage because the generator preserves meaningful characters while cleaning unnecessary surrounding and repeated whitespace. Then provide a concise course or achievement title.
A specific title such as Advanced Project Management communicates more than a vague label such as Training Completed. Enter the formal public name of the issuing organization rather than an internal department abbreviation unless that abbreviation is genuinely part of the brand. Finally, supply the date in the display format your audience expects.
The date is treated as presentation text rather than interpreted or converted, so July 25, 2026 remains exactly that wording after whitespace normalization. Review spelling before submission. The service deliberately does not infer missing names, invent credentials, determine whether somebody earned an award, or verify organizational authority.
Empty required values are rejected, and an empty recipient name always produces an invalid input error instead of a misleading blank certificate.
Understand the structured layout
The response is a structured certificate document, not a pre-rendered image or PDF. Its layout declares landscape orientation, centered alignment, and an ordered list of semantic sections. Those sections identify the main Certificate of Completion heading, the introductory presentation line, the recipient name, the recognition phrase, the achievement title, the issuing organization, and the date.
Each important fact also appears in a dedicated normalized object, which makes downstream mapping easier for applications that do not want to inspect layout sections. A compact display text joins the four supplied facts for previews, search indexes, logs, or simple accessibility summaries. The generator assembles content hierarchy but makes no claim about typography, colors, seals, signatures, accreditation, or legal validity.
Your renderer remains responsible for visual styling, page dimensions, overflow handling, font embedding, print margins, and any authorized signature assets.
Render and integrate the result safely
Connect the returned sections to the components in your document template in their listed order. A web application can map each role to an HTML element and stylesheet; a document pipeline can place the same values into a DOCX or PDF template; and a learning platform can save the normalized recipient, achievement, issuer, and date fields beside its completion record. Always escape text appropriately for the destination format, especially when values originate from administrators, uploaded rosters, or external systems.
Test long personal names and long course titles in your chosen font so that wrapping does not cover borders, seals, or signature areas. If certificates need serial numbers, verification links, instructor names, scores, expiration dates, or cryptographic proof, add those in a controlled downstream system that owns the relevant records. This capability does not authenticate recipients or issue credentials by itself.
What you can do with it
Complete an online course workflow
Turn a learning platform completion record into consistent certificate fields ready for a branded renderer.
Recognize an internal achievement
Prepare a structured certificate for employee training, volunteering, workshops, or milestone programs.
Populate document templates
Map predictable semantic sections into HTML, DOCX, PDF, email, or print production templates.
FAQ
Does the generator verify completion or accreditation?
No. The caller is responsible for verifying the achievement and having authority to issue the certificate.
Will the date be reformatted?
No. The supplied date is normalized for extra whitespace but otherwise retained as display text.
What happens if the name is empty?
The certificate is not created. An empty recipient name is rejected with a clear message about the input, so you never end up with a blank certificate that only looks finished.
What details do I need to create a certificate?
Four: the recipient's name, the course or achievement title, the issuing organization and the date as you want it shown. The generator arranges them into a landscape, centered certificate of completion.
Does it produce a finished PDF or image?
No. You get the certificate's wording and section order, from the heading to the date, ready to drop into your own template, which takes care of fonts, colors, signatures and page size.
Related tools
For developers — API access
Everything on this page is available programmatically. This section is for teams who want to wire it into their own systems; everyone else can just use the tool above.
API endpoint
Prefer to automate it? One authenticated POST creates the task; the result comes back by webhook or a signed link. The same capability also runs here on the web, by email and from Telegram — and soon from our app too.
Call it from your stack
curl -X POST https://api.kit.forhosting.com/doc/certificate-generate \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $KIT_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"recipient_name":"Jordan Lee","achievement_title":"Advanced Project Management","issuing_organization":"Northwind Learning Institute","date":"July 25, 2026"}'const res = await fetch("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/doc/certificate-generate", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.KIT_KEY}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json"
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"recipient_name": "Jordan Lee",
"achievement_title": "Advanced Project Management",
"issuing_organization": "Northwind Learning Institute",
"date": "July 25, 2026"
})
});
const { task_id } = await res.json();import os, requests
res = requests.post(
"https://api.kit.forhosting.com/doc/certificate-generate",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['KIT_KEY']}"},
json={
"recipient_name": "Jordan Lee",
"achievement_title": "Advanced Project Management",
"issuing_organization": "Northwind Learning Institute",
"date": "July 25, 2026"
},
)
task_id = res.json()["task_id"]<?php
$res = file_get_contents("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/doc/certificate-generate", false, stream_context_create([
"http" => [
"method" => "POST",
"header" => "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("KIT_KEY") . "\r\nContent-Type: application/json",
"content" => '{"recipient_name":"Jordan Lee","achievement_title":"Advanced Project Management","issuing_organization":"Northwind Learning Institute","date":"July 25, 2026"}',
],
]));
$task = json_decode($res, true);body := bytes.NewBufferString(`{"recipient_name":"Jordan Lee","achievement_title":"Advanced Project Management","issuing_organization":"Northwind Learning Institute","date":"July 25, 2026"}`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/doc/certificate-generate", body)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("KIT_KEY"))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)Example request
{
"recipient_name": "Jordan Lee",
"achievement_title": "Advanced Project Management",
"issuing_organization": "Northwind Learning Institute",
"date": "July 25, 2026"
}Example response
{
"task_id": "tsk_a1b2c3d4e5f6a1b2c3d4e5f6",
"type": "doc.certificate_generate",
"status": "queued",
"_links": {
"result": "/tasks/tsk_…/result"
}
}The API is asynchronous: the call returns a task_id immediately and the result arrives by webhook. Polling is capped at 1 req/s per task.
Pricing
Published price — no tokens, no invented credits. A failed task is never charged.
Limits
max_mb | 25 |
max_pages | 200 |
Errors
| HTTP | Code | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
401 | unauthorized | Missing or invalid API key. |
402 | insufficient_balance | Your balance doesn't cover the task price. |
404 | unknown_type | That task type doesn't exist. |
429 | rate_limited | Too many requests. Use the webhook instead of polling. |
Technical notes
Understand the structured layout
Because the algorithm uses no current clock, random identifier, network request, model, or hidden state, identical normalized input produces identical JSON on every run.
Render and integrate the result safely
It provides a predictable document skeleton for one certificate per request at $0.002, helping teams separate deterministic content assembly from branding, rendering, delivery, record retention, and compliance decisions.
Technical questions
What does each request cost?
Each API request costs $0.002.
What happens if the recipient name is empty?
The request fails with an invalid input error because a certificate cannot be assembled without a recipient.
Does the result include a PDF or image?
No. It returns a structured JSON document layout that can be passed to your preferred renderer.