Attendance certificates your guests show on LinkedIn
After a good event, your guests want to show that they were there. With OneClickBadge you issue an attendance certificate for exactly that, and your attendees add it to their LinkedIn profile through a pre-filled form, into the Licenses & certifications section. Verifiable through hosted Open Badges 2.0, with as little personal data as possible, and revocable at any time.
Why a certificate does more than a PDF in a folder
A Word template ends up as a nice-looking PDF. It goes into a folder, and after that nobody looks at it again. It sits there quietly, impossible to find and with no proof behind it.
An attendance certificate from OneClickBadge is something your guests make visible themselves: they open it through a link and add it to their LinkedIn profile through a pre-filled form, right where a course certificate would sit too. The record then lives somewhere other people actually see, not as a file that gathers dust on a hard drive.
On top of that comes verifiability. The certificate lives at a fixed web address, as a hosted Open Badge. Anyone who wants to know whether it is genuine follows that address and sees that you issued it. A PDF cannot do this. It can be copied and altered, but there is no way to check it.
A file no one can find and no one can verify.
Visible in a prominent spot, verifiable through a fixed address.
Create an attendance certificate and hand it to everyone
First you create the attendance certificate in the look of your event, with your logo, title and date. The onboarding walks you from a blank page to a finished design in a few minutes.
Then you share a link with your attendees, by email or right after the event. Each recipient opens the link and lands on a permanent page with their certificate. From there, a tap on “Add to LinkedIn” opens a pre-filled form. Your guests check the details and save the entry in the Licenses & certifications section.
Your guests need no account for this and install nothing. Anyone who comes back to their certificate page later finds it at the same address.
What the certificate is and what it isn't
The certificate is confirmation from you as the organizer that someone took part in your event. In the industry this is called a certificate of attendance, and that is exactly what it is. It is not a degree, not a test, and it carries no grade.
And it does not come from LinkedIn. The platform checks nothing and awards nothing. It only provides the feature that moves your certificate into the profile, and the Licenses & certifications section where it then appears. The proof behind it is yours. You say who was there, and you stand behind it with your name.
We show step by step how your guests enter the certificate in the guide to adding an event certificate on LinkedIn.
What the certificate shows
The certificate carries the details that matter: the name of your attendee, the event title with its date, you as the issuer with your name and logo, and a fixed web address where the certificate can be verified at any time.
That address stays put. When someone opens it, they see the event details and the proof that you issued the certificate. We deliberately keep personal data to a minimum here: the public page shows only what the proof needs.
What your attendees receive
As soon as someone redeems the certificate, they can add it straight to LinkedIn, save it as an A4 PDF or download it as a PNG. After that the fixed verification page stays reachable. It shows which organizer the proof comes from and whether it is still valid.
- Entry on LinkedIn: open the pre-filled form, check it and save
- A4 PDF: for the personnel file or as proof of training
- PNG with Open Badge data: to file away and to import into other badge services
- Fixed verification page: publicly verifiable and revocable when needed
Which events it pays off for
An attendance certificate fits anywhere people invest time and then want to show that they were there: conferences with a specialist program, webinars whose attendees need the proof for their own professional development, workshops and training courses where a record of what was learned helps afterward. It works at trade fairs too, for exhibitors and trade visitors alike, and at association meetings, where attending already means something.
The more your event counts toward your guests' careers, the more they want to make it visible. A certificate gives them the reason and gives you a mention in their profile along the way.
What an Open Badge is
An Open Badge is a digital proof of an achievement or an attendance, in an open, machine-readable format. Unlike an image or a PDF, the badge carries its own details inside it: who issued it, to whom and for what. These details can be checked, because the badge sits at a fixed address that leads back to the issuer.
OneClickBadge uses hosted Open Badges 2.0 for this, a widely used standard for proofs like these. Many education providers use the same standard for their courses and qualifications. So your certificate stays a valid record that others can check, even outside LinkedIn.
Before the event and after
The certificate is one half. The other comes before the event: with a shareable badge, your speakers, guests and exhibitors make their attendance visible ahead of time, in the look of your event and with their own photo and name. For presenters there is the badge for your speakers, for everyone else the “We're attending” template.
The recipient completes either one through a link and posts the result on LinkedIn. That way your event shows up in feeds weeks in advance, and once the last session ends, the certificate follows on. What sits behind the shareable image and how you build one is explained on the page Create a LinkedIn badge.
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No account for attendees · a free account to issue them
The permanent, public proof page of a certificate, just as others see it.
Frequently asked questions
- Certificate, confirmation or record of attendance: what's the difference?
- They almost always mean the same thing: proof from the organizer that someone was there. The record of attendance is the plain, administrative form, the certificate the representative one. At OneClickBadge the same document sits behind both terms. Which details and wording belong on it is covered in the guide Certificate of attendance: wording and examples.
- Is the certificate checked or recognized by LinkedIn?
- No. LinkedIn checks nothing and awards nothing here. The certificate is confirmation from you as the organizer that someone took part. LinkedIn only provides the feature your guests use to enter it in their profile, and the Licenses & certifications section where it then shows. The proof and the responsibility rest with you.
- Who needs an account?
- Your attendees do not. They open the certificate link, enter their name and receive their certificate, with no account and nothing to install. You as the organizer create, design and manage the certificates with a free OneClickBadge account. That keeps your event tied to your account and lets you revoke a proof at any time.
- How can you tell it's genuine?
- Every certificate sits at a fixed web address, as a hosted Open Badge under version 2.0 of the standard. Anyone who opens that address sees the event details and that you stand behind it as the issuer. This cannot simply be recreated the way a PDF can, because the check always leads back to you.
- What happens when a certificate is revoked?
- You can withdraw a certificate. After that, the verification address reports that it is no longer valid rather than confirming an attendance. The entry in the LinkedIn profile does stay, because you cannot delete it there, but the check clearly shows the revocation. That keeps the proof honest.
- Who is it worth it for?
- For every event where attending means something to the guests. Conferences, webinars, workshops, training courses, trade fairs and association meetings. The more your program targets a professional audience, the more attendees want to show the proof. For a short after-work get-together with no learning content, a certificate is usually too much.
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