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.
The personal verification page confirms the current status. PDFs and images can lead there through a QR code or verification URL. OneClickBadge also embeds Open Badge data in the PNG when the export supports it.
Save and share the file. Check its current status on the linked verification page.
Visible in a prominent spot, verifiable through a fixed address.
Create an attendance certificate and hand it to everyone
Create an event and open its dashboard. In Certificates, create a type with its own title. A certificate design is created automatically. Adjust its template, event colors and format there. Open the editor for further changes.
Publish the event and share the type’s redemption link with eligible participants. Each person enters their name and, if required, your event code. This creates their personal verification page. “Add to LinkedIn” opens the prefilled form. Guests check the details and save the entry.
Participants need no OneClickBadge account. They save the PDF and PNG immediately after redemption. Returning to their personal URL opens the public verification view with sharing, a QR code and the LinkedIn icon.
An event can have up to twelve certificate types, each with its own redemption link. You can pause redemption or require a shared event code. The code does not verify attendance. The window normally ends 120 days after the final event day and can be extended to a maximum of 365 days.
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.
The verification page survives normal event deletion. Revocation marks the credential as invalid. When deleting an account, the issuer can also delete issued certificates, so continued availability is conditional.
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 credential 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 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 credential for an achievement or for 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 credentials 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 verification 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 is the more prestigious 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 credential at any time. An administration link explicitly shared by the account owner also lets colleagues help without signing in themselves.
- How can you tell it's genuine?
- The personal verification URL leads to the hosted Open Badges 2.0 assertion and shows its current status. A saved file can contain a link or QR code to this check. The issuer’s page provides the confirmation.
- What happens when a certificate is revoked?
- You can withdraw a certificate. After that, the credential URL reports that it is no longer valid rather than confirming 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 credential 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 their credential. For a short after-work get-together with no learning content, a certificate is usually too much.
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Details about external platforms last checked on July 12, 2026.