Create Professional Certificate Templates with Our Intuitive Builder
Make professional certificates that highlight your brand and improve your certification program. CertLister offers an easy-to-use template builder that gives you full creative control, so you don’t need design skills.

Design Certificates That Reflect Your Brand
Customizable Design Elements
Create certificates that fit your brand using our design toolkit. You can customize every detail, like background patterns, border styles, fonts, and colors. Our easy drag-and-drop interface lets you position elements easily, and our alignment guides help you achieve professional results every time.
Branding and Logo Integration
Improve your brand recognition by integrating your logo and maintaining a consistent visual identity. With CertLister’s template builder, you can easily upload your logo in different formats and place it within your certificate design. Use the color picker to apply your brand colors throughout the template, supporting hex codes, RGB values, and saved brand palettes.
Professional Template Library
Start your design process with our wide range of templates. You can browse many industry-specific designs grouped by category and style. Each template is fully customizable, so you can use it as it is or modify it for your own certificate design. We add new templates regularly to keep your certification program updated and appealing.
Flexible Certificate Template Features
Dynamic Field Insertion
You can personalize each certificate by using dynamic content fields that automatically fill in recipient information. Include standard fields like the recipient’s name, certificate ID, and issue date, or create custom fields for your certification program. CertLister formats the text to fit the available space, ensuring that all certificates look consistent, no matter how much content is included.
QR Code Integration for Verification
Make your certificates more trustworthy by adding built-in verification options. You can include customizable QR codes that connect directly to your certificate’s verification page. This allows recipients and third parties to quickly confirm authenticity using any smartphone. Adjust the QR code’s design to match your overall look while ensuring it is easy to scan.
Custom Signature Fields
Make your certificates more credible by adding digital signature fields. You can upload signature images from authorized issuers or create simple signature lines with typed names and titles. For high-security situations, use cryptographic digital signatures. These signatures help show that the certificates are authentic and have not been altered.
Streamlined Certificate Creation Process
Bulk Certificate Generation
Save time with our batch processing feature. You can create hundreds or thousands of certificates at the same time by uploading a CSV file with recipient details. CertLister uses your template for each entry, making personalized certificates that look consistent in design and layout.
Template Duplication and Editing
Keep your certificate designs consistent by using effective template management. You can copy existing templates to make different versions for various courses, achievement levels, or departments while keeping your brand elements intact. To ensure all templates reflect the latest updates, make changes to logos, signatures, or design elements across all templates at once.
Preview and Test Functionality
Improve your certificate designs by using preview options before you issue them. Check your templates as recipients will see them and test different data lengths to make sure dynamic fields display correctly. Preview your certificates on different devices to ensure they look good on all screens. Create test certificates with sample data to confirm that everything works properly before going live.
Certificate Templates for Every Need
Academic Achievement
Schools use CertLister’s template builder to create traditional and formal designs for diplomas, degrees, and academic honors. Our system supports official seals and multiple signatures while following academic formatting rules. This allows us to create credentials that look official and credible.
Professional Training
Training organizations create modern certificates that showcase professional development achievements. These certificates can include skill ratings, competency levels, and continuing education units. They provide important documentation that improves the recipient’s professional profile.
Corporate Recognition
Companies create certificates to recognize employees for their achievements, milestones, and completed training programs. These certificates often feature the company’s brand, specific elements for different departments, and levels of achievement. This helps to motivate employees and acknowledge their contributions.
Events and Participation
Conference organizers and event managers make certificates for attendance and participation. These certificates are memorable proof of involvement. They usually show the event’s branding, the date, and a personalized acknowledgment of each participant’s role.
Start Building Your Certificate Templates
Free Template Builder Access
Begin creating professional certificates today with CertLister’s user-friendly template builder. All plans include access to our core design tools:
- Free Plan: Create unlimited templates with standard design elements and basic customization
- Professional Plan: Access premium templates, advanced design features, and custom font uploads
- Enterprise Plan: Unlock white-labeling options, design API access, and dedicated design assistance
Template Builder Tutorial
Are you new to designing certificates? Our video tutorial shows you how to design a certificate, step by step. You will learn to choose a base template and finish your design for production. You can create your first professional certificate in less than 15 minutes.