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If your organisation issues certificates, this platform offers numerous features to facilitate the process, including the management of recipients and collection of useful data.
Certificates are issued from certificate schemes, so you'll need to set one of these up first if you haven't already.
It is possible to issue test certificates to check the settings of your scheme.
In the scheme drop-down menu there are options to issue a test certificate to an organisation and to an individual. These get sent to your own organisation or yourself respectively, so the issuing process populates the name with your organisation name or 'Test Recipient', but allows other dummy information to be entered as you see fit or require based on your scheme. Once issued, they will appear on your received certificate page (either your own organisation's or your personal one depending on the certificate issued). You can then view them and check them.
The test certificates are marked with a demo (test) icon. They are grouped in your demo/test certiicates folder on your issued certificates page. They do not incur a charge to issue and they can be deleted by you afterwards via the respective actions menu on your issued certificates page. Test certificates mimic real certificates in other ways (such as visibility, expiry, use of smart badges, etc) so that you can test different features depending on your scheme's settings.
Test certificates are included in the analytics data so that that you can see them working and contributing to the appropriate datasets and graphs. When you delete a test certificate, the data will no longer be included. Therefore, it is recommended that you delete your test certificates before using the analytics data for reports about offical certificates, etc.
We also delete test certificates from time-to-time to reduce unneccessary load on the system and for general housekeeping. Typically we delete test certificates that are over one month old.