Issuing as yourself or as an organization

Every certificate names its issuer. You can issue in two ways.

• As yourself: available as soon as you confirm your email. Certificates show your name and say the issuer is an email-confirmed individual.
• As an organization: your organization's name appears on certificates once its application is approved.

You don't have to decide up front. Start under your own name, and if an organization is approved later you can move your certificates to it, as long as none have been sent yet. See Move certificates to your organization.

Choose according to who takes responsibility

Use personal issuing for an award you give in your own capacity. Use organizational access when a university, society, employer or training provider is the issuer. An organization's name on the artwork is not a substitute for issuing under that organization's account: the signed record and verification page identify the actual issuer.

A Passport, a personal issuer identity and membership in an organization serve different purposes. You can receive certificates and work with an issuer from the same sign-in. Before creating or sending a set, check which issuer workspace is active, especially if you belong to more than one team.

If your organization already uses Nyvarra

Ask an existing owner or admin for access rather than creating another account for the same organization. Your personal account remains yours; the organization's sets, templates and records belong to its workspace. See Invite your team.

Moving from personal preparation to organizational issuing

Wait for the organization to be approved, then use the unissued set's Settings to move it. People and settings move with the set, but you must choose an appropriate design from the destination organization's library. Review the complete certificate again under the new issuer before sending.

Once certificates have been issued, moving the set is blocked. Changing your account name or joining a team cannot retrospectively change the issuer of a signed certificate.

Individuals can add supported identity proofs without becoming an organization. Read Identity proofs and issuer standing for what those proofs mean.