Certifications

The Certifications provide access to the certificates uploaded by your organization, which they have issued to the Certified Entities. The certification data is collected and imported through Manual Data Entry, File Upload, FTP or API.

In this section, you'll have the ability to manually manage the certification data.

Note: Adding Certification data requires Certified Entity Information.

View Certificates

To view the list of certificates, click 'Certifications' from the left pane navigation.

This page includes the following information:

Column Name	Description
Certificate Status	Current standing of the Certified Entity's certification. Certificate status dataset: active, inactive, hidden, cancelled, withdrawn, cbwithdrawn, suspended, pending, deleted, or expired
Certificate Number	Certificate Number that appears in the issued certificate
Confidential	Permission to access the Certificate Information in public
Expiry Date	Date on which the validity of the certificate expires.
Accreditation Body	Name of the Accreditation Body
Certified Entity	Name of the Certified Entity to which the certificate is issued to
Site Location	Number of accredited sites in the issued certificate
Updated at	Date on which the certification data is updated
Created at	Date on which the certification record is created

To learn more about the Certification data fields, click here.

This section also provides the ability to view and manage individual Certificate information.

Managing Individual Certification Data

Add Certificate

Add Multiple Standard

Add Additional Site

Edit Certificate

Edit Additional Site

Delete Certificate

Delete Additional Site

Managing Certified Entity data through Data Import

Before importing data through Data Import, ensure to learn about the IAF CertSearch Data Format and Structure, such as Certificate File Format, Certificate Template, Manage Data in Excel, and Manage Data in XML.

Data Import Methods

File Upload

FTP

API