Release Announcements
This document provides information on features, improvements, bug fixes, and system updates included in each IAF CertSearch. Release notes are presented for changes and enhancements.
🎉 Mid-Year Product Update
Everything we shipped to IAF CertSearch for Verification Users in the first half of 2026.
🚀 New Export, on demand or on a schedule
Get a copy of your verification results, matched and unmatched. Export your Companies list with each record’s matching status attached, so verified suppliers and outstanding gaps are both accounted for in one file.
What you get
Your Companies including their certifications with matching status per record
Coverage
Matched and unmatched records, or filter to either
Formats
CSV, JSON, JSONL, XML
Delivery
Download, email, SFTP connection
Scheduling
Schedule presets, pause and resume
Managed in
Export Management
Availability
Paid plans
To learn more, see the Export
Still on Free? See what a paid plan unlocks here
🚀 New A search results page you can narrow down
Advanced Search has been rebuilt around a dedicated results page, so a search is now something you refine rather than something you re-run.
Filters that behave properly. Narrow your results by country and city. Each active filter appears as a pill you can change or remove individually, and the results rescope as you go.
Search the way you would say it. Search now works at keyword and phrase level rather than matching whole strings. Suggestions appear as you type, and the closest match is ranked first, so the company you meant is at the top instead of somewhere in the list.
Find a company under any of its names. Results now surface trading names and English names alongside the registered name. A supplier you know by its trading name will be found even when your records and ours use different versions of it.
To learn more, see the Advanced Search guide.
⚡ Improved Smarter, faster matching via API
If you match suppliers through our API, this is the largest change in the release. It is invisible in the interface and affects almost every result you get back.
Company names are compared properly now. Every company name in our database is stored in nine normalised forms. Accented characters are converted, legal suffixes such as GmbH or Pvt Ltd are stripped, country names and bracketed country codes are removed, and stray digits, spacing and trailing punctuation are levelled out. "ABC Industries GmbH" and "ABC Industries" resolve to the same company, and so do variants that differ only by accent, spacing or punctuation.
The name is no longer the only signal. Country, city and legal company identifiers all contribute to the result. A matching registration number gives you a confident match immediately. A city that does not match costs only its own share of the score rather than sinking an otherwise good result. Country is required, and a genuine country mismatch caps the score rather than being ignored.
You can see why something matched. Every match returns a confidence score and band, plus a per-factor breakdown showing which inputs contributed. You can tell a near certainty from a maybe, and audit the reasoning rather than trusting a yes or no.
About ten times faster. Large files used to mean starting a run and coming back to it later. Now they finish while you are still on the same task. Nothing to switch on, and nothing to change in your file.
To learn more, see the API guide.
Don't have API yet? contact us or upgrade your account to Enterprise
Full changelog
Export
Export your Companies list with each record's matching status
Both matched and unmatched records included in the file
Filter by matching status before exporting
Save your export settings as a reusable Data template
Save Email groups and SFTP connections as reusable Destinations
Verify a saved destination's connection before relying on it
Activities lists every run, filterable by delivery type, status and run type
Re-download a file from any run in Activities
In-app and email notifications when a run finishes or fails
Large exports process in the background instead of holding the page
Exports that would return zero records are blocked before they run
Emailed files reach recipients without a CertSearch account
Generated files expire after a set period and are marked Expired
Confidential company names and certificate fields are labelled, not blank
Advanced Search
Results page with filters you can apply, change, or clear individually
Country and city filters, with results rescoping as you go
Clear a filter from its pill without rebuilding your search
Keyword-level search with phrase suggestions as you type
Exact matches ranked first
Trading names and English names shown in results
Certificates surface when they match your applied filters
Certification number search with a distinguishing Certificate badge
Zero results returns a proper empty state
Available signed-out and signed-in, on desktop and mobile
Matching via API
Company names stored in nine normalised forms for comparison
Accents, legal suffixes, country names and stray punctuation levelled before matching
Country, city and legal identifiers added as scoring signals
Every match returns a confidence score and band
Identifier mismatch falls back to name and country
Match responses include a per-factor score breakdown
File upload returns the single best candidate per row
Bulk matching about ten times faster
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