Run Employee of the Month, long-service milestones and sales awards from one HR export. Every certificate wears your company colours and carries a QR code to a verified story page your people can post on LinkedIn.
Recognition programmes stall when someone has to retype names every month. With Certale, the people team exports the winners, uploads one file, and the same branded design fills itself for each programme.
Pull the month’s names from your HR system, payroll or a nomination form. Any .xlsx or .csv works, with one row per person and headings on the first row.
Name, Award, Site and Email line up with the fields on the design. A Years column fills long-service numbers; a Result column fills sales figures.
Every row is previewed on your branded design. Missing emails, duplicates and blank results are flagged before anything leaves the building.
Pick a date and time, such as the first Monday at 9:00, or download a print-ready PDF for the team briefing. Each copy carries its own QR code.
Free: Bulk from Excel, 25 names a month · Pro: 300 names a month · Business: 1,000 names a month, plus email delivery in your organisation’s name. Compare plans
| Row | Employee | Award | Site | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marcus Bell | Employee of the Month | Harbour Street | Ready |
| 2 | Priya Nair | Employee of the Month | Old Town | Ready |
| 3 | Tomás Ruiz | Employee of the Month | Riverside | Ready |
| 4 | Chloe Adams | Employee of the Month | Station Quarter | No email |
| 5 | Kwame Asante | Employee of the Month | Lakeside | Ready |
Lands before the morning briefing at all six hotels. Chloe’s goes to print only, until her email is added.
certale.com/t/LV7M3B10“First award in eleven years of night shifts.”
Each certificate’s QR code opens a story page that belongs to the employee: the award, your company as the verified issuer, a line in their own words and applause from colleagues. When Marcus posts it on LinkedIn, his network sees a real person recognised by a real employer.
Marcus can post the link on LinkedIn or drop it in the team chat. People without the link won’t come across it.
The company issues the certificate; the employee owns the page. HR can’t make it public on anyone’s behalf.
Anyone can scan and verify a certificate for free, on every plan, without signing up.
Eight starting points from the 1,000+ in the app, from a monthly spotlight to a quarter-century seal. Your brand kit restyles any of them in company colours, fonts and logo.
Spotlight No. 13EnglishStage lights and a month medallion, made for Employee of the Month.
Tenure No. 12EnglishA big service number in a sunburst seal for 5, 10 or 25 years.
Summit No. 14EnglishA summit flag and a result badge for sales and target awards.
Pinnacle No. 17EnglishRising chevrons on a dark panel for leadership programmes.
Envoy No. 300EnglishGlobe line-art and gold serif for long, distinguished service.
Nine Box No. 700EnglishA talent grid that marks the future leader, for high-potential schemes.
Cascade No. 06EnglishSoft waves and a script name for a simple staff thank-you.
Spotlight No. 13العربيةEmployee of the Month written natively in Arabic, right to left.Seven examples, from a monthly award to a retirement send-off. The highlighted parts come from columns in your HR export, so the same wording works for every winner.
Congratulations to Marcus Bell, our Employee of the Month for October 2026, for making every late arrival feel expected and keeping the front desk calm through our busiest month yet.
Name one moment, not a quality. “Calm through our busiest month” gets reshared; “for outstanding work” is forgotten by lunch.
Lumen & Vale Hotels thanks Rosa Delgado for 10 years in the Old Town kitchen: countless breakfasts, two refurbishments, and every new chef she trained along the way.
Map a Years column to the big number on the design, and one batch covers 5, 10, 15 and 25-year milestones together.
Awarded to Daniel Okafor for reaching 142% of annual target and bringing in the three largest new accounts of the year.
Keep the figure in its own Result column, so the same design works for every rep, every quarter.
Presented to the Riverside Housekeeping Team for 4,200 rooms turned around this summer without a single late check-in.
Issue one certificate for the team noticeboard and one per member with the team’s name on it, so everyone gets a story page of their own.
This certifies that Nadia Karim completed our 18-month leadership programme and stepped up to lead Regional Operations across nine stores.
For programme awards, print the duration and the role it led to. Readers on LinkedIn want to know what it took.
With thanks to Peter Lowe, who welcomed guests at our Harbour Street door for 27 years and taught every new porter to do it with a smile. Enjoy every minute.
Send the story link round the team a week before the leaving do, so colleagues’ applause is waiting when the certificate is handed over.
تتشرّف فنادق لؤلؤة الخليج بتكريم مروان بلال بلقب موظف شهر أكتوبر ٢٠٢٦، تقديرًا لتفانيه في خدمة الضيوف، وروحه التي جعلت من كل إقامة ذكرى طيبة.
Write the month the way your country does: أكتوبر in Egypt and the Gulf, تشرين الأول in the Levant and Iraq. Keep one version of the design for each market.
Recognition lands twice: once when the certificate is handed over at the team briefing, and again when it is shared online. Every format comes out of the same batch, with the same QR code.
PDF and PNG come with Free. Pro and Business add print-quality export in every size, and PowerPoint for the all-hands deck.
Fits a standard certificate frame.
A sample year at one hotel group: six hotels, four programmes. On Pro you get basic analytics (opens and shares); Business adds full analytics (opens, scans, shares) with export, for your people reports.
Sample data. Lumen & Vale Hotels is a demo company, not a customer.Save the design once with your logo, colours and the manager’s signature. Each month, upload the new winners from your HR export, approve the rows Certale flags, and schedule the send. Only the names, sites and month change; the design and wording stay exactly as you left them.
The award, the name the person uses at work, the month or milestone, one specific reason, the date and a senior signature. A reason that names a real moment, such as a busy weekend or a difficult guest, is far more likely to be shared than a general line about hard work.
Use one long-service design and add a Years column to the export. Certale fills each certificate with that person’s number, so one batch can mix 5, 10 and 25-year milestones. Running it once a quarter picks up every work anniversary in that period.
Yes. On Pro and Business the brand kit keeps your colours, fonts and logo and applies them to any design, so every programme looks like it came from the same company. Pro also adds your logo to story pages; Business puts your brand on story pages and share images.
Yes, with email delivery on Business. Choose a date and time for the batch, such as the first Monday of the month at 9:00, and each person receives their certificate and story link in an email from your organisation. On every plan you can also download the batch and hand certificates out yourself.
No. Each employee chooses who can see their story page: Private (QR code only), Shareable (anyone with the link) or Public (on the Wall of Tales). The company issues the certificate but can’t change that choice. If they post it on LinkedIn, the post links back to a page that names your company as the issuer.
Pro includes basic analytics: opens and shares. Business adds full analytics (opens, scans, shares) with export, so you can compare Employee of the Month with long service or sales awards and bring the numbers into your people reports.
Single certificates are unlimited on Free, and Bulk from Excel covers 25 names a month, which is enough for a monthly award across several sites. Pro raises that to 300 names a month and Business to 1,000. Need more than 1,000 a month, or more seats? Talk to us.
GraduationA certificate and a story page for every graduate in the class list.
VolunteeringThank volunteers for their hours, roles and impact.
Training & CPDCompletion and CPD certificates with hours and dates.
Online coursesOnline and in-person courses, from bootcamps to night classes.
Events & conferencesAttendance and speaker certificates for every guest.
SportSeason awards, tournaments and personal bests.Start on Free with Bulk from Excel, 25 names a month, enough for a monthly award across several sites. Move to Pro or Business when long service and sales awards join the calendar.
