How to Automatically Generate Teachable Certificates?

Teachable is a great platform for running online courses. It gives you everything you need to build, sell and manage learning experiences, but it’s missing one surprisingly important piece: a solid built-in certificate tool that will make your Teachable certificates fully-branded and professional.

Teachable lets you add your logo, colors and issue certificates, but every course creator using the native tool ends up with the same three templates and the same rigid layout. That means your certificate looks just like thousands of others. There’s no design freedom, no verification and no way to scale.

It becomes more than a limitation, it’s a lost opportunity to deliver high-quality branded certificates that set your course apart from the rest.

When connecting Teachable with Certifier, a modern certificate management platform, you don’t have to choose between a powerful course platform and professional certificate automation. You can have both.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to create Teachable certificates using Certifier, so you can decide which approach fits your course and your goals best.

Can you create a certificate in Teachable?

Technically, yes. Teachable lets you generate certificates of completion using one of three built-in templates.

You can access them under your course settings—add a logo, change the text and send automatically once the course is finished.

But here’s the catch: every Teachable course creator is using the same layouts, and there’s no way to redesign them beyond surface-level tweaks.

Even when you upload your logo or change colors, the certificate still looks like every other Teachable certificate template out there.

Want to use custom fonts? You’ll need to know Liquid or HTML. Want to update certificates in bulk, add verification or automate the process for hundreds of students? That’s simply not possible inside Teachable.

The result? Generic, static PDFs that fail to convey your course quality or your brand.

Teachable without Certifier vs Teachable with Certifier

Before opting to create a custom certificate of completion in Teachable, please go through these limitations you may face.

Here’s a brief table for a quick comparison.

Below are the Teachable gaps that Certifier can bridge:

Only three editable certificate templates → Hundreds of professionally-designed, customizable templates

Rigid layouts and limited branding options → Full creative control over fonts, colors, logos, layout and certificate elements

No verification or QR codes → Certificate ID, verification URL and scannable QR code

No automation or bulk issuing → Seamless automation—set it up once and branded, personalized Teachable certificates will be sent on auto-pilot

No personalization at scale → Dynamic attributes automatically personalize each Teachable certificate PDF with learner data

No dashboard to manage credentials → Certificate dashboard with filters, stats and engagement tracking

Teachable certificate PDFs that students forget about → Digital credentials learners actually share on LinkedIn or other social media

No storage or access after download → Certificates are saved to a secure digital wallet students can access anytime

In short, your students receive a professional-looking credential they can actually use—instantly accessible from their email or digital wallet and ready to share on LinkedIn.

Want to see the difference for yourself?

At first glance, both are certificates. But only the Certifier one:

Is truly branded and tailored—the logo is big, the colors are branded and there are course-specific, personalized details

Includes verification option

Looks polished enough for LinkedIn, resumes or sharing online

Reflects the actual quality and professionalism of your course

Would you like to create certificates like the one on the left? The good news is it’s much easier than it looks. In the next sections, we will guide you through the setup and will cover all the most important details.

How to issue branded Teachable certificates automatically with Certifier?

There are two ways to connect Teachable to Certifier: natively through Certifier’s dashboard (our recommended route), or externally through a third-party connector like Zapier. However, both methods start the same way—with your certificate design.

Starting point: Design a branded Teachable certificate { Design a branded Teachable certificate using templates }

Unlike Teachable’s built-in tool, which limits your layout and branding options, Certifier gives you complete creative freedom and automation in one place. You’re not stuck with fixed templates or static PDFs.

You get editable designs that match your course branding and a backend system that handles issuing and tracking for you.Here’s what you can do to create custom certificates:

Log in to Certifier

Log in to Certifier or sign up if you don't have an account yet.

Choose a template

Go to the Designs templates and filter templates by category, style, color or the layout.

You can browse the templates in the Certifier certificate templates gallery t’s filled with editable designs suitable for any event and style.

All are free to use and fully customizable. You’ll find options tailored for coaches, educators and course creators of all kinds.

Customize the design

Use Certifier’s drag-and-drop certificate design editor to match the credential to your brand. With our flexible layout, you can adjust the Teachable template however you want it to be:

Create your credential template

Your design is ready, but Certifier issues credentials from a credential template, so the last step is to add your design to one. A credential template represents a course or program, and every credential for it is issued from the same template. It’s also what the integration connects to in the next section.

In Certifier, go to Credentials, then Credential Templates, and click Create Credential Template

Name the template after your course, for example “B2 English Course”

Click Add to Credential Template and select the design you just created

Fill in the Info & Appearance section, including the description, so the credential page explains what learners earned

Save the template

With the template in place, you can connect Teachable. Choose one of the methods below.

Method 1: Issue certificates directly from Teachable {Use native Certifier-Teachable integration}

This is the most direct way to issue Teachable certificates. Teachable and Certifier connect through Certifier’s Automations, with no connector tool in between. It works in a straightforward way: when a student completes your course, Certifier issues the credential from your template and automatically emails it.

For this integration to work you need to have:

Certificate template ready

Teachable school on the Growth plan or higher.

Now, let’s see how the integration can be set up in under 10 minutes:

Step 1: Create a Teachable API key

Certifier needs permission to see when your students complete a course, and an API key is how Teachable grants it.

Step 2: Create the automation in Certifier

Now switch to Certifier. The Teachable template does most of the setup for you.

Step 3: Connect Teachable and choose your course

This step links your Teachable account and tells Certifier which course to watch. Each automation monitors one course, so you’ll repeat the setup for every course you issue credentials for.

Step 4: Set up the credential

Next, decide what each student receives and how it reaches them. Leave the issue date empty. Certifier will use the date it processes the completion, which avoids a mismatch, because Teachable sends a date with a time and this field accepts only a date.

Step 5: Activate the automation

Once you activate the automation, it runs on its own.

Click Save & Activate

Give the automation a name you’ll recognize later

Click Confirm & Activate

From then on, Certifier checks Teachable for new completions about every 15 minutes. When it finds one, it creates the credential from your template and emails it to the student. Learners can access the Teachable certificate online via the certificate credential portal. It’s a secure, cloud-based place to store credentials.

Both email sending and the credential portal support your branding. You can include your logo, use your brand colors, and customize the email text to match the tone of your course.

And anyone can verify the Teachable certificate online by scanning the QR code or using the one-click verification feature in the digital wallet.

Learners can also share their Teachable certificate of completion directly to LinkedIn and other social media. It’s a promotional opportunity. Every share on social media increases visibility for your course and attracts new sign-ups without paid ads.

Method 2: Issue Teachable certificates via Zapier { Connect Teachable with Certifier via Zapier }

Zapier is a good fit if you already run your automations there, or want certificates to be one step in a larger workflow. It works as a connector, so you’ll need a Zapier account alongside Teachable and Certifier. If you’d rather skip the extra tool, Method 1 connects the two directly.

The video below shows how Certifier connects with Teachable through Zapier, from designing the certificate to the moment a student receives it. It also covers the student’s point of view, so you know what lands in their inbox.

Prefer to read? With your certificate design ready, the setup takes five steps.

1. Create a new Zap in Zapier

Head to Zapier and click Create Zap. Use the AI Copilot to describe your goal—e.g., “Send Certifier certificates after Teachable course completion.”

2. Choose Teachable as the trigger app

Set the trigger event to Course Completed and connect your Teachable account.

3. Set Certifier as the action

Search for Certifier and choose the Create Group and Issue Credential actions. You’ll be able to assign a certificate template and add a unique Learning Event URL.

4. Customize your certificate settings

In the Certifier setup, choose:

Group Name (it's the same as the Credential Template name)

Certificate Design (pick from your Certifier library)

Learning Event URL (auto-filled from Teachable course info)

5. Test and publish your Zap

Zapier will walk you through a test. Once everything’s working, click Publish and you’re done.

How to create a certificate of completion inside Teachable?

If you’re ok with all the limitations that Teachable offers, you can create and issue a Teachable certificate of completion directly from your course settings. Here’s how to set it up in a few steps:

1. Go to your course

Open your course in the Teachable dashboard. In the left-hand menu, click Certificates.

If it’s your first time, you’ll see a message saying “You don’t have any certificates yet.”

Click the green button to start.

2. Choose a template

Pick one of Teachable’s default templates or select “Create a custom certificate” if you know Liquid/HTML. Click Next to continue.

3. Customize your Teachable certificate template

Add your logo, edit the certificate title, add the recipient’s name, date, course name and signature. Teachable’s editor gives you a basic layout. Once you're done with editing a Teachable certificate template, hit Finish in the top right.

Your Teachable certificate of completion will now be automatically sent to students once they complete your course.

4. Manage your teachable certificate sample

In the certificate dashboard, you can view all the certificates you’ve created and issued for a course in one place.

Use the three-dot menu next to any certificate to edit, deactivate or delete it as needed. Unfortunately, the certificate management features end here.

The process may seem fast and simple, but the reality is that Teachable doesn’t offer a professional, branded certificate experience.

If your course has hundreds of students, managing tasks like adding expiration dates, verification elements and sending branded certificate for Teachable can take not even hours, but business days.

Teachable certificate automation at its finest with Certifier

You can generate Teachable certificates using the platform’s native tool, but with one simple step, you can do much more. Teachable and Certifier work as a powerful duo, giving you everything you need to deliver branded, professional certificates that are true to the value of your course.

Through the Teachable integration, Certifier helps you turn a standard course completion into a standout post-course experience. You can automate delivery, track engagement, add your branding across email and wallet views and turn every certificate into a promotional tool through LinkedIn and social sharing.

The setup takes minutes—the benefits last much longer. Sign up for Certifier and start generating Teachable certificates.