Generate PDF Certificates for Your Online Course

Introduction Completion certificates are one of the most tangible rewards you can offer students who finish your online course. They validate effort, look good on a LinkedIn profile, and give your platform a professional edge. The problem is that creating them manually does not scale. Once you have a few hundred graduates per cohort, opening a design tool and swapping out names is no longer an option. In this tutorial, you will build a certificate generation pipeline with DocuForge that handles everything end to end. You will design a polished certificate template with Handlebars placeholders, embed a QR code that links to a verification page, generate a single certificate to test the flow, and then batch-generate certificates for an entire cohort in one API call. You will also add draft watermarks for preview mode and wire up email delivery so each student receives their certificate automatically. By the end, you will have a production-ready system that turns a list of student records