Can I use my own certificate design?
Yes. Upload a PNG or JPG certificate with blank spaces, then place CSV fields such as name, course, date, and award on top of it.
Use cases
CSV certificate generator
Make personalized certificates from a spreadsheet.
Batch, Please turns a list of students, attendees, graduates, or award winners into finished certificate PDFs. Upload a CSV, choose a certificate design or bring your own PNG/JPG, place the fields, and export up to 500 certificates per batch.
Teachers and trainers
Course creators
Award coordinators
What it solves
Replace manual personalization with a repeatable CSV flow.
- Typing every recipient name into a certificate by hand
- Duplicating one design hundreds of times
- Finding long names only after the PDFs are exported
Example CSV columns
Bring the fields you already track.
full_namecourse_namecompletion_dateaward_titleinstructor
Each column can become a text field on your design. You decide where it appears, how it is styled, and how overflow is handled before export.
Workflow
From spreadsheet to finished PDFs.
The same process works whether you start with a built-in design or upload your own PNG/JPG artwork.
- 1
Export your spreadsheet as a CSV with one recipient per row.
- 2
Choose a built-in certificate or upload your own certificate background.
- 3
Place name, course, date, and award fields where they belong.
- 4
Preview real rows and fix any text-fit warnings before export.
Export options
Download the format that fits the job.
One combined certificate PDF
Separate certificate PDFs in a ZIP
Letter-size certificates from your own design
Questions
Answers for this use case.
How many certificates can I generate at once?
You can process up to 500 CSV rows per batch and export either one combined PDF or separate PDFs.
Does Batch, Please replace mail merge for certificates?
For simple certificate batches, yes. It is built for CSV-to-PDF personalization without Word mail merge, formulas, or account setup.
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Excel to certificate
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Google Sheets to certificate
Turn a Google Sheet into personalized certificate PDFs. Download the sheet as CSV, place your columns on a certificate design, and export every row at once.