Documentation
How to use the platform
A step-by-step guide for anyone submitting projects and certificates as a certification body.
Project
Create and submit a project for review
Register a new project with its data, its location and the fields the chosen methodology asks for, then send it for review.
Bind another methodology to a project
Associate a second methodology version with a project that already exists, and send that association for review.
Attach photographs to a project
Add, order and caption your project's photographs — up to twenty, one of them marked as the cover.
Track a project's status
Read the status badge, the pending items and the history of a project under review.
Certificate
Register a certificate
Issue a certificate for an approved project, with its declared data, the initial holder and the required evidence.
Track a certificate's status
Read the status badge, the pending items and the history of a certificate under review.
Transfer a certificate to another holder
Move an active certificate to a new holder, with the document that proves the transfer.
Declare the retirement of a certificate
Consume an active certificate on behalf of a beneficiary, permanently, with the reason and the document that prove the retirement.
Certifier
Account
Registry terms
- Certification body
- An accredited organization that reviews a project and, once approved, issues a certificate on its behalf.
- Project
- An area and an activity declared by a certification body, reviewed before any certificate can be issued over them.
- Methodology
- The set of rules that defines what information a project must declare and how its outcome is assessed.
- Certificate
- The record issued for an approved project, carrying a declared volume and a public history of everything that happens to it.
- Transfer
- A change of a certificate's holder, recorded publicly.
- Retirement
- The act that permanently ends a certificate's use — after it, the certificate can no longer be transferred or retired again.