A certificate anyone can verify, and a record behind it.
Every completion can issue a branded certificate with a unique number and a public verification link. Give it an expiry and the reminders go out on their own. Behind each certificate sits a record per learner and per organisation, on screen and as CSV.
A 30-minute walkthrough shaped around your programme. No card, no commitment.
What is on the certificate.
Your logo, colours and footer text on a preset layout, or stamped onto your own PDF design.
Expiry and renewal
Certificates that expire, and reminders that bring people back.
Give a course a validity period and every certificate carries a valid-until date. Reminders go to the learner at 90, 60, 30 and 0 days with their organisation manager copied, and each one links to the next date or the refresher module.
- A validity period per course
- Reminders at 90, 60, 30 and 0 days, with the manager copied
- Refresher versions of a course for renewals
- Renewals run as fresh attempts that keep the full history
Records
One record per learner, one view per organisation.
Every enrolment, attendance mark, exam attempt and certificate sits on one record per learner. Organisation managers see their own people. Reports cover completions, scores, attendance and expiry by learner, course and organisation, on screen and as CSV.
- Exam unlocks, transfers and attendance kept as append-only records
- Organisation managers see their own people only
- Every report exports to CSV
- Historic certificates imported with their original issue and expiry dates
What the regulators ask the learner for.
Hotline is not an accrediting body. Accreditation attaches to your content, through bodies such as the CPD Certification Service, BDA CPD Approval or RCN Accreditation, and you can show their mark on your course pages. The platform's job is the evidence.
NMC: nurses, midwives and nursing associates
35 hours of CPD over the three-year revalidation cycle, at least 20 of them participatory, with dated records of the method, topic, hours and evidence. A dated certificate, and an attendance record for a live session, are that evidence.
HCPC: dietitians and 14 other professions
A continuous, up-to-date record of a mixture of CPD activities, with a written profile on request. The HCPC sets no hours and approves no activities; it audits a random sample at each two-yearly renewal. Learners download each certificate from their own account.
Employers and auditors
The verification link lets an employer, an awarding body or an auditor confirm a certificate without an account: who it was issued to, for which course, when, and until when it is valid.
Where the CPD hours go
There is no dedicated CPD-hours field on the certificate. Put the hours and the format, "3 hours, participatory" for example, in the course title or the certificate footer text, and they print on every certificate for that course. Whether an activity counts towards a learner's CPD is for the learner and their regulator.
Certificate and record questions
Yes, through the course title or the certificate footer text, which print on every certificate for that course. There is no separate CPD-hours field today, so "3 hours CPD" in the title is the way to do it.
Yes. Every certificate carries a public verification link. The page confirms who it was issued to, for which course, when, and until when it is valid, with no account needed.
Yes. Certificates stay on the learner's account and download as PDF, and the verification page shows whether each one is still valid.
Yes. Give a course a validity period and every certificate carries a valid-until date. Reminders go out at 90, 60, 30 and 0 days with the organisation manager copied, and renewals run as fresh attempts that keep the full history.
Yes. Historic certificates come across by CSV with their original issue and expiry dates, so the reminders start from the right date and the learner's record is complete from day one.
No. Accreditation attaches to your content, not to the software. Bodies such as the CPD Certification Service, BDA CPD Approval and RCN Accreditation approve learning activities, and you can show their mark on your course pages. Hotline produces the evidence: the dated certificate, the attendance record and the report.
See your certificate on Hotline.
Bring your logo and a course title. We will issue a certificate on a demo academy and show you the record behind it.