Marriage certificates

The marriage journey (counseling, banns, ceremony) ends with a certificate worthy of the name: premium templates, real customization, and an authentication QR.

Pick a template

1. Open the couple's journey (Members, then Marriages), Certificate tab.
2. The template gallery offers the official designs (Golden Heritage, Royal, Modern, Botanical, Watercolor, Art deco). New templates arrive regularly, with no update on your side.
3. Click a template: the default texts adapt to your church's language.

Customize

1. Accent color: keep the template's color or pick your own (gilding, rules and ornaments follow).
2. Preamble, verse and church mention are FREE text zones: rewrite them entirely - every church has its own wording, blessings and mentions.
3. Vows, officiant and witnesses come from the marriage journey: nothing to re-enter.
4. "Save settings" stores the template and texts on THIS certificate.

Print and authenticate

1. Print / PDF renders the certificate in A4 landscape, identical on screen and on paper.
2. A discreet QR code sits in the footer: scanning it opens your church's public verification page (same system as official letters and receipts). Authentic, revoked or unknown - without ever exposing the content.
3. The certificate's unique number sits next to the QR.

Certificates issued before this version remain valid: open them, pick a template and reprint.

Issuing = locking (anti-forgery)

1. As soon as a certificate is printed with its authentication QR, it is issued and locked: no longer editable, no longer deletable. This guarantees that a scanned certificate matches exactly what was delivered.
2. Need a correction (typo, couple's request)? An administrator can unlock upon express request: the reason is required and kept on the certificate. Reprinting locks it again.
3. Deleting an issued certificate requires the same unlock, and revokes its QR: an already distributed paper copy will show "revoked" when scanned.