Templates / Certificate
Certificate PDF API
Generate course and award certificate PDFs from JSON, with your brand color. Free for 50 documents a month.

1. Save this as certificate.json
{
"template": "certificate",
"data": {
"brand": {
"name": "Northwind Studio",
"color": "#0f766e",
"email": "billing@northwind.example",
"website": "northwind.example",
"address": [
"100 Market St",
"Denver, CO 80202"
]
},
"title": "Certificate of Completion",
"recipient": "Jamie Rivera",
"description": "for successfully completing the Advanced Data Visualization course (24 hours).",
"date": "October 15, 2026",
"signer": {
"name": "Morgan Lee",
"title": "Program Director"
},
"certificate_id": "NW-2026-00412"
}
}2. Render it
curl -X POST https://api.slipkiln.com/v1/render/template \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SLIPKILN_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d @certificate.json \ -o certificate.pdf
You get back a PDF. Change brand.color and brand.name to match your business. All text is HTML-escaped. Need a custom layout? Send your own HTML to /v1/render/html.