Evalato’s Certificates take winner recognition to new heights

For most winners, the certificate is the one tangible thing they walk away with — long after the ceremony ends or the results page stops getting traffic. It's proof of the win: something to post on LinkedIn, frame in an office, or drop into a portfolio or client deck. That's why, right on the heels of making your entry data smarter, we're making your winners' experience better, too: Certificates is live in Evalato. 

Design it once. Evalato takes care of the rest.

Upload the certificate you've already designed into a template, and let Evalato handle the personalization for every winner:

• Upload your own design — the certificate you've already created, exactly as you designed it.
• Add placeholders — drop them anywhere you want entrant data to appear: name, category, or any other field from your entry form.
• Auto-fill per winner — Evalato pulls the right value for the right winner, every time. One template, endless personalized certificates.

However many entry fields your certificate needs, the setup stays the same: build it once, and it's ready for every program you run. And the best part? It doesn’t matter whether you're recognizing a single winner or crowning a thousand. 

Catering to multiple-winner programs

Picture a program with 600 categories and a host of award tiers — Gold, Silver, Bronze, Grand Prix. That's easily 100+ winners to recognize, and manually creating a certificate for each one isn't a job anyone wants.

• Assign it to an award — link your certificate template to the award it belongs to.
• Scale without extra effort — works the same whether you have 10 winners or 1,000.
• No design work per winner — the template does the personalizing, not you.

That's less time spent on production and more time spent picking the right moment for your results and winners announcement.

Built for agencies running programs at scale

If you're an agency running an awards program on a client's behalf, everything you produce reflects on that client's brand — including what winners walk away with. A generic or hand-edited certificate undercuts the professional program you were hired to deliver.

• On-brand, every time — winners get a certificate that matches the program's identity, not a generic template.
• No manual production — set the template up once per program, and every winner's certificate is generated automatically.
• Scales across clients — if you run multiple programs for multiple clients, each keeps its own branded template without extra work on your end.

That's one more part of the program you can hand off to Evalato, freeing you up to focus on running the parts that need your attention.

A better experience is a reason to come back

Winners don't have to wait on you to send their certificate:

• Self-serve download — they log into their Applicant portal, head to Certificates, and download it themselves.
• Ready to share — pre-filled and polished, ready for LinkedIn or a portfolio.
• A better ending — it's one more reason your Applicant portal keeps doing its job well after judging ends.

Small as it sounds, this detail’s often the last thing a winner remembers about your program — worth getting right. Compare that to a delayed email or an inconsistent, hand-edited document, and the difference in how professional your program feels is obvious. 

A polished last impression is part of what brings entrants back to submit again next edition — and what makes them recommend your program to others.

One feature to do the job of two

This update also marks the end of public tags. They served as a less sophisticated way to flag winners on entries and lists, but Awards now covers that ground properly — and then some. An award can mark an entry with a label and a visual badge, control exactly where that recognition is visible, and now trigger a certificate, too. 

Rather than maintain two separate ways to flag a winner, we've folded that into Awards, making it the one, more complete feature for recognizing winners across your program.

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What's next

Certificates is live now. Head into your program's Winners section to set up your first template. Questions? Book a demo, and we'll walk you through it.

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