Recognize skills. Make them visible.

Digital credentials built on the Open Badges standard.
For formal micro-credentials or non-formal badges.
For organisations large or small — across Canada.

Try it for free for 60 days!

Features

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By Canadians, for Canadians.

Bilingual platform, local knowledge, global awareness.
Our secure technology is hosted in Canada and we respect the privacy laws of Canada and the European Union.

Our comprehensive onboarding service helps you get the most out of your investment from Day 1.

Innovative features and benefits

Multilingual badges: English, French, indigenous languages and global languages
Embedded endorsement by employers, accrediting bodies and other organisations. Support the quality and utility of your badges and micro-credentials
External alignment to key public frameworks for skills, standards and other important markers like the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Signal the relevance of your badges.
PDF badges that can work standalone or for sharing online. Unique to our technology - make it easy for your earners!

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Issue in many places, manage in one place

Recognize learning wherever it happens: face to face, mobile or web. CanCred Factory supports LTI integration and has free plugins for many popular eLearning systems.

With CanCred Factory as your recognition hub, you can meet your learners wherever they’re learning. Meanwhile, you maintain control at the centre. And your badges remain secure even if you change your eLearning system.

Free Passport Portfolio

CanCred Passport is our free companion service for badge earners to store and share them with the world.

CanCred Passport is much more than a simple badge wallet for sharing to social media - it’s a great place to build career portfolios for badges and evidence like uploaded documents and videos.

Help your badge earners show what they know. Soon to have a mobile app!

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Pricing

Free

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No budget

2 badge catalogue
5,000 badges issued/year
1 user account
No support

$ 0 CAD

Basic

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Limited budget

10 badge catalogue
5,000 badges issued/year
Badge application forms
Limited support

$ 350 CAD / year

Premium

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Getting serious

Unlimited badge catalogue
15,000 badges issued/year
Verified issuer
Milestone badges
Branding banners
Badge sharing
Standard onboarding
Standard support

$ 1,095 / year

OPTION:
Sub-organisations

60 day free trial

Pro

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Full throttle

Unlimited badge catalogue
50,000 badges issued/year
PDF badges
LTI integration
External alignment
Advanced reporting
Advanced branding
SMTP integration
Enhanced onboarding
Priority support

$ 2,150 / year

OPTIONS:
Enhanced sub-organisations
Community Spaces in Passport
Dedicated Passport
Badge record storage
Blockchain verification

Try Premium 60 days for free!

Plugins and Integrations

Plugins are free - download them from our Integrations page

Note: Integrations for Brightspace and Canvas require LTI integration, a feature available only at the Pro level.

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News

Mar 21, 2023

Customize your PDF badges!

CanCred Factory subscribers can now customize the look and feel of their PDF badges, right down to each individual badge! Using a combination of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and a templating language called Mustache, users can now style text and custom graphics to meet specific needs, combining static and dynamic content to make a single page certificate, a full version with all the badge metadata, or a combination of single page certificate AND the full metadata! Regardless, you can include a QR code and link that will take the viewer straight to the hosted credential for more details and verification.

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Mar 19, 2023

New feature - Send confirmation message to badge applicants

In addition to the default live confirmation that an applicant sees when a badge application has been sent, issuing organisations now have the option of attaching a confirmation message to their badge applications. Your badge applicants can immediately receive an email message confirming receipt of the application. This message includes a link to a read-only version of the badge application for their reference.

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Feb 7, 2023

HINT - A better way to share badges to LinkedIn

You can improve the user experience for your learners sharing badges and micro-credentials to LinkedIn by adding the 6-9 digit code that’s embedded in the admin’s URL for your company page on LinkedIn company page. This code can only be seen by the person with editing rights to the page:

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Detailed Feature Comparison

Want a custom free trial? Ready to subscribe? Contact us: info@cancred.ca

Feature	Free	Basic	Premium	Pro
Maximum badges you can create	2	10	Unlimited
Maximum badges you can issue¹	5,000 / year	5,000 / year	15,000 / year	50,000 / year (or more)
User accounts	1	Unlimited
User roles	Admin only	Admin only	Admin, Creator, Issuer
Create multi-lingual badges
Endorsements²
Templates
Issuer verification³	—	—
Milestones (Pathways)	—	—
Account setup & onboarding⁴	—	—	2 hours	4 hours
Ongoing support	—	Email - limited	Email - standard	Email - priority
Sub-organisations⁵	—	—	Standard	Distinct Branding
Badge sharing⁶	—	—
Branding banners⁷	—	—
Badge applications	—			Permissions QR codes
Advertise badges in Passport	—	—		Prime visibility
Editing/issuing permissions⁸	—	—	—
Issue PDF badges⁹	—	—	—
Alignment to external frameworks ¹⁰	—	—	—
RESTful API integration	Self-serve	Self-serve	Self-serve	Tech support, OAuth2
LTI services¹¹	—	—	—
SMTP email integration	—	—	—
OPTION: CanCred Passport Space¹²	—	—	—
OPTION: Dedicated Passport¹³	—	—	—
OPTION: Badge Record Store¹⁴	—	—	—
OPTION: Blockchain verification¹⁵	—	—	—
Reporting	Basic statistics	Basic statistics	Basic statistics	Report builder, CSV export
Annual cost ($CAD + taxes)	$0	$350	$1,095	$2,150

Maximum issuing limit can be increased at an incremental cost. Contact info@cancred.ca for details.
Endorse and be endorsed by other organisations, formally or informally. Endorsement is baked into the badge, adding to its portable value.
The stamp “Issuer verified by CanCred Factory” is displayed in the badge view, indicating that the organisation has been manually verified as a legitimate CanCred subscriber at Premium level or above.
Comprehensive onboarding service includes account creation, configuration, light branding, content templates, recorded platform tour and followup support for early tasks for the remaining time. Further task-based support is available in 10-hour bundles. Contact info@cancred.ca for details.
Delegate badge administration to sub-organizations inside your organization, such as faculties within a university or branches within a company. Each sub-organization has a distinct issuer name and URL. $350 per sub-organisation.
Share badges as copy or link with other issuing organisations on CanCred, to create distributed issuing networks.
Create a branded banner for more seamless communications with the badge earner, such as emails and the badge acceptance page.
Set individual or group restrictions on who can edit or issue a badge.
PDF badges can be downloaded for offline sharing and verification as standalone digital credentials, without the need for hosting. Upload PDF badges to Passport for sharing online as standard Open Badges. Get the best of both worlds for your learners!
Browse external frameworks from inside CanCred to align your badges to widely shared competencies, standards and other domains to increase the value and discoverability of your badges.
Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) enables integrations to LTI-compliant platforms, e.g. Brightspace and Canvas. No additional cost for integrations.
Branded community space or “miniPassport” on the CanCred Passport platform, to support and guide your badge earners after they earn their badges. Contact info@cancred.ca for details.
Dedicated platform for badge earners to accept, store and share badges you and partner organisations issue. Enables a badge sharing community. Contact info@cancred.ca for details.
Badge archiving service. Copies badge records to your own mirrored server as they are issued on Factory. Provides increased control over badge data and personal information. Contact info@cancred.ca for details.
Etherium blockchain verification technology for both image-based badges and PDF badges. A “content-blind” approach that maintains compliance with GDPR and other privacy regulations. Contact info@cancred.ca for details.

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