Guidance Required for Building an Automated Certificate Issuer Using Fluent Forms Pro & PDF feed
Dear Fluent Forms Support Team,
I hope you are doing well.
I am a Fluent Forms Pro user and would like to build an automated certificate issuance system using the existing features available in Fluent Forms.
My objective is to create the following workflow:
- A participant submits a registration or attendance form.
- A unique certificate number is generated automatically.
- A professionally designed certificate is generated as a PDF using a custom certificate layout.
- The certificate is automatically emailed to the participant.
- Different certificate templates can be used for different events or forms.
- Certificates can be re-generated or re-sent from the admin panel when required.
While exploring the PDF module, I noticed that it primarily uses HTML/CSS templates. I was wondering if there is any existing functionality or recommended approach to achieve the following without relying on custom coding:
- Upload a certificate background designed in Canva and place dynamic fields visually.
- Create or manage multiple certificate templates.
- Automatically position participant details, event details, dates, and certificate numbers on the certificate.
- Generate sequential certificate numbers.
- Trigger certificate generation only after specific conditions are met (such as payment completion or admin approval).
If these capabilities are already possible using Fluent Forms Pro, I would greatly appreciate any documentation, tutorials, or best practices that you can share.
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If some of these features are not currently supported, I believe a built-in Certificate Builder with a visual drag-and-drop designer would be an excellent addition to Fluent Forms, as it would benefit event organizers, NGOs, educational institutions, trainers, and membership organizations who already rely on Fluent Forms for registrations.
Thank you for your support. I look forward to your guidance on the best way to implement this using the existing Fluent Forms platform.
Kind regards,
Rajesh Salian
Founder, www.servicejournal.org
There isn't anything any way to do this without custom coding, you would need to extend the base PDF class and create your own PDF.
If you're open to doing this with another plugin, I'd recommend FlowMattic. They recently released a new version that I think has all the features you need. Here (https://flowmattic.com/pdf-template-builder/) is more detail.
Thanks, but i have the solution within Fluentforms & the team has suggested me the best approuch & its doing quite well.