A Certificate of Authenticity for every order, automatically

Yes. Authentica: COA Certificates is live on the Shopify App Store at apps.shopify.com/authentica-coa-certificates with a free plan available. The merchant guide walks through the designer, verification and provenance end to end.

No. Every certificate carries a serial number, a QR code, and a cryptographic signature and fingerprint, all hosted on your own store. There is no wallet, no NFT, no blockchain, and no fee per certificate.

No. Authentica ships with starter presets for jewelry, watches, fine art and prints, luxury fashion and handbags, sneakers and streetwear, collectibles and trading cards, autographs and memorabilia, wine and spirits, coins and bullion, and handmade and artisan goods, plus a general preset for antiques, rare books, instruments and any brand where authenticity matters.

By default the certificate is revoked automatically and its verification page shows it as revoked, so a refunded item can never be passed off as still certified. You choose the rule in Settings: revoke the whole order, revoke only the refunded pieces, or never revoke automatically.

Yes. Ownership transfer records a new owner on the certificate, and the provenance trail shows every previous owner, so the certificate travels with the item rather than staying with the original buyer. You decide who can transfer: the holder of the private certificate link, only you from the admin, or on Pro a verified flow where the current owner confirms, the new owner accepts and you approve.

Yes. Cap an edition (for example 150 pieces), issue every numbered certificate before the sale by hand or by CSV import, and on Starter and Pro give each order a pre-issued piece automatically or assign a specific piece to an order. Numbers are never reused, and a lost certificate can be replaced while keeping the same piece, number, owner and history.

Yes. One setting keeps current and former owner names off the public verification page and the certificate shown online. Email addresses are never shown publicly. On Pro you can also store private dispatch, return and complaint photos per piece that only you can see.

Yes. Every plan exports certificates, ownership history and the full change log as CSV. Starter and Pro add print-ready SVG and PNG QR files, and Pro adds a full JSON export and certificate pages on your own subdomain, so printed QR codes stay under your control.

The admin is available in 13 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Czech, Danish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic. What buyers see, the public verification page and the certificate emails, is available in 15 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Danish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic, including right-to-left Arabic.

50 certificates a month, auto-issued on every paid order and emailed to the buyer in your own words, with the full drag-and-drop designer, your logo, colours and custom fields, QR verification, numbered editions, past orders and CSV import, ownership transfer and provenance, QR labels and packing slips, Insights, and Klaviyo, webhook and Shopify Flow events. Starter removes the Authentica branding and adds the edition register tools. Pro adds the white-label page, the Developer API, verified transfers, activation checks, private photos and your own domain.

Yes. A drag-and-drop designer with a live preview lets you place your logo, colors, custom fields and wording exactly where you want them, choose from 30-plus fonts, upload a custom seal, and pick a theme and paper size.

Yes. Printable QR labels are available for products and packaging, and a Liquid snippet adds a scan-to-verify QR code to your packing slips.

Yes. In-person sales through Shopify POS auto-certify like any other order, and staff can look a certificate up by serial number in the Authentica admin.

Yes, on every plan. Certificate events (issued, first verified, ownership transferred and problem reported) go to Klaviyo, to your own webhook URL for Zapier, Make or your backend, and to Shopify Flow as triggers.

Yes. Set your own subject, heading, intro, button label, sender name and reply-to address, so replies reach your support inbox. It works on every plan, and Send test email shows exactly what buyers will get.

On Starter and Pro, a public lookup page on your store lets anyone pick the edition and type the piece number, such as 042 of 150, to open that piece's current certificate. A serial lookup page works on every plan.

Yes. Turn it on in Settings and Authentica adds a My certificates page and a certificate block on each order to Shopify customer accounts, on every plan.

Yes. Back-catalog issuance certifies every past paid order in one run, so every customer you have ever had can end up with a certificate.

No. A buyer opens the verification link or scans the QR code in their own browser. There is no account, no app to install, and no crypto wallet.

Yes, on every plan. Each verification page carries machine-readable schema.org Product and provenance data, every certificate has a Digital Product Passport record, and items with a GTIN get a GS1 Digital Link. The Ed25519 signature is the integrity proof, with no blockchain. See the DPP guide.

Yes. From a certificate's detail page you can write its verification URL directly to an NFC tag on Web NFC compatible devices, or copy the link as a fallback.