Certificate of award template

A landscape A4 certificate of award with a double decorative border, corner ornaments, a large Mincho title, award name, recipient, citation, date, and the presenter with a seal box. Suitable for company awards and competitions.

  • A4 landscape
  • 9 merge fields
  • Issued as PDF
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  • Company names, people, addresses and amounts in the sample are fictional.
  • The sample layout is in Japanese. You can change any text in the template editor.
Sample of the certificate of award template (first page of a PDF issued with DocRelay)

Use cases

  • Annual employee awards and long-service awards
  • Bulk certificates for competition winners
  • Certificates of appreciation and merit

Merge fields

The data fields you send to the API. Fields inside an array are shown as array.field.

FieldDescription
numberCertificate number
awardAward name
recipient.departmentRecipient department
recipient.nameRecipient name
bodyCitation text
awarded_atAward date (YYYY-MM-DD)
issuer.companyPresenting organization
issuer.titlePresenter title
issuer.namePresenter name

How to use it

  1. In the dashboard, choose Create template, select "Start from a template" and pick "Certificate of award". The layout and sample data are copied into your project.
  2. Edit the company name, logo and field positions in the template editor to match your own format.
  3. Send the template name and data to POST /v1/renders to issue a PDF.

With a test API key (sk_test_) you can issue documents from the draft. Publish a version before issuing with a production API key. From an AI assistant, specify the same template in the from of the MCP create_template tool.

Create and issue via the API

Create a template by setting from to the template ID (certificate-award) in POST /v1/templates, then send the template name and data to POST /v1/renders.

1. Create a template from the ready-made one
curl https://api.docrelay.jp/v1/templates \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DOCRELAY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "name": "Certificate of award", "from": "certificate-award" }'
2. Send data and issue a PDF
curl https://api.docrelay.jp/v1/renders \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DOCRELAY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @certificate-award.json \
  -o certificate-award.pdf
certificate-award.json (sample data; arrays show the first item and long text is shortened)
{
  "template": "Certificate of award",
  "format": "pdf",
  "data": {
    "number": "2026-012",
    "award": "年間優秀社員賞",
    "recipient": {
      "department": "営業本部 第一営業部",
      "name": "山田 太郎"
    },
    "body": "あなたは本年度において、新規取引先の開拓と既存顧客との信頼関係の構築に尽力され、部門の売上目標の達成に多大な貢献をされま…",
    "awarded_at": "2026-12-18",
    "issuer": {
      "company": "サンプル商事株式会社",
      "title": "代表取締役社長",
      "name": "見本 一郎"
    }
  }
}

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