Badge Engine – Digital Promise

Badge Engine

Badge Engine is an open-standards digital badging platform built to help organizations create, issue, and manage trusted credentials at scale—empowering earners everywhere to own and share their achievements.

New Badge Engine Services

Digital Promise is preparing to launch Badge Engine SaaS-hosted services this fall, marking an important step in expanding how skills and learning are recognized worldwide.

Want to be an early adopter and help us build the future of digital badges?

Real credentials for real achievements.

Badge Engine credentials legitimize skills, increase earner ownership, and improve outcomes across every stage of life.

  • Students: Share academic credentials, learning experiences, and achievements beyond the degree.
  • Workforce: Document skills, recognition, and memberships to demonstrate readiness for new roles and industries.
  • Industry Members: Validate certificates, licenses, and credentials to advance professional standing.

Why Badge Engine?

Designed around three core principles that make digital credentials more valuable for issuers, earners, and the broader ecosystem.

Platform Features

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  • Open Standards: Fully compliant with 1EdTech Open Badges 3.0 and W3C Verifiable Credentials, making every badge portable and universally recognizable across institutions and industries.
  • Verifiable: Every badge embeds secure, tamper-proof metadata that instantly authenticates the issuer, the earner, the timeline, and the criteria.
  • Earner Controlled: An integrated dashboard ensures long-term access and allows earners to decide when and where to share their credentials.
  • Scalable Infrastructure: Flexible, user-friendly SaaS platform designed to support diverse badging programs at scale.
  • Built for real-world needs: Our active Beta Community of practitioners shaped how Badge Engine was built and continues to evolve.
Source Code & Technical Documentation

  • Organizations and engineers who have the technical expertise to implement open-source products can access and download Badge Engine on Digital Promise’s public GitHub repository, where all the technical documentation is available.
  • Digital Promise Help Desk: Digital Promise’s Help Desk, which is our customer service portal, provides articles and resources about our products, including Badge Engine-specific articles.
Badge Engine provides

  • Technology infrastructure for creating and issuing digital credentials
  • Credential hosting and award delivery
  • Earner access to share and download credentials
  • Onboarding and platform support

Your organization owns

  • Built inside of Badge Engine:
  • Credential content and criteria
  • Awarding decisions
  • Managed outside of Badge Engine:
  • Learning content and delivery
  • Assessment and review processes
  • Other communication with your earners and community

Ready to make learning visible?

Whether issuing badges or designing pathways, Digital Promise is ready to collaborate.

  • SaaS Hosting & Platform Access: Self-managed, integrated environment to create, host, and issue badges without infrastructure overhead.
  • Pilot Access: Test out the tools before you commit to a subscription.
  • Onboarding Support: Dedicated time with a Customer Success Manager.
  • Data Migration: Optional support to transfer existing badging program data.

Badge Engine Ambassador Program
Help shape the future of digital credentialing, alongside practitioners doing this work across sectors. Badge Engine Ambassadors champion the next generation of global skills recognition and receive exclusive Ambassador benefits.

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