Every V-Cert certificate carries a number and a QR code, and both lead to the same place: the V-Cert certificate portal. Anyone can check a number there — a buyer, a compliance desk, a shopper. No account, no fee, no request to us.
This page checks the SHAPE of the number and opens the portal in a new tab. Whether a certificate exists, and what it covers, is the portal’s answer — never ours.
Five things to check before you trust a mark, shown on an example certificate — a number that has never been issued, drawn by the same component that draws a real one.
V-Cert · Certificate of conformity
US-V-0926-0001
Example Foods Ltd.
12 SKUs — plant-based snack range, one manufacturing site.
Standard
V-Cert Vegan Standard · v1.0
Mark
Vegan
Valid from
Valid until
CertifiedScan to open the verification portal
Hover or tab through the five checks — the matching part of the example lights up.
Example certificate US-V-0926-0001 — this number has not been issued to anyone, and the company on it does not exist. Every field is drawn by the same component that draws a real one.
Anyone can check — including with assistive technology.
Status is always an icon plus a text label — never color alone.
Every QR code is paired with a typed certificate number that reaches the same place.
The whole flow works by keyboard, with a visible focus ring and a skip link on every page.
0926First issuedMonth and year the certificate was first issued, not the renewal date.
0001SerialFour digits. It stays with the certificate through every renewal.
The number above is reserved as an example and has never been issued.
What the portal shows
The holder, the mark, the product scope the certificate covers, the standard it was reviewed against, the validity dates — and the status, which is the part a printed document can never keep up with.
CertifiedIssued and in force for the scope and dates shown on the record.
SuspendedTemporarily on hold pending corrective action — the mark may not be used.
RevokedWithdrawn by V-Cert. The certificate is no longer valid.
ExpiredPast its valid-until date and not renewed. The record stays available.
No result
If the portal comes back empty
An empty result is not an error message and it is not a verdict. It means the portal holds no certificate under that number — which happens when a digit is wrong, when the certificate was issued by a different body, or when the number was never issued at all.
Check the number against the document in front of you first. If it still returns nothing and the product carries a V-Cert mark, tell us: a mark on a product with no certificate behind it is exactly what this system exists to catch.
