Dock Certs
Decentralized identity solutions
Identity management software
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$499 per month
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- Education and training
- Professional services (engineering, legal, consulting, etc.)
- Real estate and property management
What is Dock Certs
Dock Certs is a verifiable credentials product from Dock that supports issuing, holding, and verifying tamper-evident digital certificates using decentralized identity standards. It targets organizations that need to deliver portable credentials (for example, education, training, membership, or compliance attestations) that recipients can present to third parties. The product centers on W3C Verifiable Credentials and decentralized identifiers (DIDs), with wallet-based presentation and verifier workflows. It is typically used to reduce reliance on direct database lookups by enabling cryptographic verification of credential authenticity.
Standards-based verifiable credentials
Dock Certs is built around W3C Verifiable Credentials and DIDs, which helps credentials remain portable across systems that implement the same standards. This approach supports offline or low-connectivity verification scenarios because authenticity can be checked cryptographically. It also enables selective disclosure patterns depending on the credential format and verifier requirements.
Issuer, holder, verifier workflows
The product focuses on the end-to-end lifecycle: issuing credentials, enabling recipients to store them, and providing verification tools for relying parties. This aligns with common enterprise credentialing use cases where multiple external verifiers need to validate the same credential. It can reduce repeated manual checks by standardizing how proofs are generated and validated.
Cryptographic integrity and auditability
Credentials are designed to be tamper-evident, allowing verifiers to detect modification and confirm issuer authenticity. Revocation and status checking patterns are typically supported in VC ecosystems to manage credential validity over time. This is useful for time-bound certifications and compliance attestations where ongoing validity matters.
Ecosystem and adoption dependency
Value depends on counterparties (wallets, verifiers, and partner systems) supporting compatible VC/DID standards and profiles. In many industries, interoperability still varies by implementation choices (schemas, signature suites, status methods). Organizations may need partner enablement work to achieve broad acceptance.
Integration and governance effort
Deployments often require decisions about credential schemas, trust frameworks, key management, and revocation/status policies. These governance elements can be as complex as the technical integration, especially for multi-organization ecosystems. Teams may need additional identity and security expertise beyond typical IAM administration.
Less suited for core IAM functions
Dock Certs focuses on credential issuance and verification rather than full workforce/customer IAM capabilities like SSO, adaptive access, and directory management. Organizations commonly still require separate identity management software for authentication and access control. As a result, it may complement rather than replace existing IAM stacks.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Trial | 30 days free (test environment) | Unlimited issuance & verification inside test environment; API Test Network access; Production credentials: 0; intended for evaluation. |
| Build | $499 / month | Includes 250 production credentials per month; unlimited test credentials; API Production Network; W3C-compliant verifiable credentials; mobile SDK; encrypted cloud storage; white-label mobile wallet available (6-month commitment). |
| Scale | Custom (contact sales) | Custom production credentials & volume pricing; dedicated support, onboarding & training, account management and enterprise features; contact sales for pricing. |
