Open Badge Factory
Digital credential management software
Talent management software
Training eLearning software
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What is Open Badge Factory
Open Badge Factory is a digital credentialing platform used to design, issue, and manage Open Badges for learning, training, and workforce recognition programs. It supports organizations such as training providers, educational institutions, and employers that need to award verifiable credentials and track issuance activity. The product emphasizes standards-based badge metadata and workflows for creating badge templates, issuing badges to recipients, and sharing badges to external channels.
Standards-based Open Badges support
Open Badge Factory is built around the Open Badges standard, enabling credentials to include structured metadata such as criteria, evidence, and issuer information. This helps recipients share badges in a portable format and supports verification use cases. Standards alignment can reduce lock-in compared with systems that rely primarily on proprietary credential formats.
Badge design and issuance workflows
The platform provides tools to create badge templates and manage issuance to individuals or groups. Issuers can organize badges into programs and manage recurring credentialing processes rather than issuing one-off certificates. This fits common training and internal recognition workflows where multiple badge types and cohorts are managed over time.
Multi-channel sharing and verification
Open Badge Factory supports recipient-facing sharing options so earners can publish badges to external profiles and channels. It also supports verification of issued badges through embedded metadata and verification links. These capabilities align with typical requirements in the credentialing category where third parties need to validate authenticity.
Limited full-suite talent features
While badges can support skills recognition, the product is not a full talent management suite with native recruiting, performance management, compensation, or workforce planning modules. Organizations seeking an end-to-end HR platform may need integrations with their HRIS or talent systems. This can add implementation effort compared with products positioned as broader talent platforms.
LMS depth depends on integrations
Open Badge Factory supports training and learning use cases, but it is not primarily a full learning management system for course delivery, assessments, and content management. Many eLearning scenarios require connecting credential issuance to course completion events in an LMS or training platform. The overall learning workflow quality therefore depends on available integrations and how they are configured.
Program analytics may be basic
Credentialing platforms commonly provide issuance logs and basic reporting, but advanced analytics (e.g., skills inference, labor market mapping, or deep cohort outcomes analysis) may require external BI tools. Organizations with complex measurement requirements may need data exports or APIs to build custom dashboards. This can increase ongoing operational overhead for analytics-heavy programs.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 (free level after trial) | Limited-feature free level available after the 60-day Pro trial; admin-only role at Free level; account can be frozen/reactivated. |
| Basic | €220 per year (credit card only) | 10 badge classes; issue up to 5,000 badges/year; badge applications; endorsements; admin-only role at Basic; unlimited user accounts; prices exclude VAT. |
| Premium | €700 per year (credit card) / €740 per year (invoice) | Unlimited badge classes; issue up to 15,000 badges/year; includes Basic features; meta (metamer) badges; user roles (admin, creator, issuer); sub-organisation add-on available (see below); prices exclude VAT. |
| Pro | €1,280 per year (credit card) / €1,320 per year (invoice) | Unlimited badge classes; issue up to 50,000 badges/year (can be extended); includes Premium features; PDF certificates; reports generator (CSV export); API integration; priority support; additional paid add-ons (Pro+Blockchain, Pro+Space, White-label Passport) — contact for quote; prices exclude VAT. |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing | Enterprise (contact sales) for customer-specific privacy/security questionnaires and large/custom deployments; contact vendor for quote. |
Additional noted add-on: Sub-organisation: 220€ + VAT (available as purchase for Premium and Pro accounts). Free trial: 60-day free trial at Pro level is available.
Seller details
Discendum Oy
Helsinki, Finland
Private
https://openbadgefactory.com/
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