What's new in CertBox
September 2026
- Pay as you go - One certificate, £4.99. No monthly plan if you only do the odd one. See the prices
- Certificate re-issue - Correct or amend an issued certificate with confidence. The new one says what it replaces, and your customer is told.
- Competent person declaration - Signed before you issue and recorded on the certificate, not assumed.
- Scheme registration numbers - Name your scheme and the number goes on the document with it.
- Certbot - Our own quality control bot. It reads every form against the published standard, line by line, and finds the mistakes before your customer does.
August 2026
- Certificate fingerprints - Every certificate carries one. Anyone can check the copy in their hand is the one you issued.
- Take back a share link - Sent it to the wrong person? Pull it back.
- Download everything - Your whole account in one file, whenever you want it. No asking. Your data
- Renewal remindersPro - Your customer hears from you before their certificate runs out, so the job comes back to you next year.
- Unlimited properties - On every plan. The cap is gone.
July 2026
- Pipe sizing calculator - Whole installations, multiple runs, up to commercial sizes, on the BS 6891:2015 method. Free, no account. Open the calculator
- F-Gas leak check calculator - Charge to tonnes of CO2 equivalent, and the checking interval that comes with it. Open the calculator
June 2026
- CertBox Jobs - Find trade work near you, and hire when you are ready to build a team. Go to CertBox Jobs
- United States certificates - Fire pump, sprinkler testing, alarm records of completion, fire doors and more.
May 2026
- Open Certificate Standard - The trade had no agreed standard for what a digital certificate is, so we wrote one and published it for anybody to use. Read the standard
April 2026
- Board scanning (beta)Pro - Does what it says on the tin. Scan a board, and your values go into your next certificate form. How it works
March 2026
- Commercial gas certificates - CP15, CP16, CP17, CP44, CP2, CP43, CP26, CP3, CP4 and CP9. Browse the certificates
- Every gas certificate checked - Line by line against the official form, not an approximation of it.
- Smart notifications - See when a client has opened your quote or your invoice, so you know when to chase.
- Trade symbol guides - Free reference charts, drawn rather than photographed, for the board and the van. See the symbols
February 2026
- CertBox opened - Fill a certificate in on your phone, on site, and hand over a finished PDF.
- Quotes, invoices and card payments - The paperwork and the money in one place, and CertBox chases what you are owed. How it works
- Accounts integrations - Hook up to Xero or QuickBooks, and your invoices land in your books as you send them.
- Works with no signal - Fill it in down a cellar. It syncs when you come back up.