A countdown for every card, because the spreadsheet never told anyone.

CertKeeper is made by Sweet Cat Software LLC, a small software company in Arizona. It is built and run by Philip Damra, who answers the email address at the bottom of this page.

Why it exists

Every business in a regulated trade keeps a list of expiring things: forklift cards, medical certificates, food handler cards, CPR, background checks, licenses. The list usually lives in a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet does not look at itself. The lapse is found by the inspector, the auditor, the licensing consultant, or the roadside stop, which is the most expensive way to find it.

CertKeeper does the one thing the spreadsheet cannot: it looks at every date, every morning, and tells the right people in time to act. Everything else in the product, the library of certification types, the renewal history, the compliance matrix, the reports, exists to make that reminder easy to set up and easy to prove.

How it is built

CertKeeper runs on Amazon Web Services in the United States. Your organization's records are kept apart from every other customer's, documents are stored privately and encrypted, and you can export everything you have entered at any time. The details are on the security page.

The certification type library, 346 types across 36 industries with their usual validity periods and the regulation behind each, is maintained by hand. If you find a mistake in it, please say so; it gets fixed for everyone.

Contact

Questions, feedback, or a certification type that should be in the library: hello@certkeeper.co. A person reads it.