The Certifications Catalog: Why R2v3 and B Corp Live in the Same List
How the certifications catalog works, why it covers the niche ones too, and what verified status actually does.
ITAD is one of the few industries where the difference between two companies is mostly which audit they passed last. R2v3, NAID AAA, ISO 14001, e-Stewards, B Corp, ADISA, RIOS, WEEELABEX — the procurement officer at a major bank cares about which of these you hold, because their compliance team will ask, and they don't want to be the team that picked an ITAD partner who couldn't produce the certificate when it mattered.
The certifications catalog ships with the major standards built in, each with the issuing body, the scope, the typical renewal period, and a slot for the certificate document itself. It covers the ones every ITAD has heard of. It also covers the niche ones — because if your warehouse holds a regional certification that isn't on the global list, it still matters when it matters.
What's in a certification record
For each certification a company holds: the standard (linked to the catalog row), the issuing body, the certificate number, the issue date, the expiry date, the scope (which sites, which activities), and a link to the actual certificate PDF stored in evidence. Optional: the auditor's name, the report URL, internal notes for the next renewal.
Verified status
A certification record can be marked "verified" by a platform admin who has actually looked at the certificate document and confirmed it matches the catalog standard. Verified certifications carry weight in the trust score (up to 10 bonus points, category-weighted). Unverified certifications appear on the company profile but don't contribute to the score — because anyone can claim a certification, and the difference between "claimed" and "verified" is the whole point of having a catalog.
When a certification flips from verified to expired (or vice versa), the trust score auto-recomputes — the F3 trigger handles it. So a seller who lets R2v3 lapse drops in the rankings the same week the cert expires, not the next time someone manually pokes the score.
The niche ones
The catalog supports adding org-level custom certifications for the standards nobody else has heard of. WEEELABEX. ADISA Distinction. ISO 27001 with a specific Annex A scope. The custom certs don't get verified bonuses (the platform admin can't reasonably verify a standard they don't know), but they appear on the profile and on tender responses. Because procurement teams ask about them, and "we have it but it's not in the platform" is a worse answer than "yes, here it is."