Certification status

Orijin does not store certifications as separate records with scans and expiry dates. Each supplier simply has a certification status.

This is a deliberate simplification: the status is what gates buying decisions and what buyers ask about, so the status is what the product stores.

Set it on one supplier

1. Open the supplier from Suppliers.
2. In its Details card, find the certification status field - it’s editable in place.
3. Set it and save.

Set it on many at once

1. On the Suppliers list, tick the suppliers you want.
2. Open the bulk-actions menu and use bulk edit.

This is how certification is normally maintained. Status changes arrive as a list from the certifying body once or twice a season, and you apply them to a few hundred farms in one pass rather than one at a time.

The list of possible statuses

The available certification types are managed by an administrator under Configuration → Certification Types.

If the status you need isn’t in the list, that’s where it gets added - ask an administrator rather than approximating with a status that’s nearly right.

Keeping it honest

Certification status drives what you’re allowed to sell as certified. Two habits are worth having:

• Update it when the certifier does, not when you remember. A stale “Organic” is a compliance problem, not a data-quality problem.
• Record the source. Use the supplier’s documents to attach the list or certificate the status came from, so an auditor can see why it says what it says.

Seeing the whole picture

Risk & Compliance → Certification analytics summarises coverage across your supply base - how many farms hold each status, and where they are.