Digital Badges

APA's Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) and Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) digital badges are proof of certification. FPC and CPP digital badges enable you to showcase your professional achievement. With digital badges, you can easily demonstrate your understanding of complex payroll concepts on social media, emails, personal websites and resumes.

APA's digital badges allow you to provide employers with easy, valid verification of your credentials, while make it simple and easy to communicate your professional knowledge, skills, and abilities. Digital badges are protected with a verifiable link that cannot be tampered with.
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We have translated the learning and testing outcomes you have demonstrated into a badge, issued and managed through the Acclaim Platform. The technology Credly uses on its Acclaim Platform is based on the Open Badge Standards maintained by IMS Global. This enables you to manage, share and verify your competencies digitally.
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Once you have passed the FPC or CPP examination, you will receive an email notification from the Acclaim Platform ([email protected]) with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account.
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To make corrections to your name or to change your email address, submit your request (along with legal documentation for name changes) to [email protected]. Allow 3 to 5 business days for updates to be completed.

If you are updating your email address, please let us know if you would like us to resend the email notification from the Acclaim Platform ([email protected]) with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account.

Please note that we can resend the badge notification email only if the badge has not yet been claimed via the originally provided email address.

You can find answers to frequently asked questions here: support.youracclaim.com

Representing your FPC or CPP credential as a badge gives you a way to share your abilities online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time. Badges provide employers and peers concrete evidence of what you had to do to earn your credential and what you're now capable of. The digital badge platform also offers labor market insights, based on your skills. You can search and apply for job opportunities right through the platform.
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You can share your badge directly from the Acclaim Platform to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.
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To share a badge to your social media profile (such as LinkedIn or Twitter), it requires an authorization process, that is required and standard for all third-party programs creating a connection between the two accounts.

Acclaim will not post to these social media sites without your initiation or permission. Acclaim will only add badges to your profile or post them to your newsfeed upon request.

Please note: You can disconnect Acclaim's access to your social media account after you have successfully shared your badge to your profile or newsfeed. You can also manage Acclaim's connection through your privacy settings within your social media account.
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You can easily configure your privacy settings in the Acclaim Platform. You're in complete control of the information about yourself that is made public.
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No. Digital badges for certificants who hold an active FPC or CPP designation is complimentary. If you would like a paper certificate, you may print the certificate from the PDF version, available at no cost, through the Acclaim Platform.
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You may also choose to order a hardcopy certificate through our vendor, Scribes, Inc.

If your FPC or CPP certification expiration date has recently passed, your digital badge will change to an "expired" status until you complete the appropriate recertification or reinstatement process. Once the reinstatement period has passed, you will not be able to display a digital badge. Review the Recertification Guidelines.

While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on Credly's Acclaim Platform. This link to verified data makes them more reliable and secure than a paper-based certificate. It also eliminates the possibility of anyone claiming your credential and your associated identity.

Labor market insights are pulled from live job requisitions. Based on your skills you can learn which employers are hiring, what job titles you might be qualified for, salary ranges and more. Search active job listings and even apply for them with just a few clicks through the Acclaim Platform. Access the labor market insights from your badge details page by clicking on Related Jobs, or by clicking on the skill tags assigned to your badge.
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Credly's Acclaim platform offers the ability to produce a consolidated, competency-based transcript. Transcripts include records of professional and academic credentials that can be easily shared digitally. You can now share your official Transcript directly with registrars via Credly's Acclaim platform. Sending an official transcript via Credly's Acclaim platform is immediate and saves transaction time. Official transcripts are digital and machine-readable by college admissions systems, recruiting, and talent management systems.

Please note that Credly's transcript is not the same as APA's transcript.
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Yes, you can download your badge from the Share Badge page. Your downloaded badge contains Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) compliant metadata embedded into the image. This allows you to store your badge on other OBI-compliant badge sites, such as the Mozilla backpack.
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Not at this time.

Credly is the end-to-end solution for issuing and managing digital credentials. Credly works with credible organizations to provide digital credentials to individuals, worldwide.
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