Generating Inspection Reports and Certificates

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An inspection that lives only on your screen doesn't help when a customer asks for proof or an auditor wants the record. Flaggity turns a completed inspection into professional documents you can hand over with confidence — and because they're generated straight from the inspection data, what your customer sees always matches what's actually on file.

Reports

An inspection report is a PDF that captures the findings, their severities, the standard citations, and the photos in a clean, professional layout carrying your company branding. It's the document you file internally or send to a customer to show the work was inspected and how. Reports are generated directly from the inspection result with one action.

Certificates

A certificate is a more formal record of an inspection. It includes a signature line and a QR / verification element, so a third party can scan or follow it to confirm the certificate is genuine and hasn't been fabricated. Certificates are what you issue when a customer or contract requires documented, verifiable proof of inspection.

Generating them

  1. 1 Open the finished inspection from your dashboard or Inspection History.
  2. 2 Choose to generate the report PDF or the certificate.
  3. 3 Download it, or share it — the document carries everything needed to stand on its own.

Bulk and white-label options

  • White-label certificates (Business and higher) put your branding front and center for a fully professional customer-facing document.
  • Bulk certificate generation (Enterprise add-on) lets you export many certificates at once as a single ZIP — useful for large jobs or periodic customer packages.
  • The Reports & Export Hub is the central place to export across inspections, quality, production, analytics, and workforce data.

What happens next

Reports and certificates close the loop on an inspection: the clean ones get documented and shared, while any failed findings move into the NCR/CAPA track. Over time, your Inspection History plus these documents become the evidence base you draw on for customer audits and certification reviews.

Common questions

Can a customer verify a certificate is real? Yes — that's the point of the QR / verification element. They can confirm it came from Flaggity rather than being edited in a document editor.

Do reports include the photos? Yes. The findings, citations, and the inspection photos are all in the PDF, so the document is self-contained.

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