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TLS certificate lifetime is the period from the day the certificate that provides a site’s HTTPS connection is issued to the day its validity ends. Certified manufacturing
Total cost of ownership is the sum of all the costs of buying an asset or service and using it over its service life. Certified manufacturing
Transaction certificate A transaction certificate is the document, issued by a certification body under Textile Exchange standards, that shows a specific delivered consignment of goods is certified. Certified manufacturing
What is a transaction certificate?
A transaction certificate is the document, issued by a certification body under Textile Exchange standards, that shows a specific delivered consignment of goods is certified.
Textile Exchange’s standards have two certificates, and they are often confused. A scope certificate (SC) shows that the company can process certified products; on its own, it does not prove that the delivered goods are certified. A transaction certificate (TC) proves that a specific delivery is certified. The rule is in Textile Exchange’s TE-TXL-POL-203 V4.0 policy; it takes effect on October 1, 2026, and becomes mandatory on April 1, 2027.
What is written on the website?
According to TE-301 V1.4, a claim in a business-to-business context such as a web page carries four things: the standard’s name, the certification body, the license number or Textile Exchange ID, and a statement that only products covered by a valid transaction certificate are certified. Online, this information can sit on a separate page linked from the logo. Product claims and images are approved by the certification body; Textile Exchange does not give approval.
Only an organization with a valid scope certificate can make the claim. A 30-day correction period is given for a non-compliant claim.
Today’s claims rules are in TE-301 V1.4 (in effect since October 8, 2025; assessments after September 27, 2026 use this version), and the logo rules in TE-302 V1.3. Note in the record which version you wrote the site’s text to; that makes it easier to see what will change in the transition. How the logo itself is used is covered in the certificate logo use guide.
The rules are changing: the TE-MM-POL-301 “Materials Matter” policy takes effect on December 31, 2026, and will be mandatory on June 30, 2029; it will replace TE-301 and TE-302 for claims and logo rules. Review the wording on the site together with your certification body before that date.
Which phrases cause problems?
- “All our products are certified”: a scope certificate does not prove the delivered goods; what is certified is the product covered by a valid transaction certificate.
- A logo without the license number or Textile Exchange ID: this information is mandatory in a business-to-business claim.
- A product claim or product image the certification body has not approved.
In practice, the distinction falls into two different places on the site: the scope certificate sits in the company’s certificate record; the transaction certificate belongs to a single delivery and is shared with the buyer as that delivery’s document.
How does the buyer verify a transaction certificate?
With Textile Exchange’s “Authenticate a Transaction” screen; the company itself appears in the “Find a Certified Company” search. The details are in the certificate verification guide.
For a site that shows your certificates as a record buyers can verify, B2B website builds and measures the certificate page, the product scope and the path to a quote together.
Certified manufacturing
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URL inventory A URL inventory is a single list that gathers every address of a site that search engines know — current pages, address variants and old addresses; in a site redesign or migration, the redirect map is derived from this list. Site migration
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WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) is the international standard published by the W3C that defines the accessibility of web content through testable success criteria. Accessibility
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x-default is a special hreflang value declaring the default page to show when no language version matches the user’s language. Multilingual