The registrar at Ashford Community College showed me their degree verification stack
She had 400 pending requests from last quarter alone, all for jobs that just needed a quick transcript check, and that's when I realized my whole diploma service should focus on speeding up those background checks instead of designing fancy certificates, has anyone else pivoted their offering like that?
A guy named Dave over at the r/highered subreddit posted something similar last month about his shop dropping the framed diploma stuff because a local nursing school needed 200 transcript verifications before their new hires could hit the floor. He said the slow part is never printing anything, it is waiting on the school to actually confirm the record. Most registrars are still doing that by hand or through some clunky portal from 2009. If you can get a direct line into the school's system and turn those checks around in a day, that is where the money is. The fancy certificate market is flooded anyway, nobody is paying extra for gold foil when HR just wants the paper trail done.