MERITS FOR professional Licensing

Simpler Experiences
for Licensees and Boards

Digitize professional licensing for speed, convenience, and accuracy

 

Modern Professional Licensing

Merit helps licensing departments and regulating boards streamline credential issuing and verification. With digital, verifiable licenses easily stored and shared on a mobile app, Merit enables the efficient management and verification of professionals' credentials.

 

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Electronic credentials will help cut red tape and modernize what is currently an antiquated system.”

 

Ralph Northam,
Governor of Virginia

Connect to Existing Systems

Securely integrate with existing licensing and credentialing solutions, eliminating the need for system replacements to minimize obstacles and shorten project timelines.

 
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Enhance Efficiency and Convenience

Accelerate the professional licensing process, reducing new license and renewal wait times from weeks to just one day.

 
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Enable Real-time Updates

Revoke or update licenses in real-time, allowing for seamless implementation and tracking of new policies. 

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Streamline Professional Licensing Portability

Digital credentials can unlock valuable opportunities. Help individuals start working faster when they relocate to your state, bolstering the economy by filling job vacancies more quickly and supporting local workforce needs.

Licensing Portability for Military Families

Mutual recognition of professional licenses for military families is the law in most states. Merit makes it much faster and simpler for military spouses and veterans to transfer their license from one state to another and get back to work.

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Merit in Action

Rapid, Secure Digital Licensing for Virginia Professionals

Merit digitized professional licenses for the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR).

DPOR has benefited from time and cost efficiencies including faster application acceptance and delivery of licenses. DPOR was also able to quickly manage license changes, remotely updating expiration dates of over 22,000 licenses expiring during the COVID-19 pandemic, so that professionals could continue working during the shut down.

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Benefits Across the Board

Agencies

With modern tools, agencies can automatically send digital credentials, bridge gaps in legacy systems, drive data accuracy, and issue timely policy updates.

Licensees

Licensees can say goodbye to long wait times. With digital proof in their pocket, their credentials are always with them, easy to validate and share.

Employers, Citizens & Public Officials

Third parties now have a common standard for verification and evaluation of qualifications, able to quickly ensure that licensees meet safety mandates.

Digital Credentialing Platform

The Merit Platform plugs into existing professional licensing systems to quickly modernize professional licensing through a flexible and secure knowledge graph.

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