A text message is often the simplest proof that someone has finished a course, hit a target or shown up to an event, and it also makes a convenient starting point for handing over something to show for it.

Through a Zapier connection, Mobile Message's Inbound SMS Received event can fire IssueBadge's Issue Badge action, so the moment someone texts in, whether that's a keyword, a completion code or a simple confirmation, a verifiable credential gets issued in their name without anyone logging into a dashboard to create it by hand.

This suits training providers, community groups or membership programs that already handle confirmations by text and want the badge to follow straight away, not days later once someone remembers to issue it. What starts as a single incoming text ends as a credential the recipient can keep, show or link to elsewhere.