Claim-language kit

Supporter variant — the payment certificate

Governs supporter.entitlement — the certificate a purchasing organisation receives once its Purpose Fee has settled, which attests that payment and the scope it covers.

The permitted pattern

{organisation} holds a {lane} Entitlement of the Purpose Source Network; Purpose Fee amount: {amount}; period: {period}; categories: {categories}. verify only at purposesource.org/verify

These clauses may be added to it, and nothing else may:

• revenue band: {band}

How the pattern is filled in, and what may not be added while filling it in:

• Every placeholder is substituted from the certificate the claim is about, never from a marketing document: {organisation} is the subject exactly as the certificate prints it, {lane} is the Entitlement lane it records, {amount} is the Purpose Fee as settled, {period} is the period covered, and {categories} is the published category set.
• The payment is the Purpose Fee. It is never described as a contribution or a donation, and the payer is never described as a donor.
• The optional clause may state the revenue band the certificate prints. The band is the payer's own self-certification, and that is what the certificate records it as.
• The permitted wording is what the certificate records and nothing beyond it. No figure or claim about impact may be added — no outcome, no beneficiary count, no proportion of anything: none exists before a disbursed row of the published ledger.
• The closing sentence is reproduced exactly as it stands above, in a claim as on the certificate. No other verification address may be offered beside it.
• This version publishes no donation-lane variant. The donate-direct lane is not operable at this phase, so a kit for it would govern claims nobody can make; a later kit version adds one when the lane exists.
• The corporate classes this variant does not list — the gift-funder, waived-funder and donation variants of the payment class, and the top-up class — cannot be issued at this phase, so this version states no pattern for them.

What is excluded

• we support charity
• we give back
• any unquantified social-impact framing
• describing the Purpose Fee as a donation or the organisation as a donor
• any verification address other than the one printed on the certificate

The binding statement

Printed on the certificate itself, so the permitted wording travels with the artifact:

public claims about this certificate are governed by the enclosed claim-language kit

A claim about a purchase is a regulated claim in the European Union and the United Kingdom: Directive (EU) 2024/825 blacklists generic environmental claims and the display of a sustainability label, environmental or social, that no certification scheme supports, and it adds social characteristics to what a misleading practice can concern; the United Kingdom competition authority takes the same line on green claims, and Swiss unfair-competition law aligns. A fee, a period and a category set are facts on the certificate and in the public record, so a claim that names them is substantiated. "Supports good causes" is the claim those rules exist to stop — which is why the exclusions above are contractual rather than advisory.

Status-only variant — the licence-status certificate

Governs license-status.waiver — the certificate an organisation covered by a waiver receives. It attests a recorded status and no payment, and it carries no amount field at all.

The permitted pattern

{organisation} is a Purpose Source Licensed Organization — waiver; coverage status: {status}. verify only at purposesource.org/verify

How the pattern is filled in, and what may not be added while filling it in:

• Coverage-status wording exclusively. A status certificate attests a recorded status and no payment, so this variant permits no amount, no revenue band, no supporter designation, and no supporter or impact phrasing anywhere.
• This version states a pattern for the waiver variant only. The under-threshold and gifted-pass variants of the status class carry their own designations, which the published certificate policy records; neither has been recorded for any organisation at this phase, and a later kit version states their patterns when the surfaces that record them exist.
• {organisation} is the subject exactly as the certificate prints it; the designation is reproduced as the published certificate policy records it; and {status} is the coverage status the verify record carries when the claim is made, copied from that record rather than paraphrased.
• An organisation covered by a waiver funded nothing. A claim implying that it did would be false rather than merely vague, which is why this variant stands apart from the supporter one instead of narrowing it.
• The closing sentence is reproduced exactly as it stands above, in a claim as on the certificate. No other verification address may be offered beside it.

What is excluded

• we support charity
• we give back
• any unquantified social-impact framing
• describing the Purpose Fee as a donation or the organisation as a donor
• any verification address other than the one printed on the certificate
• any supporter or impact phrasing

The binding statement

Printed on the certificate itself, so the permitted wording travels with the artifact:

public claims about this certificate are governed by the enclosed claim-language kit

The same three regimes bind a status claim, and they are why this variant is the narrower one: an organisation that funded nothing cannot substantiate a claim that it did, so coverage-status wording is the whole of what its certificate permits.