Issuing CME credit from the scan, not the sale

Why should credit come from the door rather than the order?

Because the thing your accreditation is assessed on is participation, and an order is evidence of payment. The two diverge constantly at a real conference: people register for the Saturday intensive and go home on Friday night, departments book eight places and send six, and somebody pays at the desk and sits in a different room from the one they paid for.

Bindro resolves that by never deriving credit from the sale. The credit record is built from check-in records, so what it asserts is that this person was admitted to this session — which is a claim you can stand behind, rather than a claim that somebody's card was charged.

How does a badge know which sessions it is good for?

Each credential is scoped to the sessions it was sold for. Scanning it at a session it does not cover does not produce a warning or a soft admission: the credential is simply unknown there, and the door staff see that.

Every scan is recorded against its own session and the device that took it, and a replay key is scoped per session, so gate devices reset their counters cleanly between rooms. That per-session record is the whole basis of partial-attendance credit — the difference between "attended the conference" and "attended these four sessions for these hours" is only ever a matter of which scans exist.

What exactly does issuing credit do?

Issuing runs against a session that has ended and mints one credit per verified attendee of that session. A session still running is refused: the room is not finished, so the attendance is not final.

Each credit carries the hours, a serial number and the session it came from, and renders as a printable certificate. Running the issue again is idempotent — the second run finds the existing credits and mints nothing, so a nervous second click cannot duplicate anybody's record. The issued list is also readable through the API if you are assembling a submission programmatically.

• A no-show who paid receives no credit at all.
• A participant who attended two of five sessions receives the hours for two.
• Re-issuing never duplicates a credit for the same person and session.
• A certificate whose holder was anonymised degrades to a placeholder rather than leaking a name.

Who reports the credit to PARS?

You do. Bindro does not file, does not transmit and has no connection to PARS, to ACCME or to any specialty board — this is worth being blunt about, because it is the assumption most easily carried over from a CME platform that does offer reporting integrations.

What you have instead is the material a submission is made from: the sessions you delivered and when they ended, who was verified present at each, the hours attached to each credit, the serials, and the roster export with licence numbers and employers. If reporting on your behalf is a hard requirement, that is a legitimate reason to choose a different product, and the comparison pages say so.

What does bindro not model about credit?

Credit types. A credit record carries hours, a serial and its session — it does not distinguish AMA PRA Category 1 from MOC points, nursing hours or pharmacy hours, because those distinctions are properties of your accreditation and your activity design rather than of a check-in record.

In practice this means the split has to come from how you structure the sessions: if a session carries a different kind of credit, make it a different session, and the per-session records will carry the distinction for you.