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id: KB-SC-003
url: https://app.codecontract.io/help/smartcheck/sharing-evidence-with-an-auditor
idioma: en
categoria: smartcheck
subcategoria: compartir
modulo: smartcheck
audiencia: usuario
actualizado: 2026-08-12
tambienEn: [es]
relacionados: [KB-SC-001, KB-SC-002, KB-CO-004]
citadoPor: [KB-SC-001, KB-SC-002, KB-CR-004, KB-TZ-001]
enLaApp: https://app.codecontract.io/verify/search
---

# Sharing evidence with an auditor

_How to show certified material to an outsider so they can verify it themselves._

**Responde a:** how do I show evidence to an auditor · share a certified document with a third party · export the audit dossier · public verification of a document

Certifying is not much use if, on the day you have to show it, the only option is emailing the file and asking people to take your word for it. What makes evidence useful is the other side being able to check it without depending on you.

**En corto**

- Each piece of evidence has a share link for people without an account.
- There is a public verification page where anyone can check a document.
- You can download a human-readable certificate to attach to a file.
- For a whole audit, export the complete folder dossier.

## Sharing a single piece of evidence

This is the common case: the auditor asks about one specific record. From the evidence you generate a link you can email. Whoever opens it sees the document and its certification details — what was certified, when, and with what fingerprint — without an account and without seeing the rest of your folder.

## Public verification

This is the strongest of the three mechanisms, because it does not depend on a link you generated. Anyone holding the document can check on the public verification page whether it corresponds to a registered certification and from what date. That is what you give a lawyer or a court when they want to confirm it themselves.

> [!NOTE]
> If the document has been altered by even one character, verification does not match. That is what makes it worth something: it is not a decorative seal.

## The downloadable certificate

A separate, human-readable document summarising what was certified, when, and with what fingerprint. Useful for attaching to a file or a report without having to send the original document, which is sometimes confidential.

## The audit dossier

When what they ask for is not one record but "everything from the third quarter", you export the folder dossier: a package with the evidence and its certification details, ready to hand over in one go. It is the difference between spending an afternoon compiling and settling it in five minutes.

## Frequently asked questions

**Does whoever opens the link see the rest of my folder?**

No. The link is for that specific piece of evidence. It gives access to nothing else in your organisation.

**Does the auditor need an account?**

No. Neither for the shared link nor for public verification. That is precisely the point.

**Can I tell whether someone opened the link?**

Accesses are logged along with the rest of your organisation's traceability.

**What if I want to show the date but not the content?**

That is what the downloadable certificate is for: it attests what was certified and when, without handing over the original document.

## Ejemplos

**An external auditor asks for a whole quarter's quality evidence — eighty records.**

- Exports the dossier for the quarter's folder
- Hands it over in a single delivery
- Points them at the public verification page in case they want to check any independently

→ The auditor validates whatever they like without coming back to you, and you never had to hunt down eighty files.

**An auditor wants to verify an evidence record themselves.**

- Points them to the verification page

→ They verify without depending on you.

**A screenshot is sent to them.**

- Provides the document and its seal reference

→ They can verify rather than believe.

**The auditor asks for the whole file and only one item is needed.**

- Shares only the relevant evidence

→ What was asked for is delivered, and nothing more.

**A record is needed of what was shown to them.**

- Records what was shared and when

→ The handover is demonstrable afterwards.

**The auditor does not know what the verification means.**

- Explains exactly what the seal asserts

→ The proof is not credited with more than it says.