---
title: "Attaching to models — Certificates for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Add HasCertificates to tenants, sites or teams to request, find and list the certificates they own through a certifiable morph."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/certificates-for-laravel/has-certificates
language: en
---

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# Attaching to models

Add the HasCertificates trait to any Eloquent model that owns domains — a tenant, a site, a team. Certificates attach through the nullable certifiable morph on the registry. Issue one through the facade with owner(), or use the trait’s requestCertificate() shorthand, which calls the same CertificatesManager::issue():

```php
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use RoundlyConsulting\Certificates\Concerns\HasCertificates;
use RoundlyConsulting\Certificates\Facades\Certificates;

class Tenant extends Model
{
    use HasCertificates;
}

Certificates::for('shop.example.com')->owner($tenant)->issue(); // issue, owned by $tenant

$tenant->requestCertificate('shop.example.com');           // the same shorthand, via the manager
$tenant->requestCertificate('shop.example.com', 'acme');   // ...on a specific driver
$tenant->certificateFor('shop.example.com');               // ?Certificate — the latest
$tenant->hasCertificateFor('shop.example.com');            // bool
$tenant->certificates()->get();                            // every certificate it owns
$tenant->activeCertificates();
$tenant->expiringCertificates(days: 14);
```

- certificates() — the MorphMany relation, using the configured registry model.
- requestCertificate($domain, ?$driver) — issue a certificate owned by the model, through the manager, so Certificates::fake() records it.
- certificateFor($domain) — the model’s latest certificate for a primary domain, or null.
- hasCertificateFor($domain) — whether any of the model’s certificates covers the domain, as its primary domain or a SAN.
- activeCertificates() — the model’s certificates in the active() scope.
- expiringCertificates(?$days) — expiring within $days (default renewal.threshold\_days) or already past expiry — the expiring() scope.

## Owner from the builder

The builder attaches the owner alongside SANs, a driver and meta:

```php
Certificates::for('shop.example.com')
    ->alsoFor('www.shop.example.com')
    ->owner($tenant)
    ->using('acme')
    ->issue();
```

## Lifecycle through the facade

The trait only issues and reads. Renew, revoke and expire an owned certificate through the facade:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Certificates\Facades\Certificates;

Certificates::renew($tenant->certificateFor('shop.example.com'));
Certificates::for('shop.example.com')->revoke('tenant closed');
```

The owner matters beyond lookups: when no explicit or configured notifiable exists, expiry alerts go to the certificate’s certifiable owner (see Expiry monitoring). Use key\_type uuid or ulid when owners have UUID or ULID keys.

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