BIR Certificates in BIR Online Tools: An Overview

The BIR Certificates module in BIR Online Tools is where you generate BIR Form 2307 certificates — the Certificate of Creditable Tax Withheld at Source issued to payees on withholding transactions. This guide is an overview of the module’s hub page and links to detailed walkthroughs of each working tool.

This guide is part of the App Guide series. It assumes you have an active company set — see Getting Started if you don’t yet.

What does the BIR Certificates hub show? #

The hub is a launcher with one card per certificate type: Form 2307 for creditable withholding tax, and Form 2316 for employee compensation income. Each card has an Open button, and the Form 2307 card additionally links straight to its saved-certificates report.

What can you do with BIR Form 2307 today? #

Three tools cover the full lifecycle of a BIR Form 2307 certificate — creating one, creating many at once, and reviewing what’s already been generated.

Both the single and bulk generators pull the payor’s TIN and branch code automatically from your active company profile, and every certificate either generator produces is saved automatically to the report — no separate “save” step.

What about BIR Form 2316? #

BIR Form 2316 — the Certificate of Compensation Payment/Tax Withheld for employees — appears on the hub as its own card, but it is a placeholder: clicking through does not yet open a working generator. Only the Form 2307 tools are functional as of this writing. This guide will be updated with a Form 2316 walkthrough once that module ships.

Frequently asked questions #

What can I generate from the BIR Certificates module today? #

BIR Form 2307 certificates — either one at a time with a live preview, or in bulk from an uploaded Excel file. BIR Form 2316 for employee compensation is listed on the same hub but is not yet available.

What’s the difference between the single and bulk BIR Form 2307 generator? #

The single generator builds and previews one certificate at a time from a form; the bulk generator reads many payee rows from an uploaded Excel workbook and generates a merged batch of PDFs in one pass.

Where do I see certificates I’ve already generated? #

The Form 2307 Report lists every certificate saved for the active company, including its payee, ATC, income and tax amounts, and whether it has been emailed to the payee.

Is BIR Form 2316 available in BIR Online Tools? #

Not yet. The BIR Certificates hub shows a Form 2316 card, but it’s a placeholder — only BIR Form 2307 tools (single generator, bulk generator, and report) are functional as of this writing.

Summary #

BIR Certificates currently means BIR Form 2307: build one certificate at a time with the single generator, process a whole payee list with the bulk generator, and track everything you’ve issued in the Form 2307 Report. Form 2316 is on the hub but not yet built. See the App Guide hub for every other module.