A Badge Issuer is the community or individual awarding a badge.
Before creating badges for yourself or your community, you must set up a Badge Issuer. An issuer is the individual or organization who gives a badge to another individual. This information will be attached to badges awarded by you or your organization.
Creating your own Badge Issuer
Before creating your first badge, you will be prompted to create a badge issuer profile for yourself.
Go to "Create" then "Badge" to begin.
After clicking to create a badge, you will be prompted to Create the badge issuer. It will automatically create an individual issuer for you from your profile information. This will be the issuer used when you (as an individual) award badges.
Creating a Badge Issuer for Your Community
Before creating the first badge for your community you will need to create a badge issuer profile. Navigate to "Manage" on your community page.
Along the left side, click "Issuer". Here you will be able to create or edit the community issuer information. Included in the badge issuer profile are name, website, email, description, and an image. This information is publicly viewable and will be used by people viewing and verifying earned badges.
This is the information that will be attached to all badges earned in your community.
To edit the information later, use the "Manage" button from your community page.
When creating a badge, you can select the issuer by selecting the Owner of the Badge. (Learn more about creating badges here.) 
When viewing a badge, you will be able to see the badge issuer and click on the name for more information.
