If you want to know how to issue stock certificates, it is important to know exactly what these investment tools are. Although these certificates may not be physical signs of ownership, they grant the holder a share of the ownership of a corporation. There are a certain number of shares in any corporation, and any number of owners can buy, sell and trade their stock certificates. Although these were once issued in the form of paper slips, this is no longer standard practice. Now certificates are held in trade accounts that a linked between corporation owner and stock holder. If you wish to issue a stock certificate, you will have to do this through the trading broker you use to handle your stocks. Talk to your stock broker to learn how to do this. If you are a new corporation that does not have a stock broker, you will need to hire one before you start issuing stock certificates.