The date is the document
A good-standing certificate says that a company existed and was in order on the day it was printed. It makes no claim about tomorrow. Readers abroad know this, which is why a registry clerk or a bank officer looks for the issue date before reading the text above it. Anything that blurs that date — a poor scan, a cropped footer, a rendering that reformats it — costs far more than a clumsy phrase ever would.
Names and numbers stay as they are
Company numbers, registry names and the names of directors are not put into another language. They are identifiers, and changing them breaks the link between the two papers. A certified translation of a Certificate of Good Standing in United Kingdom practice keeps them in their printed form and renders the wording around them instead. A reader holding both sheets can then match them line for line.
What Glasgow supplies, and what it does not
Glasgow Registration Office at 45 John Street, Glasgow G1 1JE issues certified extracts of Scottish births, marriages and deaths, so it is not where a company certificate comes from and it does not certify rendered text either. Nothing of yours needs to be posted. The work runs from scans, and an official translation of a Certificate of Good Standing in Glasgow is produced without your paper ever leaving your desk.
The cost, and the clock behind it
Pricing is per page at £25 a page, so the total is simple arithmetic once the count is agreed from the scan. Standard delivery is 2–3 business days and the express route closes in 24 hours. Because these certificates are short, neither the money nor the clock is usually the problem. The problem is the gap between the day the registry printed it and the day somebody abroad finally reads it.