diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/connect/InviteDialog.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/connect/InviteDialog.cpp
index 687aafbde..c83e8cabd 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/connect/InviteDialog.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/connect/InviteDialog.cpp
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include "InviteDialog.h"
 
 #include "rsiface/rsiface.h"
+#include "rsiface/rspeers.h"
 #include <util/WidgetBackgroundImage.h>
 
 /** Default constructor */
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ InviteDialog::InviteDialog(QWidget *parent, Qt::WFlags flags)
   connect(ui.cancelButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(cancelbutton()));
   connect(ui.emailButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(emailbutton()));
   connect(ui.doneButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(closebutton()));
+  connect(ui.sCertButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(savecertbutton()));
  
   //setFixedSize(QSize(434, 462));
 }
@@ -103,4 +105,14 @@ void InviteDialog::setInfo(std::string invite)
 	ui.emailText->setText(QString::fromStdString(invite));
 }
 
+void InviteDialog::savecertbutton(void)
+{
+	std::string filename = rsPeers->getPeerName(rsPeers->getOwnId()); // file name will be user name
+	filename += ".pqi"; // append retroshare cert extension
+	QString qdir = QFileDialog::getExistingDirectory(this, tr("Please Choose Directory to Save Certificate"), "",
+            false); // get current directory
+    
+    qdir += tr(filename.c_str()); // append file name to directory
+	rsPeers->SaveCertificateToFile(rsPeers->getOwnId(), qdir.toStdString()); // save to file
+}
 		     
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/connect/InviteDialog.h b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/connect/InviteDialog.h
index 6fabab842..2629442c0 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/connect/InviteDialog.h
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/connect/InviteDialog.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #define _INVITEDIALOG_H
 
 #include <QDialog>
+#include <QFileDialog>
 
 #include "ui_InviteDialog.h"
 
@@ -45,6 +46,8 @@ private slots:
 	void closebutton();
 	void cancelbutton();
 	void emailbutton();
+	/// saves your certificate to file to send to friends
+	void savecertbutton();
   
 private:
 
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/connect/InviteDialog.ui b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/connect/InviteDialog.ui
index 3a275eddb..b50c15dcc 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/connect/InviteDialog.ui
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/connect/InviteDialog.ui
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
      </property>
     </widget>
    </item>
-   <item row="1" column="0" colspan="5" >
+   <item row="1" column="0" colspan="7" >
     <widget class="QTextEdit" name="emailText" >
      <property name="readOnly" >
       <bool>true</bool>
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
      <property name="html" >
       <string>&lt;html>&lt;head>&lt;meta name="qrichtext" content="1" />&lt;style type="text/css">
 p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
-&lt;/style>&lt;/head>&lt;body style=" font-family:'MS Shell Dlg 2'; font-size:8.25pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">
+&lt;/style>&lt;/head>&lt;body style=" font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">
 &lt;p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; font-family:'Arial'; font-size:8pt;">&lt;/p>&lt;/body>&lt;/html></string>
      </property>
      <property name="acceptRichText" >
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
      </property>
     </widget>
    </item>
-   <item row="0" column="0" colspan="5" >
+   <item row="0" column="0" colspan="7" >
     <widget class="QLabel" name="invitefriendLabel" >
      <property name="palette" >
       <palette>
@@ -496,19 +496,6 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
      </property>
     </widget>
    </item>
-   <item row="2" column="3" >
-    <spacer>
-     <property name="orientation" >
-      <enum>Qt::Horizontal</enum>
-     </property>
-     <property name="sizeHint" >
-      <size>
-       <width>40</width>
-       <height>20</height>
-      </size>
-     </property>
-    </spacer>
-   </item>
    <item row="2" column="0" >
     <widget class="QPushButton" name="cancelButton" >
      <property name="minimumSize" >
@@ -535,7 +522,7 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
      </property>
     </spacer>
    </item>
-   <item row="2" column="4" >
+   <item row="2" column="6" >
     <widget class="QPushButton" name="doneButton" >
      <property name="minimumSize" >
       <size>
@@ -548,6 +535,39 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
      </property>
     </widget>
    </item>
+   <item row="2" column="4" >
+    <widget class="QPushButton" name="sCertButton" >
+     <property name="text" >
+      <string>Save Cert To File</string>
+     </property>
+    </widget>
+   </item>
+   <item row="2" column="3" >
+    <spacer>
+     <property name="orientation" >
+      <enum>Qt::Horizontal</enum>
+     </property>
+     <property name="sizeHint" >
+      <size>
+       <width>40</width>
+       <height>20</height>
+      </size>
+     </property>
+    </spacer>
+   </item>
+   <item row="2" column="5" >
+    <spacer>
+     <property name="orientation" >
+      <enum>Qt::Horizontal</enum>
+     </property>
+     <property name="sizeHint" >
+      <size>
+       <width>40</width>
+       <height>20</height>
+      </size>
+     </property>
+    </spacer>
+   </item>
   </layout>
  </widget>
  <tabstops>