I Built a Free Warranty Card Generator (Because Warranteze Charges $49/Month)

Last year I was helping a small business owner create warranty cards for their products. They needed something simple — a professional-looking card they could hand to customers at point of sale with product details, warranty period, and terms.

I found Warranteze. It looked great. I signed up. Filled in the details. Hit download.

It asked for a credit card. Then it watermarked the PDF. Then it demanded $49/month to remove the watermark.

I closed the tab. Opened a text editor. Built something better that afternoon.

The Problem

Services like Warranteze follow the same playbook:

1. Let you fill in your product and warranty details for free (engaging, addictive)
2. Make you create an account (data capture)
3. Put a watermark on the free download (frustration)
4. Demand $49/month to remove it (rage quit)

It's a subscription trap disguised as a business tool. And it preys on small businesses and retailers who just need warranty cards to give to customers — and can't afford recurring fees.

What I Built

Product Warranty Card Generator — a completely free, zero-signup, browser-based warranty card generator.

• No account. Open the page, type your product details, download.
• No watermark. Clean, print-ready warranty cards instantly.
• No payment. Ever. Not a "freemium" model, not a trial, just free.
• No data collection. Everything runs in your browser. Your product data never touches a server.
• Works offline. Once loaded, you don't even need internet.

Features

• Professional warranty card format — product details, warranty period, seller info, terms, and signature block
• Auto-calculated warranty end date — enter duration and start date, get the end date automatically
• Custom terms & conditions — pre-filled with standard limited warranty text, fully editable
• Customer information — optional fields for customer name and email
• Live preview — see your warranty card as you fill in the form
• Privacy first — 100% client-side, no server processing

Why It Matters

Small business owners, retailers, manufacturers — we're all expected to pay for everything. A warranty card generator shouldn't be a cash grab. It should be a utility — like a calculator or a ruler.

The fact that this exists at all is kind of wild. You can download professional, print-ready warranty cards, no strings attached, for zero dollars. No upsell. No "upgrade to premium." Just... done.

The Tech

• Frontend: Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS — no framework needed
• PDF generation: pdf-lib (client-side, no server)
• Hosting: Static files on nginx, Python simple HTTP server for local dev
• Deploy: One rsync, done

The whole thing is under 400 lines of code. That's it.

Open Source

It's all on GitHub — fork it, improve it, run it yourself. If you're a developer who's ever been frustrated by paywalled utilities, go build something better. It's faster than you think.

Try it: tools.jackgreen.top/product-warranty-card-generator/

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Built because someone should have done this already. Now it exists.