Warracker

Warracker is an open-source, self-hosted warranty management system designed to eliminate the frustration of tracking product warranties across email threads, paper receipts, and spreadsheets. It provides a centralized web dashboard where individuals, households, and teams can store warranty records, upload purchase documents, track claims end-to-end, and receive proactive expiration alerts before coverage lapses — all on infrastructure they own and control, with no third-party service dependency or subscription fee. The project has grown to over 1,400 GitHub stars and is actively maintained with regular feature releases.

Common Use Cases

Home users deploy Warracker to track warranties on appliances, electronics, and vehicles, uploading purchase receipts and setting expiration alerts so they never miss a coverage window. Families share a single instance to consolidate household warranty records and coordinate claims without sending documents back and forth. Small business owners use it to track warranty coverage on office equipment, tools, and company assets, with multi-user access giving each team member visibility into relevant records. Tech enthusiasts and self-hosters use the Paperless-ngx integration to store warranty documents in their existing document management system while keeping the tracking layer in Warracker. Anyone who has lost a warranty claim because they discovered the coverage had already expired will recognize the core value: knowing before it is too late.

Key Features

• Centralized warranty records with purchase dates, durations, serial numbers, notes, and product photos
• Document storage for receipts, invoices, and manuals attached directly to each warranty entry
• Warranty claims management with end-to-end status tracking through the full claims lifecycle
• Proactive expiration alerts via email and 100+ push notification services through Apprise (Telegram, Slack, Discord, and more)
• Advanced search and filtering by product name, vendor, serial number, and custom tags
• Multi-user support with role-based access control and admin management tools
• OIDC SSO integration for single sign-on with Google, GitHub, Keycloak, and other providers
• CSV import and export for migrating from spreadsheets and ensuring full data portability
• Paperless-ngx integration for document management within an existing self-hosted document system
• 20 supported languages with right-to-left layout support for Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew
• Responsive mobile-friendly interface with a statistics dashboard showing warranty status at a glance

Why deploy Warracker on Hostinger VPS

Warranty records contain sensitive financial data — purchase prices, serial numbers, proof-of-ownership documents, and claim correspondence. Storing these in a third-party warranty tracking service creates unnecessary exposure: services shut down, get acquired, or change their data policies. Running Warracker on a Hostinger VPS keeps every receipt scan, invoice, and serial number on infrastructure you control, with no subscription fee and no platform risk. A VPS provides the persistent, always-on availability that warranty tracking demands — alerts and records need to be accessible whenever a product fails, not just when a cloud service is operational. With PostgreSQL handling durable storage, named volumes for document uploads, and Traefik managing HTTPS automatically, a self-hosted Warracker deployment is robust and low-maintenance, giving you a permanent home for warranty data that outlasts any individual product's coverage period.