Free tool
Real estate business card maker
Design a front and back agent business card in four layouts. Print a ten-up sheet with crop marks, or download a single card as a PNG, with a bleed option if a print shop asks for it. Photos and logos stay in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
What goes on a real estate agent’s business card
A business card is the smallest piece of marketing an agent hands out, so it carries only what a person needs to reach you later: your name, what you do, your brokerage, a phone number and an email address. A website and a licence number are common extras. The back is free for a logo, a one-line tagline or a QR code that saves your contact details to a phone.
- Keep the front to the essentials. Text smaller than about 6 pt is hard to read on paper, and the tool warns you when something shrinks that far.
- Use a headshot that looks like you on the day you meet someone. A face on the card helps the person remember which agent you were.
- Put the QR code on the back, and print a test copy before ordering a stack. The listing QR code generator and the guide to QR codes on listings and flyers cover size and testing.
- Check your brokerage’s rules. Many require specific wording, a licence number or a logo on printed marketing, and they differ by place.
Card sizes
The usual card in the United States and Canada is 3.5 × 2 inches. In the UK and much of Europe it is 85 × 55 millimetres, a similar size that is slightly taller. Print shops also offer other sizes, rounded corners and folded cards. This tool makes the two common sizes; ask your printer if you want something else.
Printing at home or the office, or at a print shop
The print sheet puts ten cards on a Letter or A4 page, two across and five down, with crop marks in the margin. Print on card stock, trim along the marks, and you have a short run for the cost of paper. Home and office printers cannot print to the very edge, so the finished cards are trimmed from a sheet and have no full bleed. For a longer run, or a card that has colour right to the edge, use a print shop.
About bleed
Print shops cut large sheets down to card size, and the cut is never perfectly exact. To stop a thin white edge showing on a card with a coloured background, the background is extended a little past the trim line. That extra is the bleed, and shops commonly ask for around 3 mm or 0.125 in, though the exact figure, the file format and whether they want a PDF vary from shop to shop. Tick “Include bleed” and the PNG for each side is larger by that amount on every side, with the background and any coloured panels extended and text kept well inside the trim. The tool does not add trim marks to the PNG, so check the shop’s template and ask what format it accepts before you order.
More free tools: the property flyer maker, the email signature generator, the open house poster maker, and the rest of the free tools for real estate agents.
Common questions
Is the real estate business card maker really free?
Yes. There is no signup and no watermark. The cards are built in your browser. You print a sheet of ten as a PDF or on paper, or download a single card as a PNG image.
Are my photo, logo and contact details uploaded anywhere?
No. The headshot and logo are read by your own browser to draw the card, and the text you type is used only to draw it on your screen. Nothing is sent to Kadapt or stored. The only thing counted is that someone pressed print or download, never what was on the card.
What size are the cards?
You can choose 3.5 × 2 inches, the usual size in the United States and Canada, or 85 × 55 millimetres, a common size in the UK and much of Europe. Other sizes exist, and a print shop will tell you which ones it offers.
What is bleed, and do I need it?
Bleed is background colour that runs a little past the trim line so a cut that lands slightly off does not leave a thin white edge. Print shops often ask for about 3 mm or 0.125 in of it, but they differ, so check the shop’s own template. If you are sending the card to a print shop, tick “Include bleed” before you download the PNG: the file is then 3 mm or 0.125 in larger on every side, with the background extended. If you print the sheet at home or at an office and cut along the marks, you do not need bleed.
Can I print these at home?
Yes, on heavier paper or card stock if your printer takes it. The sheet puts ten cards on a page with crop marks in the margin so you can trim with a ruler and knife or a paper cutter. Home printers cannot print right to the paper edge, so a card cut from the sheet is trimmed on all four sides rather than printed full bleed. Print a test sheet first and check the sides line up if you print front and back.
Will the front and back line up exactly?
Not always. Printers that print on both sides can be a millimetre or two off, and every printer differs. Keep text and the QR code away from the card edge, as the tool does, and print a test on plain paper before you use card stock.
What should the QR code on the back link to?
Either your website or a contact card. A contact card (vCard) QR code lets a phone offer to save your name, phone, email and website straight into its contacts, with no internet connection needed to read it. A website QR code opens your page. A contact card holds more data, so the code is denser and needs a clearer print; the tool warns you if the dots get very small. Always scan a printed test with a phone before you order a stack.
Do I need a licence number or Equal Housing logo on my card?
That depends on your brokerage and your local rules, and this tool cannot tell you which apply. Many brokerages and some states have requirements for what appears on advertising, which can include a business card. Add any licence number in the licence field and any required logo with the logo upload, and check with your brokerage before you print.
What size should my headshot and logo be?
A square-ish headshot of at least 600 pixels on each side and a logo of at least 600 pixels wide look sharp on a printed card. The tool warns you if an image is much smaller. A logo with a transparent background works best.