How it works
From making the page to the folder you copy onto a memory stick, in the order it usually happens.
Making the page
You give us their name. That is genuinely all that is required to begin. Everything else, the photograph at the top, the dates, the line under the name, can be added tonight, next week, or never.
The page is private while you set it up. Nobody can find it, and search engines are kept out unless you specifically ask for them later.
Sending it to people
You get one address to share. Most families paste it into a group chat. Whoever opens it sees the page, and a button to add something of their own.
They do not need an account, a password or an app. They tap the button, pick photographs out of their camera roll the way they would to send a message, write a few lines if they want to, and press send. It works on an eight-year-old phone on a weak signal, because that is the phone somebody will be holding.
They can send several hundred photographs at once, and a video up to about five gigabytes. If one file fails, the rest still arrive.
If there is a service
We give you a QR code to print on the order of service. People scan it from where they are sitting and send photographs before they have left the building, which is the moment when the photographs actually exist on the phones in the room.
Scanning the printed code also lets somebody through the access code, so an elderly relative is not asked to key in four digits at a funeral.
Deciding what appears
Everything arrives in a private queue that only your family can see. You go through it whenever you have the strength, on a phone or a laptop, in batches or one at a time.
Three decisions, kept separate
Keeping something means it stays in your library at full quality. Showing it means it goes on the page other people can see. Choosing it for the funeral puts it in a separate collection for the day.
Approving never publishes on its own unless you have asked it to. Nothing a visitor sends becomes public because a default was set that way.
Sharing the work
Going through four hundred photographs alone is a lot, and it is usually the thing that gets abandoned. You can invite family members with different levels of access: someone who can review and approve, someone who can only look, someone who can run the whole thing alongside you.
There are also shareable links for relatives who will never make an account, which you can withdraw at any point.
The download
Whatever you choose for the funeral downloads as one folder of full-quality originals, exactly as they were sent, with a text file listing who gave you what. Large collections come as several parts so a laptop can cope.
Copy it onto a memory stick and hand it to whoever is making the slideshow. You can build a new download whenever you like, and take everything with you at any time.
Afterwards
Pages usually go quiet after a few weeks and then wake up on birthdays and anniversaries. That is normal, and the page is built to sit there patiently for years rather than to be busy.
You can close it to visitors, keep it open, add a custom web address of your own, or take a copy of everything and leave. What we will not do is delete a family's photographs.