About
A small company that makes one thing.
Reposa is made by Handler Labs LLC, an independent American software company. This is our product. There is no parent company, no investor waiting on growth targets, and no second business we are quietly steering you toward.
Why we built it
A death gives a family about three days to produce a printed document they have never made before, while they are grieving and while the phone will not stop. The program has to be right. The name has to be spelled correctly. The service times have to match what the church actually agreed to. And it all has to be finished in time for someone to drive it to a printer.
Every existing way of doing this assumes you have time. A design tool hands you a blank canvas and a template you still have to reformat. A template shop sells you a word-processor file for the program and a separate one for the prayer cards, in fonts that do not match, and you retype the obituary into both. The funeral home will do it for you from a small set of stock designs, at a price that is rarely itemized, and every correction is another phone call during the one week you have the least patience for phone calls.
None of those are unreasonable products. They are just built for somebody with a free afternoon and a steady hand. So we built the other thing: a set of gentle questions that produces a finished, correctly folded, print-ready package in one sitting, with the obituary, the prayer cards and the slideshow already matching the program because they were made from the same answers.
How we make money
Families pay once, at the end, when they want the files: $39 for the Essential package and $59 for Complete. That is the entire business model. We are not paid by funeral homes, cemeteries, insurers or florists, nobody pays us for placement, and there is nothing about you that we would sell. If you build a program and decide not to download it, we make nothing from you, and that is a fine outcome.
Plainly
What Reposa is not.
It matters more than usual right now that nobody is misled about who they are dealing with.
- We are not a funeral home.
- We do not arrange services, transport or care for anyone, and we take no commission from anyone who does. Your funeral director handles the service. We handle the paper.
- We are not a law firm or a grief service.
- Our guides are general information written plainly. They are not legal advice, and they are not counseling. When something needs a professional, we say so instead of guessing.
- We do not print or ship anything.
- You get files. That is deliberate, because files arrive in seconds and a package does not. Print them at home or hand the print-shop PDF to any copy counter.
- We are not an advertising business.
- No trackers following you around, no lists sold on, no partner who pays us for your details. The only money in this product comes from families who choose to download.
How we work
The rules we hold ourselves to.
Written down here so you can hold us to them, and so we notice if we ever drift.
Free until you download
Build the entire package and read every page before any payment is mentioned. If it isn’t right, close the tab and you’ve paid nothing.
No urgency we manufacture
There are no countdown timers, no seats remaining, no price that goes up tonight. You already have a real deadline. We’re not going to invent a second one.
One payment, and it stays paid
No subscription, no account to cancel, no card kept on file. Twelve months of edits and re-downloads are part of the price, not an upgrade.
Your words stay yours
The obituary you wrote, the photographs you uploaded, the stories you typed at midnight. All of it is yours. We claim nothing over any of it and we do not reuse it.
The guides stay free
Every example obituary, eulogy, poem and order of service on this site is free to read and free to use, whether or not you ever build anything.
Plain language, always
No jargon in the questions, no legalese in the policies, no cheerfulness where it doesn’t belong. You’re having a hard week and you shouldn’t have to decode anything.