A proper send-off
Across Africa and the diaspora, funeral celebrations are among the most elaborate and meaningful events a family will ever organise. PLVN helps you coordinate every detail with the dignity the moment deserves.
Across West Africa, East Africa, and the diaspora, funerals are celebrations of life — not hours, but days. They involve family coordination across cities and countries, elaborate catering that feeds hundreds, live music, custom burial cloth, and flawless logistics across multiple venues. Managing all of this across WhatsApp groups and handwritten lists is exhausting. PLVN brings it into one place so the family can focus on what matters: honouring the person they lost.
Three days, one plan
A full funeral celebration typically spans multiple days, with each carrying its own programme, logistics, and guest expectations. PLVN schedules and tracks all of them.
Wake-Keeping
Evening vigil with family, close friends, and the faith community. Hymns, tributes, candles. Catering and seating for an intimate night gathering. Photography team briefed for low-light coverage.
Burial & Celebration
The main event. Internment, tributes, reception for hundreds of guests. Brass band or highlife orchestra. Buffet catering. Custom fabric and kente distribution to family members. MC coordinating the full programme.
Thanksgiving Service
Church or mosque service to close the funeral weekend. Smaller guest count, more intimate. Final coordination with the officiant, ushers, and remaining catering for refreshments after the service.
Every dimension of the celebration
From the burial cloth orders to the caterer's headcount, PLVN manages the complexity so the family coordinator does not have to hold it all in their head.
Multi-day scheduling
Set the wake-keeping, burial, and thanksgiving on a shared timeline. Each day's tasks, vendors, and deadlines are tracked separately but visible in one view.
Fabric coordination
Track who in the family is ordering the custom burial cloth, which designer is producing it, quantities by family branch, pickup dates, and distribution on the day. No one wears the wrong colour.
Guest and seating management
Hundreds of attendees across multiple venues and multiple days. PLVN tracks RSVPs, seat assignments, VIP sections, and the delegation table — all without a spreadsheet.
Vendor coordination
Catering, brass band, funeral home liaison, photography, canopy hire, sound and lighting — all booked and briefed from one workspace with confirmed delivery timelines.
Vendor categories
Every professional and supplier you need for a celebration of life is discoverable and bookable inside PLVN.
Designed for families under pressure
Planning a funeral while grieving is one of the hardest things a family faces. PLVN is built to reduce the organisational load so family coordinators can delegate tasks with confidence, vendors know exactly what is expected, and no important detail falls through.
Whether you are coordinating from Accra or managing logistics from abroad, PLVN keeps everyone on the same page.
Assign specific responsibilities to family members and committee heads. Everyone knows what they own.
Track contributions and expenditure openly. Prevents disputes and keeps the family informed.
A live timeline for the day itself — so the MC, caterer, and programme coordinator are all running off the same schedule.
"My father passed on a Thursday. We had over six hundred people arriving by Saturday. PLVN helped us hold the programme together when we had no capacity to think clearly."Esi Ansah — Funeral planning, West Africa
Give them the send-off they deserve
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