Thanks to technology, interesting solutions are being offered in virtually every sector. The objective of most of these solutions is to ease certain tasks. 

Sendoff is a digital solution developed by an eponymous South African startup, founded in 2020. It allows users arrange loved ones’ funerals from the deathbed to the burial site. 

"The idea struck me when I had to help with a family funeral, it was such a traumatic experience that I thought to myself there has got to be a way to do this differently and simply," Zolani Matebese told Connecting Africa. 

Besides its web platform, the solution has a mobile app (available for Android and iOS devices) allowing users to ensure proper funeral preparation with just a few clicks.  Pickups, memorial services, and casquet or urn selection are some of the services Sendoff can assist with. It can also help users when a person dies in town and has to be buried in a village. 

To be more efficient Sendoff has partnered with many institutions. "What started as a simple funeral app is becoming a funeral platform, a one-stop shop for funerals,”  Zolani Matebese indicates.

Adoni Conrad Quenum