An order of service you make yourself, in an afternoon.

Type the running order and you get back a properly typeset booklet — folded, paginated and ready for any print shop, or for the printer in the next room. It runs entirely in your browser, so the photographs and the words never leave your computer.

Free to build and preview. $30 once, when you're ready to print.

Printing fifty booklets should not cost more than the flowers.

Funeral printers charge by the booklet, and the design fee is folded into the price. If all you need is your own words, your own photograph and a file a printer can work from, you are paying for a layout you could have made yourself — if only anything made it easy.

A printing service

~$245

50 booklets at $4.90 each, a typical rate

  • Someone else sets the type
  • Changes go through email, and take a day
  • Photographs are uploaded to their system
  • Fixed at whatever they print

Do it yourself, then any printer

$30

once, then print wherever is cheapest

  • You set the words, and see them instantly
  • Change your mind at midnight
  • Nothing is uploaded anywhere
  • Reprint ten more on Sunday if you run out

Three steps, and no design experience.

You are filling in a form. It does the typesetting, the page breaks and the folding arithmetic.

1

Type what happens

Start from a standard running order — entrance music, welcome, hymn, tribute, committal — and change it to yours. Add hymn verses, a poem, a photograph or two.

2

Watch it set itself

The booklet redraws as you type, at the real size. A meter tells you how much of the booklet you have filled, so you know before you print whether the eulogy fits.

3

Print it, or send it

Export a file for a print shop in reading order, or a fold-at-home version with the pages already shuffled so a double-sided print folds into a booklet.

The fiddly parts, done properly.

Most of this is the difference between a document and a booklet.

It folds correctly

A booklet is folded sheets, so its page count is always a multiple of four, and the pages must be printed out of order to end up in order. It works out that shuffle — page eight beside page one, and so on — so a double-sided print folds straight into a booklet.

Nothing is orphaned

Text flows across pages by real measurement, not guesswork. A hymn title will never be left stranded at the foot of a page with its verses overleaf.

It tells you when it will not fit

The one thing you cannot discover at the print shop. It shows you how full the booklet is as you type, and says plainly when you need four more pages.

Real paper sizes

A5 or half letter, set in millimetres, printed at 100%. Not “roughly A5 if the printer feels like it”.

Four quiet styles

Classic, Modern, Botanical, and a large-print setting for a congregation that will thank you for it.

Weddings and namings too

The same booklet, different running order. Pick the occasion and the wording starts in the right place.

Your family's photographs stay on your computer.

This is not a promise about how we handle your data. It is a statement about where your data goes, which is nowhere.

The studio is a single page that runs in your browser. It has no account, no upload, and no analytics. You can put your laptop in aeroplane mode and it will work exactly the same — which is the easiest way to check that any of this is true.

  • No sign-up, no email address, no password
  • Photographs are resized in the browser and stored on your own machine
  • No trackers, no fonts pulled from elsewhere, no third-party anything
  • Your booklet saves as a file you keep

Build it free. Pay when you print.

The whole studio is free to use, and the preview is the real thing. The trial prints a faint mark across each page and cannot produce the fold-at-home version — unlocking removes both, on this computer, for good.

$30

one payment · not a subscription

Buy a licence key
  • Unlimited booklets, for as long as you have the key
  • Both export types, no mark on the page
  • All four styles, A5 and half letter
  • Works offline, and keeps working if this site disappears

If money is the reason you are hesitating this week, write to hello@orderofservicemaker.help and we will send you a key. That offer is not a marketing line.

Questions

Can my print shop actually use the file?

Yes. The print-shop export is an ordinary PDF at the exact finished page size, one page per sheet, in reading order — which is precisely what printers ask for, because they impose the pages themselves on their own equipment. Take it in on a memory stick or email it.

What is the fold-at-home version for?

Printing them yourself. It puts two booklet pages side by side on landscape paper and shuffles the order so that, printed double-sided and folded down the middle, the stack reads correctly. Print double-sided, flip on the short edge, fold, and staple through the crease.

Why is the page count always four, eight, twelve or sixteen?

Because one folded sheet makes four pages. There is no such thing as a six-page saddle-stitched booklet. If your words need more room, the booklet grows by four pages at a time, and you are told when that moment arrives.

Do I need to install anything?

No. It is a web page. It works in Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox on a laptop or desktop. A big screen helps, because you are laying out pages.

What happens to my booklet if I close the tab?

It is saved in your browser on that computer, so it will be there when you come back. Because that is the only copy, there is a button to save a backup file — do that, and keep it with the rest of the paperwork.

Is there an AI that writes the eulogy?

No, and there will not be. Plenty of tools will generate words about someone they have never met. What is genuinely hard is turning the words your family chose into a physical object that folds correctly, and that is the part this does.

Can I use it for a wedding?

Yes — and for naming ceremonies and memorial services. Choose the occasion at the top of the studio and the running order and wording start in the right place.

What if I need help this week?

Write to hello@orderofservicemaker.help. Someone answers, usually the same day, and if you are stuck we will lay the booklet out with you.