When the room will be too empty, call us.
Some services need more people in the seats, a lead mourner the family's tradition calls for, or a voice to carry a hymn. MournMate supplies vetted professional mourners for those services, booked through your home, so the family hears “yes” from you.
6,700+
Vetted Mourners Nationwide
$0
Monthly Fee for the First 100 Homes
5%
Back on Every Booking
$50
First-Booking Bonus
You have had this family
Today most homes have to say “we don't offer that.” With MournMate you say “we can arrange that,” and it is handled the way you handle flowers or an organist.
The widow whose friends have all passed
Four people in the chapel, and a daughter asking if there is anything you can do.
The family whose tradition calls for mourners
A Ghanaian, Nigerian, Filipino or Chinese family who expects professional mourners at a proper service, and asks whether your home can arrange them.
The hymn nobody can sing
A family who wants a vocalist for one hymn, or someone to read the eulogy because no one in the family can get through it.
The graveside with no one to stand there
A service for a man with no family left, arranged by a social worker, with no one at the grave.
What the family pays
A professional mourner for a typical two-hour service runs $100 to $300. The rate is agreed before you quote the family, and you add it to the arrangement as an outside item. The family pays your home as they pay for everything else.
Your home settles with MournMate afterward and we pay the mourner. You never pay a mourner directly and never handle a payout.
How it works
No software to learn. Your first booking can be an email.
Tell us about the service
Email info@mournmate.com or use your home’s MournMate account: date, place, tradition, what the family needs.
We send the people
Matched by city, confirmed within hours, with a backup on hold for every booking. You see names, photos and reviews before you confirm.
They arrive briefed
Dark dress, 30 minutes early, introduced to your director, and told what the family wants and does not want. They support the service and never draw attention to themselves.
Who shows up
- Government ID verified before a profile goes live.
- Reviewed by funeral homes after every service. Low ratings remove a mourner from the roster.
- Briefed in writing for each service, including the family’s wishes and the tradition’s customs.
- A backup confirmed for every booking, so a no-show is our problem, not yours.
- One person at MournMate answers info@mournmate.com on the day of the service.
What your home earns
The first 100 partner homes never pay a monthly fee, not now, not later. Homes that join after the first 100 pay a monthly platform fee. No contract; cancel by email. The first 100 are Founding Partners: launch terms locked for good, a Founding Partner badge and listing on mournmate.com, first position when a mourner in your city opens the app, and an email to every MournMate mourner in your state announcing that your home is booking.
5% Back on Bookings
Earn back 5% of every mourner booking your home makes — on every service, not just the first. Paid out monthly.
$50 Per Family
A flat $50 bonus on the first completed booking of every family's service — on top of the 5% back.
No Monthly Fee
The first 100 homes never pay a platform fee, and keep their launch terms for good as Founding Partners.
Ready when a family asks
Email info@mournmate.com and we reply the same day. If you would rather set up the account now, the application takes five minutes and is usually ready within one business day.
We verify every partner home before it can book mourners for families. Have these ready and the application takes five minutes:
- Legal business name, street address, business phone, and website or Google listing
- Your state establishment permit number and the licensed funeral director in charge
- Who on your staff will book mourners, and a good time for a short setup call
- A mourner’s referral code, if one introduced us
Prefer to talk first? Email info@mournmate.com with a good time and we will call you.
Email Us
info@mournmate.com
Same-Day Reply
One person answers, not a ticket queue