Selling a plot (right of interment)
Selling a space in Spaces & Rights walks you from a buyer's name to a printable deed, with the fee math handled for you.
Sell a space
- 1. Open the space (it must be available or reserved) and click Sell.
- 2. Enter the buyer — name, phone, email, address. You can optionally link them to their roster profile using the same people-search picker used elsewhere in Vianney; this is never automatic, and linking puts the plot on their People profile.
- 3. Fee items are pre-checked from your parish's fee schedule (set in Settings) — add, remove, or adjust them before saving.
- 4. Choose the holders on the right (the buyer by default; add others if the right is shared).
- 5. Save. Vianney creates the sale, issues the right of interment, and updates the space's status to sold.
What you actually own
Buying a space grants a right of interment — permission to be buried there under the parish's terms — not ownership of the land itself. Minnesota law (§307.04) treats the conveyance as for burial purposes only, and the rights ledger in Vianney is the record of who holds that right.
The deed
Every issued right has a printable Entitlement of Burial deed — click Print deed ↗ on the right's card. It carries the buyer, the space, the price (or a blank line if none), and your parish's numbered conditions.
Receipts, $0 sales, and reservations
- Every payment recorded against a sale gets its own printable receipt.
- A $0 or waived sale (a plot given at no cost) is entirely normal — it follows the exact same path.
- To hold a space without selling it yet, use Reserve. A reservation defaults to expiring 30 days from today unless you set a different date; Release clears it early.
Backing out a sale
If a sale needs to be undone — the family changed their mind, or it was recorded in error — a priest or admin can back it out. The space reopens to available. This is a stricter gate than everyday cemetery work, on purpose.
Tips
- See Transfers and inheritance for what happens to a right after the original holder has died.
- See The perpetual-care fund for how a share of each sale is set aside automatically.