What is a seva
Seva means service. Asking another person to offer a prayer on your behalf is older than any company, any app, and most of the traditions that practise it.
Families have always done this. A brother goes to the temple because the sister cannot. A neighbour lights a candle because the mother is too ill to walk. A priest reads a name aloud because the family lives four states away. Nobody thought this strange.
Sevahey is that same arrangement, made possible when you no longer have a brother in that town.
What a seva is not
It is not a transaction for a religious outcome. Nobody at Sevahey will tell you that a seva guarantees anything. We do not sell blessings, we do not rank sevas by potency, and we will not tell you that a more expensive offering carries more weight.
What we sell is presence. Someone stood where you could not stand, and did the thing properly, and can prove it.
Who performs it
Depending on the place and the tradition, the seva may be performed by the temple's own priest with your Sevak present and recording, or by the Sevak themselves where the tradition permits a devotee to make the offering directly.
Which of the two applies is stated on every place, before you pay. More about Sevaks.
Where a ritual can only correctly be performed by an ordained priest, a family member, or the person themselves, we will say so and decline the request. We would rather turn down a seva than sell you a version of it that does not count.