Welcome to Rest Assured . . . the third in a series of Q & A articles designed to help you navigate the decision making process when evaluating your purchase of cemetery management software. Here we go!
Q. What are a few major ways a cemetery software management program can help our small staff save time?
Needless to say, our role goes beyond just overseeing the activities of the cemetery. You and your team are caretakers, guides, and a source of comfort for grieving families. The tasks of tracking grave plots, planning burials, overseeing sales activities, ensuring that financial information is up-to-date, and maintaining records are just a small part of your team’s job, but they take up a significant amount of time when done manually.
This is where the benefits of the right cemetery software come into play. It serves as your digital partner, taking over these tasks, automating them, and eliminating errors. This not only saves precious time but also allows you to focus on the more human-centric aspects of your job – like being there for the bereaved families, maintaining the cemetery grounds, or planning memorial events.
Let’s look at an example: If it takes about 30 minutes to manually record and update each burial, and you handle 20 burials a week, that means you spend 10 hours per week on data entry alone. Cemetery software can automate these tasks and potentially cut this time in half, saving you around 20 hours per month. This significant time-saving benefit is a major boost to your productivity and the quality of service you provide.
Here are a few other ways that cemetery management software can help save your firm both time and money:
The software allows your team to manage the entire family service process in the system, from writing the contract, to the interment authorization, to promoting the information to the finance system. It can all be handled with a few clicks.
Provides ease in record look ups by searching by name, rather than looking through countless paper cards, maps, and files, even with directions to their loved one’s interment location.
Electronic records ensure your cemetery inventory is always up to date while ensuring all information is 100% accurate. Everything then becomes immediately accessible, which helps you cut time spent on manually sifting through unorganized record piles, whether on paper or Excel.
Saves time in pursuing dead-end strategies, eliminates uncertainty, and can adapt strategies to meet short- and long-term goals and objectives.
Information that’s located here, there, and everywhere is information overload and makes for operational inefficiencies. With the appropriate cemetery management software, you can dedicate more of you and your staff’s time to helping customers and less time to searching for information that could just as easily be at your fingertips.
Rest assured, if I can be of help in providing any additional insight with this or other questions that you might have related to how cemetery software management could provide for a more efficient and effective tool for the betterment of your firm, do not hesitate for a minute to contact me. I’d be honored to have that conversation with you.
