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August 29, 2025
Key Article Takeaways Reduce Costs: Eliminating repetitive manual entry reduces wasted staff hours and minimizes errors that lead to costly corrections. Improve Accuracy: Real-time updates across records, contracts, and maps ensure data stays consistent and reliable. Enhance Family Experience: Faster contracts, online payments, and instant answers make serving families smoother and more professional. Preserve History: Digital records protect against loss, fire, or water damage while keeping
August 20, 2025
Key Article Takeaways Reduce Costs: Automate recordkeeping, streamline work orders, and eliminate double sales. Grow Revenue: Close pre-need sales faster, improve collections, and upsell memorialization. Preserve Data: Digitize records and maps to protect history and uncover overlooked property. Attract Families: Publish your cemetery’s history online to engage the community and generate new leads. Empower Staff: Equip your team with modern tools that improve service and
February 14, 2025
eSignatures and automated payments help to eliminate unnecessary paperwork, speed up transactions, and keep everything running efficiently.
December 6, 2023
Software companies like webCemeteries offer the option to digitize records and store them on the cloud, where they can be accessed remotely. Creating a digital copy of their records is one of the most important things a cemetery can do to preserve history, protect themselves against data loss, and provide better service to the families in their care.
September 25, 2023
webCemeteries has partnered with Global Payments Integrated to expand the payment options cemeteries can offer to the families in their care. Global Payments Integrated specializes in secure and comprehensive payment solutions that support the quickly changing ways payments are processed in today’s world, allowing for seamless service to families.
September 19, 2023
When a cemetery decides to digitize their records, they sometimes explore having a software developer or their own IT department design a custom cemetery management program. Today, quality off-the-shelf software solutions exist that can be configured to a cemetery’s needs and offer all the necessary features to streamline and modernize cemetery management at a fraction of the cost and hassle.
July 17, 2023
Cemetery work orders have traditionally been a manual, paper-based headache for both staff and the families they serve. When a cemetery uses a Cemetery Management solution like webCemeteries to digitize their work order process, these requests become easy to track and complete with increased visibility, accountability, and communication.
July 5, 2023
Timothy Kolasa, Executive Director of Gethsemane and St. Mary’s Cemeteries in Berks County, Pennsylvania, talks to us about how webCemeteries has made their records easily accessible, reduced the burden placed on staff by genealogy requests, made their work order process paper-free, and streamlined their sales and contracts.
May 25, 2023
Fragile paper cemetery records can become lost or damaged, especially as they age. Digital records preserve crucial information in a convenient format. webCemeteries can convert your records from paper to digital to improve the experience for both your staff and the families in your care.
April 13, 2023
In our increasingly digital world, many people go to the internet first to look up any business or service, including cemeteries. Presenting yourself online is imperative to help convince families to reach out to with you in person. It’s never too late to improve your online presence or create one for the first time. Consider the following focus areas.
March 27, 2023
Digitizing cemetery maps is one of the best investments you can make, as it better serves the families in your care by allowing them to access information at their own convenience, makes it easier and faster for staff to complete common tasks and protects the cemetery from potential disaster.
March 6, 2023
The right cemetery software provides a measurable ROI, better ways to serve families, increases service levels, and allows staff to spend more time in interactions.

photo courtesy of Sewickley Cemetery - Sewickley, PA
What are cemeterians saying about webCemeteries?
webCemeteries has been an important and innovative support for Sewickley Cemetery for almost a decade. Their staff is knowledgeable, responsive, and always ready with great recommendations. And all you have to do is look at our gorgeous new web site to know how excellent their design team is! I couldn’t do what I do every day without webCemeteries.
Martha Chambers, Manager
Sewickley Cemetery