One system combining records, mapping, cremation management, funeral CRM, and archive digitization, plus a grave care service that cemeteries can offer to generate income.
AUSTIN, TX, UNITED STATES, August 7, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Tendmory, a software solution for cemeteries, funeral homes, and crematories, is now being offered to operators throughout the United States, Canada,Australia and New Zealand. The platform merges cemetery records and mapping, funeral home and crematory case management, and a funeral CRM into a single system, supported by a service that digitizes a company's existing paper archives — and by a grave maintenance service operators can sell to families in exchange for a portion of the proceeds.
Most operators manage these tasks using separate tools, or none at all: burial records kept in paper ledgers and index cards, plot maps drawn by hand, cases tracked on a whiteboard, and family inquiries stored in a single staff member's email. When a record is lost or a long-time employee retires, that institutional knowledge disappears. Smaller, municipal, and volunteer-run cemeteries have largely been unable to afford the alternative: established systems in this space are priced at enterprise levels and include upfront implementation fees.
Tendmory is available as a subscription priced according to the size of the operation, beginning at a level that a single-site cemetery can approve without needing a capital expenditure request. Migration and configuration are part of the onboarding process, not billed as a separate project.
For cemeteries, the tool tracks interment history, grave and plot inventory, ownership and deed generation, and offers an interactive map of the grounds. Staff can find a grave, review its status, and see nearby availability without walking the site or unrolling a paper survey. Boundaries, sections, roads, and features like ponds are drawn directly on the map and linked to the underlying records.
For funeral homes and crematories, Tendmory adds case management designed around the documentation each case actually needs: structured intake, completeness checks before a case can proceed, automatic form population, and electronic signatures with distinct roles for the arranger, the authorizing party, and the operator. Chain of custody is logged as a series of recorded events rather than a status field, providing operators with a defensible audit trail. The built-in funeral CRM collects inquiries from the website, phone, and referral sources in a single pipeline, along with public arranging pages that families fill out themselves, automated follow-up, and preneed and at-need records stored together.
Record digitization is handled as a service rather than left to the customer. Field teams photograph every headstone and capture GPS coordinates for each marker, while drone surveys produce high-resolution orthomosaic imagery that becomes the base layer of the digital map. Ledgers, index cards, deeds, and burial permits are scanned and transcribed, then cross-referenced with the field data so that the record, the marker, and the map position all match. Discrepancies — such as a burial with no marker, a marker with no record, or a plot sold twice decades apart — are flagged in a report rather than silently carried forward.
The company is also rolling out Tendmory Care, a service that connects families with vetted local contractors for grave cleaning, restoration, and ongoing upkeep, complete with photo proof of completed work. The cemetery offers it under its own name to the families it already serves and receives a share of each order, with no staff time, equipment, or liability involved. For most operators, the revenue share is designed to cover the platform subscription and more, turning a budget line item into a revenue line item.
"Cemeteries are usually told that technology is a cost they have to justify," said Yan Khachko, co-founder of Tendmory. "We wanted the opposite: a price a small cemetery can say yes to, and a service attached to it that brings money back through the door."
Demand for that service comes largely from families who no longer live near where their relatives are buried. "Cemeteries get asked constantly whether someone can go and look after a grave, and they have never had a way to say yes," said Yan Khachko, co-founder of Tendmory. "We built the layer that makes it possible, and the cemetery keeps both the relationship with the family and a share of the revenue."
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