Never lose or misplace an item or body again with barcode tracking technology. Here are 3 reasons why you should be using this system in your funeral home.

In your funeral home, you must be organized. 

Organization helps your funeral home manage cases, keep track of reporting, and so much more. But how you organize items, personal effects, and bodies is more important than that.

If you're not organized, nightmare scenarios can occur, such as:

• Cremating the wrong body
• Misplacing a body or item
• Having to tell the family you lost something important
• Breaking the trust with that family

Even if you weren't directly responsible for the action, your entire team would be affected, and the family's trust in your funeral home would be shattered. 

There is a way to avoid the devastating scenarios above...for good. 

With barcode tracking, you can wave goodbye to the fears and embrace feeling fully confident with every family, every time.

What is barcode tracking?

Picture this: A family decides to cremate their loved one.

You take your clipboard and write down the items on the loved one before removal. You remove everything and write down where you placed those items. Once you have the remains, you check your clipboard to see where you placed the items, but when you check where they should be, they're not there. Someone moved them without telling you.

Now what?

Barcode tracking simplifies the process by allowing you to assign scannable barcodes to each item and tie barcodes to certain cases - no clipboards needed! Best of all? You can do all of this from your phone - a device that you likely have and use every day!

So, now that you know what barcode tracking is and how it works, let's dive into 3 reasons why barcode tracking is more than just a "nice-to-have" feature. In fact, it will make you say, "How did I ever live without this?!" 

1. Keep track of everything

The tried-and-true method of pen, paper, and a clipboard worked for decades to keep up with bodies and items in the funeral home. But as we mentioned before, using a method that doesn't update in real-time leaves room for error.

Think about it: was there ever a time you missed an important location change of a body or item because someone (or you) forgot to update it on paper?

Barcode tracking helps funeral directors rely less on pen and paper and start relying on up-to-date information that can be tracked from a phone. Anything from wedding rings to clothing and other specific belongings can be tracked easily and accurately. Plus, many barcode tracking systems give you the ability to leave notes or add pictures to personal items so that your entire staff knows all the details and location of everything in the funeral home.

Barcode tracking also helps you view the location of every item and body across different funeral home locations, all in one place. You can even get more detailed and assign scannable barcodes to locations such as prep rooms, viewing rooms, refrigeration units, and urns or caskets. 

With our barcode tracking system, you even track disposition type and get access to vital tracking information anytime, anywhere, using any device. The family can even sign for the pick-up on your phone and verify that they've received the items.