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Instead of PlotBox

Stop renting PlotBox. Own your cemetery records.

We build your version around how your cemetery office runs, bring your PlotBox records across and run it for you.

PlotBox lists £150 a month for each office user and £50 for each grounds or management user, plus VAT, with modules extra and onboarding from £4,500.

Get your version built See it working
  • check_circleYour data in a database you own
  • check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
  • check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA

What the subscription covers

A bill that grows with every login and module

PlotBox publishes its price list for UK councils. It shows how the bill is built: each named user by tier, each module, and the setup.

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Every office user priced

Each administrative user costs £150 a month, which is £1,800 a year per person before VAT.

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Grounds staff pay too

A groundsperson, cremation technician or receptionist who logs in is £50 a month each.

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Modules bolted on

Digital mapping, the funeral director portal, the mason portal, the public search and the finance export are each sold as a bolt-on.

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Onboarding on top

The minimum setup for one cemetery with three users and no data moved or mapped is £4,500. Migration and mapping cost more.

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Changes billed by the day

Extra training, configuration and bespoke work come off a day-rate card with a half-day minimum.

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Your register, their product

The burial register you must keep and open for inspection lives inside a vendor's system, on their terms.

Your own cemetery records

Ask about plots, burials and the Act in plain words

Bookings

Nothing missing on the day

Funeral director bookings carry the paperwork and the family's consent beside the time and plot.

  • check A burial in a family plot is refused until the holder's consent is recorded
  • check Bookings in the next 24 hours with no paperwork flagged
  • check A confirmation to the funeral director drafted with anything still missing
  • check The interment fee raised to the funeral director as it is booked

The register

A burial register you can print

Every burial and interment of ashes gets the next register number for its cemetery, with the plot described so the grave can be found.

  • check Completed burials with no register number flagged
  • check Family history enquiries answered by name and dates
  • check Removals refused without the Minister's licence, and kept on the register
  • check The register printed for each cemetery, indexed by name

Rights of burial

Know which family plots lapse

Each right of burial records its holder, certificate and date, and the 60-year lapse date is worked out for you.

  • check Rights lapsing within a year, while the plot still has room
  • check A letter to the holder drafted with the date and the law
  • check A transfer to a new holder keeps the original date
  • check A certificate of right for each holder, in your brand

Grounds and memorials

Safe headstones, tidy sections

Memorial permits, safety inspections and grounds jobs sit with the plot they belong to.

  • check Unsafe memorials not made safe within a week flagged
  • check Memorials installed without a permit found
  • check Sunken graves and drainage jobs open past your target
  • check Years left in each section at last year's rate

Make it yours

Design your own PlotBox replacement

Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from PlotBox. Try it here, and we build the real one.

2. What it runs

3. Make it fit

4. Your colour

Your business · your PlotBox replacement Your version
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Answered from your own database

Build my version

We build it from the open-source base, bring your PlotBox data across and run it for you.

What it looks like

Ask it like you would ask a colleague

Real answers from fictional demo cemeteries. Ask about rights, bookings and space, then see the records behind each answer.

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Cemetery for Claude Code

Connected to your own database

Which family plots lose their right of burial in the next year?

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Plot
OTC Block 3 3-15
Holder
Peter Grant
Certificate
OTC-1955-009
Purchased_on
1956-10-15
Last_burial
1964-10-15
Ends_on
2024-10-15
Why
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Plot
ELC Ashes Garden R1-1
Holder
Ana Lealaiauloto
Certificate
ELC-0450
Purchased_on
2023-10-15
Ends_on
2025-10-15
Why
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Plot
OTC Block 3 3-14
Holder
Ruth Simmons
Certificate
OTC-1966-031
Purchased_on
1967-09-15
Ends_on
2027-09-15
Why
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Ask it anything

Ten questions your cemetery records answer

Each works against the records in the free version today. Your version adds your own.

chat_bubble Which family plots lose their right of burial in the next year, and still have room?
chat_bubble Which burials this week are in a held plot with no consent from the holder?
chat_bubble Which burials in the next 24 hours have no paperwork from the funeral director?
chat_bubble How many years does each section have left at last year's rate?
chat_bubble Which completed burials have no register number?
chat_bubble Which removals have no Minister's licence on file?
chat_bubble Which memorials were found unsafe and are still not made safe?
chat_bubble Which memorials went in without an approved permit?
chat_bubble Which funeral director owes us money, and how many days late?
chat_bubble Is there anyone named Grant buried here who died before 1970?

Switching

How to switch from PlotBox

A move involves exporting your PlotBox records, mapping them to the new database, checking the import, and running both systems side by side before you switch.

  1. 1

    Export your PlotBox records

    Build a PlotBox records report and export it to CSV. It brings across cemeteries, sections, plots, people interred with their dates and register numbers, and rights holders. Memorials, documents, the map, and money need their own exports. Check with PlotBox about what your account allows you to export for those records.

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    Preview, then load the records

    Start with a preview of the records report before loading it. The preview lets you check the import before changes are made. Once you are comfortable with what it shows, load the report into Cemetery for Claude Code. If Enterprise DNA is running the system for you, they handle this import as part of the switch.

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    Review what the import flags

    Go through the preview and any issues it flags before relying on the imported records. Check that cemeteries, sections, plots, interments, register numbers, and rights holders have come across as expected. Resolve gaps or mismatches before loading, and decide how to handle records that are in separate exports, such as memorials, documents, the map, and money.

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    Run both systems side by side

    Keep PlotBox available for a short period while you use the new system for your day-to-day work. Compare key records and routine checks in both systems, including upcoming interments, register entries, and rights holders. Use this period to spot missing information or differences in how your own fields and rules have been mapped, then address them before switching.

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    Switch off PlotBox

    Once your team has checked the records and is ready to work in the new system, make it the system you use for ongoing cemetery work. Keep any exports or records you need to retain, and switch off PlotBox when you no longer need it. The new system stores records in a database and has no web front end.

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Where the real effort goes

The main work is usually mapping your own fields and rules, then deciding how much history to bring across. The standard records report covers cemeteries, sections, plots, interments, register numbers, and rights holders. Memorials, documents, the map, and money need their own exports and mapping. Enterprise DNA does this migration work when you have them install and run the system.

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Get your PlotBox switch plan by email

We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off PlotBox, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.

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Three ways to own it

Choose who builds and runs your version

Open source

Do it yourself

Free, MIT licence

  1. 1 Clone the repo and run npm install
  2. 2 Run npm run demo and ask Claude Code what needs attention
  3. 3 Works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Cursor
  4. 4 Import a PlotBox records report saved as CSV
Get it on GitHub

Built around your business

We customise it

One setup fee, then a retainer

  • check Your cemeteries, sections, fees and bylaw rules
  • check Your PlotBox records, rights and register numbers brought across and checked
  • check A map view of your sections if you want one
  • check An online booking page for funeral directors if you want one
Get your version built

Omni by Enterprise DNA

We run it for you

One setup fee, then a retainer

  • check Installed and operated through Omni by Enterprise DNA
  • check Connected to your finance system where agreed
  • check Backups, support and changes as your sections grow
  • check The checks kept current if the burial law changes
Talk about your cemetery

Questions

Instead of PlotBox, answered

What comes across from PlotBox? expand_more

A PlotBox records report saved as a spreadsheet brings cemeteries, sections, plots, the people interred with their dates and register numbers, and the rights holders. Memorials, documents, the map and money need their own exports, and we map those for you as part of the switch.

We rely on the map. What happens to it? expand_more

The free version describes each plot by section, row and number, which is what the register needs. If your team finds graves from a map, we build a map view on the same records as part of your version.

Funeral directors book online today. Can they still? expand_more

The free version has no portal: the office takes bookings by phone or email. If online booking matters, we build a booking page for funeral directors on the same records.

Does this keep us within the Burial and Cremation Act? expand_more

No system can promise that. It checks your records against the parts of the Act that show in data: the register, the holder's consent, the 60-year lapse and licences for removals, and cites the section for each. Your bylaw rules are added the same way.

What does Enterprise DNA charge? expand_more

One setup fee, then a retainer for the agreed work. Sam looks at your current PlotBox users, modules and the reports you rely on before setting the scope. The free version has no licence fee; hosting and agent subscriptions cost what they cost.

What would your own cemetery records look like?

Spend 30 minutes with Sam going through your PlotBox renewal, one cemetery and the jobs your office does each week. We agree what to bring across, what to build around it and how we run it for you.

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Cemetery for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.

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