1. BACAS NG Burial And Cremation Administration System (Next Generation)

2. Burial And Cremation Administration System (Next Generation)
This demonstration takes approximately 15 minutes
It gives you a flavour of BACAS NG but only shows the briefest glimpse of the facilities available.
At the bottom of each page are three buttons. These allow you to move a page back or forward or to the menu screen.
To end the demonstration press ‘Esc’ on your keyboard.

3. Use the menu to move directly to a topic or view the full presentation
Overview
Memorials and Assoc. Services
ICT Requirements
Disposal of Cremated Remains
Icon Toolbar
Reports and Links to Other Systems
Appointment Diary
Maps and Plans
Burial / Cremation Numbering
Remote Enquiry and Booking
Enquiry and Information
The Future and Summary
Grave and Burial Processing
Contact
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4. Overview
BACAS is not just a burial or a cremation system, it is a system for the administration of the disposal of people who have died.
BACAS is a generic system and can easily be customised to your requirements
BACAS produces whatever paperwork you require
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5. Bacas provides the following main functions
Burial Administration
Cremation Administration
Appointment Diary
Grave Administration
Memorial Management
Associated Services Administration
Report Production
Invoicing
Remote Funeral Director Bookings
Mapping
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6. ICT Requirements BACAS was developed for ‘Windows’
and can be run in any of the following environments :
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows NT SP5 or greater
Windows 98 SP2 or greater
BACAS requires Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or 2005
(single user installations use SQL Server Express 2005 )
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7. Icon Bar At the side of the screen is the icon bar.
Various functions can be initiated by clicking on a button.
The buttons are logically grouped.
Functions relating to people and Funeral Directors
Cremation Functions
Booking Diary
Finance
Generate Cremation and Burial numbers
Interment Functions
Mapping
Memorial Functions
Printing, , data export and mail merge
Drop down list and form styles
System configuration functions
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8. Appointment Diary Consists of:
- An icon bar for accessing various system functions
- A table containing times, deceased name, comments, funeral director
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9. Keyboard entry is kept to a minimum
Double click on the time column displays the bookings screen that allow you to enter details of the burial or cremation.
Funeral Directors can be selected from a drop down list or from the Funeral Directors details screen.
Drop down lists for other items
(i.e. Date of Death, Common death location etc.) ensure that input is easy and consistent.
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10. Bacas asks for what it needs
For a cremation it will ask for details about the person, the service, disposal of cremated remains and medical information.
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11. Bacas asks for what it needs
For a burial it will ask for information about the person, the service and the grave.
It has intelligence and tries to ask the question pertinent to what you are doing.
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12. Fast Booking Facilities
Bacas uses times, preset by you
But you can use other times by either moving the appointment or by changing the time on the booking screen
The initial information screen allows you to quickly enter new booking details when a Funeral Director phones.
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13. The system allows you to easily navigate the diary.
Navigating the Diary
The system allows you to easily navigate the diary.
The diary list allows you to select the diary page you require.
A date picker lets you comfortably select a date
You can also change the view of the diary.
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14. To show all of the bookings in a month.
Navigating the Diary
To show all of the bookings in a month.
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15. To show a week’s bookings for a specific diary page
Navigating the Diary
To show a week’s bookings for a specific diary page
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16. To show multiple locations for a specific day
Navigating the Diary
To show multiple locations for a specific day
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17. Burial and Cremation Numbering
The next two buttons allow you to generate the burial and cremation numbers. You can generate numbers for all registers or for individual registers
The numbers are automatically generated in date/time order
Several locations can be amalgamated into the same register
Daily reports can also be generated from this process
In addition, if a booking is cancelled or moved, the register number can be easily modified by using the wind back facility
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18. Enquiry and Information Modification
BACAS provides facilities for enquiry and information alteration.
You can use as little or as much information as you have available to enquire on a person who has died or a grave owner or an applicant.
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19. Enquiry and Information Modification
You can either ask for more detail on the person you have selected or amend details from the list generated by your selection
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20. Grave and Burial Processing
After the Burial information has been entered you can enquire or alter grave or burial details by the following selection criteria :
By Exclusive Rights
By Deceased Name
By Computer Reference
By Location
By Grave Reference
By Owner
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21. Grave and Burial Processing
Any grave can be selected
The grave screen gives all the information on who is buried in the grave, plus the owners (Including history) and memorials, in addition you can exhume people and produce letters, grants and reports.
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22. Memorials and Associated Services
BACAS has powerful functions that allow you to setup a range of memorials and other services associated with burial and cremation.
These include:
Book of Remembrance, memorial cards etc.
Plaques of all types
Headstones, kerbs, tablets etc.
Seats, Roses, Sanctums etc.
Memorial Assessment
Grave maintenance
Options (i.e. 5 years exclusive rights extensions)
and much more …
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23. Memorials and Associated Services
Memorials and Services associated with caring for the bereaved can be viewed in three ways.
1. By the person, who has purchased the memorial or service
2. By memorials or services associated with someone, who has died
3. By location
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24. Memorials and Associated Services
Complete details and history of a memorial or service can be recorded, quite often, without using the keyboard. In most cases the information has already been entered (i.e. Memorial Applicant is also Cremation applicant) or can be selected from a list.
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25. Memorial Risk Assessment
BACAS provides tools to record details about memorial safety. You can use a palm PC in your cemetery.
BACAS allows information to be down loaded to the Palm PC so that the risk assessment can be automatically recorded as the assessment is being undertaken.
The recorded information can then be re-loaded to BACAS.
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26. Disposal of Cremated Remains
BACAS provides facilities to record the details of disposal and manage the storage of outstanding cremated remains.
Bacas can:
Produce a view of all outstanding cremated remains
Produce letters, that can be sent to Funeral Directors or Cremation Applicants
Produce reports of outstanding cremated remains
Search for and update cremated remains details
Include cremated remains from elsewhere
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27. Disposal of Cremated Remains
The cremation screen gives information about the disposal
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28. Disposal of Cremated Remains
The following information can be entered:
Type of disposal
Location of cremated remains
Date of disposal
Who collected or where sent
Permanent remarks can be entered detailing the precise location of the cremated remains.
Temporary remarks can be entered giving details for the person disposing of the cremated remains.
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29. Reports and Links to Other Systems
BACAS produces an ever growing and wide variety of reports.
The reports can be divided into several categories.
Daily reports (mainly cremation)
Registers
Memorial and associated services reports
Letters, envelopes and labels
Management Reports
Adhoc reports
Maps and plans
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30. Daily Reports Chapel List Cremation Card Chapel Attendant List
Floral Tribute
Part C
Form F Scotland
And more …
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31. Release of Cremated Remains.
Daily Reports
Digging Slips,
Operator Work Sheet,
Release of Cremated Remains.
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32. BACAS provides a range of registers.
Cremation
Burial
Grave
Grave Index
Cremated Remains from elsewhere
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33. Memorials and Associated Services Reports
Attention list
Pending list
Renewal letter list
Renewal list
Assessment Questionnaires
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34. Temporary Deposit letters
Letters and Envelopes
Covering letters
Information letters
Memorial letters
Temporary Deposit letters
Envelopes
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35. Funeral Director Income
Management Reporting
Funeral Director Income
Burial Statistics
Grave Purchases
Grave Purchase Summary
General Statistics
Cremated Remains Collected
Cremations by Funeral Director
Monthly Burial Statistics
Federation Annual report
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36. Accounting Interface Report
Adhoc Reports
Accounting Interface Report
Invoice
Grave Grant
Grave transfer Document
Memorial Permit
Enquiry sheet
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37. BACAS also provides links to popular word processors and spreadsheets.
Links to Other Systems
BACAS also provides links to popular word processors and spreadsheets.
You can extract information from BACAS to merge into a letter that you may wish to send to all the cremation applicants of the last six months or to a spreadsheet for analysis or to generate graphs and charts.
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38. Maps and Plans Overhead photographs Plans Pictures
BACAS provides links to other systems. The list is ever growing and includes mapping the results of which are shown here and links to spreadsheets, word processors and other systems that are relevant to your needs.
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39. Remote Enquiry and Booking
BACAS provides the facility for Funeral Directors to make bookings using a touch-tone telephone.
BACAS also provides online register enquiry facilities via the internet.
The ‘Internet/Intranet’ technology is being expanded to allow Funeral Directors to make remote bookings securely over the internet
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40. The Future BACAS continues to grow!
By building on the firm foundations already established by incorporating in the views of the people, who use the system and by taking advantage of emerging technologies.
In the next years the ‘Internet/Intranet’ facilities will be broadened and additional modules for Pets and Birth, Death and Marriage registers will become available.
In addition digitizing technologies will be enhanced to allow computer storage of crematorium and cemetery documents (i.e. Application papers).
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41. Booking of Burials and Cremations
Bacas provides:
Booking of Burials and Cremations
Recording of Burial and Cremation Records
A wide range of Reports
Extensive Search Facilities
Memorial Management
Mapping
Remote Enquiry and Booking Facilities
A Path to the future through our annual service programme
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42. For more information on the BACAS system please contact us
Clear Skies Software Ltd.
Chace Farm Telephone:
The Warren
Ashtead
Surrey
KT21 2SH
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