CIMS Cemetery Software Upgrades

Ramaker & Associates offers a maintenance program to all of our CIMS and CIMS Light cemetery software clients. Customers that are members of this program receive free upgrades to their products, typically once per year.

All of these features have been developed from suggestions from you, our clients. Although it is not possible for us to incorporate every suggestion, we do our best to provide a product that will meet the needs of all of our clients. If you have any ideas for new features, feel free to email us a suggestion.

Version 3.4 of CIMS and CIMS Light  was released January 24, 2008 and includes the following enhancements:

CIMS & CIMS Light Enhancements

1. Work Orders
   • Create and print work orders for you and your maintenance staff.
   • Track when work orders are completed.
   • Query work orders based upon priority, names, location, or complete status.
2. Expanded Capabilities for Images and Other Files
   • Store up to 6 images for owners, burials, and markers for each space.
   • Link an unlimited number of documents for each space.
   • Easy click to open access for any image linked to a space.
3. Customer User-Defined Fields
   • CIMS 3.4 now allows for 3 user-defined customer fields.
   • Once created, these fields will be located on the advanced tab of the customer information window.
4. Track More Information for Each Space
   • Track interment fees for each space.
   • Track the following information for each burial:
     • Funeral Location
     • Funeral Date/Time
     • Funeral Director
     • General Funeral Remarks
5. Date Estimated Fields
   • You can now indicate if a date is just an estimated date.
   • The following dates can be marked as estimated:
     • Customer Birth Date
     • Customer Death Date
     • Customer Married Date
     • Burial Date
     • Military Date of Discharge
     • Military Date of Enlistment
6. New Lot Report and Updated Other Reports
   • New Lot Report includes an export of that lot from your map. CIMS only
   • Added new funeral information to the Space Detail report.
   • Added new space fee information to the Space Detail report.
7. Better Backup Warnings and File Restoring
   • CIMS will warn you if you haven't backed up your data in 14 days.
   • Can restore CIMS data from other computers or devices - Even if that computer didn't create the CIMS backup!
   • CIMS will include your local images directory in the backup and restore.
8. Better Space Care Fund Management
   • Care Fund costs are now tracked on a space-by-space basis allowing you to change the price as often as required.
   • You may now include Care Fund Remarks for each space.
   • Added new Care Fund reports for each individual care fund or all care funds together.

Past Upgrades