CemSites maps columbarium niches by their physical position within the structure, displaying availability, ownership, and occupancy status on the interactive map alongside the cemetery’s ground plots and mausoleum crypts. Staff can view the columbarium inventory filtered by availability status, by structure, by section within a structure, or by niche type, and the map updates in real time as sales and inurnments are recorded. Families visiting the cemetery can also locate a niche through the visitor-facing wayfinding tools, using the same search-by-name functionality that applies to ground burials.
Inventory accuracy is especially important for columbarium management because niches are compact and adjacent, making a physical error in identification difficult to correct after an inurnment has occurred. CemSites maintains the niche-level detail needed to prevent those errors, linking each niche to a unique identifier in the mapping system that the staff references during both the sales process and the inurnment itself.
