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Since 9 September 2024 every death in England and Wales is either scrutinised by an NHS medical examiner or investigated by a coroner, and nothing downstream - registration, the green form, the funeral date - moves until that office sends the certificate to the register office.

The family registers and the firm cannot do it for them, so the arranger's job is knowing when the register office can be booked, what the green form releases when it arrives, and which parts of the case can move before it does.

A coroner's referral does not stop the paperwork, it reroutes it - the coroner's own documents replace the registrar's green form, and they arrive at the funeral director from the coroner's office rather than through the family.

In England, Wales and Northern Ireland no licence or qualification is required to trade as a funeral director; Scotland has had a statutory code and inspection regime since 1 March 2025.

A fixed-format price list displayed in every branch, in the window where practicable, and on the website in a PDF one click from the homepage, unchanged since 16 September 2021.

Three UK products publish a lower per-funeral rate than Funeral Manager's £11.70, and the cheapest of them does not define its unit.

Four UK products publish a rate Eulogica does not, and the trade is a priced product against the most developed family-facing layer in the UK field.

At one branch the bill is set by funeral volume alone, because no UK vendor with a published rate charges per seat.

Four other UK products compete with Oak Technology's Evolution FMS, and three of them publish a per-funeral rate against its undefined per-record one.

Not on volume alone - at 25 funerals a year every published UK rate lands between £150 and £325, so the decision turns on who else needs the record and how many cases are waiting on paperwork at once.

In UK funeral software a family portal almost always means the family can view the estimate and pay the bill online, not that they enter any of the deceased's details.

The applicant signs Cremation Form 1, and since a Ministry of Justice clarification in September 2024 the funeral director may complete it on the applicant's behalf.

Roughly £6 to £15 a funeral, and four of the six UK vendors will tell you their number without a sales call.

£10 a funeral on eFD Premium and £15 on eFD Enterprise, published on Seker's own pricing page, plus onboarding at 30 per cent of the first year's subscription.

Nobody outside Funeral Zone knows, because the tier ladder behind "from £10 per funeral" is not published anywhere and the direction of the tiering is not stated.

Yes - Evolution FMS is £5.00 per record plus VAT, so £6.00, but Oak Technology never defines a record, so that is £6.00 or £12.00 a funeral.

£11.70 a funeral, made up of £3.20 for a care-of-the-deceased record and £8.50 for an arrangement record, with unlimited users and no tiers.

Eulogica publishes no price of any kind, so the quote is built from a core system, seven optional modules, per-user cloud hosting and configuration days.