If you're a Gather customer, you instantly unlock the opportunity to offer memorial trees as a new, eco-friendly memorialization option to every family you serve. The best part? There aren't any big factors for you and your staff to manage. Below is our quick guide that will walk you through everything you need to know:
How Memorial Trees Work in Gather
How to Track Memorial Tree Sales
How to Handle Family Questions About Memorial Trees
Helpful Tip: Have questions about memorial trees in Gather? Visit our FAQ page.
1️⃣ How Memorial Trees Work in Gather
Through our partnership with Arbor Day Foundation, a non-profit with a 50-year legacy of helping to rebuild our forests, we aim to help our customers provide an eco-friendly memorialization option to families, via Remember Pages.
Here is how the memorial tree process will work for your families who are interested:
Families and friends visit their loved one's Remember Page.
Next to the flower button, there will be a new CTA button called 'Plant a Tree'.
Families will choose a forest project (10 options currently) where they'd like memorial trees to be planted in honor of their loved ones.
Once a purchase is made, a memory card will be created on the Remember Page for the contribution, and a PDF certificate will be emailed from planttrees@arborday.org which is available for the contributor to download.
Each month, your business earns 15% of all memorial tree sales directly to your pockets if the cumulative commission is greater than $100.
Memorial Tree Pricing
Families have the following pricing options. Please note - these are subject to change:
Single Tree: $39
Grove of 3: $89 ($30/tree)
Grove of 5: $149 ($30/tree)
Grove of 10: $249 ($25/tree)
Grove of 25: $399 ($16/tree)
Grove of 50: $499 ($10/tree)
Marketing Resources For Your Business
If you need additional support with promoting memorial trees to your community, we've created two free downloadable resources for you: a brandable social media graphic, and two marketing email templates.
2️⃣ How to Track Memorial Tree Sales
Memorial tree sales are easy to track in Gather. They will not be populated as a one-off transaction on your dashboard. However, there is a way to verify memorial tree sales on a case-by-case basis.
Check The Memories Section on the Remember Page
To check on memorial tree sales for a certain case, navigate to a case's Remember Page, and scroll to the memories section. If there are any memorial tree sales that occur, you'll see a new, unique card that includes the following:
Project Location
Time of Tree Planting
Contributor's Name
3️⃣ How to Handle Family Questions About Memorial Trees
Rest assured, we've created two resources for you to share with your families if they have questions about memorial trees that they'd like to buy through their loved one's Remember Page. We recommend bookmarking and sharing both links to help answer any questions that are brought forward:
Family Guide: How to Plant a Memorial Tree For Your Loved One
Family FAQs: Everything You Need to Know About Memorial Trees
Need more help? Chat with our team anytime, or give us a call at (208) 908-0488.