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June 6, 2024BOISE, Idaho — Gather, an innovative funeral home software company dedicated to helping funeral directors and families, is excited to announce an important integration with Homesteaders Life Company.
Homesteaders Life Company, founded in 1906, has been one of the most widely trusted and reliable choices of funding for advance funeral plans. They partner with over 3,000 funeral homes across the United States to offer a wide array of preneed products and services to families.
Through this integration, funeral homes and crematories can now sync their preneed policy data from Homesteaders with Gather, and quickly view or attach existing preneed policies to a case for quick reference. Read our in-depth guide or watch our 3-minute tutorial video to see how this integration works.

How The Preneed Integration Helps Funeral Homes
In Gather, funeral homes and crematories will now be able to view Homesteaders policy information at a glance from the comfort of any device to find specific information and complete several different actions from directly in Gather, including the ability to:
- View all issued policies (for single or multi-location firms)
- View policy changes or updates (i.e. when an address is updated on a policy)
- Access important policy details (including issuer, contact information, and 20+ other data points)
- Download each policy’s PDF statement of goods and services
- Attach or unattached a synced Homesteaders policy to or from an existing case in Gather
- Convert recently written Homesteaders policies into new preneed cases in Gather
- Generate an in-app insurance policies report to view all Homesteaders policies at a quick glance
- Receive daily email notifications for newly written Homesteaders policies

About Gather
Gather is an innovative, all-in-one software company that helps hundreds of funeral homes with funeral management, live streaming, custom websites and body tracking. We love funeral directors and firmly believe that helping families through the loss of a loved one is one of the noblest professions. Our vision is to give funeral directors a seamless solution that helps both the funeral home and the families they serve.
To learn more about how Gather works or to schedule your free demo, please visit www.gather.app or call (888) 492-2697.
About Homesteaders
Homesteaders Life Company, a mutual company owned by its policy holders, is a national leader providing products and services to help people design a better farewell. Visit homesteaderslife.com to learn more.





