Needs attention
Viewing is published as £0
Attended Funeral component does not publish one monetary value greater than £0 (Viewing)
Funeral director website check
Independent checks of your public funeral website and price documents.
PublishSentry checks public funeral-director website information and price documents against published CMA requirements and supporting CMA material.
Monitoring is designed to keep watch over your public website and price documents and alert you when something needs attention.
Example report · demonstration data
Example Funeral Directors · 6 items need attention
Needs attention
Funeral officiant wording
Funeral officiant does not say "Price on request"
Verified
Standardised Price List exists
Standardised Price List webpage or candidate identified
Verified
Standardised Price List PDF
Standardised Price List PDF verified
Operator
Who is behind PublishSentry?
PublishSentry is operated by Ehsan Fathi, a sole trader trading as PublishSentry.
I built and operate PublishSentry to make repeated checking of public website information and documents easier for organisations that do not have time to continually compare published material against published requirements.
I chose to start with funeral directors because the CMA's published requirements for website and price-document information are specific enough to check systematically, but can be easy to miss when website pages or price documents are updated.
Funeral check
What the Funeral check does
PublishSentry checks public funeral-director website information and price documents against published CMA requirements and supporting CMA material.
Monitoring is designed to keep watch over your public website and price documents and alert you when something needs attention.
- It automatically checks public pages and documents on a regular schedule.
- It uses published CMA requirements and supporting CMA material.
- It identifies evidence that supports a finding.
- It links you directly to the relevant CMA sources.
- It distinguishes findings from things it could not verify reliably, and does not assume something is missing merely because a check could not establish it.
- Ongoing monitoring is intended to spot issues introduced by later website or document changes.
Coverage
How PublishSentry handles uncertainty
Automated checks cannot always verify every page or document reliably. When that happens, PublishSentry says so rather than treating the information as missing.
What the check looks at
Clear checks on the pages and documents already published on a funeral director website.
Standardised Price List
Is it published, accessible and presented in the required format and structure?
Funeral pricing
Do the published Attended Funeral component prices add up to the headline total?
Additional options
Are normally advertised products and services represented in the Additional Options Price List?
Crematorium prices
Is the required local crematorium pricing information published?
Terms of business
Are applicable payment, deposit and late-payment terms clearly published?
Disclosure of interests
Can the required ownership, comparison-site interests and qualifying payment information be identified?
Pricing
What Funeral monitoring costs
Monitoring is intended to cost £5/month or £45/year per website.
PublishSentry is currently being tested with a small number of funeral businesses, so public self-service signup is not yet open.
Any findings and suggested fixes you receive are yours to use whether or not you later take monitoring.
Human review
Think I've missed something?
If a finding doesn't look right, send me the relevant page or document and I'll review it.
I can look at the evidence with you. I cannot give legal advice, represent you before a regulator, or issue a regulatory ruling.