Features
Cairn has 11 pages, the same whether you are planning your own estate or handling someone else's. Nearly every field is optional, so you can fill in what you know and come back to the rest.
At a glance
Overview
The whole estate, on one page.
Checklist
Every task, grouped and tracked.
Assets
Property, investments and belongings.
Debts
What is owed, and to whom.
Distributions
Who receives what.
Bills
Recurring payments, paid or cancelled.
Accounts
Logins for email and paid services.
Beneficiaries
The people who inherit.
Contacts
Everyone the estate involves.
Files
Documents, kept with the estate.
Funeral
Funeral wishes, written down.
Overview
The whole estate, on one page.
Progress on the checklist, distributions and funeral plan, the bills still to pay or cancel, and the key contacts, side by side. It is drawn from everything else you enter, so there is nothing extra to keep up to date.
Cairn's Overview page: checklist progress, the bills still open and the key contacts for one estate.
Checklist
Every task, grouped and tracked.
Group the work into categories of tasks, each with a priority, a due date, a status and the contact it is assigned to. Attach files to a task so the paperwork sits next to the job.
Cairn's Checklist page: tasks grouped by category, each with a status and an assigned contact.
Assets
Property, investments and belongings.
Record each asset with its value, where it is kept, notes and a photo. Assets are what distributions are made from, so they carry through to the rest of the estate.
Cairn's Assets page: a list of property and belongings, each with its value.
Debts
What is owed, and to whom.
Mortgages, loans, credit cards and anything else owed, with the original and current balance and who to contact. Mark each one paid, or record an amount forgiven.
Cairn's Debts page: loans and cards with their balances and who to contact.
Distributions
Who receives what.
Link a beneficiary to an asset, or a share of one, with a status and date for each handover. The Overview shows how many are complete.
Cairn's Distributions page: beneficiaries linked to assets, each with a status.
Bills
Recurring payments, paid or cancelled.
Phone plans, streaming services, utilities and mortgage payments, with the amount, how often it recurs and who to contact. Mark each one paid or cancelled, and the Overview lists the ones still open.
Cairn's Bills page: recurring payments marked paid, cancelled or still open.
Accounts
Logins for email and paid services.
Keep the email, username and password for each account that you may need to reach or close, and mark it closed once it is. Stored account passwords can be encrypted with a passphrase only you know.
Cairn's Accounts page: logins for email and paid services.
Beneficiaries
The people who inherit.
Beneficiaries and heirs, with their relationship, contact details, a photo and notes. Each one can be named in as many distributions as the estate needs.
Cairn's Beneficiaries page: the people who inherit, with their relationship.
Contacts
Everyone the estate involves.
The lawyer, the accountant, the bank, the funeral home and family, with phone, email, address and notes. Checklist tasks can be assigned to the contact who handles them.
Cairn's Contacts page: the lawyer, bank, funeral home and family in one list.
Files
Documents, kept with the estate.
The will, deeds, statements and certificates, sorted into categories. Attached files are kept in Cairn's own folder on your computer and can be linked to checklist tasks.
Cairn's Files page: documents sorted into categories.
Funeral
Funeral wishes, written down.
The service, music and readings, burial or cremation, the obituary, pallbearers and the people to tell. Save it as a printable PDF: anything left blank prints as an empty line, so the paper copy can be finished by hand.
Cairn's Funeral page: the service, music and readings, with a button to save it as a PDF.
If your licence lapses
Everything stays readable and exportable — only editing stops. Nothing you have entered is deleted, and editing returns once the licence is active again. See pricing