How to use Pab Cuam
Plain-English instructions for funeral coordinators, family members, and volunteers. Take your time — the tool saves as you go, and nothing is shared publicly.
Working without internet
Funeral halls often have poor reception. If you lose connection while recording a donation, the entry is saved on your device and syncs automatically as soon as the internet returns — a banner at the top of the page shows how many entries are waiting.
About the exports
- Dates are written as YYYY-MM-DD (for example 2026-10-20).
- Money and values use two decimal places.
- Phone numbers keep their leading zeroes.
- The CSV file is UTF-8, so Hmong/RPA characters and special punctuation display correctly.
- Anonymous donors are listed as “Anonymous” with contact fields left empty.
- Every export is recorded in the export log with who downloaded it and how many records.
Who can do what
Every funeral record carries a colored status badge: Public (green, open to family viewers), Private (amber, administrators and coordinators only), or Archived (slate, closed and administrator only). Each record is also visible only to the administrator and the staff assigned to it. Administrators assign staff on each funeral’s edit page, and each person’s assignments are listed on the Staff page. Records are public by default; an administrator or the funeral’s coordinator can make a record private on its dashboard or edit page, and can archive finished records. To correct a donation, an administrator or the funeral’s coordinator presses Edit at the end of its row in the donations table; volunteers see Edit only on the entries they recorded. Every edit is listed in the activity log, and archived records cannot be edited. Anyone viewing a record can tap or click a donation to read all of its details; on a phone the donations appear as a list of cards, and the details window also holds the Edit and Delete buttons for people allowed to use them.
| Role | What they can do |
|---|---|
| Administrator | Full access: every funeral record — public, private, and archived. Create, edit, and delete funerals and donations, archive or unarchive any record, set records public or private, manage staff accounts and funeral assignments, export all data. |
| Funeral coordinator | Create funerals and manage donations on the funeral records they are assigned to; set those records public or private and archive them; view contact details and export reports for them. Archived records are administrator-only, so unarchiving is an administrator action. Administrators assign coordinators on each funeral’s edit page. |
| Volunteer | Add donations and edit the entries they recorded themselves, on assigned funerals that are public. Private and archived records are limited to administrators and coordinators. Cannot delete records, archive records, or export contact information unless the administrator grants it. |
| Family representative | View-only summary of donations on records that are public and not archived. Contact details and internal notes are hidden. No account needed — simply don’t sign in. |
Privacy notice
Pab Cuam collects donation information on behalf of the temple for one purpose only: coordinating funeral support, preparing acknowledgments, and reporting to temple leadership. We do not sell, advertise against, or publicly display donor information.
Donor contact details (phone numbers and email addresses) are visible only to signed-in staff — coordinators, administrators, and volunteers assigned to that funeral. Family view-only access hides contact details and internal notes. Anonymous gifts are recorded but the donor’s name is never displayed or exported. Records are open to family viewers by default; administrators and coordinators can make a record private with one press, and archived records are visible to administrators only.
Staff accounts are protected with passwords of at least 12 characters, including an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a number, and a symbol. Accounts created with the earlier short passcodes are asked to choose a new password the first time they sign in. Passwords are stored only as salted hashes.
The very first time the ledger is used, the initial administrator’s starter name and password are shown on the sign-in page so someone can get in and set things up. That reminder disappears automatically after the first successful sign-in — change the password on the Staff page right away.
Administrators may export records as spreadsheets; every export is logged with the person who made it, the date, and the number of records included. Donation records are kept only as long as the temple needs them for accounting and acknowledgments, then removed at the family’s or the temple’s request.
Hmong/RPA glossary
Key terms appear with Hmong/RPA labels throughout the tool. Use the toggle in the header to show or hide them.
DonorTus neeg pab
ItemKhoom
QuantityTus naj npawb
Date receivedHnub txais
FuneralKev pam tuag
TotalTag nrho
FamilyTsev neeg
StatusXeev
Received byTus txais
Thank-you sentUa tsaug ntau
Donation wishes anonymityTxhais lub npe
Money / cashNyiaj
FoodKhoom noj
Drinks / beveragesKhoom haus
FlowersPaj
Funeral suppliesKhoom pam tuag
Volunteer timeSijhawm pab
OtherLwm yam