Certificates

The Certificates area is the vessel's certificate register. Every certificate the yacht holds is filed there with its number, issuer, issue date, expiration date and periodic survey dates, together with one or more attached files, so the whole set can be checked at a glance, endorsed on time and renewed before it lapses.

Open it from the vessel sidebar under Certificates. The entry lists Overview first and then one entry per certificate category you can view, so certificates are grouped the way your company has set them up. Each vessel has its own categories: a new vessel starts with a default set, which can then be renamed, reordered, added to or trimmed in Vessel Settings, so two yachts can show different lists.

The register keeps track of three things for you:

• Expiry and surveys — each certificate can carry an Expiration date, a Last endorsement date, a Next survey due date and a reminder window. The register's Expiring and Expired tabs pick out both certificates approaching or past their expiration date and certificates whose next survey is due or overdue. A daily check sends a notification when a deadline enters its reminder window and again when it passes, and the dashboard Alerts widget points you at anything that needs attention.
• Completeness — a category can carry a list of certificates the vessel is required to hold. Anything on that list with no matching certificate uploaded in that category shows as missing.
• History — superseded certificates can be archived rather than deleted, so the record of what the vessel held and when stays intact.

The section is available only on vessels whose licence includes Vessel's Certificates, and only to users who can view at least one certificate category. If the sidebar entry is not there, one of those two is the reason. The register lives in the cloud app; the On-board App does not include it.

With a vessel open, the AI Assistant can also find the certificates you are allowed to see, list what has expired, is expiring soon or has a survey due, and answer questions from any of a certificate's attached files.

Certificates held by individual crew members are not part of this register — those live with the crew member's own record, covered in the Crew section.