A company that signs up to Nauticare by itself starts with a sample vessel, M/Y Serenity (Sample), in its fleet. It is added when the new account is activated, together with the free trial, and it is filled with example maintenance, documents, certificates, crew, tasks, messages and finances so you can see how Nauticare works before adding your own yacht. Nauticare can also set one up for your company on request. A sample vessel is only ever added to a company that has no active yacht of its own yet.
While the sample vessel exists, your company is in demo mode. The free trial itself — its length, plan and the chips shown for it — is described in the Billing section.
The banners
- On Fleet → All a banner reads You're exploring Nauticare with a sample vessel, explaining that M/Y Serenity and everything on it are examples.
- On the sample vessel's Dashboard a banner reads This is a sample vessel: every certificate, task, expense and crew member on it is example data, and nothing you change there affects a real vessel.
- Right after the account is created both banners read Preparing your sample vessel for a few seconds while the example data is written. The page updates by itself once it is ready.
Once the sample vessel is ready, both banners carry an Exit demo mode button. They disappear as soon as demo mode ends.
The sample vessel is otherwise a normal yacht: you open it from the fleet list like any other, and you can explore and change anything on it. Its crew are example people, not real users.
The sample vessel uses your vessel limit
The sample vessel occupies the slot on your trial license. While it is there, Add new on Fleet → All is greyed out and its tooltip reads The sample vessel is using your vessel limit (N). Exit demo mode to add your own.
Exiting demo mode
Only a Management Admin can exit demo mode. Other users see the button, but the request is refused for them.
- Choose Exit demo mode on either banner.
- A confirmation explains that the sample vessel and all of its example data are removed permanently and that your own vessels are not affected. Confirm to go ahead. No emailed code is needed, unlike permanently deleting a real yacht.
- You are taken to Billing (or back to Fleet → All in the mobile app).
Exiting deletes the sample vessel and everything on it — its example crew accounts and assignments, documents and files, certificates, tasks, calendar entries, maintenance, inventory, messages, finance records and all other example data — exactly as a permanent delete would. It cannot be undone. Your real user accounts, any other yachts, and everything in the company Database stay as they are. Once the sample vessel is gone, its slot is free and Add new works again.
When demo mode ends by itself
- Buying a subscription ends demo mode: when your company's subscription is activated, the sample vessel is removed automatically, even if nobody clicked Exit demo mode.
- Deleting it by hand also ends demo mode: if the sample vessel is archived and then permanently deleted from Fleet → Archive, demo mode ends with it.