Getting Started
How Nauticare is put together — a company, its fleet of yachts, the people who use it, and the modules that decide what each yacht shows.
- Management
- Captain & crew
- Owners
Nauticare is the software a yacht management company and its crews share. One company account holds a fleet of yachts. Each yacht keeps its own records — its crew, documents, certificates, tasks, machinery, stock, forms and finances — and the people who work on that yacht see those records and no others.
That single idea explains most of what surprises new users. Your colleague on another yacht is looking at a different set of records, under a different set of modules, with different permissions, so their screen can quite rightly look different from yours.
The shape of it
- A company signs up for Nauticare. Everything else belongs to that company.
- The company's Fleet is its list of yachts. Management users work across the fleet and open a yacht when they need to.
- Each yacht holds its own records. Crew are attached to one yacht and start there.
- A small amount of set-up is shared across the whole fleet, and lives under Database in the company area.
- Each yacht sits on a licence (also called a plan), and the licence decides which modules that yacht has. A module is a whole area of the app — Maintenance, Finance, Inventory, Messaging and so on. No module, no sidebar entry.
- On top of modules, each person's role and permissions decide what they may see and change within the areas the yacht does have.
Where Nauticare runs
Most people use the cloud app, either in a web browser or in the Nauticare app for iPhone and Android. Some yachts also run the on-board app, installed aboard the yacht itself. See Where Nauticare runs, and the Nauticare on Your Phone and On-board App sections.
In this section
- How Nauticare is organised — the company area, the vessel area, and what lives where.
- The people in Nauticare — management users, crew, owners and guests.
- Modules — why your sidebar differs — what a module is and where it comes from.
- Finding your way around — the sidebar, the header buttons, and moving between yachts.
- Where Nauticare runs — the browser, the phone apps and the on-board app, in outline.
- Your first sign-in — where you land and what is worth doing first.
- Why can't I see something a colleague can? — the four usual explanations.
- Words you will see — short definitions of the terms Nauticare uses.
Every feature has a section of its own, and the full access model is explained in Roles and Permissions. This section is only the map.
Articles in Getting Started
- Finding your way aroundThe sidebar, the More menu and customizing a yacht's menu, the buttons in the header, and moving between the fleet and a single yacht.
- How Nauticare is organisedThe company area and the vessel area, what belongs to one yacht, and the small amount of set-up shared across the whole fleet.
- Modules — why your sidebar differsWhat a module is, how each yacht's licence decides which modules it has, and which sidebar entries each module unlocks.
- The people in NauticareManagement users, crew on a yacht, owners and guests — who each of them is and how the app looks to them.
- Where Nauticare runsThe cloud app in a browser or the Nauticare iPhone and Android apps, the on-board app aboard a vessel-managed yacht, and what office staff notice when a yacht runs both.
- Why can't I see something a colleague can?The four reasons an area, page or button is missing — the yacht's modules, your role and permissions, which yacht you are in, and the company subscription.
- Words you will seeShort definitions of the terms Nauticare uses — fleet, licence, module, vessel profile, sample vessel, category, alert, vessel-managed and the rest.
- Your first sign-inWhere Nauticare puts you after signing in for the first time, and the handful of things worth doing straight away.