A module is a whole area of Nauticare — Maintenance, Finance, Inventory and so on. A yacht either has a module or it does not, and if it does not, the matching sidebar entry simply is not there for anyone on that yacht, including the captain.
Modules come from the yacht's licence
Each yacht in the fleet sits on a licence, which Nauticare also calls a plan. A licence carries a name, a price per vessel, a limit on how many vessels it covers, and a set of modules. It is either one of the standard plans — Nauticare Lite, Nauticare Standard or Nauticare Plus — or a custom licence agreed with your company. Two yachts in the same company can sit on different licences, which is the usual reason two sidebars differ.
Every standard plan includes Maintenance, Inventory, Vessel's Documents, Tasks, Leave Requests, Messaging and Guests; Standard and Plus add Finance. The other modules in the table below come with a custom licence. A company that signed itself up may start on a free trial — see the Billing section.
To see which licence a yacht is on, open the yacht and go to Vessel Settings → Subscription. That tab is shown to management users only, so crew never see it. It shows the plan card and, for a Management Admin when the account holds more than one licence, an Adjust Licence button to move the yacht onto another one. The company's whole subscription — every licence and its vessel count — lives on the Billing page, which also leads to your invoices; see the Billing section.
The modules and what they unlock
| Module | What it puts in the app |
|---|---|
| Maintenance | The Maintenance sidebar group |
| Inventory | The Inventory sidebar group |
| Tasks | The Tasks sidebar group |
| Vessel's Documents | The Documents sidebar group |
| Vessel's Certificates | The Certificates sidebar group |
| ISM (All Forms, SMS Module) | The SMS, Operations and Risk Manager groups, and Crew → Crew Forms |
| Finance | The Finance sidebar group |
| Guests | Crew → Guests |
| Messaging | The Messaging sidebar entry — the yacht's built-in chat |
| Work/Rest hours | Crew → Work/Rest |
| Leave Requests | Crew → Leave Requests |
| Safe Manning | Crew → Safe Manning, and the Safe Manning section under Vessel Settings → Crew |
| Charters | The Charters sidebar entry |
| Map (hourly update) | More frequent, hourly position updates on the Map |
Dashboard, Calendar, Map, Crew, Reports, Activities and Owners are not tied to a module — every yacht has them, subject to your permissions. The Map module changes how often a yacht's position is refreshed, not whether the page is there; and Risk Manager stays readable without the ISM module if the yacht already holds risk assessments or permits to work.
Modules also decide which tabs appear in Vessel Settings, which entries appear under the company Database, and what the Dashboard and alerts cover. An area a yacht does not license is never reported as missing or overdue — it is simply absent.
Modules are not permissions
The two are easy to confuse, and they fail in different ways:
- No module — the area is missing for everybody on that yacht. Nothing you can grant will bring it back; the yacht's licence has to change.
- No permission — the area exists on the yacht, and a colleague can see it, but you cannot. That is granted per crew member.
Why can't I see something a colleague can? walks through telling the two apart, and the Roles and Permissions section covers permissions in full.