Nauticare distinguishes four kinds of people. Three of them sign in; the fourth is a record kept about someone.
Management users
Management users work for the company and across the whole fleet. There are three roles:
- Management Admin — full control of the company account, including Billing and archiving or deleting yachts.
- Management User — works across the fleet and can add yachts, but cannot archive or delete one, and does not manage billing.
- Management Viewer — read-only. They can open the fleet, its yachts and the company Database, but cannot change anything.
A management user signs in to the company area and opens whichever yacht they need. Inside a yacht, a Management Admin or Management User holds every permission, as its captain does, and a Management Viewer works as a yacht Viewer. Back to Fleet in the header takes them out again. The Users section covers inviting management users.
Crew
Crew are attached to one yacht. Signing in takes them straight to that yacht — they never see the fleet list, the company Database or Users. There are three yacht roles:
- Captain — every permission on the yacht.
- Crew — shown by their rank name rather than as "Crew". Access is granted permission by permission, which is why two crew members on the same yacht can see quite different menus.
- Viewer — may see, but not change, anything on the yacht.
Everyone attached to a yacht appears on Crew → Crew Members. Every crew member keeps their own certificates, passport, forms and other personal records on their Account page, whatever else they are granted. The Crew section covers those records, and Roles and Permissions covers the model in full.
Owners
A yacht's owner signs in to the same app but lands in a portal of their own. Their sidebar has just two entries — Dashboard and a read-only Crew list. Owners sit outside the crew permission system: permissions are never granted to them, and they never see the vessel sidebar or the company area. Everything an owner can do is covered in the Owner Portal section; inviting one is covered in Owners.
Guests
Guests are not accounts and never sign in. A guest is a record the yacht keeps about a person aboard — identity, contact and passport details, and whether they are currently on board — kept under Crew → Guests. See the Guests section.
One place at a time
Nauticare assumes you act as one person in one place: a crew member belongs to a single yacht, and a management user works in one company. When a management user opens a yacht, the app puts them into that yacht for the duration and takes them back out when they leave it.