Company — the account everything belongs to. One company, one fleet, one subscription.
Fleet — the company's list of yachts, and the first entry in the company sidebar. Split into All and Archive.
Yacht / vessel — the two words are used interchangeably. A yacht owns its own records; open one from the fleet to work on it.
Archived yacht — a yacht the company no longer manages, moved out of the active fleet into Fleet → Archive. See the Fleet section.
Licence — what a yacht is subscribed under, also called a plan: Nauticare Lite, Standard or Plus, or a custom licence. It carries a set of modules and a limit on how many vessels it covers. A company can hold several, and different yachts can sit on different ones.
Module — a licensed area of the app, such as Maintenance or Finance. No module, no sidebar entry, for anyone on that yacht.
Permission — an individual grant on a crew member, deciding what they may view or change within the areas the yacht has. Separate from modules.
Category — the folders used to file documents, certificates, forms, controlled documents and inventory. Nauticare does not ship a fixed list: they are set up for your own company and yachts, under Database and Vessel Settings, so they differ from one customer to the next.
Database — the company-level set-up shared by every yacht: crew documents, crew ranks, vessel documents, form templates, controlled documents and vessel profiles.
Vessel profile — a reusable starting set-up, such as crew ranks and required documents, kept under Database → Vessel Profiles and picked when adding a yacht. The yacht keeps its own copy. A yacht's own details, on the General tab of Vessel Settings, are not its profile.
Sample vessel — M/Y Serenity (Sample), an example yacht full of made-up data that a new company can explore before adding its own, marked by a banner with an Exit demo mode button. See the Fleet section.
Free trial — the short, unbilled start a self-signed-up company may get before choosing a plan. See the Billing section.
Vessel Settings — the per-yacht configuration page, opened with the gear button in the header, or at the bottom of the menu on a phone.
Crew member — someone attached to a yacht, in one of the three yacht roles: Captain, Crew or Viewer.
Management user — someone working across the fleet, as Management Admin, Management User or Management Viewer.
Owner — a yacht's owner, who signs in to a portal of their own rather than the vessel sidebar.
Guest — a person the yacht keeps a record about under Crew → Guests. Guests do not sign in.
Alert — a live reflection of the current state of a record: an expiring certificate, a missing form, an overdue task. Alerts clear themselves once the underlying record is fixed.
Notification — an individual message sent to you, which you mark as read. Not the same thing as an alert; see Notifications and Alerts.
Controlled document — a document under revision and approval control, used in the Safety Management System. See the SMS section.
Form template — the company-defined blueprint a crew member fills in to produce a submission. See Operations and Database.
Messaging — the yacht's built-in chat between people, in the vessel sidebar. See the Messaging section.
Nauticare AI — the chat assistant behind the sparkle button in the header. Not the same as Messaging. See the AI Assistant section.
Nauticare app — the iPhone and Android app, which is the cloud app on your phone with push notifications added. See Nauticare on Your Phone.
Cloud-only — a yacht that exists only in the cloud app. The default.
Vessel-managed — a yacht that also runs the on-board app aboard, and therefore has its Maintenance, Tasks and Inventory edited aboard rather than in the cloud. See the On-board App section.