Roles and Permissions
How Nauticare decides what each person can see and change — the company role, the per-yacht permissions, the owner's separate standing, and the module gate.
- Management
- Captain & crew
- Owners
"Why can't I see this?" is the question this section answers. Access in Nauticare is not a single setting — it is decided by a few things stacked on top of each other, and the two most common causes of a missing page look identical from the outside.
The layers
- Where you belong. A person is either part of a company's office side, or assigned to one yacht, or an owner of one yacht. That decides which app you land in and which yachts exist for you at all.
- What the yacht's plan includes. Each yacht sits on a plan that switches whole areas of the app on or off. An area that is not in the plan is invisible to everyone on that yacht, captain and management included.
- Your role. Management roles and a yacht's Captain and Viewer have their access decided by the role alone. Only crew holding a rank go on to the next layer.
- Your per-yacht permissions. For crew on a rank, a list of ticks decides area by area what they may view, edit, delete and complete.
- Your own records. Whatever the ticks say, your own documents, forms and hours are yours. Seeing a colleague's is what needs permission.
An area is hidden either because layer 2 removed it for the whole yacht, or because layer 4 did not grant it to you. Telling those two apart is the single most useful diagnostic skill in the app, and "Why can't I see this?" walks through it.
In this section
- How access is decided — the layers in order, and how they combine.
- The roles at a glance — every role, what it means, and where it is set.
- Per-yacht permissions — how the permission list is built, who it applies to, and when a change takes effect.
- Your own records — what you can always reach without permission, and the exceptions.
- The owner's access — why an owner is not a crew member or a management user.
- Modules and permissions — the plan-level gate, what each standard plan includes, and how Messaging is decided.
- Why can't I see this? — a checklist for a missing page, tab or button.
Inviting people, changing someone's role and removing access are covered in the Users section and in Crew. Area-specific rules — exactly which tick shows which page in Maintenance, Finance, SMS and so on — live in each of those sections' own permissions article.
Articles in Roles and Permissions
- How Access Is DecidedThe order in which Nauticare works out what you can see — assignment, plan, role, permission tick, own records.
- Modules and PermissionsThe plan-level gate that hides whole areas of a yacht for everyone, how it differs from a permission, and where to check it.
- Per-Yacht PermissionsHow the permission list for a crew member is structured, where it lives, and the rule that stops you granting more than you hold.
- The Owner's AccessWhy a yacht owner sits outside the crew and management roles, what they can see, and how their access is granted.
- The Roles at a GlanceEvery role in Nauticare — the three management roles, Captain, Viewer, crew ranks and Owner — and what each one means for access.
- Why Can't I See This?A checklist for a missing page, tab or button — working out whether it is your permissions, the yacht's plan, or something else.
- Your Own RecordsWhy your own documents, forms and hours never need a permission, where to find them, and the two things you still cannot do for yourself.