Concept analysis and the choice of MVP
A platform of six modules: vessel management (YBER Vessel) and fleet management (Fleet), sales and charter (Agency), a charter aggregator (Aggregator), berths (Dock) and analytics (Data). For each, competitors, must-have features, the quality bar and launch effort. The outcome: start with YBER Dock, then add extra services and sales. MVP metrics: how many minutes it takes to set up a marina, how many sites carry the widget and how many marinas have joined.
The client invests in one module with a clear edge, not in a platform that takes years to build.
Search for a berth by yacht size
The owner picks a yacht and dates, and the map shows marinas and how many berths fit the length, beam and draft and are free. It covers “you can moor alongside another boat” and “three berths will be free soon”, a hint to enter the draft, a filter by services and favourites. A new yacht can be saved right from the search.
You see at once where the boat will fit, without calling round marinas.
A marina and a berth on the pier plan
A marina has a plan of its piers: berths that fit and are free stand out, the rest are greyed. A berth card shows the allowed size, whether a second boat can moor alongside, what is on site (fuel, water, power, Wi‑Fi) and the price for the chosen dates. Next to it are the description, services, photos, eco features and reviews.
A berth is chosen by eye, as on the pier, not by a number from a list.
Booking in five steps
Yacht details, documents, services, payment and confirmation; a booking summary on the side grows step by step, and the chosen berth is hidden from others for ten minutes. Services are added to the stay: fuel by the litre, water, repairs, some priced after inspecting the yacht. Payment is online or at the marina; online, the amount is held on the card and charged after the marina confirms. Free cancellation terms and the penalty are shown before the request is sent. Booking works without signing up too — the booking is linked to an account later.
The owner knows in advance what they will pay and what a cancellation costs.
The yacht owner's account
Bookings for each yacht with statuses: awaiting confirmation, unpaid, details changed, declined; cancelling a booking; the yacht's stay history on a map, filled in from past bookings; the yacht's registration and specs. An email comes for every event: confirmation, a refusal with the reason, a charge for services rendered.
All of a yacht's stays and documents in one place, on a phone as well.
Marina overview for the operator
The pier plan for a chosen day: occupied, free, overstayed, paid, pay on site, unpaid — with marina totals and an occupancy scale months ahead. For each berth you see the booking, the client and the yacht, and a berth can be closed for booking.
The operator sees the whole marina and the problem berths at a glance.
Requests and bookings
A table of bookings by status — new, confirmed, at the marina, finished, declined archive — with filters, amounts and the auto-confirmation time. Inside a booking: changing the berth and dates with a recalculated price, “done” and “paid” marks for each service, the yacht's status (at the marina, left, didn't arrive), the contract and acts, a review of the client. The operator can also add a booking for a service user or a new client.
Calls, paperwork and on-site payment come together in one booking card.
Berth and price configurator
The marina draws its piers on a map or satellite image, automatically or by hand, sets berth types by size and places them along the piers. The daily price is a base rate per berth type plus adjustments for the pier, length of stay, season and how far ahead the booking is made; the result is shown on the plan or as a table.
The marina sets up its own plan and flexible prices, without a service manager.
Booking rules and marina onboarding
A cancellation penalty, how requests are approved — instantly, after a set number of hours or by hand — pausing requests and hiding the page. A new marina and its documents are checked by the service's administrators. For promotion there is a printable notice with a QR code for reviews, a QR code to the marina's page and an online booking widget for the yacht club's own site.
Each marina works by its own rules and takes bookings on its own site too.
