Marina & Boat Storage Management

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An AI-native, open-source platform for managing slip rentals, boat maintenance, fuel, and guest dockage across marinas and boat storage facilities.

Marina & Boat Storage Management is a candidate platform for marina operators, boatyards, and yacht clubs that need to coordinate slip and dry-stack inventory, transient and seasonal contracts, fuel sales, and service operations in a single system. It targets the long tail of municipally-run, club-owned, and small private marinas that have historically resisted software investment but face mounting competitive and regulatory pressure.

Why Marina & Boat Storage Management?

Existing platforms (Storable Marine, DockMaster, MarinaOffice, Dockwa, Harbour Assist) are uniformly proprietary subscription SaaS — no open-source alternative exists in this category.
Marinas relying on manual systems miss roughly 34% of enquiries during peak season, translating directly to empty slips and lost fuel revenue.
Incumbents are largely reactive: predictive maintenance, fuel demand forecasting, and environmental compliance automation are missing across the analysed solutions.
Dynamic transient pricing and yield management are confined to a couple of vendors (Dockwa, Storable), leaving most operators without revenue tools that hotels have had for decades.
New regulatory and infrastructure demands — ABYC E-13 lithium battery handling (2025), EPA Clean Marina, ABYC-USCG joint certification — are not addressed by current platforms.

Key Features

Slip, Berth & Storage Operations

Visual slip and berth maps with occupancy tracking and drag-and-drop assignment
Seasonal and transient dockage contracts with custom rates and renewals
Dry-stack and mooring management alongside wet slips
One-click berth operations (depart, invoice, swap, view customer)
Bulk invoice and contract cycles for annual mooring and harbour dues

Reservations, Billing & Customer Portal

Reservation and booking system with hard and soft holds
Automated invoicing for slip rentals, utilities, and services
Secure customer portal for invoice viewing, payment, and booking requests
Email and SMS communications for invoices, updates, and marketing
Contactless and payment-link-based collection flows

Service, Work Orders & Inventory

Work order management with estimates, job templates, and labour tracking
Mobile-first technician app with photo uploads and meter readings
Parts inventory tracking with reorder points and supplier integration
Maintenance inspections and team task workflows
Launch and haul operation scheduling

Fuel, POS & Utility Metering

Fuel dispenser integration with sales tracking
Point-of-sale for retail, fuel, and service payments
Utility metering for water, electricity, and pump-out usage
Real-time accounting synchronisation (e.g. QuickBooks) with GL, AR/AP

Compliance & Reporting

Pump-out, waste-oil, and spill incident logging aligned to EPA Clean Marina
Role-based access for marina staff, technicians, managers, and accounting
Occupancy, revenue, and profitability dashboards by department
Multi-location support with centralised reporting

AI-Native Advantage

AI is applied where incumbents remain manual or rule-based: dynamic transient slip pricing that adapts to demand, seasonality, local events, and competitor availability; predictive boat maintenance using engine hours, service history, and OEM schedules; fuel demand forecasting with anomaly detection for leaks or theft in dispensing data; and personalised guest experience automation (arrival briefings, weather alerts, post-visit surveys) calibrated to vessel type and stay duration. Environmental compliance reporting against EPA Clean Marina requirements is generated automatically from operational logs.

Tech Stack & Deployment

The platform is intended as a cloud-native, multi-tenant system with a mobile-first technician experience including offline-capable field workflows. Integration surfaces include fuel dispenser hardware, utility metering equipment, payment processors, and accounting systems such as QuickBooks. Operations are shaped by ABYC standards (E-11, E-13, H-24), USCG recreational boating regulations, NMMA certification, and the EPA Clean Marina programme; vessel and waterways data flows are designed with state harbour-master and environmental-agency requirements in mind.

Market Context

Marina management software is a niche but growing segment driven by rising recreational boating participation, ageing marina infrastructure, and the complexity of multiple revenue streams (wet slips, dry stack, fuel, guest dockage, service, retail). All identified incumbents are subscription SaaS, with Dockwa adding commission-based marketplace revenue and reporting an average 20% NOI uplift for adopters. Primary buyers are marina operators, boatyards, yacht and marina clubs, and municipal harbour authorities — many of which still run manual or legacy desktop systems.

Project Status

This project is in the research and specification phase.
Contributions, feedback, and domain expertise are welcome.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from developers, domain experts, and potential users. See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Important: All contributions must be your own original work or clearly attributed open-source material with a compatible licence. Copyright infringement and licence violations will not be tolerated and will result in immediate removal of the offending contribution. If you are unsure whether a piece of code, text, or other material is safe to contribute, open an issue and ask before submitting.

Licence

Licence to be determined. See discussion for context.