Mooring vs. Marina Management
Picture this. It’s a beautiful sunny day, a high of 81 degrees and the sun is glistening on the water. Boats are rocking slightly in the breeze, tied off to round buoys that look like floating striped pin balls on top of the water. Those buoys are part of the mooring that is connected to a weighted chain which is anchored to the bottom of the ocean floor thus keeping the boat from floating away.
A marina owner would offer services such as renting a customer a boat slip for their vessel or renting a mooring for a short- or long-term rental. Other software on the market are geared towards assisting marinas and boatyards with the management of their day to day operations from having customers sign up for online reservations, to assigning their in-house technicians vessel work orders and more.
Mooring management businesses come in the other side of the horizon. They mainly work directly with the harbormasters to ensure the proper placement, regulatory standards and maintenance of moorings in each harbor. They are also responsible for the continued maintenance, service and inspection of the moorings assigned to their customers which includes taking them in and out of the harbor each season. While the weighted chain and anchor remains year to year, the floating buoy on top of the water is what is removed, cleaned and repainted. The anchor and chain are also inspected by state regulation every three years.
Your question may be; what does this have to do with MOORFIND?
The software’s that are currently on the market are not targeted towards the mooring or mooring management business. MOORFIND was specifically designed to fill a void in the industry and assist mooring management companies with their day to day functions. We designed three separate modules so departments can separate their work functions while still collaborating.
MOORMANAGE
A customer database with so much more. This is a place to store customer demographic information, as well as mooring data, service records and billing history. Think of it as your complete customer file all in one place.
Not only is this a customer database, but this is a place to view every mooring managed by the company. View each mooring on a live interactive map by longitude and latitude. Each mooring is coded based on its status for easy filtering and reporting.
We have made it convenient for admin staff and owners to have a full overview of operations with a live dashboard and calendar. The calendar will show where technicians are on any given day of the current month and what moorings are coming due for service.
Lastly, if the business has multiple locations, there is a boatyard section to build off and inventory moorings per location!
MOORSERVE
This module is geared toward service technicians. Create customer estimates and work orders which will directly tie into a customer and mooring record. Our forms library makes it easy to load templated inspection forms directly into a work order.
Work orders can also be created on the go with the mobile app MOORSERVE mobile. Technicians can work on the water live and in real time. No more carrying around notebooks and paper work orders. Paper and water don’t usually work well together.
Vendor and inventory management can be added into this module as well.
MOORPAY
Approve and deny work order invoices and integrate Quickbooks for easy invoicing.
Contact us today at www.moorfind.com to find out how we can assist your business. Test the waters with us.