Berths, pens, hardstand and storage bays — held for the holder, sized to what actually fits, billed once a month, with insurance and survey certificates chased on their own. The software most yards are still doing in a ledger.
Sound familiar?
A berth plan on the office wall with names in pencil. Annual fees arriving as bank transfers with no reference, reconciled by memory. A waiting list in a notebook that nobody trusts. Certificates of currency in a drawer, checked when something goes wrong rather than before. And the only person who knows which pens take a 14-metre hull has worked there for twenty years.
Your words, our screens
Your portal is configured to your yard at setup. Your holders never see stallholder terminology.
| In your marina or yard | In TEKRAM |
|---|---|
| Annual berth holders | Permanent holders with a held berth, retained rate and one monthly invoice |
| Casual and visitor berthing | Casual bookings, self-served and paid online |
| A 14m vessel cannot take a 12m berth | Length-based fit validation — the booking is refused, not corrected later |
| Berth classes — marina, pen, swing, hardstand | Space types, each with its own quantity, rate and visibility switch |
| Power and water pedestals | Add-on stock counted as a finite pool, so services cannot be oversold |
| Vessel insurance and survey certificates | Compliance documents with automatic expiry chasing and booking blocks |
| The berth plan on the office wall | Live allocation with clash detection |
| The waiting list in a notebook | A queue that offers the next freed berth on its own, in order |
What it does for you
Berth and bay holders are billed a month or a quarter at a time as one linked batch sharing a single invoice, a single due date, their held position and their retained rate. One summary email, one payment — not one message per period.
Record what each berth or bay actually is — length, beam, draft, class — and the system refuses a booking that will not fit. It is the same frontage check that stops a 12m trade site landing on a 3m space, applied to a hull instead of a gazebo.
Power pedestals, water points and hardstand slots are finite. Set what you physically have and the booking form stops selling the one you do not. Per-period overrides for the season half the pedestals are being replaced.
Holders upload their own certificates of currency and survey documents. Expiring and expired notices go out daily to them and to you. Turn on booking blocks and an uninsured vessel cannot renew until it is current.
Miss the due date and the reminder goes out on its own. Seven days later the held berth and the retained rate release back to general availability, automatically and reversibly. When the payment lands, restore it in one click.
Card payments land in your own Stripe account on your own payout schedule. TEKRAM never holds, receives or handles your money and never takes a percentage of a berth fee. Cash and transfer are recorded with a full audit trail.
A caravan storage yard, a boat hardstand, a container compound and a marina are all doing one thing: holding a numbered space of a specific size for someone who pays monthly and stays for years.
Set your bays by dimension, let the fit check refuse anything too long, and bill the whole yard in one action each month. If you run both a marina and a hardstand, they are two space types in the same system rather than two systems.
Gate and access-card integration is not built. If entry control is a hard requirement, TEKRAM will not replace it and we will say so at the first conversation.
Pro-rata billing for a mid-month start, and bond or deposit handling as a distinct transaction, are on the roadmap rather than in the product. Slipway bookings, lifts and maintenance scheduling are out of scope entirely.
Yards do not measure usage in event dates per month, so our published tiers will not map cleanly to how you operate. Pricing is based on the number of berths or bays under management and how many staff need portal access.
Every engagement includes configuration of your berth and bay classes, dimensions, rates and service stock, migration of your existing holder register, and a written operations manual for your team. Tell us how many berths or bays you manage and we will quote against that.
Tell us how your holders are managed now and we will show you what next month’s invoicing looks like.