Uploading and tracking customer documents.

Insurance certificates, boat safety forms, fuel declarations, registration papers, passports and permits are just a few of the documents marinas get boaters to submit.

Getting the hard copy or scan from the customer is the easy bit. What’s trickier is:

  1. Putting the document somewhere accessible for the team
  2. Being confident that the documents you’re storing are in-date
  3. Quickly identifying the latest version of a document

We are well past the era of riffling through wads of paper to find the right sheet. It is a total waste of your time, a waste of paper, and a waste of space. Spreadsheets and computer storage can only ever be workarounds. 

Document management must be an integral part of the marina system if it’s going to make life easier for the team. We’ve thought about how Harbour Assist can help:

Accessibility

Add photos, images, Word docs and pdfs to any customer account with a simple upload tool. Or even send and append direct from email using our dedicated mail account. And with 1TB of storage as standard, there’s plenty of space for everything.

Document upload

Any user can view, print or download documents at any time – even the night crew or team members working away from the office. Desktop, tablet or mobile.

Expiration

Add an expiry date to time-critical documents like insurance certificates, and the big red ‘Expired!’ button will tell you all you need to know.

Store customer documents

If you want to find documents due to expire, run the Document Expiry report. Set an expiry before or after date, and filter by document type.

Even more helpfully, create a Smart List that’ll automatically update every time you run it. Email, SMS or mail merge a letter direct from the Smart List to every contact simultaneously – making it easier to keep on top of customer reminders.

Version control

You don’t always want to delete old files – sometimes it’s useful to keep a record for reference. The challenge is identifying the right one in a long list.

When you upload a document, check the ‘Current Version’ option and superseded docs are automatically tagged as ‘Old Version’, even when they’re still in date. You can view the document list as a whole or just the current documents.

Focus on current documents

How can we help your business?

If you’d like to talk about how Harbour Assist can help you cut the paperwork,  email Nick direct [email protected]