The APRON Platform
Purpose-built for yacht operations. Every module connected, every document tracked, every workflow streamlined.
Your crew. Organised.
One system for every crew member — from their first onboarding link to their final payslip. Certifications, rotations, leave, and travel all connected.
- Crew profiles — certifications, sea service, medical, NOK, banking — in one place that follows them across vessels
- Fully customisable roster — build whatever rotation pattern your fleet actually runs, not a fixed list of templates
- Leave, training, travel, and expense approvals routed in-app — not on email or notice boards
- Onboarding through TouchBase — new joiners install the crew app, fill their profile, upload documents, and arrive ready
- Mandatory certificate matrix that updates itself when you change the vessel's flag, ranks aboard, or trading area
- Performance reviews, rehire history, and one-click reference & sea-service letters at off-boarding
- Career data flows back into the seafarer's TouchBase profile — no rebuilding records at every joining
Every voyage. Meticulously planned.
From the guest manifest to the bunker order, APRON connects every moving part of a voyage into one coherent plan — with nothing left to memory or email.
- Plot a charter, yard period, or owner's cruise — APRON pulls every department's pre-departure work into one view
- Trip-as-trigger: change a port, leg, or guest count and provisioning, manifests, visas, and the relevant SOPs cascade with it
- Guest manifests with dietary, allergies, and visa state — assembled against the trip, not chased one email at a time
- Provisioning, bunker (MGO/MDO in litres), berth bookings, and transit permits — generated, sent, tracked
- Free-text triggers in plain English — type “for every charter to Croatia, draft visa letters for non-EU crew” and Maria builds the workflow
- Voyage P&L per charter or season for the management company
Every document. Exactly where it should be.
The operational layer between your vessel and your management company. Documents auto-named, version-controlled, and always one click from a PDF.
- Configure your vessel's flag, class society, trading area, ISM scope, and carrier rules — APRON curates the documents and certificates required for every rank
- Living certificate matrix — change the flag or open a new trading area and the requirements update themselves
- Smart expiry hooks: HODs see the dashboard, the affected crew member is notified directly on TouchBase before anything lapses
- Standardised naming and filing on the vessel's onboard server, with a secure copy ashore — nothing's ever lost, ashore or at sea
- One-click crew lists, travel letters, payslips, certificate matrices, port packs
- Read-only viewer — no accidental edits, no version sprawl, full audit trail
Every port of call. Fully prepared.
Pre-arrival paperwork, clearance packs, and port agent communications — assembled automatically so nothing is left to the last minute.
- Pre-arrival checklists per department, automatically generated
- Clearance pack assembly — crew lists, manifests, and certificates bundled
- IMO-format travel letters generated as PDF with full crew details
- Pre-filled port agent emails with vessel particulars and crew changes
- B1 and Schengen visa tracking with expiry alerts and renewal prompts
- Port agent network — contacts, ratings, and visit history per port
Always audit-ready. Never chasing.
MLC, ISM, and flag state requirements — built into every workflow rather than bolted on as an afterthought. APRON keeps you compliant without the clipboards.
- ISM, MLC, and flag-state requirements built into every workflow — not bolted on as a clipboard exercise
- Drills, near-misses, and incidents logged at the moment they happen — not retyped from a notebook a week later
- Inspection Pack: one click compiles every notice, acknowledgment, audit finding, and corrective action — with hash-chain integrity proof — into a single auditor-ready document for PSC, SIRE, vetting, or flag
- Corrective actions, non-conformities, and findings tracked through to verified close
- Multi-flag support — Cayman, Marshall Islands, Malta, Bahamas, BVI, and more — configured per vessel
Crew wellbeing, measurable. And private.
The maritime industry's mental-health crisis isn't going anywhere. APRON treats wellness as operational signal — gathered with consent, kept private, surfaced as risk before it becomes incident.
- Daily work-and-rest entry from each crew member through TouchBase — no more retroactive clipboard logs that fall apart under inspection
- Fatigue index derived from rolling work-and-rest data — calibrated against the cognitive equivalent of a blood-alcohol level so the bridge spots risk before it becomes incident
- Mood and wellness check-ins, fully private to the seafarer, aggregated to the captain as anonymised signal — never individual answers
- Burnout early-warning — patterns surfaced across departments before someone walks off a passerelle
- MLC work/rest compliance reporting drops out of the same data — auditors get clean records, no double entry
The purser's operational layer.
APRON handles the day-to-day operational needs of the purser — receipts, petty cash, payroll, and APA. It is not a full accounting system. It works alongside platforms like Voly.
Designed to complement your accounting software, not replace it.
- Receipt and invoice management per department and cost centre
- Encrypted card storage per Head of Department
- Petty cash records with denomination-level tracking
- CTM (Cash To Master) records and reconciliation
- Department budgets with actuals vs. budget view
- Payroll calculation with rotation-aware proration
- APA (Advance Provisioning Allowance) tracking per charter
Every entry. Signed and searchable.
Statutory logbooks rebuilt for the digital age — structured entry forms, digital signatures, and inspector-ready exports. No more paper books left ashore.
- Deck log — position, weather, navigation events, and watch records
- Engine log — RPM, generator running hours, and fuel consumption
- Official log — statutory crew movements and disciplinary records
- Oil Record Book — MARPOL Annex I operations with inspector-ready export
- Medical log — patient records, treatments, and medical stores
- Garbage log — MARPOL Annex V waste categories and disposal records
- Digital signatures, full-text searchable, exportable as PDF
Ready to see it in action?
We'll walk you through the platform on your own vessel data, answer every question, and help you decide if APRON is the right fit.