Blue Water App is the leading cloud-based online platform that connects over 75,000 sailors with marinas, allowing them to book and pay for their berth through a mobile phone app.
Blue Water App is the leading cloud-based online platform that connects over 75,000 sailors with marinas, allowing them to book and pay for their berth through a mobile phone app.
Blue Water App is a cloud-based online booking and payment platform that connects sailors to marinas and has dominated the maritime world since 2013. Mariners, who pay with the Blue Water App through a mobile POS solution, immediately receive a unique personal PIN code, which gives them access to all marina facilities.
By integrating with Salto KS, the Blue Water App put itself on the map as the only marina-based booking platform in Europe that offers a complete and integrated payment and access control solution. The Blue Water-Salto integration provides these customers the ultimate user experience.
Marinas use Blue Water App to receive payments and bookings in a secure way, to increase their productivity through real-time arrival and departure data of boats, and to market their marina to new local and international customers.
This high-quality service also needed an integrated access control solution for marina facilities so that sailors did not need to go to the marina office to pick up a tag or access code. Blue Water App demanded a secure electronic access control system that would allow customers to receive a PIN code to gain quick access to the marina where they made their payment or booking. They also sought the possibility of introducing a digital key solution.
With the PIN functionality as the decisive factor, Blue Water App became a KS Connect partner. By partnering with Salto KS, the Blue Water App is now able to:
- Provide access on the go: Unexpected guests can be let in by the members of the space by granting access from wherever, whenever.
- The user-friendly interface makes it possible for new and existing customers to manage their bookings without assistance from Space administrators.
- View events: See exactly which customer has come into which marina at what time and keep track of valuable data.
- Substitute expensive tags with an online service.
Benefits of integrating with Salto KS:
- Guests receive individual codes after payment, which gives marinas much better access control and security.
- Marinas do not need expensive tags (key fob).
- Marinas demand a 24/7 service.
- Marinas need less staff to manage access control.
- Sailors can pay 24/7, as well as when the office is closed and without the use of expensive payment machines.
- Sailors can pay onboard and no longer need to walk to the office.
- Marinas have full control over payments which reduces cash transactions considerably.
- Marinas can see at any moment which sailors paid and did not pay, plus they receive regular reports with all payments and statistics.
- Marinas receive the data of all guests, which allows them to improve marketing activities.
Blue Water App has been dominating the maritime world since 2013. From their office in Zwijndrecht, the team of 10 (including the office dog) are working hard to make sure that over a hundred marinas and more than 75,000 boaters can use the Blue Water App with ease and can access marinas in the Netherlands and Belgium.
In 2019, Blue Water App started with a new solution that offers a payment service with automatic access control that was rolled out in the seaports of IJmuiden and Scheveningen in Holland. This new service was expanded to other marinas in Holland and in Scandinavia, UK, Germany, and the Mediterranean. The free revolutionary Blue Water App makes it possible to book and pay for a spot in the marina from your phone. Not only a spot: You can even make your dinner reservation or order other marina services through the app! If you see the (impossible to miss) pink Blue Water App signs in any harbour, that means you can use the app in this marina.