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Marine & Maritime

Berth BookingInventory SyncDealer Directory

Marina & Boat Dealer Website Platform

Your Berth Map Goes Offline Every Time A Buyer Tries to Book

179%

Organic Traffic Lift

Industry benchmark

5×

Lead Increase

vs. template sites

95+

Lighthouse Score

Performance target

<2s

Load Time

Edge-deployed globally

Why Template Marina Sites Can't Handle Reservations — And What Actually Works

A buyer taps your marina on their phone from the dock. They want slip C-12, but your template site shows a static PDF. They leave. A marina website platform renders interactive berth maps, syncs live availability from your reservation system, and lets customers book without calling your office. It pulls inventory straight from your dealer management system, auto-generates location pages for every service area, and syndicates listings to Boats.com and BoatTrader. Off-the-shelf WordPress themes can't do any of that. Your competitors close berth bookings and boat leads while you're still manually updating spreadsheets and fielding the same availability questions over the phone.

Waar projecten falen

Template marina sites can't show real-time slip availability or render a visual berth map So customers call the competitor who can.

Boat inventory gets updated by hand, which means it's almost always out of sync with your DMS Stale listings kill buyer trust and burn staff hours on corrections that shouldn't need to happen.

There's no connection between your website leads and your CRM or booking system Leads disappear while you keep paying for traffic that never converts.

The mobile experience falls apart on docks — which is exactly where your customers are browsing Bounce rates climb, and Google penalizes you for it under mobile-first indexing.

No syndication to Boats.com, BoatTrader, or other marketplace feeds means you're invisible to the largest pools of active boat buyers actually searching those platforms. You miss the largest pools of active boat buyers searching those platforms

Generic SEO ignores location-based marine search intent Competitors rank for "marina near [city]" while you don't show up at all.

Compliance

Visual Berth & Slip Maps

Interactive marina maps show real-time slip availability, dry stack status, and utility hookups. Customers pick and reserve a berth without ever calling you.

DMS Inventory Sync

Automated two-way sync with your dealer management system keeps prices, photos, specs, and availability current across your site and marketplace feeds simultaneously.

Searchable Boat Directory

Filterable inventory listings by make, model, year, price, and location. Faceted search built around how boat buyers actually shop — not how developers assume they do.

Lead Capture & CRM Integration

Forms, chat widgets, click-to-call, and text inquiries route directly into HubSpot, Salesforce, or your native marine CRM. Every touchpoint gets tracked.

Marketplace Syndication

API exports push listings to Boats.com, BoatTrader, and other marine marketplaces. One source of truth, distributed everywhere buyers are searching.

Secure Payment & eSignatures

Stripe-powered deposit collection for berth reservations and boat purchases, with integrated eSignature workflows for contracts and service agreements.

Wat we bouwen

Show static berth PDFs that force customers to call for availability

Customers pick their slip from an interactive SVG map and complete the booking in under 90 seconds

Manually copy-paste boat specs from your DMS into WordPress every week

Your DMS pushes inventory updates automatically — pricing, photos, specs — with manual override control when you need it

Miss marketplace syndication so your inventory never reaches Boats.com or BoatTrader

Every listing syndicates to marketplace feeds the day it goes live, reaching active buyers already searching those platforms

Watch mobile visitors bounce because your dock map doesn't render on their phone

Boat buyers browse your full inventory from the dock without pinch-zooming or horizontal scrolling

Lose attribution between your Google Ads spend and actual berth bookings

Attribution dashboard traces every berth booking and boat lead back to the exact ad, listing, or location page that generated it

Rank nowhere for "marina near [city]" because template SEO ignores marine search intent

Auto-generated location pages target "[boat type] dealer near [city]" and rank in local marine search within 60 days

Ons proces

Marine Discovery & Audit

We audit your current site, DMS setup, booking workflow, and competitive landscape. You get a technical spec, sitemap, and integration requirements document before we touch a single line of code.

Week 1

UX Design & Map Prototyping

Marina map wireframes, inventory directory layouts, and booking flow prototypes — all tested against real user scenarios and reviewed by you in Figma before we build anything.

Week 2-3

Platform Build & DMS Integration

Next.js frontend, Supabase backend. DMS API connections, Stripe payment flows, and CRM routing get configured and tested against live data, not placeholder content.

Week 4-6

SEO, Syndication & QA

Location pages optimized, marketplace feed exports validated, Lighthouse scores confirmed above 95. Full cross-device and booking flow QA before anything goes live.

Week 7-8

Launch & Optimize

DNS cutover, analytics verification, and 30 days of post-launch monitoring. We track booking conversions and inventory engagement, then iterate on what the data shows.

Week 9-10

Next.jsSupabaseVercelMapGLStripeDMS API IntegrationTailwind CSS

Veelgestelde vragen

Hoe werkt het berth booking systeem?

Klanten bladeren door een interactieve SVG-kaart van je marina, zien live slip-beschikbaarheid met prijzen en kunnen rechtstreeks online reserveren. Het systeem verwerkt seizoenstarievenlogica, verzamelt stortingen via Stripe en stuurt geautomatiseerde bevestigingsmails. Je team beheert alles vanaf een admin dashboard — geen dubbele boekingen, geen telefoongedoe.

Kan je inventaris synchroniseren met mijn bestaande dealer management systeem?

Ja. We bouwen API-integraties met DockMaster, BoatWizard, Marina Controller en de meeste andere DMS-platforms. Inventaris synchroniseert automatisch — prijzen, foto's, specificaties en beschikbaarheid blijven actueel op je website en marketplace feeds. Je kunt individuele velden handmatig overschrijven zonder de synchronisatieverbinding te verbreken.

Verschijnen mijn boten op Boats.com en BoatTrader?

We configureren API feed-exports naar Boats.com, BoatTrader, YachtWorld en andere grote marinemarketsplaatsen. Je website wordt de enkele bron van waarheid — update eenmaal, het publiceert overal. Feed-formatting, afbeeldingsoptimalisatie en listing-validatie worden allemaal tijdens de build afgehandeld.

Hoe lang duurt het om een marina website platform te bouwen?

De meeste marinaplatforms worden in 8–10 weken gelanceerd. Eenvoudige dealersites met inventarisverzameling kunnen dichterbij 6 weken beschikbaar zijn. Complexe multi-location marinas met aangepaste boekingslogica en meerdere DMS-integraties kunnen 10–12 weken duren. We bepalen dit precies tijdens discovery — tijdlijnsurprises zijn niet iets wat we doen.

Moet ik inventaris handmatig bijwerken?

Niet als je op een DMS zit — synchronisatie verwerkt het. Als je inventaris handmatig beheert, laat het admin panel je listings toevoegen, bewerken en verwijderen via een schoon interface. Werk prijzen bij, verwissel foto's, toggle beschikbaarheid, herrangschik aanbevolen boten. Geen code, geen wachten op een developer.

Wat maakt dit beter dan een marine website template?

Templates kunnen interactieve berth maps niet weergeven, synchroniseren met een DMS of reserveringsbetalingslogica verwerken. Ons platform draait op Next.js voor snelheid en SEO, gebruikt Supabase voor realtimegegevens en maakt rechtstreeks verbinding met je operaties. Het resultaat: 95+ Lighthouse-scores, 5× meer leads dan template sites en een bookingsysteem dat echt werkt.

Marina Platforms from $12,000

Fixed-fee. Berth booking + inventory sync included. 30-day post-launch support.

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