Marina Storage Billing
By the FootYour rate card, your boats, this month's bill.
Billing by the foot is simple arithmetic done sixty times, and it is done on the first of every month by somebody who would rather be doing anything else. One mistyped length is an invoice a customer rings about.
Marinas bill by the foot at a different rate for a wet slip, a dry stack and a boat on the hard, with a minimum for the small ones and a surcharge for anybody living aboard. Every yard's rate card is its own invention, which is why the first of the month is still a spreadsheet.
About this tool
What Marina Storage Billing solves
A marina's rate card is not a price, it is a small system: a rate per foot that differs by whether the boat is in the water, in the stack or on the hard, a minimum below which a bill is not worth sending, and whatever flat lines the yard adds on top for living aboard or for power. The Marina Storage Billing sheet takes that card and the boat list and produces the month, line by line, showing which boats landed on their minimum rather than on their footage — because that is the line a customer queries. Lengths are held in half-feet and money in whole cents, so sixty slips do not drift. A boat entered under a kind that is not on the card is reported and left unpriced rather than quietly billed at something plausible, because a made-up figure on an invoice is worse than a blank one. It suggests no rate and no minimum: that card is the yard's own.
Yours would be built the same way.
This one runs on made-up data. The version built for your business runs on yours, and you own it outright. Builds start at $2,500. That is a floor, not a quote. What yours costs is agreed before any work begins. The first conversation is free.