Crew, payroll & personnel
- Recruitment, vetting and references
- Contracts, onboarding and rotations
- Crew payroll, payslips and personal accounts
- Certificates in date and training scheduled
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Soleia Shoreside
Shore-based purser and yacht accounts
An outsourced CFO and shore-based purser for a yacht or fleet, managed and coordinated from shore by qualified accountants. So the captain can captain the boat and leave the rest to us.
The problem
When the paperwork onshore starts to outweigh the boat
Crew changes, visa deadlines, supplier invoices, budgets, the flag inspection nobody diarised. It rarely arrives in one piece and it always arrives during a busy season.
We take that work off the boat and run it from shore, as one office, to one standard, so nothing slips in a busy season. Handled ashore, so the crew can focus on the boat.
What we take care of
The full shoreside scope.
Take all of it, or the parts you need. Scope is agreed up front, with fixed, transparent fees.
Travel, visas & clearance
- Visa applications and renewals
- Flights, transfers and crew movements
- Port clearance and agent coordination
- Owner and guest travel logistics
Accounts & cashflow
- Supplier invoices processed and payment runs prepared for approval
- Petty cash, cards and float reconciliation
- Multi-currency records and bank reconciliation
- Cashflow forecasting and funding requests
Budgets & reporting
- Annual and season budgets
- Departmental budgets, floats and expense categories
- Monthly management accounts, explained plainly
- Owner and management reporting packs
Compliance & records
- Flag, class and MLC documentation
- Insurance renewals and claims administration
- Charter and customs paperwork
- Manuals, SOPs and document control, kept current
Support for management companies
- Your accounts team, under your name
- Extra hands for the busy season and one-off peaks
- APA, Voly and crew payroll
- Budgets and month-end packs
- Your owners stay yours, in writing
Who does what
Working alongside the boat.
The captain runs the boat. The owner or management company approves the spend. We keep the records, prepare payments for approval, reconcile every card and float, then report.
Who runs it
Qualified accountants, purser trained.
Both founders are qualified accountants, CA(SA), ACA and AGA(SA), with group finance and private-office experience behind them. It is the discipline a purser relies on: accurate accounts, compliance kept in order and the quiet handling of confidential detail. Both are qualified pursers through the IAMI GUEST programme and Charlotte is Voly certified.
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Tell us about the boat.
A first call to understand the vessel, the season ahead and what you'd like taken off the boat. Handled personally and in confidence.