The questions marinas ask us.

Yes, for those who run their own facility. If you use it for the marinas, berthing points, boatyards or dry-storage facilities you own or run directly, there are no fees, no paid editions and no limits on berths, contracts or users. The only cost is the computer or server it runs on. A commercial licence is only needed to offer Porto to others as a service.

Yes. Boatyards and dry-storage facilities are covered by free use, like marinas. Use only the parts you need: the yard and shed map, storage contracts, the optimizer, boatyard quotes and work orders, lifting equipment, charges and payments.

Because we want Porto to stay free for marinas, and nobody to take it and resell it as a paid service to the same marinas we give it to for free. The Business Source License 1.1 protects that free use while keeping the code readable, modifiable and open to contributions.

Every version of Porto switches automatically to the GNU AGPL-3.0 (or later) licence three years after its first public release.

Not without a commercial licence. Installing, configuring, customising, hosting, maintaining or supporting Porto on behalf of other marinas for a fee, or reselling it, requires a commercial licence from Coste360 S.R.L. If you are the marina, you can install it yourself or have your employees do it, on a server you rent as well. Talk to the Coste360.it team

Yes, with no licence: adding the booking page or the widget to a website does not need one, as long as you do not install, host, configure or support Porto.

Each member marina can install and use Porto for free for itself. An association that does not control its member marinas does not run them directly: installing, hosting or supporting Porto for the members requires a commercial licence from Coste360 S.R.L. Talk to the Coste360.it team

Yes. With the desktop app the server and data live on the office PC and no external service is needed; other PCs and the dock staff’s phones connect over the marina Wi-Fi. The phone panel queues arrivals, departures, photos, readings and payments recorded offline and sends them when the connection returns, with no duplicates. Only online booking, online payments and remote signing need internet, and so a reachable server. Installation guide (Italian)

Fixed berths on piers and quays, with fingers or mooring blocks, pier-head berths, buoy fields, dynamic areas where boats moor alongside by length, yards and sheds in cells for dry storage, parking and boxes. Boats take up their real footprint and Porto checks that they fit. Rafting up alongside another boat is not in the first version.

Yes. One installation runs several marinas, each with its own maps, price lists, contracts, users and booking page. For many facilities or marinas with more than 300 berths, PostgreSQL is recommended.

No. The panel opens in the phone’s browser and installs like an app, with screens for the dock, boatyard, dry storage and rentals. On the local network the phone connects to the office PC by scanning a QR code.

Yes. The berth booking widget goes into a WordPress “Custom HTML” block, or into Wix, Joomla, Squarespace or any site, with a one-line script or an iframe. You can also link straight to the booking page or the marina profile. It needs an installation on a server reachable from the internet. Manager’s guide (Italian)

Right now: version 1.0.0 for Windows, macOS and Linux is on the Download page, which always points to the latest version, and the Docker image is at ghcr.io/coste360/porto. The source code is on GitHub and the online demo runs in your browser.

No. Porto computes and keeps the charges (instalments, transits, services, utilities, work orders, rentals, fees) and exports them “to invoice” as CSV, Excel or PDF for the invoicing software you already use; reconciliation then links the issued invoices to the charges. An exported charge never changes: every correction is a linked adjustment.

No. Online payments go through your own Stripe account and the money goes straight to you: you pay only the payment network’s fees, no percentage to the platform. You can also leave online payments off and confirm transits at the desk by bank transfer or cash.

No. Porto is not a fiscal cash register and the courtesy receipts it prints are non-fiscal. For daily takings it can prepare the daily summary by VAT rate and payment method for your accountant. The tax setup remains the responsibility of the marina and its adviser.

The data stays on the computer or server you choose: Coste360 has no access to it. Porto collects only the data it needs, encrypts documents and IBANs, versions consents, lets you export and anonymise a customer’s data, and never writes emails, phone numbers or documents in clear in its logs. The marina remains the data controller.

No. Porto has no AI features and sends no data to AI services: document data is entered by the operator. There is no telemetry either.