The three asset types
An asset is one property your company operates. Gurita supports three types, and the app reshapes itself around the type you are working in.
| Asset type | What it represents | What it adds to the app |
|---|---|---|
| Resort | A land-based hotel or dive resort with rooms. | Room inventory, the Calendar for date-based stays, and the Occupancy board (arrivals, departures, in-house guests, housekeeping and end-of-day). |
| Liveaboard / Vessel | A dive boat with cabins that runs scheduled trips. | Cabins and decks, Itineraries, Trip Dates (the scheduled departures), cabin bookings per trip, and channel-manager sync. |
| Dive Center | A day-diving operation. | The dive-center guest list and day-diving records, tied to the Dive module. |
Because the app adapts to the active asset, menus you do not need stay out of the way. On a vessel, for example, the resort-only Calendar and Occupancy entries are hidden; on a dive center, the Dive Center guest list appears instead.
How the three types differ in practice
The table above shows what each asset type unlocks. Here is what that means for your everyday inventory, how a guest actually gets booked, and which reports you will reach for.
| Aspect | Resort | Liveaboard / Vessel | Dive Center |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inventory | Rooms, grouped into room types. | Cabins, grouped into cabin types and assigned to decks. | No rooms or cabins — guests are tracked as visits (a customer plus a date range) on the Dive Center Guests roster. |
| How a guest gets booked | Pick a room type and an arrival/departure date range, from the Calendar, the booking wizard, or resort quick-create. | Pick a cabin on a Trip Date — one dated departure (a schedule) of a reusable itinerary. A vessel is never booked for an arbitrary date range. | Add the guest to the Dive Center Guests list for the days they dive; there is no room or cabin to assign. |
| Day-to-day board | The Occupancy board — arrivals, departures, in-house guests, housekeeping, end-of-day. | The Trip Dates list and each trip's guest manifest. | The Dive Center Guests list. |
| Reports built for it | Occupancy report, Hotel Metrics. | Itinerary report, Hotel Metrics. | Dive report (needs the Dive Log module). |
Note: A dive center can be linked to one or more resorts so its guests and dive records roll up together. See Master data: accommodation.
One company, several assets
Your company (also called your account or tenant) can run more than one asset — even a mix of types, such as a resort plus two liveaboards. They share the same customers, agencies, price lists and staff, so a returning guest is recognised across all of them. Each staff member is assigned the assets they are allowed to work in.
Switching between assets
If you have access to more than one asset, an asset switcher appears in the top bar. It shows the name of the property you are currently in.
Top bar with the asset switcher menu open
- Click the property name (or the location icon on a small screen) in the top bar.
- Pick the asset you want from the list. The active one is marked with a tick.
- Gurita reloads with that asset's rooms, trips, bookings and settings.
Note: You can also switch from Profile → Select Asset in the top-bar account menu. If you only have one asset, the switcher does not appear.
Who can access this: Everyone sees only the assets assigned to their account. The switcher shows when you have two or more.