Thanks to the new Centtrip and Scyllastar partnership, Centtrip multi-currency banking transactions now flow real time into Scyllastar’s core modules: Accounting and Charter Management. No manual entry. No delay. No reconciliation at the end of the week. Just live financial data, available to captains and yacht managers the moment a payment is made — across every vessel, from 25 to 100 metres. Yacht financial management, fully automated.
Key takeaways
- Real-time sync: Centtrip transactions appear in Scyllastar in seconds — zero manual entry
- No extra cost: included in the standard Scyllastar plan, from €99/month, for all vessel sizes
- Live from June 2026: all existing Scyllastar clients can activate the integration immediately, with no migration or additional setup
- AI-powered categorisation and APA reconciliation run on top of live bank data
The Yacht Management administrative problem
Captains do not spend years navigating passages, managing crews, gaining experience in delivering exceptional guest experiences to spend their evenings reconciling receipts on a spreadsheet. And yet, for most professional captains, that is exactly what happens:
- Receipt from the fuel dock in Palma that must be segregated between 4 charters and running costs…
- Provisioning invoice from the market in Antibes…
- Port fees paid at the last minute in Montenegro…
Each one needs to land in the right account, in the right currency, against the right charter. Some need a signature. And all need to reach the yacht manager before the end of the month or sooner, when the owner or the charterer requests a report.
For decades, the yacht industry managed this with a combination of good intentions, WhatsApp messages, long phone calls and Excel files emailed late at night. Yet, this approach still led to operational issues. The problem was not a lack of skill, simply a lack of the right tools — tools that actually understood that a yacht operates not only on board, but also from the shore.
Scyllastar was built to solve this
Scyllastar was founded by people with real experience in yachting, governance, digitalisation and management.
The Scyllastar Solution is the digital backbone for Yacht Management, for Yacht Managers, Yacht Captains and Yacht Owners, where everything interconnects: Yacht Accounting & Banking, Running Costs, Charter Management, Crew Management, Yacht Maintenance & Compliance, Dashboards — interconnected with the world (Owners, Brokers, Regulatory Authorities, Banks) through Scyllastar API.
A single, modern platform bringing all yacht management into one native cloud system. No synchronisation delays. No re-entry. No Mac Mini in the bilge or software to install.
Yet, one piece was missing: traditional banking synchronisation can take up to a week to update operations and flow through the system, as established banks are not digital natives. That delay is not acceptable when managing a charter and requiring immediate client signature.
As Scyllastar grew, this challenge kept surfacing. The platform could automate APA management, generate FAL Forms, reconcile charter accounts, and produce white-label owner reports. But the banking layer still required manual intervention. Transactions from the yacht’s accounts had to be entered by hand until the banks decided to validate them.
Centtrip brings the missing piece: real-time banking for yacht financial management
Centtrip understood this better than anyone. With multi-currency accounts, cards and payments used by professional crews across the superyacht world, Centtrip had already become the trusted financial partner for some of the most demanding fleets in the industry — backed by over a decade of marine expertise and the trust of leading charter firms including Edmiston, Fraser Yachts, Burgess, and Bluewater Yachting. What was missing was a direct, real-time connection between those accounts and the management software that ran everything else.
For captains and management companies already stretched thin, this last mile of administrative friction was still costing time that should have been invested elsewhere.
By connecting Centtrip with Scyllastar, banking operations now flow into the system in seconds. Concretely, this means:
- No more double entry, in fact no entry at all. Pay, and the expense appears in the system automatically.
- Bank reconciliation becomes a problem of the past.
- Operational errors become structurally impossible.
In practice, two modules transform immediately:
- APA management: the moment a crewmember uses the Centtrip card for provisions, fuel, or port fees, the expense appears in the APA tracking module in real time. Charter balances update live. End-of-charter reconciliation is complete before the yacht docks — figures matched to receipts, ready to sign.
- Yacht accounting: every Centtrip transaction flows automatically into the accounting module — categorised, VAT-tagged, and allocated to the right cost centre. Monthly closes, owner reports, and fleet-wide statements draw from live data, not reconstructed spreadsheets.
This partnership is that connection.
How Centtrip works within Scyllastar in practice
The integration is designed to disappear into the background, which is exactly how good technology should work on board.
From the moment a charter begins, the yacht’s Centtrip account is linked directly to Scyllastar. Every transaction — fuel, provisions, port fees, crew expenses — flows automatically into the platform in real time. The captain then scans or uploads the receipt. Scyllastar-AI reads it and proposes auto-fill suggestions for categorisation and VAT. The transaction is allocated to the correct charter account or running costs line without anyone typing a single number twice. Proper categorisation is crucial for optimised yacht accounting.
The APA balance and running costs update live. The yacht manager sees it from shore. The owner sees it in their report. And when the charterer asks — as they always do — exactly what was spent and where, the answer is already there, formatted, signed, and ready.
For management companies running multiple vessels, the picture becomes even more powerful. Two levels of real-time synchronisation run simultaneously: the individual yacht’s operating account, and the management company’s consolidated view. Fleet-wide financial visibility, with zero manual consolidation and operations that natively match the bank.
A shared vision — and the people behind it
What makes this partnership genuinely different from a simple software integration announcement is the alignment behind it. Both Centtrip and Scyllastar were built around the same conviction: that the yachting industry deserves the same quality of financial tools that capital markets take for granted — without the complexity, the lock-in, or the price tag that has historically put those tools out of reach.
“We are delighted to partner with a forward-thinking platform like Scyllastar. By combining Centtrip’s robust financial tools with Scyllastar’s modern management software, we are saving captains and management companies countless hours of administrative work, allowing them to focus on delivering exceptional guest experiences.”
Jane Turner, Chief Executive Officer, Centtrip
“Centtrip is the trusted financial partner of the world’s largest fleets. Embedding Centtrip’s technology directly into Scyllastar’s Finance module is a major milestone. And what excites me most goes beyond the feature itself. For the first time, a 25-metre yacht can operate at the exact same financial management standard as a 100-metre superyacht. The quality of yacht management should never have been a function of vessel size. Today, every yacht commands the same standard.”
Niels Haqueberge, CEO, Scyllastar
Democratising professional yacht management — from 25 metres up
This is perhaps the most important dimension of the announcement — and the one that speaks most directly to what Scyllastar was built to do.
Until now, the kind of integrated financial management that large superyacht fleets take for granted has simply not been accessible below a certain size threshold. Below 50 metres, the economics of bespoke enterprise software never made sense. Owners and managers made do with spreadsheets, disconnected banking apps, and manual reconciliation — not because they didn’t understand the value of better tools, but because no tool existed at a price that reflected their reality.
Scyllastar was designed from the ground up to change that equation. A professional yacht management platform — seven fully integrated modules, covering finance, charter, crew, compliance, maintenance, and more — available from €99 per month. No per-user fees. No hidden costs. Up and running in under ten minutes.
Add Centtrip’s real-time synchronisation into that platform, and what emerges is something the industry has never had before: a complete, professional yacht financial management stack — multi-currency accounts, real-time transaction sync, AI-powered categorisation, automated APA reconciliation, and white-label owner reporting — available to captains and managers running yachts from 25 metres up.
Not a workaround. Not a scaled-down enterprise product. The real thing — designed for professionals, priced for the full industry.
Available from June 2026 — at no extra cost
The Centtrip integration is included in the standard Scyllastar plan — no add-on, no premium tier, no additional fee. Every Scyllastar client, from the smallest 25-metre vessel to the largest managed fleet, will have access to real-time Centtrip synchronisation as part of their existing subscription.
For existing clients, the integration will be available to activate directly from the platform from June 2026. No migration. No new contract. No setup cost. Simply connect your Centtrip account and the data starts flowing immediately.
What this means for the industry
The yachting industry is in the middle of a quiet but significant shift. Owners are demanding more transparency. Charterers expect the same financial clarity they get from any luxury hospitality experience. Flag states and port authorities are tightening compliance requirements. And the management companies that will thrive in this environment are those that can deliver all of it without burning out their teams in the process.
The Scyllastar–Centtrip integration is a direct answer to that shift. It is not just a feature. It is a statement about what professional yacht management should look like — open, integrated, real-time, and built around the people who make it work every day.
About Centtrip
Centtrip is a UK-based, FCA-regulated Electronic Money Institution providing the tools and trust to manage financial transactions across the entire superyacht lifecycle: multi-currency accounts, cards and payments; escrow, operating and third-party-managed accounts; foreign exchange and financial management for the global superyacht industry. With 13 years’ marine expertise, Centtrip provides crews, owners and management companies with multi-currency accounts across 18 major currencies, FX conversions across 140 currencies, fee-free instant international payments via CenttripNow, and a prepaid Mastercard with transaction limits up to £350,000. Trusted by the world’s largest charter and brokerage firms, Centtrip is the go-to financial partner for professional yachting operations worldwide. Discover more at centtrip.com/marine.
About Scyllastar
Scyllastar is a new-generation yacht management software that brings every aspect of vessel operations — finance, crew, charter, and compliance — into a single, intuitive platform. Trusted by an ever-growing fleet of captains and management companies across Europe and beyond, Scyllastar eliminates administrative bottlenecks through seamless integrations, smart workflows, and zero setup time. Discover more at scyllastar.com.