Scyllastar vs Voly: Yacht Management Software Compared (2026)

Quick verdict — TL;DR

Voly Group is a fintech company — not a yacht management platform. It has built a solid financial toolset for superyachts: an integrated prepaid Mastercard, multi-currency accounting, invoice payments and payroll outsourcing. On financial operations, Voly works. But it has no logbook, no vessel management module, no automated IMO FAL forms, no interval-based PMS, and no unified operational dashboard. Its add-on tools — Pinpoint Works, Workrest, Voly Crew Solutions — were each acquired separately and run on their own data model, without a shared data layer connecting them.

Scyllastar is a complete fleet operations platform with deeply integrated accounting. Every operational event — a charter booking, a crew embarkation, a port call, a maintenance task — flows directly into the accounting module without re-entry. The logbook generates IMO FAL forms automatically. A transversal two-level alert system monitors every module simultaneously across the entire fleet on one dashboard. The REST API connects Scyllastar to brokers, accountants and external tools.

At comparable vessel size, Scyllastar is 3 to 5 times cheaper than Voly.

Bottom line: Voly answers one question well — how to capture and track expenses on board using a prepaid card. Scyllastar answers a wider question: how to run a yacht or a fleet of yachts efficiently, with every operational module — charter, crew, maintenance, logbook, accounting — natively connected on one platform, at a fraction of the cost.

Company overview

Fintech platform vs operational platform

Voly started with a precise observation: superyacht crew were managing charter spending in cash and spreadsheets, reconciling days after the fact. Voly’s answer was an integrated prepaid Mastercard linked to accounting software — every card swipe appears in the dashboard immediately, categorised and receipt-stamped. The platform grew to add multi-currency payments, a full reporting suite, APA management, and payroll outsourcing, mostly through acquisition (Pinpoint Works, Voyonic/Crew Solutions, Workrest).

Scyllastar started from a different pain point: yacht management companies running multiple vessels were juggling separate tools for accounting, charter booking, crew documentation, maintenance and logbook. Scyllastar’s answer was to build every operational module natively on a single data layer, so that a charter booking automatically flows into accounting, the logbook, and the crew schedule without anyone re-entering anything.

The result: Voly has a mature financial product — the Mastercard and accounting reporting work well together within that scope. Scyllastar has a mature operations platform — logbook, interval-based PMS, transversal alert system and FAL form generation are purpose-built for the daily reality of professional fleet management, with accounting that feeds automatically from every operational event. The fundamental limitation of Voly’s approach becomes apparent as soon as operations extend beyond financial management: no logbook, no vessel management, no FAL forms, no interval PMS, no consolidated operational view across the fleet.

The Voly Group suite in detail

Voly markets its core financial product as “7 platforms in one“: accounting, prepaid Mastercard, banking, cash, foreign exchange, approvals and APA charter management. On top of this financial core, the Group has added three acquired products — Pinpoint Works, Workrest and Voly Crew Solutions — each with its own interface and its own data model. There is no shared data layer connecting them.

Voly Financial Management (the core)

A multi-currency accounting platform covering the full financial stack: invoice entry, cash and card transactions, payment approvals, budgeting with variance comments, and a comprehensive reporting suite. Reports available out of the box include Budget to Actual, Year-on-Year Spend, Transaction Detail, Extended Transaction Detail, General Ledger, Balance Sheet, APA Detail and APA Summary — each exportable in multiple formats. A bespoke approval matrix with up to 4 levels of approval and a purchase order/purchase request workflow give management companies granular spend control. Paper-free: every transaction can have receipts, invoices and quotes attached, auto-numbered for easy referencing.

Voly Prepaid Mastercard & Payment Platform

The Voly Prepaid Mastercard — used across 1,300+ superyachts — is physical and virtual (instant issuance). Multiple cards can be issued to different crew members. Every swipe is automatically posted to the accounting software: no monthly reconciliation, no forgotten receipts. The mobile app (iOS and Android) allows expense logging offline, syncing automatically when connectivity returns. The Payment Platform processes supplier invoices in multiple currencies via SEPA, Faster Pay and SWIFT directly within the platform, without logging into an external bank.

For individual yachts or small fleets, this card-centric model is efficient. For larger management companies, it introduces a structural constraint: the platform’s full financial workflow is designed around Voly’s proprietary card and payment rails. Teams that already have established banking relationships, corporate card programmes or vendor payment processes in place may find that migrating everything to Voly’s ecosystem requires significant operational adjustment. The “Fleetwide Beneficiaries” feature helps manage supplier bank details across vessels from one place — but the dependency on the Voly card for the full real-time expense capture workflow remains.

Voly APA Charter Management

Launched in 2020 as the first dedicated APA platform in yachting, Voly APA is tightly linked to the Mastercard: crew swipe for charter expenses, the APA balance updates in real time on the dashboard. A cost-centre function assigns each expense to the correct charter for back-to-back management. At charter end, the APA Detail and APA Summary reports are generated automatically showing full reconciliation of funds received, expenses and reimbursement due. A recent integration with Pinpoint Works Lite allows crew to log and charge for charter damages directly in the APA flow.

Pinpoint Works (Voly Projects)

Pinpoint Works transforms a vessel’s general arrangement (GA) plan into an interactive work list: tasks are placed at their exact location on the yacht’s schematics, with photos, videos, comments and priorities attached. It is used for refits, new builds, warranty periods, paint surveys — and for day-to-day maintenance task tracking. Voly Projects integrates Pinpoint Works with Voly’s financial platform for real-time budget tracking and payment processing on refit items. What it does not provide is interval-based maintenance scheduling — there are no calendar or usage-hour triggers, no automatic escalation when a maintenance task is overdue. It is a location-aware task management tool, not a Planned Maintenance System in the maritime compliance sense.

Workrest & Voly Crew Solutions

Acquired in late 2024, Workrest covers crew scheduling and compliance in a dedicated mobile and web app: Hours of Rest (MLC-compliant), working hours, crew leave, overtime, watchkeeper scheduling, crew list management, and crew check-in/check-out. Crucially, Workrest data feeds directly into payroll calculations — leave, rotations and rest compliance automatically affect pay. Voly Crew Solutions (formerly Voyonic, 20+ years of maritime expertise) provides the employer-of-record service: payroll processing, recruitment, vetting, training and health insurance for approximately 6,000 crew worldwide.

Workrest covers one specific area in more detail than Scyllastar’s current release: day-by-day crew attendance and rotation tracking — presence and absence records, crew check-in/check-out, rotation management. Scyllastar covers Hours of Rest compliance and crew HR documentation natively; detailed attendance and rotation tracking is on the roadmap.

It is also worth noting that Workrest, Pinpoint Works and Voly’s financial platform are independent products, each with its own interface and data model. A crew list produced in Workrest is not linked to a voyage object in the financial platform — there is no shared data layer between the tools. Coordination across them requires manual steps, which is where the absence of a single native platform becomes operationally significant.

Scyllastar modular architecture

Scyllastar is built as a single native platform across seven operational modules plus a transversal alert system, all on one data layer. No synchronisation delays, no separate logins, no re-entry between tools.

Global Accounting

Both platforms treat accounting as their backbone, but they approach it from opposite ends.

Voly solves the payment and cash capture problem: how does crew spend money without cash, without lost receipts, without monthly reconciliation headaches? The Mastercard + mobile app answer this cleanly. Voly’s accounting is broad and mature: multi-currency, full double-entry ledger, granular approval matrix, purchase orders, budget tracking, and a reporting suite that includes general ledger and balance sheet. This is serious accounting software, not just an expense tracker.

Scyllastar solves the operational-to-accounting integration problem: how does every operational event land in the accounts automatically, without a bookkeeper re-entering data from emails and spreadsheets? In Scyllastar, a charter booking, a crew payslip, a maintenance invoice, a port entry — all flow directly into the accounts without manual intervention.

Two-level bank synchronisation

Scyllastar connects to bank accounts at two levels simultaneously: the individual yacht (running costs, provisioning, APA drawdowns) and the management company (owner disbursements, charter income, payroll). Bank lines are imported automatically and matched against accounting entries. Unmatched lines surface as Error-level alerts on the fleet dashboard.

Voly includes a Banking module as part of its core platform and a Payment Platform for outbound invoice payments in multiple currencies via SEPA, Faster Pay or SWIFT. Its primary innovation on the payment side is removing the need to log into an external bank — useful for individual yachts. For management companies that run two-level reconciliation across vessel and company accounts, Voly’s approach is less suited to that structure.

Bunker fuel allocation across charters

A single bunker fill often covers multiple back-to-back charters and running-cost periods. Scyllastar allocates the fuel cost automatically across the correct accounting lines, split by consumption or time, with each portion posted to the right charter or period. Voly’s APA cost-centre function handles per-charter expense allocation, but does not offer automated cross-charter fuel allocation based on consumption data.

Charter Module

Voly APA is a solid charter expense management tool, particularly powerful when the Mastercard is in play: the captain swipes for every expense, the balance updates live, and the Final Statement is automated. For captains focused on expense capture, it genuinely saves time.

What Voly APA does not cover is the upstream charter accounting: when a charterer’s wire arrives, it needs to be split into hire fee, APA deposit and security escrow — each treated differently in the accounts. That split happens manually in Voly, outside the APA module.

APA lifecycle & Final Statement

In Scyllastar, the full APA lifecycle runs within the Charter module:

• APA advance posted as a liability (not revenue) on receipt
• Expenditures logged against the APA balance with category and receipt
• Real-time APA balance visible directly on the charter record
• Final Statement auto-generated at charter end
• Surplus or top-up flows back into accounting with correct entries

Voly’s workflow delivers a similar output, anchored to the Mastercard swipe rather than manual entry. For captains who prefer physical card spending, this is a genuine operational advantage. For vessels that manage charter expenses through invoices or where the Mastercard is not in use, the card dependency adds friction.

Charter booking accounting: income, APA & escrow

When a charterer transfers funds, Scyllastar automatically splits the wire into three accounting lines: charter income (hire fee → revenue), APA deposit (held as liability until consumed), and security deposit (ring-fenced for return at charter end). All three are visible on the charter record alongside the passenger list, APA balance and crew assignments. Voly does not automate this upstream split.

Cross-module integration

In Scyllastar, a charter connects every module automatically: the Logbook captures the voyage, Crew Management knows who is on board, the Agenda blocks availability, and Accounting tracks every expense against the correct period. The passenger list entered at booking populates FAL Form 6 at the next port call — no re-entry, ever.

In Voly, the APA module, the financial platform, Workrest and Pinpoint Works are separate interfaces without a shared data layer. Linking a charter event across all of them requires manual steps.

Crew Management

Scyllastar’s Crew Management module handles HR natively: employment contracts, payslips, regulatory certificates (STCW, medical, flag-state), and crew files — all stored per crew member, linked to the vessel, and monitored by the alert system for expiry.

Voly’s crew offering is broader in scope but delivered across two separate products. Workrest handles the operational crew layer in a dedicated app: hours of rest (MLC-compliant), working hours scheduling, crew leave, watchkeeper assignment, crew list management, and crew check-in/check-out — all feeding directly into payroll calculations. Voly Crew Solutions sits above this as an employer-of-record service: payroll outsourcing, recruitment, training, vetting, health insurance for approximately 6,000 crew worldwide, backed by 20+ years of Voyonic’s maritime expertise.

The distinction matters: Scyllastar manages crew HR in-house within the platform; Voly outsources crew administration as a service. These are different value propositions.

Hours of Rest

In Scyllastar, each crew member fills in their own work/rest schedule, the captain validates it, and non-compliant periods appear as Error alerts on the fleet dashboard immediately — in the same interface as accounting, charter and maintenance data.

Workrest delivers a comparable HoR workflow in its own app, with the advantage that validated rest data flows into payroll calculations — useful for operators using Voly Crew Solutions for payroll outsourcing. Workrest also tracks day-by-day attendance and crew rotations in more detail than Scyllastar’s current release; this specific feature is on Scyllastar’s roadmap. The structural trade-off remains: Workrest operates in a separate app with no data connection to the financial platform or Pinpoint Works.

A crew list produced in Workrest is not linked to a voyage object in any shared system — Workrest, Pinpoint Works and Voly’s financial platform each maintain their own data model. Coordination across them requires manual steps.

Yacht Management & Maintenance

Scyllastar’s Yacht Management module holds the complete vessel record: inventory, regulatory documents with expiry tracking, survey milestones, and the Planned Maintenance System.

Voly does not have a vessel management module. There is no inventory register, no regulatory document tracking with expiry monitoring, and no survey or classification milestone management within the platform. For management companies that track certificate validity, equipment inventory or class renewal schedules across a fleet, this gap requires a separate tool.

For vessel task and project management, Voly offers Pinpoint Works. It converts the general arrangement plan into an interactive task board, with tasks placed at their precise location on the GA — photos, videos and comments attached. Used for refits, new builds, warranty periods, paint surveys, and day-to-day maintenance tracking. Voly Projects integrates Pinpoint Works with Voly’s financial platform for budget tracking on refit items. What it does not provide is interval-based maintenance scheduling — no calendar or engine-hour triggers, no automatic escalation when a task becomes overdue. It is a location-aware task management tool, not a Planned Maintenance System in the maritime compliance sense.

Planned Maintenance System (PMS)

Scyllastar’s PMS runs on defined intervals: each maintenance task carries a trigger (calendar time, engine hours, or usage cycle). When the due date approaches, a Warning alert appears on the dashboard. When the task is overdue, it escalates to Error. This logic runs automatically, across all vessels, on the fleet dashboard.

Pinpoint Works is task-based, not interval-based. Tasks are created and tracked manually; there are no recurring interval triggers and no automated escalation from Warning to Error. For running maintenance compliance — where the system should proactively tell you what is due next — Pinpoint Works does not replicate PMS functionality. Voly users typically complement the suite with a dedicated maritime PMS tool.

Logbook & IMO FAL forms

Voly does not include a native digital logbook. Voyage records, port entries, engine hours and security drill logs are managed outside the Voly platform.

Scyllastar’s Logbook records every voyage natively, linked automatically to the corresponding charter or owner period. Security drills are logged with crew attestation, drill type, date and validating officer’s signature. Drill frequency is monitored against flag-state requirements; overdue drills appear as alerts.

Automatic IMO FAL Form 5 & Form 6

Every foreign port call requires IMO FAL Form 5 (Crew List) and FAL Form 6 (Passenger List). Without automation, this is 20–30 minutes of manual data assembly per port call.

In Scyllastar, both forms are generated automatically: crew data comes from Crew Management, passenger data comes from the Charter module, and the Logbook combines both into correctly formatted IMO documents, ready at the port call. No re-entry, no transcription errors. For a yacht making 30 port calls per season, this feature saves 10–15 hours of captain admin per year and eliminates a category of compliance risk.

Voly does not replicate this. A crew list can be produced in Workrest — but it is not connected to a voyage object or a charter record, so it still requires manual assembly and formatting for each port authority submission.

Yacht Agenda

Scyllastar’s Yacht Agenda consolidates charters, maintenance tasks, security drills, crew assignments and custom tasks in one calendar, with a responsible person on each item. The fleet manager sees all vessels simultaneously — conflicts between charter windows and maintenance periods are visible at a glance.

Voly does not have a dedicated Yacht Agenda. Scheduling is distributed across Voly’s financial calendar, Workrest for crew scheduling, and Pinpoint Works for maintenance and refit timelines — three separate interfaces without a unified view.

Two-level alert system

Scyllastar’s alert engine monitors every data point across all modules simultaneously:

• Warning — approaching a threshold: regulatory document expiring in 30 days, maintenance interval due next week, bank line pending reconciliation, APA balance running low
• Error — threshold breached: document expired, maintenance overdue, Hours of Rest violation, bank line unreconciled

All Warnings and Errors appear on the fleet manager dashboard and the per-yacht dashboard simultaneously. The captain sees what is urgent on their vessel; the manager sees the health of the entire fleet without switching tools.

Voly’s products each raise alerts within their own interface. Because Workrest, Pinpoint Works and the financial platform are separate applications with no shared data layer, there is no consolidated alert view spanning all of them at once.

API, integrations & digital backbone

Scyllastar exposes a REST webservice API for bidirectional data exchange: broker platforms, external accounting software, reporting tools. The GESALL integration — certified and live — allows accountants to receive structured data from Scyllastar without manual export steps.

Voly does not publish an open API for third-party integrations. Exporting Voly data to external tools requires manual CSV exports. For management companies that want their platform to act as a central data hub — receiving feeds from brokers, pushing to accountants, syncing with bank connectors — this is a structural limitation.

Support & product development

Scyllastar has been built over seven years in direct collaboration with active management company clients. When a captain’s question reveals a UX gap, the interface is updated — not just answered. Every client interaction shapes the roadmap.

24/7 WhatsApp support

Every Scyllastar client has a dedicated WhatsApp channel. Captains and managers can reach the team at any hour — during a charter, at 2 am in a foreign port, before a flag-state inspection. Support response times are designed for the operational urgency of luxury yachting.

Weekly product updates

Scyllastar ships updates weekly, driven by client feedback. Features that improve the platform broadly are developed at no extra charge. Growth is collaborative: when a management company identifies a missing capability, it typically lands in the next release cycle and benefits all users.

Voly offers dedicated client relationship managers and an in-app live chat. As an award-winning scale-up used by some of the industry’s largest management companies, it has a mature support infrastructure — though availability is business-hours rather than 24/7.

Pricing

Voly’s pricing is not publicly listed. Based on industry data, core financial management starts at approximately $499 per vessel per month, with APA, Crew Solutions payroll services and Pinpoint Works billed separately. For a charter yacht using the full suite, total monthly cost can reach several thousand dollars per vessel.

Scyllastar’s pricing is significantly lower — 3 to 5 times cheaper at comparable vessel size and operational scope, with all seven modules included. Contact Scyllastar for a personalised quote.

Side-by-side comparison

Who should choose Voly

• Your primary need is financial management only — card-based expense capture, in-platform multi-currency invoice payments — and you already have separate tools for logbook, maintenance, vessel management and FAL forms
• You need crew payroll outsourced to an employer-of-record service and are willing to manage crew scheduling and compliance in a separate application
• You are in a large refit or new build and need GA-based project task management linked to a refit budget

Who should choose Scyllastar

• You manage a fleet of yachts and need one native platform showing all vessels, alerts and accounting on a single dashboard
• You operate charter yachts and need automatic charter booking accounting — hire, APA and escrow split from day one
• You want automated IMO FAL Form 5 and Form 6 at every foreign port call, generated from data already in the system
• You need an interval-based PMS that proactively flags what is due — without manual checking
• You want a transversal alert system covering documents, maintenance, HoR, bank reconciliation and APA — in one place
• You need an open API to connect your platform to brokers, accountants and external tools
• You want 24/7 support via WhatsApp, including mid-charter and port arrivals
• Budget matters: you want the most complete operational platform at the lowest total cost of ownership

Migrating from Voly to Scyllastar

Switching platforms is a real operational decision. Scyllastar handles the entire transition — free of charge.

A typical migration covers:

• Historical accounting data import from Voly exports
• Crew records, contracts and regulatory document library
• Active charter data and outstanding APA balances
• Bank connector setup at both vessel and management company level
• Full onboarding for captain, crew and manager — via WhatsApp and video call

Most teams are fully operational on Scyllastar within two to four weeks. Get in touch to discuss your migration.

Final verdict

Voly has built a functional fintech product: the Mastercard works well for card-based expense capture, the accounting module covers the financial reporting stack, and the Crew Solutions payroll service manages a real operation. For an operator whose primary need is financial management and payroll outsourcing, and who already has separate tools for everything else, Voly answers that specific need.

But Voly is not a yacht management platform. No vessel management module, no native logbook, no automated IMO FAL forms, no interval-based PMS, no transversal alert dashboard. Its acquired tools — Workrest, Pinpoint Works, Crew Solutions — each run as separate products with no shared data layer: a crew list in Workrest is not connected to a voyage, a charter, or any vessel record in the financial platform. For operators who want an integrated platform, this fragmentation matters. The Mastercard dependency also introduces a structural constraint for larger fleets that already have established banking and payment relationships.

Scyllastar was built for the management company that needs everything connected in one place: charter accounting, logbook with auto FAL forms, interval-based PMS, crew documents, and a fleet dashboard showing the health of every vessel at a glance — all native, all on one data layer, at a fraction of the cost. For the overwhelming majority of fleet operators and charter professionals, Scyllastar is the more complete, better-integrated, and more affordable operational platform in 2026.

Disclosure: this comparison is published by Scyllastar. Data on Voly Group’s features is sourced directly from volygroup.com, pinpointworks.com, volycrewsolutions.com, workrest.co and industry publications as of May 2026.