Boat classifieds software for dealers, brokers and owners.
Yclas is boat classifieds software for a marketplace of sailboats, motor yachts, fishing boats, RIBs and personal watercraft. Listings carry the specs boat buyers ask about first, length, year, hull, engines and engine hours, and buyers filter on each of them, by marina or by distance.
Free for 15 days · No credit card · Plans from $19 a month
A boat marketplace has its own buyers and sellers.
Boats are bought on specs and on trust, often from a broker in another port. The site has to show length and engine hours as clearly as the price.
Boat classifieds software, page by page.
Real screenshots of Weekender, a demo site made with Yclas for boats, RVs, motorbikes and powersports. The sellers and boats are made up; the pages are the real product.
Length overall, hull material and engine hours, filterable.
There is no boat catalogue in Yclas; boats are too varied for one. You add the fields your market uses in Custom fields, or let the AI site setup draft them from a sentence about your niche. Number range fields give buyers a minimum and maximum filter, which is how boat buyers search.
- Ranges for length (feet or metres), year, engine hours and horsepower.
- Lists for hull material (GRP, aluminium, steel, wood), propulsion (outboard, inboard, sail drive, jet) and fuel.
- Per category: berths and cabins for yachts, trailer included for trailer boats, draft for keelboats.
Shown on another demo; your boat fields appear in the same list.
Owners post from the marina, with up to 30 photos.
A boat sells on its photos: the deck, the cockpit, the cabin, the engine bay, the hull out of the water. Owners post from a phone, and on Nova the AI drafts the title, description and category from a photo for them to check. They mark the boat sold when it goes, and the listing expires on its own if they forget.
- Photos per listing: 5 on Starter, 20 on Professional, 30 on Marketplace.
- Location on the map, so buyers search by marina or distance.
- Offers in the chat, the way most boats are sold.
Give each brokerage a page, and charge for it.
Approved business accounts get a page with their logo, details and every boat they list, and a Business badge on each listing. Brokers with many boats can be brought in with a CSV import from the admin, with a dry run before anything is saved.
- Memberships for brokers with a listing allowance.
- Featured boats on the home page and at the top of search.
- Banners for marine insurers, surveyors, finance and transport.
A site that looks like it belongs on the water.
Start from Harbour or Coastal, two looks made for boats and marine, then change the colours, fonts and sections. Your own domain, with SSL, and no Yclas branding on paid plans.
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Everything a boat marketplace runs on.
On every plan unless it says otherwise. Professional adds broker accounts, memberships and charter bookings; Marketplace adds checkout with escrow.
For buyers
- Filters on length, year, hours and hull
- Search by marina, region or distance
- Saved searches with email alerts
- Message, call or make an offer
- Favourites and seller reviews
For owners and brokers
- Up to 30 photos per boat
- AI draft from a photo, on Nova
- Broker page with all their boats
- Featured listings and bumps
- Charter by the day, with bookings on
For you, the owner
- Your own boat fields and categories
- CSV import with a dry run
- Paid listings and memberships
- Banner zones
- Moderation and reports
How boat marketplaces earn.
Boats are high-value, so sellers pay for reach.
Prices are examples: you set your own, in your currency. Yclas takes no commission on what you earn. All the ways to make money →
Launch before the season starts.
- Describe your marketTell the setup wizard "sailboats and motor boats on Lake Michigan"; it drafts categories and fields.
- Check the fieldsLength, hours, hull and propulsion as filters, in feet or metres.
- Load the first boatsImport a broker's list or post the first dozen yourself.
- Go liveConnect your domain and share it at the marinas and clubs.
What does boat classifieds software need that general classifieds do not?
Fields buyers filter on: length, year, hull material, propulsion, engine hours and horsepower, plus a location by marina. In Yclas these are your own custom fields, with range filters for the numbers.
Is there a boat make and model list?
No. The built-in catalogue covers cars, trucks, motorbikes and powersports, including Sea-Doo and Yamaha watercraft. For boats you add Make and Model as fields, as a list or free text.
Can brokers list all their boats at once?
You can import them from a CSV file in the admin, with a dry run first. Broker pages and the Business badge need business accounts, on the Professional plan and up.
Can I offer charters or berths?
Yes. With bookings on (Professional plan and up), a listing can be booked by the day, night or hour on a calendar. Paid bookings with deposits need the Marketplace plan.
Can buyers search by distance?
Yes, when listings have a location on the map. Buyers search around a point or by region and marina.
How much does it cost?
Starter is $19 a month, Professional $99 and Marketplace $149, each with a 15-day free trial. Yclas takes no commission.
Can I run boats with RVs and motorbikes?
Yes. Weekender, the demo on this page, does exactly that, each category with its own fields.
Related pages.
The parts of Yclas this leans on.
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Photo credits
The screenshots show demo sites with made-up sellers. Their photos come from Wikimedia Commons, some cropped or with signs and plates blurred; these ones are under Creative Commons licences:
- Luxury Pontoon Boats by Wake Riderz Boat Rental Lake Austin, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sailboats moored at Orchard Point Marina on Fern Ridge Reservoir by Rick Obst, CC BY 4.0
- Sailboats Moored at Orchard Point Marina on Fern Ridge Reservoir by Rick Obst, CC BY 2.0
- Inflatable boat-001 by NJR ZA, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Laura S. Walker State Park paddle pontoon boat in Lake Laura by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jets Ski Rental Lagoon pontoon by Nonrev.me, CC BY 4.0
- Jayco Precept Class A RV by TaurusEmerald, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 1994 Four Winds Class C motorhome on a Chevrolet G30 Van chassis by Oleg Yunakov, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Starcraft RV - GSL Fifth Wheel by Anshamblen15, CC BY-SA 4.0
- NT Fall at the Campground (30428789441) by vastateparksstaff, CC BY 2.0
- Harley Davidson Cruiser and Touring bike (parked) - Ride for Kids Las vegas 2019 by Noah Wulf, CC BY-SA 4.0
- DSC 9361 A gleaming green cruiser motorcycle with chrome accents a large windshield and leather saddlebags parked among other bikes by PattayaPatrol, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Motorcycle touring Patagonia by danielpgauer, CC BY 2.0
- Dirt Bike Masters IMG 0704 (2847539492) by Tom Reynolds from Melbourne, Australia, CC BY 2.0
- ATV - Quad - SYM Quadlander 200 - Santorini - Greece - 01 by Norbert Nagel, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Quad Bikes in Long Beach by Ossewa, CC BY 4.0
- XUV865M by JDDeutschland, CC BY-SA 4.0