For Estonian small harbours · 2027 pilot
The self-check-in harbour.
Mervare makes your harbour a self-check-in harbour: guests scan, pick a berth and pay — no VHF call, no envelope.
Made for Estonian guest harbours with up to about 50 berths.
10 pilot places for the 2027 season. Last day to apply: 31 January 2027.
A VHF call and cash in an envelope are not e-Estonia.
We sign contracts and file tax returns from our phones. Yet at a small harbour, receiving a guest often still works like this: the skipper phones ahead or calls on the radio, someone has to meet them on the pontoon, and the money goes into an envelope — if it arrives at all.
In a self-check-in harbour the guest does what they can already do: scan a code, pick their berth and pay by card. You see straight away who arrived and whether the payment came in.
What it means for your harbour
Every guest night gets paid — without walking the pontoon.
The guest pays by card from their own phone, and the money goes straight to your harbour's own Stripe account.
No gap at the end of the season.
No more difference between the guests you counted and the money that actually came in: every arrival and every payment is on record.
The harbour sailors recommend.
A clear harbour page, visible guest berths and an easy arrival — exactly what sailors pass on to each other.
How it works
- One QR code for the whole harbour. The same code at the office, the gate and each pontoon — not a sticker on every berth.
- The guest picks their berth number, checks in and pays. No app and no account — a phone with a camera is enough. A guest with a booking checks in with their email.
- You see the arrivals. The arrivals list shows each berth, boat, check-in and payment as it happens.
The check-in page is in Estonian and English today.
What harbour masters ask
“Our guests are older sailors who use VHF.”
VHF and the phone stay — Mervare takes nothing away. The QR code is an extra for those who prefer it, and the guest needs no app and no account.
Bonus: We prepare the QR code with you before the season: one printable sheet for the office, the gate and the pontoons.
“We're volunteers.”
We set up the harbour page, guest berths and QR check-in together with you before the season. During the season nobody has to stand on the pontoon to collect money: arrivals and payments are visible on the web, on a phone too.
Bonus: Setup is done with you, not handed to you as homework.
“Not another system.”
Mervare replaces nothing. You decide which berths are guest berths; resident berths, your accounts and your own website stay as they are.
Bonus: You can start with a single guest berth.
“The season is too short.”
That is why the seasonal subscription charges only for the months you are open, and only for the guest berths you open for QR check-in — never your resident berths.
Bonus: The pilot season is free on either plan, and you can cancel anytime.
Two plans, first season free
Seasonal subscription
From €15 per guest berth a month, only for the months you are open and only for the guest berths you open for QR check-in. No Mervare booking fee. For example, 20 guest berths for 5 months: €1,000 a season.
Booking fee only
No subscription. Mervare keeps 5% + €0.50 of each guest payment.
In the 2027 pilot season there is no subscription and no Mervare booking fee on either plan, and you can cancel anytime.
Prices exclude VAT. Card payments carry Stripe's own card fees. Any price after the pilot season is agreed with you first.
Ask for a 2027 season report for your harbour
We measure your harbour on AIS through the 2027 season and bring you one page at the end of it: how many vessels arrived and how many nights they stayed. Andres brings it to you in person or talks it through by phone. You get it whether or not you join the pilot. It is not a survey and not a sales letter.
AIS transmitters are mostly on larger vessels and most yachts under 15 m carry none, so the figure is a floor, not all the traffic. The report can be made for harbours our AIS reception covers: the Gulf of Finland and the Estonian coast.
I'd like the report
Who is behind it
Andres Kepler
I am a skipper and a volunteer sea rescuer, a database engineer, and I am studying to be a harbour specialist. I know Hara harbour first-hand. I build Mervare so that a small harbour can receive a guest the way Estonia is used to doing everything else — yourself, from your phone.
I read every enquiry myself and reply myself.
Make your harbour a self-check-in harbour.
Mervare makes your harbour a self-check-in harbour: guests scan, pick a berth and pay — no VHF call, no envelope.
10 pilot places for the 2027 season. Last day to apply: 31 January 2027.
Prefer email? Write to connect@mervare.io.