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OffshoreSMS Docs
  • 📚OffshoreSMS - Official Docs
  • 🤝Introduction
  • 🔑KEY CONCEPTS
    • ⚠️Important Information
      • 🖥️App vs web dashboard
      • 🔄Fleets, Assets and People
      • 👬User accounts & public profiles
  • ⁉️FAQs
    • ❓Troubleshooting
    • 👨‍🔧Adding or removing users to/from your team.
    • Managing administrator's access
    • 🛥️Add or remove crew from your assets
    • 📤Share my SMS with external parties
    • 🛫Exporting/sharing Log Histories
  • ▶️GETTING STARTED
    • Create a free user account and profile
      • 💻Create a free profile from the Web or PC
      • 🥷Create a free profile from the App
    • Set up a new Fleet.
    • Set up a new asset
    • Getting set up on the App
      • 📲Download the app
      • 🥷Create a free profile from the App
      • 🔑Log in as a member
      • Connet to an Asset from the app
    • Using the app
      • Complete the vessel or asset Self Inductions
      • Complete a New Crew Induction
      • View the asset alerts
      • Start using the TRIP feature
      • 📖In-app user guides and support tickets
  • 🏡YOUR FLEET
    • 👥FLEET Team Members
      • Adding new users to your team
      • Removing users from you team
      • 🔑Fleet administrator permissions and notifications
        • Manage other administrator's permissions and access
        • Admin Permissions Matrix
        • Advanced Restricted Admin Permission settings
        • Admin Notification settings
      • 🛥️Adding/removing team members to and from marine assets
      • 📧Fleet Team Messaging
      • 🏷️FLEET Team Member Tags
        • Add and edit the fleet team tags.
        • Assign tags to a user
        • Filter team members by tag
      • 🤗GROUP team members
        • Manage the roles for team members of a GROUP
        • Add and Edit the GROUP team tags
        • Message GROUP team members
    • 🛥️Managing Assets in a Fleet
      • ⛴️Create a new marine asset profile
      • 📂Grouping Assets
        • 🔐Manage admin access to selected groups
      • 🏷️Asset Tags
      • 💲Manage/upgrade subscriptions
      • Delete an asset
    • 📊The Fleet Dashboard
      • Fleet Info & profile
      • Fleet Alerts
      • SMS Health Tracker
      • Asset Activity
      • Fleet activity
      • System and Fleet notices
    • ⚓Fleet Content
      • 🌐Managing the Fleet Library
        • Creating fleet content
        • Revisions, Edits and Version control
        • Changing the Saved order
        • Search, temporarily filter and sort
        • 🏷️Fleet Content Tags
      • 🔁Sharing/Assigning content to assets
    • 🗂️Reporting & Stats
      • 🗂️Creating and Exporting Custom Reports
      • 🔦SMS Audits
    • ⭐Suppliers (Enterprise Feature)
      • Key Information
      • Supplier Organisations
      • Supplier Members
      • Supplier Tags
    • 💵Expense Logs (Enterprise feature)
    • 💲Billing
      • Manage your card details
      • Upgrade or Renew asset subscriptions
      • Enable/Disable auto-renewal
      • View Current and Paid Invoices
      • View your payment history
      • Cancelling a subscription
  • ⛴️ASSET PROFILES
    • ℹ️Important Information
    • 📈Asset Dashboard
      • Asset ToDo (task) Lists
    • ⚙️Information and Settings
      • General Settings and Info
      • Spec sheet
      • Important asset documents
      • Events and Reminders
      • Log Sequences
    • 🧑‍🤝‍🧑Your Team
      • ⛑️Roles, Responsibilities and App Permission settings
      • 📲Assign Asset Roles to your team
      • 🪪Crew Qualifications
      • 📢Management responsibility statements
      • 🛟Drills
        • 🚂Crew Training (Enterprise feature)
      • Crew Inductions
      • Passenger or Visitor Safety Briefings
    • 🛠️Maintenance, Fluids and Inventory
      • 🔧Setting up plant & equipment items
        • Fuel and Other Tanks
        • Plant & Equipment Tags
        • Offline P&E items
      • ⚙️Setting up maintenance schedules
      • View Maintenance History
      • Inventory and Equipment
      • ⚠️Defects and Hazards
        • View the Hazard/Defect register
        • 🆕Create a new Hazard/Defect
        • 👍Update or resolve a Hazard/Defect
      • ☑️Unscheduled Maintenance Checklist
    • 🛟Safety Management System
      • 🏗️Building and managing your SMS content
        • ➡️Outsource the SMS set up
        • ✍️Write your own content.
        • 💡Using OffshoreSMS helper content.
        • 🌏Import content from your fleet library
      • ⚠️Risk Assessments
      • Revisions, Edits and Version control
      • Sharing your SMS with external parties, or printing your SMS.
      • Generate a PDF of individual SMS content items
      • Clone your SMS to other assets in your fleet
    • 🚦Trips, Start ups etc
      • Key Information about Trips
      • Starting a New trip
      • View an active trip
      • Creating a scheduled or upcoming trip (add on feature)
      • Passenger Manifests (add on feature)
        • Public Trip Page
      • View Trip Histories
      • Startup and Shutdown checklists
      • Trip Custom Fields
      • Trip Settings
    • ✍️Custom Forms
      • Key Features and functions
      • Create and Edit a custom form
      • Manage the form Settings
      • Complete a custom form on a web browser
      • Share access to a custom form.
      • Delete a Custom Form
    • Log Histories
    • 📖Operations Manual (Add on feature)
  • General
    • 🧑‍🎓App Tutorials
    • 📭Previous Newsletters
      • December 2023 Updates
      • 2023 MO504 Updates
      • May 2023 Updates
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  • Step 1: Download the OffshoreSMS app
  • Step 2: Create a FREE user profile
  • Step 3: Log in as an existing user
  • Step 4: Connect to an asset
  • Step 5: Using the app day to day
  1. GETTING STARTED

Getting set up on the App

Get set up to use our powerful app to complete all of your daily logs, checks, inductions and SMS requirements.

Last updated 2 months ago

The app is designed for asset crew to use in the field. They can complete logs, view log history and information about the asset and much else!


Step 1: Download the OffshoreSMS app

You and all the members of your team including crew and admin people, will need to have the App with your own free personal profile.

Click the link below for instructions on how to download the app from your app store.

Step 2: Create a FREE user profile

Make sure every member of your team has their own personal user profile. Users manage theire own personal profile information it's 100% free to create.

You just need an email address and a mobile phone number that can accept text messages for security purposes.

Click the link below to learn how to create your profile once you have downloaded the app.

Step 3: Log in as an existing user

If you have already created a profile in the past, you can log in to the mobile phone app or the web dashboard without needing to create a new account.

Click the link below for instructions on logging in as an existing OffshoreSMS user.

Step 4: Connect to an asset

WARNING: There should be only one asset profile for each asset, which all crew connect to. Avoid creating duplicates if the profile has already been created by someone else.

Click the link below for information on how to connect to an asset.

Step 5: Using the app day to day

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📲Download the app
🥷Create a free profile from the App
🔑Log in as a member
Connet to an Asset from the app
Using the app