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Online lesson booking and payments, instructor rosters, school horses and arena hire for Australian riding schools and equestrian centres, in one place. Spend less time on admin and more time teaching.
No setup fee.
This is the Bookings page a riding school runs its day from, shown with our demo school: a column for each instructor, every lesson with its riders, group lessons with the places left, and the hours each instructor has booked that day.
Click any lesson for its riders and where each one stands, their recent lesson notes, the instructor, and what is still owing. Add a rider to a group lesson, check riders in, or stretch the lesson by fifteen minutes without leaving the day.
One rate covers everything on your lesson and booking fees — Stripe's card processing is included, not billed separately. You choose whether that comes out of your entry fees or is shown to riders as a platform fee at online checkout — Horsify's rate is the same either way.
Your all-in cost per transaction, card processing included. No setup cost, and nothing extra per booking. Domestic cards; international cards cost more to process. Unlike platforms that charge the club a commission on top of card processing, Horsify's rate is the total.
On the Riding School and Club Site Premium plans, connect your own Stripe account and pay Horsify nothing per transaction. Horsify takes nothing from a bank transfer or a cash payment on any plan.
Money settles straight to an Australian bank account via Stripe — no waiting for a lump-sum payout later.
Any calendar can hold a lesson. These are the two things a riding school actually runs on.
Every school horse carries who can ride it — level, rider age, and a weight limit in kilograms — and a cap on hours per day and per week. Bookings are checked against the hours, so a pony capped at eight hours a week doesn't quietly end up doing twelve, and staff booking a rider over a horse's weight limit are warned. Farrier, worming, dental and vet dates sit on the same card and go amber before they fall due.
Levels, and the skills inside each one, sorted into safety and horse care, riding and flatwork, stable management and theory. Tick them off as riders get them, so a parent asking "how is she going?" gets an answer, and the instructor covering a lesson knows where to start. Edit the whole thing to match how you already teach.
Riders book group and private lessons, clinics and term programs from your school's booking page, or a booking button on your own website, and pay by card. They book with a free Horsify account and get an email reminder before the lesson (on by default; you choose when).
Sell packs of lessons with an expiry date and a running count of what is left. Moving from another system? Carry a client's remaining lessons over with the original purchase date.
Each instructor's hours, lessons and rates, so riders only see times a coach can teach. Instructors can text in their availability, staff submit timesheets, and the roster exports a payroll CSV you can map into Xero, MYOB or KeyPay.
Hire arenas by the hour, half day or full day at the rates you set, with members-only arenas and member prices if you want them. When you take payments online, take a deposit and Horsify charges the balance to the saved card on the due date you set.
Client records with guardians, emergency contacts and medical conditions. Waivers signed online, and each rider's skills ticked off level by level.
When a group lesson is full, riders can ask to hear when a place opens. They are told by email and app notification, and the first to book takes it.
Run clinics and in-house competitions with online entries on the same plan, alongside your lessons.
Running agistment, stable jobs or arena hire as well as lessons? See Horsify's equestrian centre software. Gift vouchers are in development.
Horsify connects to the accounts, payments and calendars your school already runs on, so nobody types the same thing twice.
Connect your organisation's Xero and every tax invoice Horsify issues (entries, memberships, lessons, hire) goes across with the payments made on it, GST to the cent. No CSV files and no retyping: refunds and write-offs are flagged for you to record, never guessed.
Included on the Club Site Premium plan; any other plan can add it for $5 a month
Entries, memberships, bookings and store orders are paid by card through Stripe and settled to your bank. On Riding School and Club Site Premium you can connect your own Stripe account instead.
On every plan
Each coach subscribes once and every lesson assigned to them appears in the calendar on their phone, kept up to date on its own.
Included on the Instructor, Riding School and Club Site Premium plans
Xero is a trademark of Xero Limited.
A general booking app sells a time slot. A riding school has to sell the slot, the horse and the instructor at once, and keep the horse inside its limits.
Horsify is riding school and equestrian centre management software from Horsify Pty Ltd (Australian company, Australian hosting). It runs lesson bookings and payments, instructor rosters, school horses, arena and facility hire and client records in one place.
From your school's booking page on Horsify, or from a booking button on your own website that opens it. Riders choose a lesson and a time, sign in or create a free Horsify account, and pay online by card.
A general booking app books a time slot. Horsify books the lesson against the school horse as well: bookings are checked against each horse's cap on hours per day and per week, and each horse carries a rider level, an age range and a maximum rider weight, with staff warned when they book a rider over it. It also tracks each rider's skills level by level, so an instructor covering a lesson knows where to start.
Yes. Sell multi-lesson packages with an expiry date and a running count of lessons left. If you are moving from another system, a client's remaining lessons can be carried over with the original purchase date, so the expiry still runs from when they bought it.
Yes. Each facility can be hired by the hour, the half day or the full day, at the rates you set. When you take payments online, you can take a deposit, as a percentage or a fixed amount, and Horsify collects the balance from the saved card on the due date you set.
For a full group lesson, riders can join a waitlist. When a place frees up they are told by email and app notification, and the first to book takes it.
Yes. Club Site Premium includes it, and Basic, Club Site, Instructor and Riding School can add it for $5 a month inc GST, cancelled at any time. Connect your organisation's own Xero file and Horsify sends every tax invoice it issues from the date you choose (entries, memberships, lessons and hire) with the payments made on it, GST to the cent. It only adds to Xero: refunds, write-offs and changes after a payment are listed for you to record there, so nothing in your books changes behind your back. On any plan, invoices and receipts can also be exported as a CSV laid out for Xero's import.
The Riding School plan is $39 a month inc GST, with a 60-day free trial and no credit card needed. Online payments are 2.5% + 30c all-in, card processing included, or connect your own Stripe account and pay Horsify nothing per transaction. A multi-page club website is a separate plan.
Every feature free for 60 days, no credit card needed.
Teaching on your own? See Horsify for instructors, or contact us with any questions.
