Yard software your riders choose to open.

Who uses the software makes the difference

Most yard tools are sold to managers, for managers. Riders have little reason to open them, so one person does all the data entry. The software reflects the yard as it was the last time someone had five spare minutes.

Paddoco starts with the rider. Riders come for their horses, exercises and friends. Along the way, the yard gains an up-to-date schedule, completed profiles and notices people read. Data entry is shared naturally because everyone has a reason to take part.

The schedule, and the problems it prevents

• Seasonal timetables you can switch in one step, with one-off exceptions when the weather intervenes and automatic notifications for those booked in.
• Recurring and one-off lessons, group or private, each with its capacity, level and facility.
• An ordered waiting list when a session is full, with automatic allocation and notification when a place becomes free. Nobody needs to keep checking.
• Free cancellation until a deadline you set, after which an instructor must handle it. The deadline is a setting, rather than a fixed software rule.

Horse allocation checks for conflicts

When you assign a horse to a rider, the app checks and alerts you if:

• the horse is already assigned to an overlapping session;
• the horse is resting or recovering ;
• their workload limit has been reached, based on the limit you set for that horse;
• the rider has no link to the horsewhen the lesson requires one.

Facilities and your yard map

Outdoor arena, indoor school, oval schooling pen, paddocks and stables: each place has its own schedule, closures and bookings. There are also open sessions: “I'll be there at 3 pm to work over poles; come along.” Others can join with one click.

All on your actual yard map, drawn over an aerial photograph of your address. Place facilities, draw paddocks freely, position fences and calibrate the plan against a known length. Select a paddock to see and move its horses.

Payment tracking that keeps things simple

Each booking automatically uses the right entitlement : subscription first, then a lesson card, then an individual charge. Instructors can see who has no entitlement remaining, and riders can see what they have left.

Three stages: unpaid, then reported as paid by the rider, then confirmed by the yard. Each change notifies the other party and leaves a dated record.

Clear roles and separate yards

Administrator, instructor, student, sharer, horse owner, competitor: each sees what concerns them. One account can hold several roles, managing one yard while simply riding at another.

A yard never sees another yard's information. The database itself enforces this, beyond what the screen chooses to display.

What it costs

Nothing, for yards or riders, and this is not a launch offer. Yards bring riders to Paddoco; charging them for access would limit what makes the product valuable. Paddoco plans to be funded by equestrian professionals wanting to reach that audience, never by charging riders or reselling their data.

Frequently asked questions