Stable Secretary

Fantastic for an educational environment!

Kommentare: The staff was very helpful and easy to reach when we were working out our payment process (working for a state institution created a unique situation regarding invoicing). I was very happy with how they helped me.

Vorteile:

I manage the equine program for a state university and am responsible for over 60 horses and a revolving door of student employees. SS is a lifesaver for keeping track of everyone in the herd and making sure no one gets forgotten! The email reminders are a fantastic tool to help me keep track with my busy schedule, and the software works wonderfully for collaboration between myself and my employees. The interface is also very user friendly. I was able to learn the program very quickly when I took over the program.

Nachteile:

It would be REALLY nice if you could create an event such as farrier or vaccination, and add from the list of horses. It's somewhat time consuming to have to adjust each horse individually if you need to adjust the recurring time period or anything. Also, it's not really a big con for me, but if there was anything else I could suggest I would say the user interface could perhaps be a little more visually appealing - modern applications and programs are just so advanced these days that this program appears somewhat basic and bland at first impression in comparison.

Want to simplify your barn management life? This is how!

Kommentare: Excellent! It really helps me organize my management of each horse. I love I can look a horse up easily to check on a record.

Vorteile:

I love that I can stay organized on each horse's health care, while the vet/farrier/body worker/dentist is at the barn, from my phone with an easy app! Really helps me stay on top of things!

Nachteile:

I get logged out a lot on the phone app, and that's annoying. I wish I could just stay logged in all the time so it's easier !

Picture

Kommentare: I think it can be a great product but the price is too high. If the price was about half of regular price would be better.

Vorteile:

I really like that it has a picture for each horse.

Nachteile:

The picture doesn’t enlarge when you click on it anymore. Need a summer and winter pictures on the front page.

Great barn management software

Kommentare: So far my experience has been great. Customer service is fantastic

Vorteile:

I love how user friendly the software is. I also love the new QB integration

Nachteile:

The only con is moving your data over, but once it is in it’s worth it!

Does everything

Kommentare: The people at Stable Secretary SO responsive! There hasn't been an issue I've raised that they ignored. A few suggestions have made it into fix requests... But mostly it's been so easy and when I don't know how to get the software to do what I want, I get a helpful suggestion that has worked every time.

Vorteile:

This software is end to end. It has helped me track all services - rides, grooming, feeding, medicines, body work, and shows; it's allowed me to streamline our invoice process, it takes me about 30 minutes to do all my billing at month's end; I track all horses, clients, registration papers, membership numbers. I use the integrated merchant portal for payments and will begin using its integrated QuickBooks feature over the next month. I can run a report on any aspect of the business imaginable. For my final act, I'm hanging large tablet in our tack room to replace or white board... SS will become a digital whiteboard where we will all be able to log our daily activities in real time. 💜

Nachteile:

The look. I like a more color-coded interface. It's definitely not fun to look at. Although they're in the midst of planning an upgrade to their user interface, so I believe this will improve. There are a few fiddly things, again connected to user experience I would like to see improved. Ie navigation, not having to pop back to a main menu, not having to reselect a drop down for each occurrence. (I used to work in software quality assurance so I'm a pretty picky customer).

Stable Secretary Review

Vorteile:

I love being able to access all the information I need at any given time. The app updates have been a HUGE plus.

Nachteile:

It is a bit expensive, though mostly inline with similar products. I would LOVE to see a feature for tracking the repairs and maintenance on our farm vehicles (trucks, trailers, tractors). That would really round out the software to cover the whole business.

Thank you SS, you gave me back TIME!

Kommentare: SS is awesome. The program is easy to use, the customer service is top notch, and it truly gives me time back that I used to not have hand logging down all the vet records.

Vorteile:

The ease of use and having one location for all health information in my barn.

Nachteile:

The thing I like lease is that it is pricey for your average barn manager, farm owner, trainer.

Best Barn managment software

Kommentare: This software has made my record keeping and book keeping life so much easier. Everything is done in a few simple clicks. It is very clear in its design and because of that the functionality is far above any other stable management software out there. Our rep is also very timely and thoughtful in her responses, and takes new ideas into her redesigns. I cannot say enough good things about this software!

Vorteile:

ease of use, constant upgrades, simple interface, literally has everything that is needed to completely keep track of an active AA show stable

Nachteile:

the old platform always showed archived horses as active

All your records in one place

Kommentare: Have been thrilled with this software - has taken me from paper health records to paperless!

Vorteile:

Not only is Stable Secretary easy to keep all your health care records, it is easy to invoice, print reports, show entries, and basic information sheets.

Nachteile:

Does not always have the options you might be looking for (for instance breeds, lamenesses, therapies, etc.) Would like to see an add your own option for all the drop down menus

Love Stable Secretary

Kommentare: Stable Secretary made it so easy to maintain billing transactions. My daughter and I ran the farm together. She was mostly in the barn interacting with the customers, dealing with medicines and farrier and such. She could enter details immediately which made billing a breeze!
And as stated before, the customer service is top notch.

Vorteile:

The ease of use is the best. Plus the fact that more than one person can enter details from their phone at any time. Also love the fact that it is updated periodically to make it even better. Customer Service is fantastic. And they love to get suggestions!

Nachteile:

Nothing! It's a good. I've tried many different programs and this is the best.

Live by Stable Secretary

Kommentare: bugs get fixed and the updates are great as it becomes a better well oiled machine

Vorteile:

I love how keeping track of herd health is so detailed and also how I can keep a lesson schedule in the calendar and that I can do all of my invoices most importantly

Nachteile:

the competition section doesn't flow for Dressage

Long time user recommends

Kommentare: Our hunter/jumper barn (33) horses uses mostly the financial capabilities including recording all services, invoices, payments and reporting in all of these. We’ve used Stable Secretary for several years.

Vorteile:

Customer Support! Willingness to take enhancement requests seriously.

Nachteile:

There have been some missing pieces for the Financial sections but these have been mostly resolved through software updates.

Lesson barn

Vorteile:

I would have to say out of all of the wonderful features the thing I like the most is that the product is continually being updated in the past year. There have been so many wonderful changes and updates.

Nachteile:

The product does not currently have an upload feature.

Long Term Customer!

Kommentare: Customer service is wonderful and so helpful! Love the company and the product.

Vorteile:

I recommend this to every, especially people with more than one horse. It makes a world of difference trying to keep track of multiple horses care and training. I also liked being able to upload related documents (coggins, vaccination records).

Nachteile:

The jump in price between 3 horses ($2.32 per horse), 6 horses ($4.99 per horse), 15 horses ($2.66 per horse) and 30 horses ($1.67 per horse). Pro is $6.95 for 3 horses and $29.95 for 6 horses. It would be cheaper to just get 2 x 3 horse memberships. Then is only $10 more and you go from 6 horses to 15 horses. It just does not really make sense.

Great organizer for my business

Kommentare: It has really helped me keep track of everything we do at the farm

Vorteile:

How easy it is to do billing and keep track of billable items

Nachteile:

That the app is not always up to date with the actual host sight I wish it auto refreshed

The Only Practical Software for Barn Management

Kommentare: Absolutely wonderful! Stable Secretary is responsive and has a great product! I wouldn't want to operate a barn without it!

Vorteile:

It is a practical way to run a barn with multiple areas of operations (rehab, boarding, breeding, etc). We are thrilled with it. Stable Secretary is always quick to respond with support and also have implemented ideas that we have asked when updating their software.

Nachteile:

I can't edit an invoice once sent, but Stable Secretary will reset it quickly upon request.

Must have for barn managers

Kommentare: Excellent ! Customer service is also great . They are knowledgeable and quick to respond. Ss is the only way i can stay organized as a barn manager

Vorteile:

It keeps me organized with 30 horses to manage. Also Easy to add options that you need.

Nachteile:

The App isnt as user friendly as web page.

Game Changing Software

Kommentare: It has been a game changer as an industry professional that has both personal horses, horses owned by an educational institution, and horses leased to my job by private owners in my care! It helps keep things in line when it’s hard to otherwise.

Vorteile:

The ease of record keeping and the ability to add multiple horses from different farms.

Nachteile:

I don’t love the price point changing to allow for mobile access

Great help for barn owners!

Kommentare: Love the software! Helps me track breeding records and medical visits, hoof trimming and illnesses

Vorteile:

Ease of use and quick response to support queries

Nachteile:

Having to use desktop computer for some features.

General Manager

Kommentare: Good experience easy to use, will keep using it.

Vorteile:

Easy to use interface. Everything is easy to find.

Nachteile:

That I couldn’t remove all my horses from 1 location to a different one without having to delete the location. We keep our horses in 4 different locations and the all move to one for winter. Also if a horse was do for ferrier and didn’t get done they should move to the next date any horses are due.

Couldn't manage the barn without it.

Kommentare: Been using it for years and still love it.

Vorteile:

Easy to use. Keeps all my records in one place and helps me stay organized.

Nachteile:

I wish more people would use it and it was easier to transfer records when moving barns in general.

Stable secretary is very organized and helpful!

Kommentare: I like it. Best organization method for me. Lays out everything nicely. Friendly user interface. Graphically pleasing. Keeps me on top of my schedule.

Vorteile:

I like how I can organize and keep track if every aspect of my schedules. Interactions with my team members, my own responsibilities, and management for the horses.

Nachteile:

I had difficulty adapting to the phone and laptop versions. I can edit aspects of the schedule on my phone but not on the laptop.

A barn managers best friend

Kommentare: It’s been very helpful in adding consistency to our barn.

Vorteile:

That it’s designed for horse people and my assistants can all access the same information.

Nachteile:

The data will get double entered at times because the software doesn’t refresh on the other users sides until you log out.

Great opportunity to have all your equine knowledge anytime anywhere!

Kommentare: Best value in the last 3 years I have made - except my tractor upgrade.

Vorteile:

The different levels based on what you need and it is so handy when calling the vet, farrier, reminders for ordering meds, etc. Fantastic value and very professionally done- entry level or upgrade as you grow your "herd" or information you need at your fingertips on your phone!

Nachteile:

Nothing- I love it and upgrades come out that I didn't even think of :)

Makes my job easier

Kommentare: Very good experience with the program overall

Vorteile:

I like that it is specialized to equine businesses

Nachteile:

Not a lot of flexibility with statements.