Run your whole barn from one app.

Horse barn management software is a digital platform for barn managers, boarding facilities, and training operations to keep every horse’s records, care schedules, staff assignments, and billing organized in one place. It typically covers horse records (health, farrier, feed, breeding), team sharing with role-based access for vets and trainers, appointment scheduling, client or boarder invoicing, and multi-barn structure. Proper Strides adds a per-horse AI advisor (Equibot) that reads each horse’s complete history and answers questions in plain English.

Pricing varies widely. Legacy web-based platforms like BarnManager run $40–$70/month for their entry and pro tiers. Stable Secretary starts at around $1.99/month but climbs by tier. Proper Strides is free for one horse permanently, $9.99/month for up to 5 horses on Core, $19.99/month for up to 15 horses on Plus, and custom pricing for boarding barns 20+ horses. All plans include the full feature set including invoicing with 0% platform fee.

At minimum: complete horse records (health, farrier, feed, medications, documents), team sharing with role-based access so vets and trainers can see what they need without seeing the barn’s finances, appointment scheduling with reminders, and boarder/client invoicing. Modern platforms should also include multi-barn structure, mobile-first design (managers are rarely at a desk), and body condition scoring. Nice-to-have: AI-assisted record review, breeding tracking, farm sitter mode, and document extraction from photos.

No. Proper Strides charges 0% platform fee and 0% application fee on client invoicing. You pay Stripe’s standard processing rates directly (2.9% + $0.30 per US card charge, 0.8% capped at $5 for ACH, plus Stripe’s invoicing tier which is typically 0.4% on paid invoices for most operators). Nothing extra flows to us. Some competing platforms take a cut of every invoice on top of Stripe’s rates; we deliberately don’t.

Yes. Team sharing supports role-based access: vets see the medical timeline, farriers see the hoof and shoeing history, trainers see the ride logs, boarders see the records for their own horses. Barn manager controls what each role sees and when. All invitees log into their own accounts and can be revoked anytime.

Reads work offline (last-synced state), and writes queue and sync when connection returns. Photo captures work fully offline. For a barn in a cell dead zone, the app functions; sync catches up on WiFi.

The biggest wins: (1) boarders can see the care their horse received without you sending updates, cutting reactive “how’s Apollo doing” texts to near zero, (2) monthly board invoices go out on autopilot with clear line items, so billing questions decrease, (3) incident tracking creates a defensible record of communication if something goes wrong. Proper Strides supports all three.

Native iOS and Android apps, plus a full web app at my.properstrides.com. All three surfaces share the same account and data. Barn staff typically use the phone app; back-office work like invoicing setup often happens on desktop.