What this platform is, and why we built it

If you run a working horse barn, you already know the chaos. The morning starts with a group text about who's on which stalls. By 10 AM you're digging through a spreadsheet to figure out whether Maria has any vacation days left. By noon you're trying to remember which boarder owes for July, and whether the trainer who teaches lessons out of your barn paid you for the arena rental. By 3 PM your back hurts and you haven't actually done anything with your horses today.

We built the Huntington Ridge Barn Manager because every off-the-shelf tool covers exactly one corner of that. The result is a stack of disconnected systems — a stall cleaning checklist app over here, a scheduling tool over there, a Stripe dashboard for billing, a Google Drive folder for waivers. Nothing talks to each other, and the barn manager is the human glue. Burnout is the predictable outcome.

What we built

One platform, one login, six big surfaces:

• Stall cleaning, gamified. Workers clock in, take a required Before photo, run a timer, take an After photo, submit. You rate it 1–5 stars in the Review Queue. Speed and quality both feed the leaderboard. Pay is automatic — hourly floor + per-stall bonus, calculated per shift.
• Lesson billing, per trainer. Each resident trainer gets their own Stripe-backed lesson business with plans, students, makeup credits, and a one-click payment link generator. The student pays through Stripe Checkout; webhooks flip the enrollment to active automatically.
• E-signature documents. Upload a PDF, drop signature spots, send by SMS. Recipients sign on their phone with a finger. You get an audit-trail-grade PDF in your archive.
• Horse profiles + health. Bio, feed schedule, vet visits, vaccinations, farrier history, document storage for Coggins and insurance. One profile per horse instead of a folder system that nobody updates.
• Schedule + payroll. Weekly shift editor with copy-week shortcut. Each shift attaches to a labor role for budgeting. Reports tab gives you a per-shift breakdown for any pay period plus CSV export.
• Farm financials. Plaid bank sync into an atomic ledger with category mapping. P&L, forecasting, and per-role labor budgets. QuickBooks Online integration for the parts that need to round-trip into payroll.

What we're not

We're not trying to be a generic CRM with horses bolted on. We're not a marketplace, a directory, or a community. We don't resell anyone else's payment processing — when a trainer takes lesson payments, the money goes directly to their Stripe account. We're infrastructure for the operational side of running a barn, and that's it.

Where this is going

Right now the platform is in active development for a single working barn (Huntington Ridge). Every feature you see was built because somebody at the barn needed it that week. As we add more barns, we'll keep that bias — features ship when there's a real human pain point, not because they're on a roadmap.

If you run a barn and any of this resonates, the interactive demo on the home page shows the worker flow with sample data — no registration required. The FAQ answers the obvious questions. Or just register your barn and try it.