Posted: 14th November 2024 | Back to news feed
Whether full, part or DIY, most of us would be lost without our local livery yard and team, looking after our precious equines when we can’t be there. Work patterns, family commitments and holidays mean that most horse owners need to use livery yard services at some point in their lives. Sadly, however, we are seeing more and more yards closing due to the rising cost of feed, bedding and transport. We all love spending time on the yard and we sometimes forget that our hobby is also the yard owner’s business and livelihood.
Understandably, some yard owners often find it difficult to analyse their true costs accurately and when they realise the business is struggling financially, they are often reluctant to pass the need for increased costs to their liveries, for fear of losing or upsetting them. Even though the extra costs are justified, it can be a difficult conversation for everyone involved and yards often suffer as a result.
LIVERYLive helps livery yard owners and managers improve their financial stability through better accounting and more cost effective and streamlined operations. With LIVERYLive, yard owners and managers can make sure additional service requests from liveries are recorded and invoiced accurately and correctly. Nothing is missed or forgotten, because additional products and services are recorded straight onto the app by the yard team, and automatically added to the livery’s bill.
Accurate and transparent recording of costs for products and services means that everyone can see where they stand; both the yard team and horse owners can see and understand the details of the costs involved better. Itemised billing helps horse owners to understand what they are paying for and what is an extra, so that they can see how much they are spending and adjust their requests for services to meet their budget.
LIVERYLive can help yards understand how and when costs are incurred and help identify where savings can be made for improved profitability. Being able to improve profitability without having to increase livery costs is good news for both yard owners and their liveries. Improved yard efficiency increases financial stability. Features like the store-checker can monitor supplies of feed and bedding, to help with reordering, and the to-do list makes sure the yard team knows what needs to be done and who is responsible for doing it.
LIVERYLive can also help the yard team to manage their time better, with an interactive to-do list that can allocate jobs, record both routine tasks and additional requests from liveries and add extra costs directly onto a livery’s bill. Events, invoicing and ordering are streamlined, saving the yard team time and the yard owner money.
LIVERYLive provides a single, paperless, portable and more professional place to secure and easily access vital yard documents like insurance policies, vaccination records and emergency contact details for staff, liveries and horses giving the yard team the information and connectivity they need to run a safe and successful yard.
LIVERYLive is free to download and offers a FREE six week trial.
Find out more at liverylive.com.
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