Not everyone who runs a livery yard has experience of running a business and there is so much to think about – safety, liability, employment and earning a living. Many yards start out as a passion project and develop into successful businesses, but those with a passion to work with horses are often not experienced with business administration and management, nor client management, it can be a steep learning curve and getting professional advice can be an expensive option, particularly for start-ups.
LiveryList have teamed up with LIVERYLive to help livery yards with all aspects of stable management, client management and marketing.
The Era of Digital Management
Whether you are just starting out or thinking of expanding your services, LIVERYLive can help you manage development. LIVERYLive – the complete app for equine yard management, was designed by an award-winning yard manager with first-hand experience and is based on real life insights of what makes a ‘great yard’ in terms of yard and client management.
LIVERYLive has been designed to make yard management smoother and easier for yard owners, yard managers and the yard team. LIVERYLive reduces the hours spent on time-consuming admin and frees you up to tackle other, often more important aspects of yard management. LIVERYLive can also help you manage your yard team 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.
Manage Your Yard Wherever You Are
LIVERYLive also means you, your clients and your yard team, can have the app on your portable devices meaning you can easily use it when you’re on the yard or on the go, and gives you gives you live time information that yard staff and liveries can see at all times. This reduces time needed to be spent in the office.
Having a single app also makes it easier to record client requests and billing requirements as it’s all there for you to see in the palm of your hand, and no longer needing to be written in diaries, on white boards, or tracking through texts or social media to check owner requests.
Keeping Yard Admin to a Minimum
LIVERYLive provides a single place for you to keep and easily access vital yard documents like insurance policies, vaccination records and emergency contact details for staff, liveries and horses. If you don’t already have processes that involve requesting certain information or documents from your clients, such as passport or insurance details, from your clients, then this is where LiveryList can help.
LiveryList has a comprehensive and dedicated Yard Owner Hub providing a free catalogue of resources on all aspects of client and business management including client communication, horse and client records, template livery contracts, biosecurity and welfare resources, employment guidance and health and safety guidance.
Supporting Long Term viability for Yards
LIVERYLive is proven to help increase your income simply by providing you with better record keeping for your business. No more missed extras when it comes to invoicing, with the ability to record all client requests there and then in one place and add directly to their invoice.
LiveryList can also help in this area by giving yard owners the information and resources they need to understand their yard costs, and to make sure they are charging appropriate amounts for their livery packages and additional services, plus the resources to help calculate these costs and implement any price increases.
Working Together for a Better Industry
Although the businesses are not related, like LIVERYLive, LiveryList exists to help yard owners and managers improve their livery businesses. Utilising the two together can help you develop and run a professional, well managed and organised business, helping streamline administration, improve profitability and helping you keep adequate business records.
Additionally, as the UK’s leading livery yard directory, LIVERYList can literally put your yard on the map and showcase the services you offer to potential customers. LIVERYList provides affordable and proven listings for all types of livery services, training venues, facility hire, riding establishments and other equine establishments across the whole of the UK.
Yards work better, when people can communicate easily, quickly and clearly. Whatever the size or type of yard you run, by utilising the services of both LIVERYLive and LiveryList, you can help your yard become more cost effective and efficient, leaving more time to focus on the people and horses in your care. It also provides your clients with a professional experience and can help give you the edge over other yards when it comes to client management.
LIVERYLive offers a FREE six-week trial – we don’t take any payment details upfront – and online support is available at all times. LIVERYLive is free to download from the App Store, Google Play or via the website.
LiveryList livery yard directory offers a recognised and economical platform for promoting your yard and services, and all of the free resources can be found on the dedicated Yard Owner Hub.
