How can we help?
Guides, answers, and step-by-step help for getting the most out of Stables.
Getting Started
Role-specific onboarding for facilities, service providers, and horse owners - set up your account and learn how the pieces fit together.
Records: Clients & Horses
Manage horse and client records, upload documents like Coggins and health records, and send documents for signature.
Scheduling & Booking
How the calendar works, setting availability, direct booking, and managing or rescheduling appointments.
Team
For coaches: set up and manage your team roster, schedule your team, and assign sessions and availability.
Care
The care queue, care tasks and plans, marking care complete, and generating invoices from care events.
Lessons & Training
Lesson types, scheduling and completing lessons, online booking, packages and credits - plus multi-week training programs for a horse.
- Setting up lesson types
- Scheduling a lesson
- Riders, no-shows, and completing a lesson
- Taking lesson bookings online
- Lesson reminders and client notifications
- Lesson emails: what riders and the barn get
- The lesson waitlist
- Lesson packages and credits
- Selling a package to a client on account
- Booking a lesson (riders and owners)
- Will attend / Can’t attend: answering a lesson email
- Your lessons report
- What training programs are
- Creating a training program
- Building a training session
- Starting and tracking a training program
- Training programs for horse owners
Payments & Billing
How payments work on Stables: invoices, payment methods, fees, payouts, refunds, and recording expenses.
- How payments work on Stables
- Managing Pending Charges
- Creating and sending invoices
- Billing pending charges all at once
- Paying an invoice
- Understanding fees and surcharges
- Payment methods: ACH vs. card
- Choosing how clients can pay invoices
- Charging sales tax (GST, HST, VAT)
- What currency your invoices are in
- Payouts: when and how you get paid
- Refunds: how they work
- Recording an expense
- Categorizing expenses
Security Deposits
How security deposits are collected, held, applied at move-out, and returned - for both facilities and horse owners.
Barn Chat
Messaging your barn: using Barn Chat, who can see your messages, and managing notifications.
Ask StablesAI
What Ask StablesAI can help with, tips for better answers, and its limitations.
For Horse Owners
A guided index for horse owners: getting started, paying invoices, deposits, booking services, and your horse’s records.
Integrations
Integrations allows you to connect third-party apps with your Stables account to enhance your accounts functionality and features.
Account & Settings
Profile and notification settings, your facility’s directory listing, staff and permissions, and account changes.
Troubleshooting & FAQ
Fix common issues: failed payments, missing payouts, wrong invoices, login problems, and how to contact support.