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

  A lesson type is what you teach - its length, price per rider, how many riders fit, and whether clients can book it online.

• Scheduling a lesson

  Put a lesson on the calendar once or every week, then add riders or let clients book it online.

• Riders, no-shows, and completing a lesson

  Open a lesson to manage its roster, then mark it complete and decide rider by rider who is billed, who spends a credit, and who rides free.

• Taking lesson bookings online

  Let clients book your barn’s lessons from its public page, and set when bookings open, when they close, whether you approve them, and how they are paid.

• Lesson reminders and client notifications

  The evening before a lesson, riders get a reminder by email and in the app, and the instructor gets tomorrow’s roster. Here is how to turn it on or off.

• Lesson emails: what riders and the barn get

  Every email a lesson sends, who gets it, and what sets it off - from booking and reminders to cancellations, moves and packages.

• The lesson waitlist

  A full lesson keeps a line. When a spot opens it is held for the first person for 24 hours, then passes to the next.

• Lesson packages and credits

  Sell “10 Group Lessons · $400” from your public page, or to a client on account. Credits land in the client’s balance and one is spent on each lesson, when the client books with it online or when you complete the lesson.

• Selling a package to a client on account

  Sell a lesson package to a client yourself: the lessons go in their credits now and the price goes on their invoice. Nothing is charged to a card.

• Booking a lesson (riders and owners)

  Four steps on the barn’s page - Lesson, Time, Rider, Pay - with credits, card, your account, or in person.

• Will attend / Can’t attend: answering a lesson email

  Your lesson reminder asks if you’re coming. One click tells the barn - no sign-in needed.

• Your lessons report

  Lessons taught, riders, riders per week and revenue, broken down by lesson type, plus who taught, who didn’t show and how hard each lesson horse worked.

• What training programs are

  A multi-week training plan for one horse that puts each day’s work onto the care queue when you start it.

• Creating a training program

  Go to Care → Training Programs and select New program. Start from a saved template, from blank, or have Stables AI draft it from your goal - all three create a draft you review first.

• Building a training session

  One day’s work: warm up, exercises with gait and effort, cool down, plus stop conditions, substitutions and who does it.

• Starting and tracking a training program

  Starting a program puts its training days on the care queue. After that you watch adherence, bill completed sessions, and finish, reuse or archive it.

• Training programs for horse owners

  See the plan your barn or trainer is running on your horse, how far along it is, and what’s next - or build your own.