Equo / My Riding Life / Horse Monkey

[Barlow]

I organise several clinics at the yard which are open to everyone. Usually I advertise them through word of mouth, and I coordinate bookings through WhatsApping people individually. Understandably it take some time to chase people etc and doing timings can be a little tricky too.

I was wondering whether there are any organiser users of horse monkey, equo events, my riding life that could give me pros and cons of each platform?

Ideally I’m looking for something that is free for the venue, doesn’t cost the riders and arm and a leg and which will do clinic timings for me, but where I can manually adapt them if needed / book people on without payment (YO gets free lesson)

 

[LEC]

Equo charges the organiser 3% on each entry. Then charges the rider for credit card. Tbh horse monkey charges rider for payment cost as well but not sure of their immediate costs. I am not sure how much Horse Events charges as they have just changed their platform and it interested me.

 

[lizziebell]

MyRidingLife has a free to organiser option. It charges a booking fee to the rider of £1.50. You also need to take into account payment options which will have a fee involved (I.e: Stripe/ wordplay/ Paypal etc).

 

[Ample Prosecco]

I use Horse Monkey when organising camps. No idea how it compares to the others, but I am a technophobe, and even I can use it ok! I used do do it all myself and it has saved hours and hours of hassle.

 

[Cragrat]

Sorry, can't help from an organiser POV, but from a rider POV, I wish there weren't so blooming many!
Some defintitely push the cost on to the rider, which can be off-putting if you're making a few entries for family etc.

 

[Britestar]

We use equo.

We have a stripe account, and they take a fee for transactions.
Equo take £1.50 per transaction from the rider.

You can add riders offline on Equo. We do this quite often.
Those riders usually are paying bacs.

Another club uses google forms for their booking and then riders pay by PayPal or bacs.

I'm going to look into this for clinics/ lessons to save our members paying a fee.

 

[Wishfilly]

Sorry, can't help from an organiser POV, but from a rider POV, I wish there weren't so blooming many!
Some defintitely push the cost on to the rider, which can be off-putting if you're making a few entries for family etc.

When we're booking clinics, normally one person on the yard will make the booking and we all pay them back to help save on the booking fee!

 

[teapot]

Horse Monkey is one of the worst platforms I have EVER used from a back end point of view. I know clients/competitors who hate it too.

My Riding Life is a lot more user friendly both sides of the fence

 

[kathantoinette]

Sorry to jump on your thread OP but I have a question too…as an organiser can you link a bank account to these websites or does it have to be a PayPal, Stripe etc.? And does that account have to match the organisation’s account? If this makes sense!

 

[teapot]

Sorry to jump on your thread OP but I have a question too…as an organiser can you link a bank account to these websites or does it have to be a PayPal, Stripe etc.? And does that account have to match the organisation’s account? If this makes sense!

I can't quite remember for Horse Monkey but ime there's usually an intermediately between the payment process and the bank account regardless of service being paid for - it's far more secure that way

 

[The Xmas Furry]

As a user of all the above, it is beyond infuriating that I cannot enter 2, 3 or 4 or more RC training and/or events at the same time on any of them.
Each and every date has to be done separately, just so time consuming, grr!

 

[LEC]

As a user of all the above, it is beyond infuriating that I cannot enter 2, 3 or 4 or more RC training and/or events at the same time on any of them.
Each and every date has to be done separately, just so time consuming, grr!

You can on equo

 

[McFluff]

As an end user, I think Spond works well for clinics. But I don’t know the charges.

 

[MissMay]

In Ireland we use "its plain sailing" for everything all events are booked through it.
Maybe have a look and see unsure from an organiser point of view how it works

 

[The Xmas Furry]

You can on equo

That's useful to know, I'll try and nudge our RC over.
All round here most are using MRL tho.

 

[HopOnTrot]

Our PC uses Event Master

 

[Barlow]

Thank you this is really useful and it’s thrown up a few I haven’t heard of too!

 

[Barlow]

We use equo.

We have a stripe account, and they take a fee for transactions.
Equo take £1.50 per transaction from the rider.

You can add riders offline on Equo. We do this quite often.
Those riders usually are paying bacs.

Another club uses google forms for their booking and then riders pay by PayPal or bacs.

I'm going to look into this for clinics/ lessons to save our members paying a fee.

This is basically what I want to do, and I like the fact that riders have to pay in advance via equo as I get people telling me they want to book on and then I spend ages chasing them for payment which eats into my time.

 

[YourValentine]

Never mind, ECB must have deal it's ££

 

[Barlow]

Never mind, ECB must have deal it's ££

Sorry, what is ECB?

 

[YourValentine]

English Cricket Board.

I meant to add the comment to my post, not delete the original. Now it just sounds like jibberish... sorry!

My OP- suggested looking at Skedda which the Cricket club uses.