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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)
 
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.
 
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).
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Cragrat said:
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.
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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!
 
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!
 
kathantoinette said:
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!
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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 :)
 
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
 
Britestar said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
Barlow said:
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)
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Hello

I also organise clinics & events for different clubs & coaches.

I used to use Equo (for about 10 years) but recently move to Equus Innovation (https://www.equusinnovation.com/). I looked at HM but found the back end HORRIBLE & so clunky. My Riding Life was confusing as they have like 3 different parts of the business & no clear costs available. However all 3 have become very well known & they list alot of events on their sites.

Equo was brilliant when it launched but got outdated very quickly - like Horse Monkey & My Riding Life they wanted LOADS of info when rider were registering which put people off booking. Equus literally wants email, phone number & name. Riders also seem to like it as they can add multiple events & classes/clinics to their basket and check out all one time rather than having to do them individually each time.

Both were expensive for the rider too in terms of transaction fees, Equus is only 40p the others were charging £1,50 min. Its free to me as an organiser to use & there is someone on the end of the phone anytime I need them.

Equus also allows me to send payment links to riders if they book an additional lesson or do an additional class on the day which helps me keep ontop of all payments.

Payment is through STRIPE same as HM or Equo so same fee's apply BUT these are cheaper than PAYPAL by ALOT, I think Paypal was 2.9% plus 30p so quite hefty in comparison to Equus at 1.45+20p. It sets up to automatically send me money every 7 days, but I changed it so I can manually transfer £XX after each event once I have my full P&L from the portal - again helps me keep on top of finances.

Equus does loads of fancy stuff I dont need like speaks to BS database for horse names, BS judging app & BD/BS websites for schedules etc. It'll pay prize money & refunds directly from their portal which is great no faffing about with BACS details for refunds.

I also really like that Equus sits in my website (they can give you your own landing page on their site) but it means riders are going to my own page and not get lost in to other organisers or events.

I can put people in to the back end for free classes for helping & I can do times for clinics or classes really simply. Literally put in what time we want the day to start & how long for each rider. Also for my shared lessons I expect people to find their own sharers so on Equus I can tell it not to allow a single person on to that type of lesson which I cant do with Equo.
 
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