Board contracts, extra services & billing
How this is scored
How the stable gets paid: board contracts per box and horse, extra services logged at the moment they are done, prepaid credit, recurring invoices, SEPA direct debit, VAT treatment that a tax adviser accepts, and an export to the accountant.
0 — No billing at all; services are noted somewhere and invoiced by hand in another tool.
3 — A list of services or a price table per horse, but invoices are written outside the system and nothing connects a logged service to a charge.
5 — Board contracts and extra services billed from the system: monthly invoices generated from contracts plus logged services, sent to the boarder, with payment status tracked.
8 — Services logged on the phone where they happen flow into the invoice or a prepaid balance automatically, SEPA direct debit with mandates, VAT rates configurable per service type, cancellation and credit notes, and an export to DATEV or a named accounting tool.
10 — The money side is discharged inside the system: GoBD-compliant numbering and archiving stated, e-invoices (XRechnung/ZUGFeRD) supported, prepaid credit with low-balance warnings, dunning, multiple payers per horse (shares, Reitbeteiligung) split correctly, and every charge traceable to the logged service and the staff member who logged it.
The Boarding-Stable Owner
This is the flow I bleed money over: an owner's extra-service request drops onto the day's to-do list, and the moment I or a groom mark it done the charge is logged to that horse's tab and appears on the bill the day it was completed. Monthly livery packages carry the fixed recurring fees automatically, month-end invoices for all horses go out with one click, a dashboard shows paid and outstanding, and the billing data flows into Xero or QuickBooks. We found no public information on SEPA direct debit with mandates, VAT rates per service type, credit notes or dunning, so collection still rests on card payment at booking and the accounting link. 2 4 7