# Stable Secretary — Stable & Equestrian Management

Stable Secretary by Ragged Mountain Equine Ventures, LLC holds a panel rating of 2.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-16. Provenance: Rest of world; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Ragged Mountain Equine Ventures, LLC (https://stablesecretary.com)
- Category: [Stable & Equestrian Management](https://whats-best.ai/software/stable-management.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): Rest of world
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/stable-management/stable-secretary
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/stable-management/stable-secretary/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/stable-management/stable-secretary/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-20 · evaluated 2026-10-16 · oldest source captured 2026-10-16

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Ragged Mountain Equine Ventures, LLC
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 16 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 16 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 16 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

Stable Secretary is a barn management application from Ragged Mountain Equine Ventures, LLC, a US company whose terms are governed by New Hampshire law. It scored strongest on horse care records (6 to 7) and boarding and billing (6 to 7): service events convert into billable records, invoices go out individually or in batches, Stripe takes payments with QuickBooks for accounting, and per-horse identification, health, farrier and breeding records carry reminders and let health providers add records themselves. Pricing transparency scored 0 to 2 — the captured pricing page offers a free 30-day trial, and no public price figures were found — and sovereignty scored 2 to 3, with applications and data hosted by unspecified third parties and no public information on hosting location. Staff and operations (3 to 4) and facilities and lessons (4 to 4) sit low: mobile checklists and timeslot booking are shown, with no public information on staff time recording or lessons with school horses. Boarder portal scores range 5 to 7, the low end reading permissions set by the stable rather than per-owner scoping by design.

**Speaks for it:**
- Service events convert into billable records, and invoices can be created individually or in batches with paid and unpaid status tracked.
- Horse records cover identification, health, farrier and breeding, with farrier and health reminders and a due-dates report filterable by primary vet or farrier.
- Health providers can be invited with their own login, with no additional subscription, to view and add health records, with access revocable.
- Online payments run through Stripe, and an Online Payment Processing Fee with configurable label and percentage can be passed to clients.
- Support and training are included at no extra charge, and a free 30-day trial and free demo are offered.

**Held against it:**
- The pricing page offers a free 30-day trial, and judges found no public price figures, so an annual cost cannot be computed without a sales call.
- Applications and user data are hosted by unspecified third parties using cloud technology, and we found no public information on hosting location or a data processing agreement.
- We found no public information on SEPA direct debit, VAT settings per service type, credit notes or dunning.
- We found no public information on staff time recording, shift or holiday planning, or task completion history.
- We found no public information on lessons with school horses, course registration, or booking rules and capacity per facility.

**Best for:**
- You run a boarding stable and want logged service events to flow into individual or batch invoices that clients pay through a client invoice portal.
- Your yard's core need is structured per-horse health and farrier records with reminders that vets and farriers can add to themselves.
- You want owners to log in as team members, see feed and supplement plans, pay invoices and book timeslots themselves.

**Avoid if:**
- You need published prices to budget before a sales call — pricing transparency scored 0 to 2.
- You are a European stable that requires an evidenced hosting location and a data processing agreement for boarder and staff data — sovereignty scored 2 to 3.
- You run a riding school whose operations depend on lesson scheduling with school horses, course registration and capacity rules — facilities and lessons scored 4 to 4.
- You must document employee hours and shift plans in the system for working-time or wage compliance — staff and operations scored 3 to 4.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The Boarding-Stable Owner | The Stable Manager | The Boarder | The Riding-School Lead | The Tax Adviser | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Board contracts, extra services & billing | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Horse records, feeding & health | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Staff, rotas & daily operations | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Boarder portal & communication | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Facilities, lessons & events | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 0.5/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** |

### The judges

- **The Boarding-Stable Owner** (v1.0): Runs a forty-box Pensionsstall and loses a few hundred euros a month to blanket changes and leg wraps nobody wrote down. Wants extra services logged where they happen and billed without retyping, direct debit that collects on time, and one system instead of a spreadsheet and three WhatsApp groups.
- **The Stable Manager** (v1.0): Runs the morning round with two grooms, a trainee and a mini-jobber, and is the one the vet calls. Wants feeding plans the night shift can read on a phone, medication logged with who gave what, rotas and time records that hold up, and an app that still works at the far end of the barn.
- **The Boarder** (v1.0): Pays five hundred euros a month for her mare and works full time. Wants to see what the farrier did, why the bill has three extra wraps, and whether her turnout instruction was read — and does not want the other boarders, or an analytics company, seeing her horse's file.
- **The Riding-School Lead** (v1.0): Runs lessons six days a week on twelve school horses, plus weekend clinics with guest riders. Wants lessons and arena slots booked without double bookings, school horses not over-worked, ten-lesson cards that count themselves, and course payments that land in the same books as board.
- **The Tax Adviser** (v1.0): Does the books for a dozen equestrian businesses and knows that board, lessons and sold hay are not taxed alike. Wants invoices with GoBD-compliant numbering, VAT per service, a DATEV export instead of a shoebox of PDFs, and time records for the staff that would survive a customs minimum-wage check.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has seen stable apps arrive with a launch post and vanish two seasons later with the horse records inside. Reads "billing" that is a price list, "staff management" that is a chat, geofencing with no word on staff consent, and an imprint that names a riding stable rather than a software company — and asks what happens to the data then.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Optin sensitive data: yes [S5]
- Policy date: 2018-04 [S5]

**Hosting**
- Third party cloud: unspecified · yes [S4]

**Integrations**
- Quickbooks stripe: Stripe · Quickbooks [S2]

**Legal**
- Address: 03257 · New London · NH · PO Box 1638 · US [S5]
- Arbitration: English · New Hampshire · JAMS · 3 [S4]
- Dmca agent: Kate Rice · 54 Lower Ridge Road East, Andover NH 03216 [S4]
- Entity: Stable Secretary · Ragged Mountain Equine Ventures, LLC [S5]
- Entity: Ragged Mountain Equine Ventures, LLC · RMEV [S4]
- Governing law: New Hampshire, U.S.A. [S4]
- Termination cure period: 15 [S4]

**Pricing**
- Annual refund: allocable remainder of annual period · yes [S4]
- Automatic renewal: yes · yes [S4]
- Billing flexibility: monthly · annual · yes [S3]
- Billing period: yes · monthly · annual [S4]
- Cancellation notice: yes · 30 [S4]
- Discounts: educational institutions · non-profit organizations · law enforcement agencies · service members [S3]
- Essentials includes: basic information and basic health records · online · mobile [S3]
- Essentials plan: shoeing · vaccinations · worming · dentistry [S1]
- Essentials price: Essentials · 30 · 12 [S3]
- Free trial: 30 [S2]
- Free trial: yes · 30 [S5]
- Free trial: 30 · yes [S7]
- Free trial: yes · yes · 30 [S8]
- Free trial: 30 · free trial [S10]
- Free trial days: 30 · yes [S9]
- Go includes: yes [S3]
- Go price: Go! · 30 · 1.99 [S3]
- Mobile apple google manage: Subscriptions via Apple or Google Play manageable in app; website signups directed online [S10]
- Mobile included plans: Essentials · Performance · Professional [S9]
- Optional paid services: extra training · on-site support · data entry · yes [S4]
- Performance plan: customizable fields · horse records · services · schedules [S1]
- Performance price: Performance · 30 · 7 [S3]
- Professional includes: detailed information · health, service, and breeding records · competitions · yes · online · mobile [S3]
- Professional plan: invoicing · payment tracking · financial reporting · Stripe payments · QuickBooks Online export [S1]
- Professional price: Professional · 30 · 8 [S3]
- Special services: yes · yes [S4]
- Trial: 30 · yes [S4]
- Trial days: 30 [S1]

**Product**
- Access control: yes [S1]
- Account cancellation: yes [S5]
- Billable service events: yes [S2]
- Checklists: yes [S2]
- Client invoice portal: yes [S2]
- Cloud based: yes [S1]
- Data access limits: yes · yes · yes [S4]
- Data collected: name, address, billing address, email, phone, credit card (payment only), user-generated horse content, contact info, payment history [S5]
- Data entry service: yes [S1]
- Data entry services: Vendor-provided data entry service; accepts records in any format by email or text, including invoicing. [S3]
- Data entry services: yes [S7]
- Data entry services: yes [S9]
- Data entry services: yes [S10]
- Data safeguards: industry customary and as required by law · administrative · physical · technical [S4]
- Demo: yes [S1]
- Description: all-in-one equine barn management software [S1]
- Description: barn management software application with web and mobile versions [S4]
- Feed tracking: track what each horse is eating (feed and supplements) [S8]
- File uploads: document, photo and video uploads [S2]
- Financial reports: yes [S2]
- Free demo: yes [S7]
- Free demo: free demo scheduling offered [S8]
- Go standalone: GO! · yes · yes [S9]
- Health providers expiration: 24 [S7]
- Health providers invite: yes · yes [S7]
- Health providers permissions: yes · yes [S7]
- Health providers revoke: yes · yes [S7]
- Health reminders sharing: yes [S2]
- Horse records: identification, health, farrier, breeding, and service records [S2]
- Invoicing: yes [S2]
- Messaging: yes [S2]
- Mobile app parity: Mobile app offers many of the same functions as the online platform [S10]
- Mobile apps: iOS · Android [S1]
- Mobile biometric signin: yes [S10]
- Mobile capabilities: add, view, and manage horses, contacts, records, schedules, and more [S9]
- Mobile contact features: Manage contacts, owner groups, tags, renewal records, attachments/uploads [S10]
- Mobile due dates report: Due Dates report; excludes contact due dates; filterable by primary vet or farrier if saved to horse profile; sortable by date/horse; past-due filters [S10]
- Mobile financial professional only: Professional · yes · 3 [S10]
- Mobile health report: Horse Health report with date range, horse/tag selection, multiple record types, share and week calendar/list view [S10]
- Mobile horse features: Add and manage horses, Basic Information Sheet sharing, tags, health records, service records, notes, breeding records, renewals, attachments/uploads [S10]
- Mobile invoices report: Invoices report view-only, sortable by date/amount/balance, All/Paid/Unpaid/Unsent, searchable by contact name [S10]
- Mobile notifications: Push notification settings per team member with category opt in/out [S10]
- Mobile ownership report: Ownership report opens with ALL horses by default, filterable by tag or individual horses [S10]
- Mobile payments report: Payments report with date range, filters (New Payment, Payment in Full, Payment by Credit), search, deletion with double confirmation [S10]
- Mobile platforms: iOS · Android [S9]
- Mobile temperatures report: Temperatures report with date range, horse/tag selection, sharing [S10]
- Mobile theme: dark · light · system default [S10]
- Mobile youtube playlist: yes [S10]
- Office file storage: yes [S2]
- Online payment fee: Invoices can include an Online Payment Processing Fee with configurable label and percentage to offset Stripe processing fees [S6]
- Online payment fee display: yes · yes · yes [S6]
- Online payment fee reporting: Financials Dashboard Payments list and Payments Report show Stripe payment amounts including Online Payment Fee [S6]
- Online payment fee setup: Settings > Your Invoices > Invoice Settings · yes · yes [S6]
- Platforms: desktop, iPhone, and Android [S2]
- Push notifications: yes [S2]
- Quickbooks integration: yes [S1]
- Reminders: yes [S1]
- Reminders: yes [S2]
- Reporting: yes [S1]
- Reports types: yes [S2]
- Schedule: yes [S2]
- Schedule customization: yes [S2]
- Schedule filtering: yes [S2]
- Stripe payments: yes [S1]
- Stripe payments: yes [S2]
- Team members: add staff, owners, and health providers as Team Members with access to Feed and Supplements records [S8]
- Team members contact prerequisite: yes [S7]
- Team members deletion: yes · yes [S7]
- Team members invite: yes · yes · yes [S7]
- Team members notifications: mobile_app · yes [S7]
- Team members roles editable: yes [S7]
- Team permissions: yes [S2]

**Support**
- Basic included: yes · yes [S4]
- Channels: email · text message · phone [S1]
- Channels: phone · email · demo [S2]
- Data entry services: Data entry services offered on request [S6]
- Free support training: yes [S1]
- Included training: yes · yes [S2]
- Knowledgebase: yes [S1]
- Privacy contact: support@stablesecretary.com [S5]
- Trial cta: 30 [S3]

## Questions

### Is Stable Secretary European?

No. whats-best.ai classifies Stable Secretary as Rest of world.

### Where does Stable Secretary store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 16 Oct 2026.

### Does Stable Secretary have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 16 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Stable Secretary?

As of 16 Oct 2026, the panel rates [horsemanager+ (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/stable-management/horsemanager-plus), [Equimondo (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/stable-management/equimondo) and [LIVERYLive (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/stable-management/liverylive) highest among the other 12 Stable & Equestrian Management products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [horsemanager+](https://whats-best.ai/software/stable-management/horsemanager-plus) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Stable Secretary alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/stable-management/stable-secretary/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 9 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 5 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 data facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 hosting fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://stablesecretary.com/ (checked 2026-10-16)
- [S2] Features page: https://stablesecretary.com/features/ (checked 2026-10-16)
- [S3] Pricing page: https://stablesecretary.com/pricing/ (checked 2026-10-16)
- [S4] Terms of service: https://stablesecretary.com/terms/ (checked 2026-10-16)
- [S5] Privacy policy: https://stablesecretary.com/privacy/ (checked 2026-10-16)
- [S6] Board contracts, extra services & billing — found from sitemap: https://stablesecretary.com/add-convenience-fee-to-invoices/ (checked 2026-10-16)
- [S7] Horse records, feeding & health — found from sitemap: https://stablesecretary.com/support-team-members-health-providers/ (checked 2026-10-16)
- [S8] Horse records, feeding & health — found from sitemap: https://stablesecretary.com/2017/10/18/feeding-horses/ (checked 2026-10-16)
- [S9] Boarder portal & communication — found from sitemap: https://stablesecretary.com/support-mobile-app/ (checked 2026-10-16)
- [S10] Boarder portal & communication — found from sitemap: https://stablesecretary.com/support-using-the-mobile-app/ (checked 2026-10-16)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Stable Secretary — Stable & Equestrian Management", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-20. https://whats-best.ai/software/stable-management/stable-secretary

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