Features
Built by asking what a yard actually does
Not a generic booking system with horses bolted on. Every part of Cantermere exists because a riding school has to keep track of something that a gym or a dance school does not.
The diary
Lessons, instructors and arenas
One view of the week, and a scheduler that argues with you when it should.
- Recurring lessons
- Set up “Beginners group, Tuesdays 4:15” once and roll the term forward, rather than typing the same lesson forty times.
- No double-booking
- An instructor or an arena already busy is a clash Cantermere refuses — and it compares the whole interval, so a lesson that starts mid-way through another is caught too.
- Wall-clock times
- A lesson at 4:15 is at 4:15 on the yard’s own clock, in March and in November alike.
- Cancel with a reason
- Cancelled lessons stay on the record instead of vanishing, so you can see what happened to a week.
Horses
The animal, not the asset
The details that decide whether a horse can do the next lesson — held properly, and enforced.
- Weight ceilings
- Each horse carries a limit. Riders over it are not offered, and you are told the numbers rather than just “unsuitable”.
- Daily lesson caps
- The welfare rule that gets broken by accident. Set the cap and it holds across every instructor filling every gap.
- Suitability by grade
- Say which rider grades a horse is safe for. Leave it empty and the horse stays available to everyone.
- Work status
- In work, resting, lame, retired. Out-of-work horses simply never appear as an option.
- Every reason at once
- When a horse will not do, Cantermere lists all the reasons together — not the first one it happened to find.
Riders
Grades that actually mean something
Assessments you record, grades that follow from them, and bookings that respect the result.
- Assessments
- Record what a rider can do and when you assessed it. The grade follows from the record, not from memory.
- Your own grade vocabulary
- Stables do not agree on what “Grade 3” means, so each stable defines its own ladder and its requirements.
- Grades gate booking
- A rider is only offered lessons their grade allows, which keeps a novice out of an advanced group without anyone having to police it.
- Contacts and guardians
- Parents, guardians and emergency contacts attached to the rider, added without leaving the page you are on.
Online booking
Bookings from your own website
An embeddable widget that behaves itself when the internet does not.
- Embed anywhere
- Drop it into the site you already have. It carries your stable’s name and colour, and sits quietly inside your own design.
- Places are held, not lost
- A booking holds the place while payment is arranged. If the hold lapses, the place comes back rather than sitting empty.
- Sensible refusals
- A rider already booked into that lesson gets a message explaining it, not an error page.
- Rate limited
- Public booking is limited per email and per connection, so the form on your website is not a way to flood your diary.
Messages
Confirmations, and proof of them
The first question after a no-show is “did they get the email?”. This answers it.
- Written down either way
- Every message is recorded with the body that actually went out — not what a template would render today.
- Honest statuses
- Sent, failed, or only logged. “Logged” is shown in amber, because it is not a delivery.
- Sending never breaks the booking
- A mail server having a bad morning does not undo a booking somebody has already made.
In the school
Registers and sign-in sheets
Walk into the arena knowing who is riding what.
- The lesson on one page
- Riders, their mounts, their grades and the things you need to know about them.
- Printable
- A sheet for the tack room wall, for when the office is the other side of the yard.