Software for the horse world.
Built around the yard, not the desk. Works with no signal. Free for horse owners and riders.
The problem everyone already knows.
A horse has a farrier, a physio, a dentist, a saddle fitter, a vet and often a coach. Six people who never speak to each other.
The owner holds it all together in a WhatsApp archive. The farrier drives forty minutes to shoe one horse, past three others who needed him.
The physio writes her notes in the car and again at the kitchen table. Somebody's invoice goes unpaid for six weeks because nobody put the reference on the bank transfer.
None of that is anyone's fault. There just hasn't been anywhere to put it.
It starts at the yard.
Not the diary. Not the invoice. The yard, where horses live, where visits happen, and where everyone already talks to each other.
A farrier says: I'm at Meadow Farm every other Tuesday. A physio says: I'll be there on the 14th. Everyone who keeps a horse at Meadow Farm sees it, and books in.
The yard doesn't have to sign up. It doesn't have to do anything at all. The schedule builds itself out of who says they're coming and who keeps a horse there.
An app for each side of the horse.
An owner and a farrier want different things from the same horse, so each gets an app built for their side of it. Keep horses and work on them too? Install both. It's still one account.
Latchpost, for owners and riders
Free. Your horses, reminders on your phone before anything is due, a book of every ride and lesson, and your scores, with a dressage calculator built in. Your club too, if it runs on Latchpost.
Latchpost Pro, for professionals
For farriers, physios, saddle fitters, dentists, vets and coaches. Today's visits, booking at the yard, notes at the horse and the invoice before you leave, all with no signal.
The web, for the desk work
Your booking page, reports, invoices and books if you're a professional. Members, events and the club's accounts if you're on a committee. Sharing, booking and statements if you own the horse. Sign in with the Google or Microsoft account you already have.
Publish where you'll be. Let the bookings come to you.
Farriers and trimmers, physiotherapists and bodyworkers, saddle fitters, dentists, vets on mobile visits, nutritionists and behaviourists. Coaches and trainers work differently, and that is handled too.
Set up a regular round, every other Tuesday, first Monday of the month, every six weeks, and clients at that yard book straight into it.
Or do it the easy way. The moment you book a job at a yard, Latchpost asks whether you want to open a couple more slots to everyone else there. One tap. You were driving there anyway.
Set a minimum if you need one, this visit runs if three of you book, and let the yard fill it between themselves. They will.
And it knows who to ask. Publish a round, and the clients at that yard who are usually free then, with nothing booked and four weeks since you last saw them, come up on your dashboard with a message ready to send.
Coaching runs on a diary, not a round.
A farrier publishes where he will be. A coach publishes when they are free, and lets people fill it. Same product, opposite way round.
- Set your availability once. Regular weekly slots, one-off sessions, and the blocks you keep for yourself. Change it when your week changes.
- Clients book themselves. No phone tag, and no three-message exchange to land on Thursday at four.
- Your own diary stays in charge. Latchpost reads the calendar you already keep, so a dentist appointment or a school run blocks the slot before anyone can book it.
- Group lessons and clinics. Set the places and what's being taught, and let it fill. Once it's full, a waiting list takes over.
- Paid when you say. After the lesson, when they book, or a deposit up front and the rest after. Set it for everyone, for new clients, or for one client.
- Changes without a conversation. Clients move or cancel inside your rules. A late cancellation is recorded with its fee for you to decide on, and anyone who makes a habit of it moves to paying when they book, automatically.
- A note before the lesson. Bring spurs. Add it when you book or later, and your client sees it with the booking.
- Training plans you both work on. Aims, goals with a date, the work between lessons and a log of how it's going, so you start the next lesson knowing where the last one left off.
- Draw the exercise. Sketch it over the letters of a 20 by 40 or a 20 by 60 school with a finger or a mouse, add a caption, and send it to your rider.
Everything after the lesson works the same as it does for anyone else here: notes against the horse and rider, the invoice raised before you leave, and none of it needing signal.
Working out a test score in the meantime? The free dressage score calculator does the percentage for you, coefficients and errors of course included, and it needs no signal either. Your riders get it built into their own app, too.
Finish the job. The invoice takes care of itself.
- Tap Finalise. Add anything extra you used: remedial pads, a specialist shoe, extra time, a product you sold.
- Your prices and discounts are already there, so it's tapping, not typing.
- The invoice is raised, numbered and sent with a payment link before you're back in the lorry.
- If your client has a card saved, they confirm it on your phone before you leave, and it settles the moment you get signal.
- Part payments, credit notes and a statement for any client, all in your own branding.
- Then it goes straight into your books, with the VAT right and the client matched. No re-typing at the kitchen table on a Sunday night.
The books keep themselves.
Every invoice, payment and credit note is posted the moment it happens. Keep your accounts in Latchpost with nothing else to buy, or sync them out to a separate accounting package if your accountant prefers.
Bank statements matched
Import a statement from any bank and tick off each line against what it paid, with the likely match already suggested.
Bills and receipts
Supplier bills and expense claims, each with a photo of its receipt kept alongside.
Quotes and regular billing
Quotes your client can accept from their own account, and regular invoices that never bill the same period twice.
VAT as you go
Worked out on the scheme you're registered for, from the same books, rather than rebuilt at the end of the quarter.
Your tax year
Self-employment figures by tax year, with the entries behind every number, and a year end you sign off and lock.
The weeks ahead
What's coming in and going out over the next eight weeks, and who owes what, and for how long.
It works where you work.
Muddy gateway, no bars, one hand free. That was the design brief.
Write it on the spot
Notes, a marked-up diagram and photos, at the horse. All of it offline.
Invoice from the field
Raise the invoice and book the next visit without a bar of signal.
New client at the yard
Add them at the horse, there and then, signal or not.
Syncs when you're back
Everything goes up the moment you have signal again.
Survives a restart
Turn the phone off and on again with no signal, and today's work is all still there.
Never wonder if it saved
You should never have to wonder whether today's work is safe.
Notes and reports clients actually read.
- Mark up the anatomy diagram with your findings.
- Track the same region across sessions and show the change over time.
- Templates for the notes you write every day, locked once they're signed off, with an audit trail behind them.
- Set exercises as homework, and see whether they've been done before you next turn up.
- Your report, your layout, your branding.
- One tap to produce a version fit to send to the horse's vet.
The admin nobody else sells you.
- Your round planned by geography
- Drive time between yards, with mileage logged and exportable for your tax return.
- Cycle-aware recalls
- Six-weekly clients offered the visit nearest their due date, without you chasing.
- Lapsed clients surfaced
- The eighteen people who haven't booked in ninety days, one tap to say hello.
- A booking link you can text
- Your profile, your live diary, booked without an account.
- Forms signed before you arrive
- Sent out, signed and returned to the client's record, so nothing is missing when you get there.
- Your week at a glance
- What's been handled this week and what's still waiting on you, on one screen.
Free. Properly free, forever.
Not a trial. Not a cut-down version. If you're looking after your own horses, Latchpost costs nothing, on your phone or on the web.
Everything about your horse, in one place
Passport and breeding. Vaccinations and shoeing dates. Vetting certificate, x-rays, medical history. Insurance policy, purchase paperwork, livery contract. Competition results. Feed, supplements, what he's sensitive to, who does his teeth.
Photograph the passport and it fills itself in. Everything else you add as you go. There's no wall of empty boxes to face on day one.
And the actual documents too. Scans and photographs of the real paperwork, kept together and searchable. The vetting certificate you'll need if you ever sell him. The x-rays. The receipt. The things you'd struggle to get again.
It tells you before you'd have remembered
Flu vaccination due next month. Farrier due in a week. Insurance renewing. Dentist overdue.
Your phone tells you three days before and again on the day. The reminders live on the phone itself, so they still arrive with no signal, and one tap marks the job done.
Most of us are honestly not brilliant at this. The record only earns its place if it does the remembering for you, so it does.
Every ride, lesson and score in one book.
The free app keeps a book of your riding: rides in your own words, the lessons you've booked, your scores and your club's results, all in one list on your phone.
Score a test at the showground
The dressage calculator is built in. Pick the test, type the marks from the judge's sheet, and the percentage works itself out with no signal. The marks stay with the score.
Results that keep
Each test with its percentage, placing, venue and judge, against the horse you rode.
Share a good day
Send a score to WhatsApp or a message in one line, or share your horse's page, straight from your phone.
Your riding in your calendar
One private link puts every lesson you've booked, every class you've entered and your club's coming events into your phone's own calendar, and keeps it up to date.
Children's riding too
A parent keeps a child's book alongside their own, enters them at the club, and can always see whose ride is whose.
Your coach's plan, from your side
When your coach sets a training plan, you see the aims and the work between lessons, and log how it's going.
Buying a horse? Start here.
Vettings, medical history, insurance, passport transfer, livery contracts. It's a lot, most people do it rarely, and small things go wrong.
A passport number mistyped onto an insurance policy. A health question answered from memory instead of from the records. A fourteen-day deadline nobody mentioned.
Latchpost walks you through it, keeps every document, and flags it when two things don't match. It won't give you advice, that's your vet's job and your solicitor's, but it will tell you when your paperwork disagrees with itself.
You decide who sees what.
Three kinds of information, kept apart.
About the horse
Share with your physio, your vet, or a future owner.
Your own notes and photos
Private, always, to you alone.
Passport, policy numbers, what you paid
Locked, and shared only when you deliberately send them to one named person, for a limited time.
There's an emergency card too: vet, insurer, policy number, current medication, which you can leave with your yard, so if something happens at 2am and you're asleep, they've got what they need.
And it's your record, not a practitioner's. Change physio and the record stays with you. Sell the horse and it can go with him.
The rest of it.
Show him off
Every horse gets a page. His name, his breeding, what he's done, a proper gallery. Send the link to anyone, and they don't need the app to look. No location, ever, and nothing off your paperwork.
Something's not right? Show them
Film it. Mark where on the diagram. Send it to your physio, filed against the right horse before she opens it, instead of lost in a chat thread with fourteen other videos.
Book onto a visit that's already happening
See who's coming to your yard and when, and book in from your own account. The callout can be shared or waived, because they're coming anyway.
Share records with anyone
Need a vet, an insurer or a prospective buyer to see the records? Send a link. They don't need an account, and they see the case as it develops rather than a PDF from three months ago.
Your club, run from one place.
Members, subscriptions, competitions and the club's money, for riding clubs run by volunteers. The committee works on the web, and every member has their side of it in the free app.
Members join themselves
Share the club's join link. People apply on their own account or as a guest, and the committee says yes.
Juniors, with a parent in charge
Children are members in their own right, with a parent holding the login and paying the fees.
Subscriptions as invoices
Members see what they owe and the treasurer sees who has paid. Next season rolls over in one step.
The committee's desk
Roles that decide who sees what, enforced in the database, the whole club at a glance, and the members list as a spreadsheet when somebody asks for it.
The club's money
Subscriptions and entry fees post themselves to the club's books, with bank matching, claims with receipts, a budget for the season and a year end that locks.
A public page for the club
The club's own page and link, a calendar anyone can add to their phone, and a page to share for each event.
Competitions, from the entries to the league table.
- Entries online. Members enter open classes from their own account, or a parent for a child, and can withdraw until entries close.
- Fees raised with the entry. A class can carry a fee, invoiced with the entry, and a child's goes to the parent. Let one off and it's a credit note, not a crossing-out.
- Start lists from the times. Type the times in and the start list builds itself, with the event's judges alongside.
- Scored at the desk. Marks go into one grid, the scorer locks it, and a class only counts once it's locked.
- Dressage sheets done properly. Scored against the test library, with coefficients, collectives and errors of course all counted.
- Arena eventing too. Time penalties against the optimum time, to British Eventing's rule.
- League tables on your own rules. Points, tiebreaks and sub-leagues held as the club's settings, with pairs and the season's awards worked out from the same results.
- The paper, done. Start lists, results sheets, the programme and the judge's writing sheets, as PDFs in the club's own branding.
- The AGM pack. The season on paper, league tables and awards included, published to members.
Members see their side in the free app: what they've paid, what's open to enter, and their placings, which go into their riding book without anyone retyping them.
Free for owners and riders. Always.
For professionals, Latchpost Pro is one flat price, however many people are in your business.
| Solo | Team | |
|---|---|---|
| One person | Unlimited people | |
| Everything clinical and financial, the books included | Yes | Yes |
| Roles, individual diaries, shared clients | No | Yes |
- We don't charge per person. Take on two apprentices and a Saturday girl and your bill doesn't move.
- Everything clinical is identical on every plan. We don't hold your notes hostage to sell you an upgrade.
- 30 days free, no card. Cancel and your data is still yours, exportable whenever you like.
Running a larger practice? Supervision sign-off, round dispatch and commission reporting will come as a Practice plan, built with the first practice that needs them. Join the early access list and tell us what yours needs.
Running a club? Latchpost Club is priced for volunteer-run clubs on small budgets, and every member's app is free. Join the early access list and tell us about your club.
Questions people ask.
- Is there an app?
- Two, on one account: Latchpost, free for owners and riders, and Latchpost Pro for professionals. Neither is in the app stores yet. Join the early access list and we'll tell you the day they are.
- Does my yard have to sign up?
- No. It never has to do anything. You and your practitioners do the talking; the yard is just where you meet.
- Does it really work without signal?
- Yes. That's the point.
- Can I score a dressage test in it?
- Yes. The dressage calculator is built into the free app, so the marks from the judge's sheet give you the percentage at the showground, signal or not, and stay with the score. It's free on its own too, at dressagetestcalc.com.
- Is my horse's page public?
- Only if you switch it on, and only what you choose to put on it. Never your yard, never your location, never anything off your passport or paperwork. You can see exactly what a stranger sees before you share it.
- Who can see what I paid, or my policy number?
- Nobody, unless you deliberately send it to one named person for a set period. It's kept separate from everything else and never travels with a general share.
- What if I've got years of records elsewhere?
- Send us what you've got: a spreadsheet, a pile of PDFs, your calendar, photos of your old diary. We'll pull out what we can find and show you before anything is saved.
- I'm not very technical.
- Neither is a muddy gateway. If it needs a laptop, we've built it wrong.
- Who makes it?
- BitLith, a UK software company. About us.
Be first in the yard.
Latchpost is in development. Join the early access list and we'll let you know when it opens, and ask what you'd want from it.