Stride
Online bookings. Full school control.
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Made by horse people, for horse people

Online booking that still thinks like a riding school.

Stride lets riders book lessons online while your school keeps control over horses, rider eligibility, lesson rules, staff availability, onboarding, welfare and admin.

Set up your school free See the horse assign engine
$0 to join or set up
3.5% per transaction, including Stripe/admin fee
Full control over bookings, riders and horses
Stride Bookings calendar
Day Week Month
Week view 5 - 11 May 2026
8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm
Mon
Private lesson Olivia and Daisy
Tue
Beginner group Beginner+ only
Wed
Reserved private Claire regular spot
Thu
Group lesson Charlie needs match
Fri
Program session Riding skills
The core promise

Easy online booking for riders. No loss of control for schools.

Most booking tools see an empty time slot. Riding schools need to know whether the rider is suitable, whether a horse is available, whether that horse has already worked enough, whether the lesson is reserved, and whether the rider has completed the right onboarding.

Stride is designed around that reality from the ground up.

01

Riders book seamlessly online

Customers see a clean booking experience with lessons, packages, memberships, rider profiles and payments in one place.

02

Your school stays in charge

You decide who can book, what they can book, what rules apply, which riders need approval and how horses are managed.

Customer booking platform

The easier it is to book, the fewer riders drift away.

Stride gives riders a polished booking flow that works from the sofa, the yard or the car park. They can choose the right lesson, submit rider details, pay and confirm without waiting for a call back, while your school rules keep working quietly underneath.

Fewer abandoned enquiries Book from phone or desktop Payments handled up front
Book a lesson 3 steps
Beginner group Tuesday 4:30 PM - 2 places left
$55
Private lesson Saturday 10:30 AM - Daisy or Thunder
$85
Rider details saved Waiver received Payment ready
Built different

Stride can say “no”
so your stable doesn't have to.

Most booking systems let the booking happen, then leave staff to solve the horse problem later.

Stride checks the stable logic first. If there isn't a suitable school horse available, the booking can be blocked before it creates admin chaos.

Rider request Charlie wants a beginner group lesson.
  • Experience level checked
  • Age, weight and height checked
  • Lesson rules checked
  • Membership or package checked
Stride checks Is there a suitable school horse?
  • Horse limits checked
  • Workload checked
  • Rest days checked
  • Holiday and sick days checked
Availability Does the lesson actually work?
  • Time and day checked
  • Instructor checked
  • Arena and resources checked
  • Existing bookings checked
Booking result Allowed only when everything lines up.

Or blocked before payment if the booking would leave your team with an impossible horse problem.

First-of-its-kind horse control

Select a rider. See which horses actually fit.

Stride can act as a decision-support layer for horse assignment. Your team can still choose manually, but the system surfaces weight, height, level, workload and rest-day issues before a booking becomes tomorrow's problem.

Assignments Riders and horses
Smart match on
Charlie Martin Private lesson - 80kg - Beginner - waiver received
Daisy Quiet school horse
  • Weight cap 75kg
  • Beginner safe
  • Workload 1/4
Too heavy
Casper Arabian
  • Weight ok
  • Beginner safe
  • Workload 3/3
Rest needed
Thunder Steady gelding
  • Weight ok
  • Beginner safe
  • Workload 2/5
Best match
Maya Patel Group lesson - 52kg - Novice - approved rider
Daisy Quiet school horse
  • Weight ok
  • Novice safe
  • Workload 1/4
Best match
Thunder Steady gelding
  • Weight ok
  • Novice safe
  • Workload 2/5
Available
Casper Arabian
  • Weight ok
  • Needs confident rider
  • Workload 3/3
Not ideal
Ella Brooks Program session - 68kg - Intermediate - forms complete
Casper Arabian
  • Weight ok
  • Level match
  • Program approved
Best match
Thunder Steady gelding
  • Weight ok
  • Level ok
  • Reserved later
Limited
Daisy Quiet school horse
  • Weight ok
  • Not program fit
  • Beginner group only
Blocked
First-of-its-kind rider onboarding

Know who is booking before they reach the calendar.

New riders can submit experience, height, weight, emergency contacts, waivers, preferences and custom application answers before they are allowed to book the wrong lesson.

Rider portal New rider application
Experience and goals
Height, weight and medical notes
Waiver and emergency contact
School approval
New rider: Annie Green Beginner, 62kg, wants private lessons
Review
Waiver Received
Experience Beginner
Notes Walk, trot basics
Approval Private only
Built around real riding school admin

No more forcing horse businesses into generic booking software.

Stride is built for the awkward, specific, everyday admin that normal booking platforms ignore. Pick a feature to see how it works.

Reserved lessons

Reserve Claire's place, then open it when your priority window ends.

Priority hold Claire's regular place is protected first Your team chooses how long Claire gets priority access before the place is released.
Owner-set window
Auto-release Unconfirmed places open to eligible riders If Claire has not booked by your chosen deadline, Stride can open the spot automatically.
Priority rider: Claire Window length: owner decides Then: public booking
Simple pricing

Free to join. Free to set up. Only pay when riders book.

Stride takes a simple 3.5% fee from each transaction to cover the Stride admin fee and Stripe payment processing. No monthly subscription. No setup fee. No charge to build your school profile.

$0 upfront

Then 3.5% per successful transaction.

Ready for a better booking system?

Give riders the booking experience they expect.

Keep your school's rules, horse welfare and admin control behind the scenes without making the rider experience feel complicated.

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