Compare · Equine service
Vivetra vs. HVMS, StableTrack & the equine-practice field
Equine practice software mostly bills the way small-animal software does — a per-vet rate, a site license, an implementation fee, or all three — which adds up fast for a multi-vet ambulatory practice. A single flat monthly rate that covers unlimited doctors and staff, with managed hosting included, is genuinely uncommon here. Below is the equine field side by side, with every competitor figure pulled from a sourced, dated record you can check yourself.
Vivetra’s Equine service is $200/mo — the same number for one vet or eight, unlimited staff and fully managed hosting included in that price, not bolted on as a later line item.
And one capability is worth naming before the table rather than after it, because we have not found it anywhere else in this field: an owner can hand their barn manager or trainer read-only visibility into their own horses, and take it back whenever they want. If your practice’s day is spent answering “is that horse clear to travel” from someone who is not the owner, skip ahead to that.
The field with a sourced price, side by side
Competitor pricing, ownership, and any feature note are shown exactly as our sourced dataset records them — follow the “source” link on any row to the vendor’s own page or the record we relied on. Equine-marketed products we could not source a current price for are named honestly in the next section rather than given a guessed number here.
| Platform | Published pricing & claims | How it’s licensed / notable |
|---|---|---|
| Vivetra (Equine service) | $200/mo, flat — unlimited doctors and staff, never a per-vet, site-license, or implementation-fee stack | Fully managed for you: managed hosting included in the price, no server for you to run. One flat monthly rate, the same as the practice grows. Owner portal included, with owner-granted read-only barn-manager access (see below) and online bill pay through your own Stripe account. |
| HVMS (Business Infusions) source (opens in new tab) |
$385/mo flat site license + $175/mo per revenue-generating vet + $6,000-6,500 one-time implementation fee; can run on-prem or cloud; UK presence already established (not "actively expanding") |
On-prem or cloud, your choice. A flat monthly site license PLUS a per-revenue-generating-vet monthly rate, on top of a one-time implementation fee — so a multi-vet equine practice is paying on three axes, not one. |
| StableTrack source (opens in new tab) |
$199-299/mo; ships automatic multi-stop mileage/route billing splitting today |
Ambulatory-equine focused. Roughly overlaps Vivetra on headline monthly price — and ships automatic multi-stop mileage/route billing splitting as a live feature today, which Vivetra defers past v1 (stated plainly in the gaps below). |
| ezyVet source 1 (opens in new tab) source 2 (opens in new tab) |
Syndicates feature — co-owners linked to a horse with configurable ownership %, auto-split invoices a New Zealand-founded veterinary practice-management company (founded 2006 by Hadleigh Bognuda, "humble beginnings in New Zealand"), still with an Auckland office; now owned by IDEXX |
Cloud, IDEXX-owned. Its Syndicates feature links co-owners to a horse at a configurable ownership percentage and auto-splits invoices across them — a real, shipped capability for syndicate-owned horses. |
About this comparison. This is Vivetra’s own comparison of competing products — we chose the vendors and wrote the framing, so read it as our argument, checked against sourced facts, not a neutral third party’s. Every competitor pricing figure and claim above is shown as published by that vendor or the cited record, in the currency each vendor quotes, and was verified as of 2026-08-02. Prices and features move; if a figure here is out of date or wrong, tell us at [email protected] and we correct or remove it within 5 business days. Vivetra’s own price is identical in every supported currency — no conversion, ever — so switching the currency selector only changes the symbol and tax note beside it, never the digits.
Barn-manager access — the one we would lead a demo with
Every product in the table above assumes the person asking about a horse is the owner. Equine practice does not work that way. The person who actually needs to know whether a horse is current on its vaccines, whether the Coggins is in date, and what the aftercare instructions were is very often the barn manager or the trainer — someone with the horse in their care every day and no ownership of it whatsoever. Today that gets solved by your front desk reading records down the phone to a third party, which is slow for you and awkward the moment anyone asks whether you should have.
Vivetra’s Equine service ships a facility-scoped access-grant system for exactly this. The owner — and only the owner — opens a screen called “Who can see your horses” and grants a barn manager, trainer, or yard hand read-only visibility. That person gets their own dashboard, “Horses you manage,” which gathers every horse shared with them across every owner who has shared one, organized barn by barn the way they actually work.
- The owner grants it, not you, and not us. Your practice never plays gatekeeper for somebody else’s horse, and never has to decide on the phone whether a caller is entitled to a record. The owner made that call in advance, in writing, in the system.
- Read-only means read-only. Identity, schedule, vaccination status, Coggins compliance, and care notes. No billing, no invoices, no pricing, no signing, nothing editable. A barn manager cannot change a record, cannot see what anyone is charged, and cannot pass their own access on to a third person — access is deliberately non-transitive.
- Scoped as narrowly as the owner wants. A grant can cover everything that owner has with you, or narrow to a single barn, or to one individual horse. A barn manager never sees another horse in the same aisle just because it is in the same aisle — only what was actually shared with them.
- Revocable at any moment, by the owner, without calling you. The screen exists as much for taking access back as for handing it out — a horse changes barns, a working relationship ends, and the owner ends it themselves.
- Your practice can switch the whole capability off. If you would rather no client shared anything with anyone, that is a setting, not a support ticket.
Two honest notes, because this section is doing a lot of selling. Grants do not expire on a timer — they last until the owner revokes them, the horse changes hands, or the account is closed, so if you want time-boxed access this is not that yet. And we are describing our own product here: unlike every figure in the table above, this is not a sourced competitor comparison, so we are not claiming no one else has anything like it — only that we did not find it while researching the products on this page.
On HVMS, stated current
HVMS is the most direct equine comparison in the priced table, so it’s worth being exact about it. As re-verified on 2026-08-02, HVMS lists a flat monthly site license, a separate monthly rate for every revenue-generating vet on top of it, and a one-time implementation fee in the several-thousand-dollar range — the full figures are on its row above, taken from its own pricing page. It can run on-prem or in the cloud, which is a genuine point in its favor for a practice that wants software on hardware it controls.
Two things we deliberately do not say about it, because the evidence doesn’t support them: we don’t claim it’s “one of only two self-hosted options” (that’s an unverifiable comparative ranking), and we don’t say it’s “actively expanding into the UK” — HVMS already has an established UK presence it describes in the past tense, which is not the same as a current push. We’d rather state the boring truth than inflate a competitor into a moving target.
Equine-marketed platforms we didn’t put a price on
These names come up when practices shop for equine software, and it would be easy to pad the table with them. We didn’t — because we don’t have a current, sourced price we were willing to cite for each, and inventing one is exactly the thing this whole comparison exists to avoid. So they’re named here honestly instead.
- ThoroVet. An equine-oriented practice system we could not tie to a published, current price we were willing to cite — so we name it here rather than guess a number in the priced table above.
- Cassadol Equine. Equine-focused, but with no public pricing figure we could source and date. Absent from the priced table for the same reason — no invented number.
- ImproMed Equine. The equine configuration of ImproMed (Covetrus). Its pricing is a one-time-plus-annual-support arrangement rather than a flat published monthly figure, quoted per practice — nothing we can put a single honest number against here.
- Hippo Manager. Markets to “equine” practices, but from what we found it uses the same general small-animal feature set rather than dedicated equine tooling. We list that as our finding, not as a settled fact — and we would rather say it in words than imply depth with a table row.
Where Vivetra genuinely falls short today
Hiding a real limitation is worse than not having it. Here are the honest gaps for the Equine service, stated directly.
- No automatic multi-stop mileage/route billing split — StableTrack does this today. StableTrack ships automatic splitting of a day’s ambulatory route — the mileage and travel billing across multiple stops — as a live, shipped feature right now. Vivetra explicitly defers that past v1. If your ambulatory billing depends on the software auto-splitting a route across stops, StableTrack does it and we do not yet. That’s a known, deferred limitation, not an oversight.
- Barn-manager grants don’t expire on their own. A grant runs until the owner revokes it, the horse changes hands, or the account closes — there is no “expires in 30 days” option today. For most barns that is the behavior you want, but if you were hoping to hand a show groom access for one weekend and have it lapse by itself, that is not built yet.
- We’re newer than the incumbents. HVMS and ImproMed have run equine practices for many years. Vivetra is a newer vendor with less of a track record in the barn — a real consideration we’d rather name than let you find out later.
Questions about this comparison
Why is the price the same whether I have one vet or eight?
Because Vivetra doesn't count vets. HVMS, the closest sourced comparison here, stacks a per-revenue-generating-vet monthly rate on top of a flat site license and a one-time implementation fee — so a growing multi-vet equine practice pays more on more than one axis. Vivetra’s Equine service is one flat monthly rate with unlimited doctors and staff and managed hosting included, so the number you see is the number you pay as the practice grows.
Do I have to run my own server on the farm?
No. Vivetra is fully managed for you — the software runs on infrastructure we operate on your behalf. You never touch a server, never patch an OS, never restore a backup yourself. HVMS is the one product in this table you can genuinely run on-prem if you want that; Vivetra instead gives you fully managed hosting, with no box to operate in a barn office.
What does Vivetra genuinely NOT do that some of these competitors do?
The honest one for equine: StableTrack ships automatic multi-stop mileage and route billing splitting as a live feature today, and Vivetra defers that past v1 — if your ambulatory billing lives or dies on auto-splitting a day’s route across stops, StableTrack does that now and we do not yet. ezyVet’s Syndicates auto-splits an invoice across a horse’s co-owners by ownership percentage; if you run heavily syndicate-owned horses, ask us where that sits on our roadmap before you commit. On our own side, barn-manager access grants don't expire on a timer — they run until the owner revokes them, so there's no "access for one show weekend" option yet. We're also a newer vendor than several incumbents here. We'd rather say all of that up front than let you find it after signing.
Can a barn manager see a client's horses without being the owner?
Yes, and it is the capability we would lead a demo with. The owner grants it from their own portal — a screen called “Who can see your horses” — and the barn manager or trainer gets a read-only dashboard gathering every horse shared with them, across every owner who shared one, organized barn by barn. Read-only means identity, schedule, vaccination status, Coggins compliance and care notes: no billing, no invoices, no pricing, nothing editable, and no ability to pass that access on to anyone else. A grant can cover everything that owner has with you or narrow to one barn or one horse, the owner can revoke it at any time without calling your front desk, and your practice can switch the whole capability off if you would rather nobody shared anything. What it will not do is expire on a timer — a grant lasts until it is revoked.
Can horse owners pay their bill online?
Yes. Your practice connects its own Stripe account, and owners pay their bills from the owner portal — with a card kept on file for next time if they want, and Apple Pay or Google Pay where the device offers it. No card number ever reaches your Vivetra deployment; the payment happens on Stripe’s own hosted checkout and settles into your Stripe account, so you keep your own Stripe relationship and your own Stripe rates rather than sitting behind a merchant account of ours. A small platform fee applies on top of Stripe’s own processing rate — ask and we will tell you what it is before you commit. Owners can also sign what needs signing remotely, so an estimate or an authorization doesn’t have to wait for someone to be physically at the barn.
See it against your own vet count
Pick the Equine service alone or bundle it with the others your practice needs, and see the exact flat monthly number — in your own currency — before you talk to anyone.
Shopping from the UK, Ireland, Australia, or New Zealand? See the UK & Ireland comparison or the Australia & New Zealand comparison.