Compare · Equine service
Vivetra vs. HVMS, StableTrack & the equine-practice field
HVMS, for one, bills on three axes — a per-vet rate, a site license, and an implementation fee — which adds up fast for a multi-vet ambulatory practice. Vivetra is one flat monthly rate that covers unlimited doctors and staff, with managed hosting included. 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 products we could not source a current price for are named honestly further down 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 1 (opens in new tab) source 2 (opens in new tab) |
$424.46/mo flat site license + $192.93/mo per revenue-generating vet + $6,000 standard implementation fee (North American pricing; international customers quoted separately) "Part of the Business Infusions Family"; designed for equine practices "with three or more equine veterinarians"; "can be run as either a cloud based system or on premise" |
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) |
two plans: Basic $199/mo, Enterprise $299/mo (multi-location) — third-party directory listing |
Two plans — Basic, plus a higher Enterprise tier for multi-location practices — roughly overlapping Vivetra on headline monthly price. |
| ThoroVet source (opens in new tab) |
"cloud-based veterinary practice management software built exclusively for Equine Veterinary Practitioners"; iPad app works offline on farm calls and syncs when back online; QuickBooks Online sync; listed at $149/mo (1 vet + 2 staff), $199/mo (2 vets), $249/mo (3 vets), 4+ vets by inquiry, under "Special Pricing For A Limited Time!"; onboarding and data conversion not included |
Tiered by number of vets, with 4+ vets by inquiry. The listed prices are marked as limited-time special pricing, and onboarding and data conversion are not included. |
| ezyVet source 1 (opens in new tab) source 2 (opens in new tab) |
dedicated syndicate features for horses with multiple owners, including per-owner payment quantities on syndicate records founded in 2006 and based in New Zealand; acquired by IDEXX in June 2021 |
Cloud, IDEXX-owned. Dedicated syndicate features for horses with multiple owners, including per-owner payment quantities on syndicate records — 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 2026-10-29. 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
We didn’t find a way for an owner to grant a third party access to their horses’ records in the products in the table above. Equine practice needs one. 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 2026-10-29, HVMS lists a flat monthly site license, a separate monthly rate for every revenue-generating vet on top of it, and a standard implementation fee in the several-thousand-dollar range — the full figures are on its row above, taken from its own pricing page. Those are its North American prices; international customers are quoted separately.
What we deliberately do not say about it, because the evidence doesn’t support it: we don’t rank it as “one of only two self-hosted options” or describe where it is or isn’t expanding. 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 none of them has a current, published price we could cite, and inventing one is exactly the thing this whole comparison exists to avoid. So they’re named here honestly instead.
- Cassadol. Business Infusions software for the solo mobile vet, introduced in 2024 per the company and pitched to solo equine vets as easy-to-use medical records and invoicing. No published price we could cite, so no number here. source (opens in new tab)
- ImproMed Equine. The Covetrus product built for ambulatory large-animal practices, with mobile tools, split billing by percentage, inventory and treatment plans, and a laptop edition that works offline and syncs back at the office. No published price we could cite, so no number here. source (opens in new tab)
- Hippo Manager. Shepherd acquired Hippo Manager in March 2025, with no option to stay on Hippo Manager as it was (publicly reported, not vendor-confirmed). The name still comes up when practices shop, so we mention it here rather than give it a table row. source (opens in new tab)
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. Vivetra does not yet auto-split a day’s ambulatory route — the mileage and travel billing across multiple stops — and explicitly defers that past v1. If your ambulatory billing depends on the software auto-splitting a route across stops, check that before you switch. 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. Several vendors here are more established. 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, and there is 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: Vivetra does not yet auto-split mileage across a multi-stop route — we defer that past v1, so if your ambulatory billing lives or dies on auto-splitting a day’s route across stops, check that before you switch. ezyVet has dedicated syndicate features for horses with multiple owners, including per-owner payment quantities; if you run heavily syndicate-owned horses, compare that against our co-owner billing 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.
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