The Horse Boarding Pricing Calculator Pack

Eight calculators for pricing horse boarding from your own barn, your own feed receipts and the pay you want, not from anyone's price list.

Sheet 1 turns the income you want into an hourly floor and a labor cost per stall, $347.22 a month in the illustrative example. Sheet 2 costs hay, grain and bedding per stall from your own quantities, wasted hay included, and sheet 3 spreads the barn's bills over the stalls. Sheet 4 builds full, partial and pasture board prices from those costs: $1,102.33 for full board in the example. Sheet 5 shows what an empty stall costs, sheet 6 prices blanketing, turnout and farrier or vet holds by the minute, sheet 7 finds break-even occupancy, and sheet 8 checks whether a month paid.

Every figure is an example for you to overwrite. Feed quantities are yours, from your records, your vet or the label; this pack gives no feeding, health or care advice. These are estimates, not tax or legal advice. Every formula was recalculated and checked against an independent implementation before this shipped.

What is in it

8 calculators, one per sheet. Overwrite the blue cells with your own numbers and everything else follows — nothing is locked, there are no macros, and it opens in Excel, Numbers, LibreOffice and Google Sheets.

• Owner labor floor — What must your own barn hours earn, per hour and per stall a month?
• Feed and bedding per stall — What do hay, grain and bedding cost per stall a month, from your own quantities and receipts?
• Facility cost per stall — What do the barn, land and equipment cost per stall a month, filled or empty?
• Full partial pasture board — What should full, partial and pasture board cost a month, built from your own costs?
• Vacancy cost — What does an empty stall cost you each month, and who pays for its share of the barn?
• Add-on services — What should blanketing, extra turnout and holding for the farrier or vet cost, by your minutes?
• Break-even occupancy — How many full-board horses pay the barn's bills, and how many also pay you?
• Did this month pay — Once the month is over, did board and add-ons pay the bills and your floor?

Every formula was checked

This pack contains 61 formulas. Before it was published, every one of them was recalculated by a spreadsheet engine and compared against an independent implementation of the same arithmetic written in Python. All 61 agreed to within a cent, and the workbook carries a Verification sheet saying so.

That is an unusual thing to be able to claim about a spreadsheet, and it is the main reason to buy this one rather than download a free template. A formula that looks right and is wrong is worse than no formula at all, because you will act on it.

What each calculator assumes

There is a sheet listing this, because a calculator that hides its assumptions is just a number generator:

• Every week of the year looks the same. Your pay is spread evenly over every stall, filled or not, so an empty stall leaves its share unpaid; sheet 5 shows what an empty stall does to the barn's bills. The tax set-aside is a share you enter, not a computed tax.
• Every horse is fed the quantities entered every day of the month. Wasted hay is charged inside the hay line, because you paid for it. Quantities come from your own records, your vet or the feed label, never from this pack.
• Yearly bills are spread evenly over twelve months. Equipment wear is the price spread over the years you expect it to last, with nothing left at the end. Every bill is your own.
• Partial board keeps a full stall, so it carries the whole facility cost. The labor, feed and facility shares are your own terms with the boarder. Margin is profit as a share of price, on top of costs that already pay you.
• An empty stall saves its feed and bedding and nothing else. The barn's bills are the same with every stall filled or not. The raise per horse is arithmetic, not a suggestion to charge it.
• Add-on minutes are on top of the chore hours on sheet 1, so they are not already paid for in board. Every minute is priced at your floor plus the margin. The horse's care is between the owner, their vet and their farrier.
• Every boarder is on full board at the sheet 4 price. A partial or pasture boarder leaves a different amount; enter a blended price if your barn mixes them.
• The month's bills are the sheet 3 figure; replace it with the real bills if they differ. Hay bought includes what was wasted. Board not collected is not income: enter only what came in.

What this is not

Not financial, tax or legal advice, and not a recommendation to buy, sell, borrow or sign anything. These are calculators: they show what a choice costs, not which choice is right for you. Where a published rate or threshold is used it is the one current when the pack was built — those change, the arithmetic does not.

Honest about the format

One .xlsx workbook, 8 calculator sheets plus Start Here, Assumptions and Verification. Not a PDF, not a physical product, not a Notion template. Available immediately after purchase; nothing ships.

Refunds

If this isn't what you expected, email me within 30 days and I'll refund you in full — no need to explain. Because it's an instant download I can't take the file back, so I'd rather you just had your money back.