About
From an idea to a professionally built platform
YardHub started with a simple frustration: important information about horses and yard life was often scattered across WhatsApp, notebooks, spreadsheets and people's memory.
As a horse owner, Jackie saw an opportunity to make this simpler and more connected. Her brother Justin helped turn the original idea into the first working version of YardHub, allowing the concept to be tested in real yards.
Built for the future
YardHub has since evolved well beyond that first version.
Today, YardHub is developed in partnership with a professional software development company and a team of software engineers, with the platform continually strengthened and developed for real-world use.
YardHub's product direction remains grounded in the equestrian community, with feedback from yards, horse owners and care practitioners helping shape the future of digital horse and yard management in South Africa.
YardHub gives every horse
one connected record. Everyone aligned.
Founder
Jackie Ridge Lochner
Founder & Director
Jackie is a horse owner and recreational rider who enjoys trail riding, hacking with her husband and friends, and the winter hunt season as a member of the Cape Hunt Club. Her connection to the equestrian world comes from everyday ownership, care and time spent in and around yards. Professionally, Jackie is a commercial leader with a background in commercial training, change management and leadership development. She leads YardHub's product direction, customer engagement and commercial development.
Testimonials
What yards are saying
As a small private equestrian yard, we feel extremely privileged to have access to an app that has the potential to bring so much of our day-to-day management into one place.
The app has already become an amazing tool for us, allowing us to load all of our livery members and their horses, with comprehensive information on each horse - from medical history and routine vaccinations to dental work, deworming, physiotherapy and other important care requirements.
We can also load and manage our service providers, grooms and other important people involved in the day-to-day running and care of the yard, which gives us an even more complete picture of everything happening at Serendipity.
The stock management system, which links directly with our feed programme, is another feature that we are particularly excited about and can see becoming invaluable as we continue to expand our use of the platform.
We have not yet completed loading all of our information or been able to make full use of every feature, largely due to our own time constraints rather than anything to do with the app itself. However, even at this stage, we are absolutely loving it. The ability to have so much important information stored, organised and accessible in one place is going to make managing our yard so much easier and more efficient.
A huge part of our positive experience has also been dealing with Jackie Lochner. Her support has been exceptional. No query is too much, no task is too difficult, and help is often provided within seconds. Even when we have managed to make our own little "faux pas", Jackie has been there to patiently sort us out and get us back on track!
For us, it is not simply the technology that makes this app special, but also the personal support behind it. Knowing that there is someone readily available who genuinely wants to help us get the most out of the system has made the process so much easier.
We are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to use the app at Serendipity Private Stables and look forward to getting all our information loaded and finally running at full steam ahead. We have no doubt that it is going to become an integral part of how we manage our yard, our liveries and, most importantly, the care of our horses.
Thank you, Jackie, for creating such a fantastic tool and for being so incredibly supportive throughout the process. We are very excited to see where this takes us!
Since using the YardHub app to manage the yard, keeping track of everything has become so much easier and more organised. It allows us to manage horses' daily, weekly and monthly schedules, appointments, feeding routines and daily yard tasks all in one place.
It has made a big difference when it comes to keeping up with each horse's individual needs and making sure nothing gets forgotten. The billing side is also incredibly helpful, making it much easier to keep track of services and costs for each client and individual horse.
Overall, the app has saved us time, reduced the stress of managing everything manually, and made our day-to-day yard management much more efficient. I would definitely recommend it to anyone running a professional horse yard or equestrian business and those who stable at home wanting to stay on top of their horse's care.
Come and see what we've built
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