14 March 2022

Introducing Public Shops - Rent Your Facilities, Sell Your Services

Today we’re announcing our biggest update to At The Yard since our initial launch. It’s a feature we’ve been asked for time and time again and one we couldn’t be more excited to bring to the community. Today we’re announcing the ability to manage and run a public facing online shop directly from within At The Yard.

Work on the shop started over 2 years ago and has incorporated an extensive 1+ year invite only soft launch where we’ve been testing, refining and improving everything ready for todays wider launch.

Let us begin with a quick video to show you how easy it is for anybody to make a purchase.

As you can see making a purchase is quick and simple. And with the option of creating an account your customers can save even more time in the future.

Here’s a quick list of the features you get with our public shop feature:

Sell services (lessons, clinics etc).
Rent out your facilities (arenas, schools, meeting space etc).
Collect payment via debit or credit cards automatically without staff involvement.
Connects to the booking and ordering system in At The Yard, so you get all the power and flexibility you’re used to with your liveries and ensures both the public and liveries know when facilities are available.

The next thing you need to know is that unlike other products on the market we don’t charge a ‘per booking’ fee. We don’t want to penalise you for selling more (in fact we want to support you to sell as much as possible) and so we offer simple transparent packages so you know exactly what you’ll be paying us for the service. (Please Note: There is still a card processing transaction fee but that goes to the card processor not us).

For that card processing we have selected Stripe as our supported payment processor - they are well recognised, trusted by a number of very well known brands and organisations and offer competitive rates on transaction processing.

Pricing

The good news? If you’re already on one of our larger packages the public shop is included as part of your existing subscription. You’ll just need to drop us an email to enable it on your account and you’ll be good to go.

For our smaller packages there is a small add on fee to give you full access to the public shop system - again just get in touch and we’ll add it to your account.

To find out details for your specific package check out our pricing section or get in touch and we’ll let you know.

We’ll be posting how-to’s and further updates in the coming weeks so watch this space to find out more.