Farrier Visit Pricing Calculator

What to charge a farrier visit: trip charge, price per horse and what small stops really cost

Enter drive time, minutes per horse, materials, your yearly fixed costs and the income you want. You get a trip charge plus a per-horse rate, the price for each stop size, and how the flat per-horse rate you charge today performs.

It works backwards from your costs. It does not know what other farriers charge.

Your route and year

Horses at a typical stop

Minutes of work per horse (trim or shoe)

Setup and cleanup minutes per stop

Drive minutes between stops

Miles between stops

Vehicle cost per mile, dollars

Shoes, nails and supplies per horse, dollars

Working hours per day, including driving

Working days per year

Days lost to weather, no-shows, injury, %

Yearly fixed costs: insurance, tools, truck payment, forge, phone, dollars

Income you want to take home per year, dollars

Card processing fee, %

Flat price per horse you charge now, dollars (blank = skip)

Fill in your route and year, then click Work out the price.

Pricing

Price needed by stop size

Horses	Minutes	Price per stop	Per horse

What it does, and what it leaves to you

Counts: paid days = working days x (1 - lost share); day revenue needed = (fixed costs + target income) / paid days; a stop is charged its share of the working day (minutes / working minutes) of that revenue; trip charge = share for drive and setup + vehicle cost per mile x miles; per-horse rate = share for the work minutes + materials; both divided by (1 - card fee).
Not decided: what the market pays, business licence and insurance terms, sales tax on services or materials, how you handle emergency or after-hours calls, client travel zones, and how a mix of trims and shoes changes minutes per horse.

Common questions

How do I price farrier work?

Work out the income you need per working day (yearly fixed costs plus the take-home you want, over the days you actually work), then charge each stop for the share of the day it uses. Drive and setup time is the same for one horse as for four, so it belongs in a trip charge; the minutes and materials per horse make the per-horse rate.

Why charge a trip fee as well as a price per horse?

A one-horse stop uses nearly as much of the day as a three-horse stop. A flat rate per horse that pays on a big barn loses money on a single-horse call. The page shows both the trip charge and the per-horse rate, and the price for each stop size.

What are lost days?

Weather, client no-shows, your own injuries and equipment trouble all cost working days while fixed costs continue. Enter the share you lose and the page spreads fixed costs over the days that remain.

Does it know what other farriers charge?

No. It works backwards from your costs and the income you want. Compare the result with local farriers before you publish a rate.

Is my data uploaded anywhere?

No. Everything is calculated in your browser and nothing is sent; a test in the code asserts there are no network calls.