Contacts

Your contacts are the people who keep your horses going: the vet, the farrier, the trainer, the barn manager, whoever you call in an emergency. HorseBook keeps them in one list so you're not digging through your phone at a bad moment — and once a contact's in there, you can pin them to a horse and pick them from a dropdown when you log a vet visit or an expense.

Adding a contact

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   Open Contacts. On the web, it's in the main navigation. On iPhone, contacts live on the Farm tab.

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   Add a new contact and fill in what you've got. You need either a person's name or a business name — one or the other is enough, so a barn saved only as "Cedar Ridge Equine Vet" works fine.

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   Pick a type so you can filter later. The types are: Owner, Emergency, Veterinarian, Farrier, Chiropractor, Trainer, Barn manager, and Other.

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   Add phone, email, and address if you have them, plus any notes ("does cold trims," "text don't call"). Save.

On iPhone, a saved contact gets swipe actions — swipe to call or email without leaving the app.

Linking a contact to a horse

You can attach a contact to one or more horses, and mark them as the primary of their type for that horse — the primary vet, the primary farrier. When you later add a medical record or an expense for that horse, HorseBook offers the linked contact so you're not retyping "Dr. Alvarez" every time.

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   Open the contact, or open the horse's profile and go to its contacts.
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   Link the two, and set the contact as primary for its type if that's who you usually use.

Where contacts show up

A contact you've saved becomes selectable everywhere it makes sense:

• Medical records — pick the provider instead of typing it
• Expenses — pick the vendor
• Calendar events — attach who the appointment's with

So it's worth adding your regulars once, early. After that they're a tap away.