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Results How do you post results from your race? Many timers will have a race site where they post results. You can also useCool Runnings to post results. Athlinks does a good job of picking up many races automatically and then has cool features to match runner names across races. RunSignUp recently added results posting. This is a simple […]
RunSignUp allows race directors to easily remove, refund or transfer runners between events. Race Directors can either do this themselves, or allow runners to self manage this (and charge a fee). In this video, we show you how a Race Director can easily: Remove a Runner form a race Remove a runner and refund the […]
RunSignUp has a number of advantages over older registration systems. We’ve talked a lot about our Cloud architecture providing a scalable infrastructure. Our rapid pace of software development is also allowing us to meet the needs of our race directors and timers. There are several important parts to this: Cultural. We listen to our users […]
We have just released the first part of a major set of functionality to enable results display for Races on RunSignUp. Upload an HTML, Plain Text, CSV, TSV or PDF of your race results, or point to a webpage containing them. We will do a conversion to simple HTML (for security purposes) or a PDF […]
We have a couple of big things coming in the next week or two, but we are also paying attention to the little stuff. We love to get feedback from users and while we may not always get to them right away, be assured we file them away and will get them done! Here is […]
We recently did a major upgrade of our management and monitoring tools to use New Relic. It provides us a number of things: Monitoring & Alerting. We had been depending on our own simple scripts for this. This now monitors the site every 1 minute and alerts us if there is a problem. SLA. We […]
When runners signing up for your race receive a confirmation email today, it comes from info@runsignup.com. We are updating this to come from the primary race director’s email address. This will make it simpler for runners to communicate directly with the race. We are also providing an easy mechanism for you to set the email […]
We just posted an overview of RunSignUp at http://www.slideshare.net/runsignup/runsignup-overview. It is 75 slides long! Lots of features, but worthwhile reading thru to see if you can get some ideas for ways to improve your race and online registration!
Financials Update RunSignUp has always been known as the fastest payment processor for races. We have been making some very important changes to the financials system to provide better information to race directors, timers and partners. The new financial reports allow you to drill down into each payment to the individual runner or donor to […]
Did you ever wish you could have a simple URL for your race? Well, we’ve got a quick and simple solution for you with this new feature in RunSignUp. Once your race is created, simply go to Customize -> Race URL and set up to 5 different URL’s. Note that these are first come, first […]
