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RunSignUp Mobile Timer is available on Github in Open Source now. Sorry, it is not quite ready for release to the Apple Store, but wanted to get the code out so others could start doing interesting things with it! RunSignup Mobile Timer is a mobile application that allows three users to time and place a […]
We heard back from some race directors in response to our blog on Bib Exchange and Refunds – a Runners Right?. I think the two responses below capture the range of comments: We are a non profit that runs a road race as a fundraiser for our programs serving homeless and low income folks. We […]
As another part of our big Results project, we are enabling multiple ways to assign bib numbers. This is not currently released, but we wanted to give our race directors and timers a preview. There are four ways to assign bib and/or chip numbers: Auto-assign. We let you start at any number and go in […]
One of the many little tasks race directors and timers have to worry about is printing labels for their bibs. As part of our Results project we are working on, we will be coming out with ways to assign bibs, or upload bibs from Excel or from timing software like Race Director and RunScore. We […]
A couple of years ago when we started RunSignUp, our basic strategy was to charge a processing fee when it cost us to process a transaction. We uplift our cost for the charge to pay for our salaries and infrastructure and hopefully make a profit. We figure this is a pretty decent way to associate […]
A race director we met with last week said they get a lot of calls asking where on the wait list are they? Number 32 or number 3,232? We have added this feature to our Confirmation page. This makes it easy for a runner to mke sure they are registered, or to see what position […]
I just got an email – an offer from a race to let me vote on the color of T-Shirt I want. This is a great idea!
We have been working hard on giving race directors and timers the ability to post results and give runners the ability to see their results. We are starting to enter Beta with this, and have a number of features coming such as easy posting of Race Director and RunScore result file, nice looking results display, […]
I read an article in the New York Times titled “Down With Shareholder Value“. This has been something that I have thought a lot about the past 20 years. It always struck me as strange that the reason for a company would be to serve shareholders. To me it is an equal balance of […]
Comprehensive Participant Management including Refunds, Bib Exchange and Event Transfers Helps Runners and Race Directors Moorestown, NJ – August 10, 2012 – RunSignUp, the leading innovator of online tools for Races and Running Clubs, today announced the availability of a comprehensive set of tools for participant management including: • Refunds – allowing Race Directors the […]
Road Race Management had a cover story on bib exchange and refunds this past month – “Races Grapple with Number Switching”. The comments from race directors seemed strange to me. They complained how runners were finding ways to work around the system – selling bibs on EBay, Craigs List and other sites, running as bandits, […]
Bib Exchange is a hot topic. Road Race Management lead article in their last newsletter was all about race directors dealing with “illegal” bib exchange. Online Registration systems typically do not handle this very well. And that is where our latest release of RunSignUp provides some great solutions for Race Directors. Hopefully this reduces result errors, […]
Have you ever had a runner wanting to move from the Half Marathon to the 5K in your race because they got injured? When we were Beta testing this capability with the Dexter Ann Arbor Run, we had this happen about 20 times for a 5,000+ person race. That is a lot of overhead for […]
Most races do not allow refunds. This of course frustrates runners who may get injured or have other priorities emerge. There are three reasons to allow refunds: You have a Waiting List of people who will take the spot. You want to have a runner-friendly race that gives runners more flexibility and encourages them to […]
An increasing number of races are selling out. This opens up all sorts of potential frustrations and opportunities for Race Directors. We see the glass as half full – so the next several posts will introduce some ideas on dealing with this, including posts on Wait Lists, Refunds, Race event transfers and Bib Exchange. Wait […]
We added the ability to set Event Specific Questions for races. This makes it easy for race directors to ask specific questions for certain events and not for others. Perhaps you want to know the estimated time for the Marathon, but not for the 5K. You can set questions to display on a per event […]
It has been a good week at RunSignUp. We get excited about two things. One, when we make a customer happy and hear about it. And two, when we finish a major project that will really help race directors, timers and runners. And we did a lot of that this week! On Tuesday we visited […]
We have so many features to make life easy for race directors and timers that they become difficult to learn! So we have just introduced our “Tip of the Day”. It pops up like the image on the right shows with a new random tip each day (only the first time you go to your […]
