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Here is a list of conferences we will be at this fall and winter. They are all very worthwhile for races and timers – let us know if you need any recommendations of which one is right for you. We hope to see you at one of these at least! The RunSignUp M&M’s will be […]
An increasing number of races are using ads to bring more runners to their events. RunSignUp now offers you a simple way to track your conversions! We allow you to track conversions from Google Adwords, Facebook Ads, Adroll and Google Remarketing. If you are new to web advertising, you might want to take a look at […]
Some of our users ask about the background of our company. This is articulated on our About Us pages. The real roots, the very foundation of our business is running. In particular it is my experience 34+ years ago on the Bucknell Cross Country team. That is where I learned about the value of working […]
We were recently asked if we could handle 1,000 registration in 10 minutes. Of course we can! That is why we spent so much time proving 50,000 registrations in 7 minutes. If you are a geek, read the technical white paper on scaling. We also had a real life race a few weeks back that […]
Kaiser Permanente Corporate Run/Walk in Atlanta is our largest user of the Corporate Team capabilities with hundreds of teams and thousands of runners and walkers. They recently closed Corporate Team registration and used our system to send invoices automatically to the hundreds of teams offering them a way to pay online or via check. RunSignUp […]
You may have noticed that in addition to all of the nice Video How To’s, we have started putting written documentation on our Help pages as well as make nice PDF manuals. The latest is a manual on Coupons. Click on the link below for the manual. RunSignUp Coupon Manual
There are a lot of “Wave” races – color runs, mud runs, obstacle runs, etc. that have different levels of waves. For example the Great American Mud Run has an Elite, competitive wave early in the morning that costs more than the non-competitive waves later in the day. RunSignUp has allowed Event-Event transfer for a […]
We’ve added a nice feature to make it super-easy for Club Directors to send Claim information to club members they have imported. This is important since it let’s a club member manage their own membership and renew it – thus reducing duplicate membership records. Just click on the little “Send Claim Instructions” under the person’s […]
Last year we did a very large project that has made RunSignUp the most scalable and high performance registration system available. We were able to test our system registering 50,000 runners in 7 minutes (total time from first page thru credit card payment and confirmation). See technical details of our scalability project here. One of […]
Fleet Feet Sports in Savannah, GA has come up with an innovative use of the RunSignUp Kiosk. They have a kiosk setup in their store that allows runners to easily and quickly sign up for events that are using RunSignUp and the store is partnered with. While we had originally designed it for race day […]
In our last post we talked about Teamwork and the “Strength of the Pack”. The purpose of that post was to provide the context of why we are continuing to work on our Open API – a very technical topic. In simple terms, an API is how two programs work together. When we exchange participant or […]
Our Bucknell Cross Country team had a saying that guided us: “The Strength of the Pack is the Wolf and the Strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” I was thinking about my Coach this past weekend and how he had influenced my life. Running 100 mile weeks embedded the idea of consistent work over […]
Add-Ons are treated as a separate type of item in RunSignUp Financial Reports. That is the $144 item on the right. Also, note that Add-Ons are non-refundable (unlike Store items). This is one of the attractive things about Add-Ons from a race director’s perspective. Race Directors can allow runners to modify their Add-Ons (set this […]
The Impact of Mobile on Races As a race director, you need to consider the impact of Mobile devices on the registration and race day processes. In July, 37% of people accessed the website from a mobile device (9% Tablets and 28% Mobile Phone). Runners now want to register for the race, find the location […]
Our users say it best – here is a link to a bunch of nice quotes we’ve gotten. This post on Facebook is one of the nicest we’ve gotten and very much to the point: #1 Inexpensive for Runners. #2 Terrific customer service #3 Very user friendly #4 Very adaptive to unique needs and […]
We are in the process of making an iPhone/iPad Open Source Runner Mobile App. What’s that? Well, the idea is to create a native iPhone/iPad app that does the basic functions of RunSignUp – Search for races, see Race Info, Register for a race, View and Edit Profile, See Results. But all integrated within the […]
As part of our User Interface update, we have released the new Sign In box. Since so many races and partners use our widget technology, we took out the RunSignUp logo and wording so it now fits better than ever on other sites with minimal confusion. We also updated it to put the race logo […]
For Goldilocks race directors that find Giveaway options a bit too limiting and the Store a bit too much, we are introducing Add-Ons! Giveaways are limited to one choice per registrant. The Store does not ask each participant if they want the item in a multi-participant registration, and has some pretty powerful shipment tracking tools. […]
We recently updated our Credit Card Validation. This means if a runner enters an incorrect number of digits or they do not conform to the industry standard Luhn check, we can give them an error message quicker. One of the cool little tricks we added is to highlight which credit card is being entered based […]
Run the Bluegrass is one of Kentucky’s premier races. They hold a Half Marathon, 7 miler and some fun races for the family and kids. Race Director Eric Marr has created a real community on their Facebook Page. They have over 3,700 “Likes” and really engage runners via Facebook. They regularly post on Facebook and […]
