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Some race sponsors want a way to distribute special gift certificates or rewards. We recently had a race in Colorado that is closely linked with a store that is giving gift certificates to the first 50 participants in each event. The purpose is to increase store traffic and drive early registrations. RunSignUp now provides a mechanism to […]
Some races will do tech T-Shirts as giveaways up until a certain date and then switch either to a less expensive shirt or no shirt. RunSignUp allows you to easily delete Giveaway items and enter new ones. The problem is what happens if you want to edit the participant information for a runner who signed […]
Timers who use The Race Director can now easily post “preliminary” and “Final” results on RunSignUp. This allows runners to see results as soon as possible, but makes sure everyone knows that they are preliminary. When posting, just remember to click the checkbox on or off depending on what you will need. This is available […]
Want to know who you’ve been talking to or emailing with? We’ve been growing around here, and thought we’d put together a little video to introduce ourselves. In the words of Bob Bickel (If you don’t know who that is, you should probably watch the video), “It’s corny because we’re corny”.
RunSignUp Results has a flexible system for setting up and automatically calculating divisions. The most common type is Age Groups as shown on the right. We just added a Quick Age Group Setup capability (the button on right in the screen shot on the right). You set the lowest age and the highest age and […]
Warning: This is for developers. We have extended our OpenAPI to allow for Race and User Creation and editing. This API is being used by a couple of advanced users who have their own applications that have a need for creating races and users outside of the RunSignUp user interface. This is a powerful capability […]
Learning from Our RunSignUp Users Why should you come to the RunSignUp Users Conference – LEARN! All timers and race directors face common issues. We hear comments like these all the time: I am frustrated by communications breakdowns and confused by the division of labor between Timers and Race Directors. I am disappointed by my […]
Roger Bradshaw, the creator of The Race Director, has kindly created a couple of videos that demonstrate how to do the integration between RunSignUp and The Race Director. You can also see written instructions here. Basic Integration – transferring and syncing Participant information and Results Triathlons and Team Relays
For our customers with multiple races that should accumulate into a single bank account, you can now use Direct Payments to set up a default for future races you create to automatically go into this same account. Another nice little feature.
A small new feature, but worth documenting that you can now remove all bib numbers from either an Event or all Events in a Race.
Once results are posted on RunSignUp, you can edit runners as well as add runners. To Delete a runner, simply click on the “X” next to the runner’s name. To Edit a runner, just click on the runner in the results table and you will be able to edit their system. To Add a Runner, […]
We have had the ability to export participant information to the (unusual) Hy-Tek format for a couple of years. Recently, we had two different timers approach us and ask for improvements. Thanks to Brian Sparacino for giving up the information at the bottom of this post for matching of I Record and D Record information […]
The Jersey Shore Grand Prix Series website has the RunSignUp Series Scoring widget right on their site. This makes the information available to their runners fast, and keeps people right on their own website. It also makes it easier for the timer (Elite Racing Systems) to upload results to one place.
Here is a detailed walk through on the race Series Scoring with full size screen shots and descriptions as well as a video. Click here for Race Series Overview. (As a warning, once this is setup and you upload results, it will do the matching and series scoring very quickly as if by magic.) Public […]
We have worked with the Jersey Shore Grand Prix and others to create a very powerful Series Scoring capability in RunSignUp. Here is a link to the video and a fuller explanation. Series Scoring allows race directors and timers to put together their own point system for scoring a series of races. For example, the […]
We are starting a new series of Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users. A This Columbus Running Company Case Study focuses on a Bib Assignment & Pickup at multiple locations, experimenting with new options, and taking advantage of […]
RunSignUp has a number of reports across a number of areas. Sometimes you may want to merge data from two separate reports, and now we have Merge CSV Utility to do just that. Of course we hope to give you reporting that gives you what you want, but sometimes there are unique needs where this […]
Our new Donation and Fundraising system has been out for over a month, and we have gotten some great feedback. And by great, I mean suggestions for how to improve things even more! So we released an update today to the process people go thru. It reduces the complexity for runners during registration who want […]
Hopefully in the next month or so, you will begin to see some major improvements in the Race Director Dashboard. This project will be released incrementally over probably a 6 month period of time. The initial release will bring 2 major changes to the Dashboard: New Look and Feel. The goal is to implement a […]
We have added a simple Invoice System to allow race directors to send invoices to sponsors and anyone that needs to pay the race. An email is automatically sent and they can make payment via online payment thru RunSignUp or via offline. The setup is simple – just enter in your instructions for making OffLine […]
We have a new video out that helps explain how runners can manage their Add-Ons. These are extra items that can be free or for pay and are selected by each registrant as part of registration. In contrast, Store items can be bought outside of registration and are not necessarily tied to each registrant. Feel free […]
Most RunSignUp races use only a small fraction of the services we have available. Often, this makes sense: there is no reason to unnecessarily complicate races that are simple. However, we also (frequently) find in conversation with our Race Directors that they are unaware of services that would make their lives easier and their races more […]
A recent article talks about how Harvard is becoming the Stanford of the East. This relates to Stanford’s embrace of the rise of technology and the cultural acceptance of a high rate of change. I think this relates very well to both RunSignUp and to the many races and timers in our community. The fact […]
