Lottery Waitlist Improvements

We are working with a large race who will be using our lottery and waitlist features. We’ve made some updates to clean this up for them.

First, we used to have a “Registration Full” message that showed by default. The Registration Full message makes sense for races who sell out and still allow people to sign up for a waitlist, but this makes more sense for lotteries:

Second, we’ve added an email confirmation when runners join the waitlist. Also to help people remember and confirm they are on the waitlist, we have added a search on the waitlist capability that displays.

Finally, we have added the ability to set a beginning and ending date for the lottery.

You can see other features of our Waitlist here. Other resources are listed below:

https://runsignup.blog/2012/08/07/wait-lists/

https://runsignup.blog/2013/06/04/setting-up-sell-out-races/

https://runsignup.blog/2014/12/04/syracuse-half-marathon-case-study/