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We are very thankful for all the people who made use of RunSignUp yesterday. We were also thankful our self-serve technology worked so well (and we didn’t have too many support calls!). Here are the numbers for 2015 Thanksgiving Day: SignUp 223 Races used us for Registration 212,000 People Registered via RunSignUp (plus a lot […]
Update: Partner Websites are live on production as of 12/2/2015. We have some customers that were on old WordPress Sites, and those will be shut down at some point and we encourage moving to this new platform. We have extended our Free Race and Club Website capability to our Partners who manage multiple races. The […]
Thanksgiving is here and that means the biggest race day of the year! This national holiday brings traditions of family gatherings, the biggest travel day of the year, food comas, football games, and turkey trots all across the country. According to Running USA, Thanksgiving has become the most popular racing day in the country, outpacing […]
We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users. View the PDF Version of the Semper Fi Fund Community Athletes Case Study Semper Fi Fund Community Athletes and RunSignUp The Semper Fi Fund Community Athletes program uses RunSignUp to […]
The Annapolis Running Classic, a half marathon and 10K in Maryland’s Historic Capital City, offered free advanced tracking of runners at the race this weekend through RaceJoy’s mobile app. Typically, participants and spectators pay a 99 cents upgrade fee per race for these advanced tracking features. Race organizers chose to provide RaceJoy’s GPS-based progress alerts […]
We have an advanced security access capability that allows race directors to share access to different capabilities in RunSignUp. We are now adding the ability to share select participant data with others in a secure manner. For example, this is useful for Race Directors who might not want to share email information with their timer. (Note […]
We have added the ability to set “Participant Points” for Series Scoring. For example you can give each participant 1 point just for coming to a race in your series.
We have made a bunch of small updates to the Volunteer System based on customer suggestions. On the report instead of showing “0” available, show task as “Full”. Updated some buttons to clarify actions – like replacing “Volunteer” on a step with “Continue”. We had found some volunteers were dropping out at that point because […]
You can now easily change the position of your Sponsor Logos (and links) to be on any of these: On the Race Info Page – adjust the position yourself On every page on the left hand column On every page on the right hand column (my favorite) On every page at the bottom Here are […]
We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users. This Case Study focuses on how a Running Store, Training Programs, and a Racing Company support each other. View the PDF Version of the Fleet Feet Rochester & Buffalo and YellowJacket […]
As we continue on with our revamped User Interface, we have released an updated Custom Questions. The enhancements include a cleaner, more modern user interface, along with improved layout of grouping questions by participant with their Giveaway selection. Here are a couple of examples. THe first shows two runners registering in one transaction. Note how […]
The 8th Indianapolis Monumental Marathon, Indiana’s largest and fastest marathon offering a beautiful course highlighting the buildings and monuments in downtown Indy, provided RaceJoy as a runner tracking option at this weekend’s event. In it’s record-breaking year, with more finishers than ever before, approximately 13,820, this was one amazing event for RaceJoy to be a […]
I (Bob) have taken a bunch of vacation time and had minor surgery that required time off, so I’ve had time to do a lot of reading (Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (great play!) and Ben Bernanke’s Courage to Act and a bunch of web stuff). I tend toward tech, business and economics reading and the collection of […]
We are always working on improving user experience, and made some updates for the new Free Race Websites we introduced a couple of months ago. We made a change today that reduced our CSS files by more than 50% and saves 36 kilobytes. This means there is less to download when a runner clicks on your […]
We have added a coupon report, broken down by event usage. This report can be accessed under Reports>>Marketing Reports>>Coupons. At the bottom of the page, you will see a COUPON REPORT BY EVENT button The coupon report by event report will give you a breakdown of the number of uses for each event in your […]
We have made a update to the system so users can now see their volunteer assignments directly from their RunSignUp profile. Volunteers can click on the “My Volunteer Assignments” link to view their volunteer commitments and additional volunteer information like start time, end time, location and details: The volunteer information is tied directly to the […]
We have added the ability for races to customize the “event” wording on the front-end of the registration page. This is particularly helpful for races with waves or tournaments, where the word “event” doesn’t exactly meet their needs. The custom event text can be implemented on STEP 5 of the Race Wizard. Once the change is […]
USA Today published an article this week on Obstacle Races Going Mainstream. It’s certainly a trend that we have noticed and commented on in the past, and one that we think about when deciding what improvements to make to our system. We’ve blogged before about about some of the ways our system is used by Next Generation […]
USA Triathlon has notified us of their plans to increase Membership Pricing effective January, 1, 2016. Our integration with USATriathlon will change effective that day as we.. Here is their notice: UPCOMING CHANGE For the first time in four years, USA Triathlon is increasing the adult annual membership fee $5, from $45 to $50, and […]
We are pleased to announce a new feature on RunSignUp. Effective today we will begin allowing participants to store a credit card at the time of registration to be used for future registrations and purchases. Here is how it will work; when a runner comes onto the site to register for an event they will […]
