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Amazon, the leading Cloud provider had some major issues today. The screen shot on the right shows their status page around 1PM today – and RED is not good. Even USA Today, and CNN reported the 4-5 hour outage this afternoon: “People reported outages and delays on services like Slack, Trello, Sprinklr, Venmo and even […]
There is now an option to enter a donation during the participant import process. This will save a step when entering offline registrations, since a donation amount can be entered at the same time as the participant information. If the import also is creating a Fundraiser for the imported participant, then once the participant/donation is […]
We added a ‘Fundraiser Created Date’ to the Fundraiser CSV download. It only shows a created date for fundraisers that have been created since it was deployed on FEb. 27, 2017
We updated this report to add a ‘Hide deleted fundraisers’ option that is checked by default. If fundraisers were deleted since the report was generated, re-generating it would clear them regardless of the checkbox as well. This is useful for if a participant was originally in the charity bib event, but then transferred to the […]
We added an option at the bottom of Store Setup (under Customizations) to hide the store during registration, and hide the tab as well during the registration process.
February’s Top News Just Released: The First Annual RunSignUp Registration Trends Report! We have mined the 31,000+ events on RunSignUp in 2016 and those from 2015 to take a comprehensive look at both traditional running races and broadly defined next generation endurance events that are often untimed. The report – which indicates an overall growth of […]
Moorestown, NJ – RunSignUp released their First Annual Registration Trends Report at the Running USA Industry Conference on Sunday. Using registration data mined from the 31,000+ events on RunSignUp in 2015 and 2016, this report offers a comprehensive look at events – both traditional running races, and broadly defined next generation endurance events that are […]
RaceJoy offers a variety of communications options that offer real-time messaging with a highly engaged audience of participants, their supporting family and friends, and your race operations team. From pre-loaded text formatted messages that reach the masses to individualized text-to-audio messages, you now have a communication system that provides powerful assistance in managing your race […]
The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) announced today the launch of a new Payment Facilitator Committee, with Kevin Harris (RunSignUp Chief Finance and Operations Officer) taking the role of Vice-Chair. ETA Press Release: http://www.electran.org/publication/transactiontrends/eta-announces-new-payments-facilitator-committee/ As noted in the release, the committee “will serve as a resource within ETA as the established, valued experts on payment facilitators, enabling deeper […]
We have added support for ad conversion tracking for the Acuity Ad platform.
We have made an update to allow links in the Race Calendar Widget used by stores, clubs and timing sites to open up a new browser Tab directly to the RunSignUp Race page. The setting is found under the Partner Dashboard under Widget -> Widget Style:
We have added several display options to the Sponsor system. First, the Sponsor Levels now appear on the Race Website: Next, you can now hide the Sponsor Section from the main part of the Race Information page: And finally, we have added an option to show just a scrolling of the Sponsor images on the […]
This past weekend, the Publix Fort Lauderdale A1A Marathon, presented by Colavita, offered its participants and supporting family and friends the unique RaceJoy experience along with the thrill, entertainment and beauty that encapsulates the race site in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Those who downloaded RaceJoy had access to free live phone tracking, GPS-based progress alerts at […]
Moorestown, NJ – RunSignUp announced that they will be releasing their First Annual Registration Trends Report at the Running USA Conference kicking off in Orlando on 2/26/17. The report, mined from RunSignUp registration and result data from 2015 and 2016, pinpoints benchmarks and trends that the industry can learn from. The report seeks to fill a […]
Update – This position has been filled. We are looking for a full time UI developer in the Philadelphia area to join our team and help create our next generation platform for the endurance industry. The ideal candidate will be someone who loves UI Design AND loves to Code and produce software that is used by […]
We have added the capability to have your custom RaceURL link directly to your RaceDay Photo page on your RunSignUp Race Website: In this example, https://runsignup.com/coffee/photos goes directly to the Photos page.
RunSignUp’s email system allows users to enter their own HTML into their emails. This allows users to copy and paste any pre-existing formatted email into the RunSignUp email system. It also allows users to show images in their emails, as long as those images are hosted on the web. In order to use these options, […]
This past weekend, the 10th Anniversary running of the DONNA Marathon Weekend provided RaceJoy’s full interactive race day experience to participants and their supporting families and friends, courtesy of SpectraShield. Close to 85,000 progress alerts were issued over race weekend giving real-time information to participants and spectators and breaking RaceJoy’s records! SpectraShield, a manhole and […]
Update: The recording from this webinar can be found here. February 15, 2017 – Moorestown, NJ – RunSignUp announced the commencement of development on RaceDay Scoring, their next generation open scoring platform that will become the next generation of The Race Director over the coming years. RaceDay Scoring aims to take advantage of modern technology […]
There is now a simple display option that shows the Sponsor Levels: When turned on, it will show the various levels:
When we announced the RaceDay Go Platform, we talked about our desire to build out the RaceDay Scoring component for timers. As we embark on the considerable development effort (multi-person project that will continue forever), it is a fair question to ask ourselves and for the market to ask us: WHY???? Current State of the […]
We have begun serious work on RaceDay Scoring. This is the next generation open scoring platform that will become the next generation of The Race Director over the coming years, and a core component of our overall RaceDay Go platform and strategy. We are asking for your assistance and patience over the next 6 months. […]
Referrals can be one of the single most powerful marketing tools for your race, making up 7-13% of total registrations for races with referral rewards activate. To maximize the program, your runners have to: Know that it exists Know how to find their referral link Be excited about the reward you are offering The Mighty […]
RunSignUp is rolling out a major new part of our platform – Sponsor Management. And as usual, it is FREE! Sponsors are an important part of most races. They bring in revenue (for Bob’s Scott Coffee Run, they provide more revenue than race registrations do!), they provide a way to connect with a broader community […]
We have optimized the Race Calendar Widget for viewing on Mobile. Here is an example big screen version from Playmakers: If you go to that URL from your phone, it will look like this:
We have added an Advanced Option under Club Membership Discount Pricing that requires membership in a club for specific Events. This can be very useful for Clubs with their own race series who might have a specific Event like a Club 10K that is separate from the Open 5K. It can be a tool for […]
We have added a new column to the Fundraising Team report to make it simple to see how many people are on a Fundraising Team:
This is a re-recording of the Donation Webinar from Feb. 2, 2017. It covers an introduction webinar of the basics of Donations as part of our overall Fundraising Platform. This covers simple donations, donation levels, 4% processing fee as well as options for donor payment of processing fees, manual donation entry, reporting and more. A […]
