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We are happy to welcome Meredith Klein to the RunSignUp Team! Meredith joins Jeff Kiesel as part of our User Experience Manifesto. Meredith has been working as a consultant for the past month and a half with us – designing the individual results page we recently released. Right now she is working on a new […]
This blog is the other half of the blog on When Software Dies. There are obviously many, many reasons why software dies. This blog hopefully helps a few creators avoid mistakes and a few users from making a poor choice that puts them in a costly position to migrate earlier than they planned. 1. No […]
This past week RaceIT told customers that they would be closing down their servers later this year. I’ve (Bob) had a personal experience with this in the past, and thought I would write this blog to give the creator and user perspective. I also will write a blog on Why Software Dies. As the picture […]
We now show the USAT Membership number in several more convenient places. In particular, the Participant Management page for each individual now shows the number: In addition, you can build saved reports that include any of the USAT information:
We released this in a number of phases over the past month, but it is a good example of how we are committed to our User Experience Manifesto of making the best user experience for race directors and participants. The new main table is cleaner with new typography for easier reading/scanning and brings a fresh […]
The Dragons 5K in Dayton, OH took place on Saturday, July 15th and used technology to make the most of their setting in the stadium home of the Dayton Dragons (Fifth Third Field). Working with the timer Good Times Event Services, the race used the Live Leaderboard feature to display race results for runners at […]
RunSignUp Awards 2017 Community Grant RunSignUp has announced the awardees of the 2017 RunSignUp Community Grant Program, a giving program that provides a financial contribution to endurance-related nonprofit organizations. In its second year, the program received applications from 129 highly deserving charitable organizations. A team at RunSignUp narrowed the field to 10 finalists; the final […]
Run America has a new product release that includes a program with free bibs for participating race directors. The contents of their release is below, for any directors who are interested. CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, US – 07/24/17 (PRESS RELEASE) – Run America LLC in association with Endurance Mobile LLC is pleased to announce the launch of […]
July 24, 2017 – Moorestown, NJ – RunSignUp is pleased to announce the RunSignUp Migration Assistance Program to assist races who currently use RaceIT in the USA and who may want to migrate to the RunSignUp platform. Eric Cone, RaceIT founder and former CEO, will be leading the program. RaceIT customers who may want or […]
This past weekend the inaugural Alaskaman Extreme Triathlon took place and was the first race in Alaska to provide RaceJoy’s advanced tracking and cheers. Offering one of the most challenging and breathtaking extreme triathlons in North America, this new race experience is sure to be on the top of serious athletes’ bucket lists. Alaskaman caps […]
We have expanded the Participant Report to easily do a search based on Custom Questions. We added a button on the Search All Fields to filter on Questions. When this button is clicked, all of your custom questions that have optional answers (not free form word answers) show: Note only one field may be selected […]
For the second year, Sales Lead Bryan Jenkins took the RunSignUp Race Director/Timer Symposium Attendees through a set of the most missed and underutilized features on our platform. We have them collated here – take a look and see what you could use! Search Box Bib/Email Need to find a participant quickly? Instead of navigating […]
We would like to welcome Jeff Kohart (about a month late) to RunSignUp. He was an intern with us last summer and has since graduated with a Computer Science degree from Gettysburg. He is happy to be returning to work in Moorestown, NJ (the central office for RunSignUp) where he grew up. While at Gettysburg […]
Partners now have the option to hide the Sunfrog shirt giveaway trial offer for their races. It is under Races ->Partner on the Partner Dashboard:
This past weekend RaceJoy hit the water with its first all-swim event, the Portland Bridge Swim. The Portland Bridge Swim is approximately 11 miles. The course runs under 11 of Portland, Oregon’s Willamette River bridges, through downtown and beyond. This is a significant challenge and a huge accomplishment for the participants. Safety is Key! Safety […]
We will be giving timers an Alpha version of RaceDay Scoring at the RunSignUp Symposium next week. Matt Avery will be doing a tutorial and we will be handing out USB’s with the Mac and Windows native versions. We still have a long way to go, but RD Scoring can be used to score a […]
We have improved the look and feel of the footer below the Results Table: Can you guess what is next? Yep, the Results Header will be updated pretty soon 🙂
We have released the new User Experience (UX) for viewing individual results: If the individual has a profile photo, then it will appear as well: (BTW, that photo is of Meredith Klein, our UX Engineer who designed this new page!) We have some more improvements coming on Results, so stay tuned! P.S. Just to remind […]
We have released the first wave of our new Timer Dashboard. As the name implied, this is for timers to be able to manage all of their races in a single place – whether they are the Partner for a race, the actual race director or have been added as the Timer for a race: […]
RunScore has made the following improvements (copy and pasted from the RunScore Support Group): RSServer/RSClient Version 8.2.7.10 Level 2017.07.10 *Eric Kramer requested integrating the Corral Wave field. This is now being downloaded in the API and is available to map to a RunScore field you would define locally. * Greg McCormick requested that he be […]
We have added time selectors and a summary count for Pageviews to the Promotion Dashboard. We will have other goodies in time for the RunSignUp Symposium next week! This is all based on our new RunSignUp Analytics engine.
RunSignUp’s RaceDay Photos platform is now being delivered in RaceJoy’s race day mobile app. Participants can now have quick access to their race day photos in addition to RaceJoy’s live tracking and cheer sending. A free and open platform, RunSignUp’s RaceDay Photos enables race organizers, photographers or timers with the ability to easily manage their […]
You can now create reserved entries that are just for specific Events, and when the participant clicks on the link, they are only shown the events they have a reserved entry for. For example: This is configured when you create a Reserved Entry (either Single or Multi-use):
Volunteer Comments is an alternative to Volunteer Questions, and gives the race the option to have volunteers populate the Volunteer Notes field during volunteer registration. The race can turn it on in Volunteer Setup then the volunteer will see this: and when they fill it out and register, the race can see it and edit […]
Some races have large lists of Volunteer Tasks (some even have hundreds). We have implemented the same drag and drop reordering capability we have on content and menu pages. The option is at the bottom of the Volunteer Task page: After you click on Edit Order, you will see all of your Categories and Tasks. […]
We’ve started to provide an update on how things are going with RunSignUp (Q1 and 2016). The good news is that more races, timing companies, running stores and runners continue to recommend us. One of our key stats we follow is the number of races that process more than 3 transactions with us. Our numbers […]
