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The Race Analytics Dashboard has released a flurry of new capabilities to help races understand their promotion, demographics, registrations and transactions better. (You may also have noted the nice progress on the overall User Experience of the race dashboard with the new fresh colors.) There are now more than 15 graphs giving you a quick […]
RaceJoy introduces a real-time progress board as part of its Race Day Monitoring System, continuing to provide the new technology breakthroughs for race organizers. Race organizers and timers can now use RaceJoy to monitor the progress of individuals and relay teams as they complete milestones or exchange points on the course in a grid view. […]
The front Dashboard will become much more powerful in the coming weeks with over a dozen different graphical reports being added. To prepare for this, we have added specific access management for just the Dashboard. To invite others to get access to dashboard graphs, click on the lock in the upper right corner: This will […]
The Philadelphia Marathon is using RunSignUp Sites to drive their dynamic website. We recently created a new feature that allowed them to put nice graphics to highlight new interactive map storyboards (really cool – check them out) on their front page (highlighted by the red box in this screen shot): To do this, simply create […]
Darren joined us our User Experience team on Monday, and he released an improvement on Thursday! While it was a simple change, he got thru the gauntlet of setting up his development environment, Github access, understanding how we do branches and merges, our page structure, our CSS structures, how we do code reviews and process […]
We’ve been busy editing and collating the videos from this year’s RunSignUp Symposium…and while the collection is not yet complete, we wanted to share the ones that are ready! You can find links for all completed presentation videos here: http://resources.runsignup.com/2017symposiumpresentations/ Links for individual presentations are below. Customer/Industry Presentations Supercharging your Sponsor Program, with Peter Abraham Driving […]
We are happy to welcome Darren Wamboldt to the RunSignUp Team! Darren joins Jeff Kiesel and Meredith Klein as part of our User Experience Manifesto. Darren has led the RaceIT User Experience effort for the past 5 years. Coupling his deep passion for UI design, his coding abilities and his industry knowledge will help make our offerings even better for […]
(Yes, the double entendre is intentional) We used RD Scoring last night in a No Frills Prediction Race – and it worked! We scored it manually – entering in the participants by hand, and then entering in bib numbers and watch times. This is currently functional, but will improve quite a bit by the time […]
We have added a Tag Line for fundraisers to further customize their page. This adds a nice looking tag line on their fundraising page:
We have expanded the Shared Coupon Report data to include the following information: Event Name Registration Date First Last Gender Date of Birth Email Phone Address, City, State, Country, Zip Registration Status Event Cost Total Discount, Processing fee, Amount Paid Bib Number Giveaway
Shared Coupon reports are an easy way to give sponsors or others easy access to see if their coupons have been used and by whom. We have added a simple invitation to make this even easier for race directors and the people they are sharing information with. It is available from the Actions drop-down menu […]
With our Participant Count price increases always has the downside of people being upset they did not get the price they wanted. The default way it works is the first X people who click Submit on the Checkout page to process their transaction. The problem with this is that we redirect the participant back to […]
We have released the start of the new Profile Page. This will evolve over the coming weeks to provide easier access to the relevant things that participants need and want. Note the increased use of icons for easy browsing, the soft rounded profile picture, and the initials if there is no profile picture. Soon we […]
Burning River Offers Live Tracking and “Off Course” Alerts to Runners An exciting, 100- and 50-mile solo run and 100-mile relay held in Northeast Ohio, the Burning River Endurance Run & Relay travels through several of the region’s most scenic areas, including the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and the Cleveland and Summit Metro Parks. This […]
You can now add a custom URL link for the “Home” button on your Partner Website (not available to race websites) that will redirect to another website. This is convenient for timers who are using the nice calendar and result features on Partner Websites, but want to redirect other traffic back to their main website. […]
You can now customize the word used for Administrators for Groups and Teams: This is set on the Group/Team Setup page under the Overall Group Settings.
You can now create a custom message when people sign up for your newsletter with our Email Subscription Widget. This is set as a custom content section and the EMail Subscription form is one of the widget options.
We are happy to announce the release of the new RaceDay Scoring website – RDScoring.com. This will be the primary communications and support channel for RaceDay Scoring, the Native PC and Mac scoring application currently in the early Alpha release stage that will be an eventual replacement for the PC software package The Race Director. Currently in […]
We have added the Team Gender Type (if set up) to the Team Member report.
We are beginning to roll out the ability for races to see where their pageviews (and soon their registrations and transactions $ are coming from. This is all driven by our RunSignUp Analytics engine that tightly integrates promotion and web analytic data to your race registration data. This initial release shows the raw website URL […]
There is now an option that adds a phone number field to the donation process. In the past, we did not collect this data for donors to make as few steps as possible for simple donations to be made. Some charities like to give phone calls to donors. In combination with the large donation notification, […]
Todd Spears of Agape Timing has taking the Video Results in a new direction with 360 degree video cameras. Click on the “Video” link on one of the finishers for the Eagle Scholarship 5K. View it on a phone or iPad so you can get the 360 effect by moving your phone around at different angles. […]
We have added a simple mechanism to invite additional timing staff to share your timer dashboard:
We have made two nice improvements to widget styles. The first is to set full width on a widget rather than a specific width like 600 pixels. This will fill the available space in the area you place the widget. For example, this page below is showing a Sponsor Widget: The second improvement is matching […]
Apple has changed the rules for what passes as a valid app (Will Apple’s App Store New Guidelines Trouble Event Apps?) and has started removing hundreds of thousands of apps based on these new guidelines. What this means: If your race has a light weight app that is basically content, or is created from a core […]
We have released our new Dashboard (well, the beginnings of it!). The Overview page shows a quick snapshot of the past 7 days, with convenient totals above the graph. Date ranges can be quickly changed. The more detailed chart is shown below the quick summary graph. In addition to the Overview, you can see the […]
