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Top News: Sales Tax and Your Race It’s the hot topic everyone loves to discuss: Sales Tax. A 2018 Supreme Court case on sales tax and online sales will impact many races in the near future. As a result, we have been preparing a taxability study to determine what aspects of races are covered […]
Nonprofits can raise more and save time with RunSignup’s free Facebook Fundraiser API Integration. The integration allows your fundraisers to auto-create a Facebook Fundraiser from RunSignup. The amounts raised on RunSignup and Facebook are automatically synced, enabling your participants (and your nonprofit) to raise more and reach fundraising goals faster. Today’s webinar covered: A demo […]
RunSignup makes it convenient for sponsoring entities or their authorized representatives (including timers and event management companies) to receive the registration proceeds for races. Either the sponsoring entity or the authorized representative can set up a payment account with RunSignup and receive registration proceeds for a race. However, there are some things you may want […]
Many of you have probably seen that we have been posting several presentations from the 2019 Symposium on our YouTube channel, blog, and Facebook Page. All of the videos from the presentation have now been uploaded and can be accessed from the YouTube channel or our 2019 Symposium Video page. You’ll find video from every […]
As with all things Sales Tax related, there are complexities when it comes to refunds and sales tax! This will not be released for another month or so, but we have begun development on how sales tax refunds are handled. This blog will explain the concepts – a later blog will go thru all the […]
We will try to provide information as directly as possible, but remember that RunSignup does not provide tax, legal or accounting advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for, tax, legal or accounting advice. RunSignup makes no representations, warranties, or […]
We held a Sales Tax Webinar on August 21, 2019 to review the status of our Sales Tax implementation work, expected to complete by early October. We had hundreds of people attending and this is a list of the questions asked (trying to remove similar questions). We will try to answer your questions as directly […]
Do you… Have a passion for the race endurance and nonprofit industry? Love working with the latest and greatest technology? Want to bring technology solutions to thousands of races and clients in the endurance and nonprofit market? Want to work with a dynamic and cutting-edge tech company that’s using the art of technology to make […]
Ticket Groups and Levels Blog Series GiveSignup ticket events offer flexible ways to display the ticket options to potential ticket buyers. Ticket options are categorized into groups and levels. A ticket group is a category of ticket levels that correspond to part or all of a ticket event. At least one ticket group is required. Ticket levels are a sub-category of ticket groups, […]
James and Shelly Harris, the creators of RaceJoy, are celebrating their anniversary this year by hiking the Tour de Mont Blanc. This is ten days of hiking roughly 100+ miles. The trail goes around Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Europe and takes them through France, Italy and Switzerland. It has a LOT of hills […]
All fundraisers on RunSignup have their own individual fundraising page. If they choose to join or are required to join a fundraising team, their individual donations (both via RunSignup and the Facebook Fundraiser API Integration) automatically roll up to the team total. You can now prevent donations to team fundraisers on RunSignup. When this setting […]
GiveSignup–Built for Nonprofits Grow your nonprofit events and raise more by setting up your next nonprofit ticketed event on GiveSignup. Free events are always free on our platform, so you can easily use GiveSignup for your next free or volunteer ticketed event. Raise More with Facebook Fundraisers Nonprofits can raise more and save time with […]
A new book just came out, Organizing a 5K, by Crystal Waters McCulough. We saw it on a post on Race Directors HQ, and ordered it and read it this past weekend. It is a great book for people thinking about putting on a race, as it lays out the many steps needed to come […]
As discussed when we first announced Cover Pages, we are beginning to add live data components to cover pages. We have added three, with many more to come over the next two months: Event Tiles – the squares that appear on a normal race or nonprofit ticket website now appear on your cover page. Top […]
Nothing makes participants happier than getting what they want. We want to make sure you can deliver the best possible experience to your participants, so we have extensive participant management features to help with doing just that. We included a participant management session at this year’s Symposium to help you understand the differences between these […]
We love sharing the spotlight with our customers and colleagues. Each year, we try to invite industry professionals to share their extensive race knowledge with everybody. This year’s Race Director Business Session features Michelle Bettis of 3W races and Scott Sutter of RaceInsure. Join them as they discuss several business topics, such what race insurance […]
The 2019 RunSignup Symposium was our largest Symposium to date, with almost 300 people in attendance. We wanted to be able to answer as many questions as we could, so we closed out our Tuesday educational sessions with a Q&A with Bob. We hope that everyone enjoyed our 2019 Symposium and are looking forward to […]
This year’s Timer Day was bigger than ever before. For the first time ever, we awarded a timer with the Alan Jones Timer of the Year Award. The award was named after Alan Jones because of his contributions to the race industry through the creation of the Jones Counter, age-based grading, and RunScore. It aims […]
The RunSignup sponsor platform has a wide range of capabilities that help you process sponsor payments faster, promote your sponsors more, and manage sponsors easier. Keep sponsors happy by promoting their brand on your race site, as well as our runner tracking app, RaceJoy! RunSignup’s sponsor platform makes dealing with sponsors easy, so you have […]
You can now customize the wording for “Charity”. This is useful for races that have branded Charity Partner programs, such as Crescent City Classic’s Run For It Charity Program. It also provides flexibility to rename “charity” to “nonprofit” or “charity partner.” Once you have added charity partners to your Race Dashboard, you can go to […]
GiveSignup ticket events offer flexible ways to display the ticket options to potential ticket buyers. Ticket options are categorized into groups and levels. A ticket group is a category of ticket levels that correspond to part or all of a ticket event. At least one ticket group is required. Ticket levels are a sub-category of […]
Small-scale fundraising events: Spaghetti Dinners and Pancake Breakfasts GiveSignup ticket events are great for small and simple fundraisers, like pancake breakfasts and spaghetti dinners, because our platform is flexible and free. You can set up your events on GiveSignup, pass on the processing fees, and generate additional revenue for your nonprofit for no cost. Here […]
Setting up Ticket Groups and Levels GiveSignup ticket events offer flexible ways to create ticket options for potential attendees. Ticket options are categorized into groups and levels. A ticket group is a category of ticket levels that correspond to part or all of a ticket event. At least one ticket group is required. Ticket levels […]
Setting Up a Multi-Day Event Multi-day events, like festivals, are easy to set up on GiveSignup’s ticket platform. Most multi-day events choose to create ticket groups for each day of the event, with ticket levels for variants like times, adult/child pricing, or even location. Example Setup for a Multi-Day Festival This is one way to […]
As technology grows and develops at a booming rate, participant’s expectations for technology integrated races grow as well. The RunSignup RaceDay suite utilizes the power of advanced technology to deliver new solutions for your race. The suite covers everything from CheckIn to runner tracking (RaceJoy). Join some of our members from our RaceDay team from […]
The RunSignup – Facebook Fundraiser API integration is now available for Charity Partners on RunSignup and GiveSignup. The integration allows your fundraisers to auto-create a Facebook Fundraiser from your fundraising run/walk/ride. The amounts raised on RunSignup and Facebook are automatically synced, enabling your participants (and your nonprofit) to raise more and reach fundraising goals faster. […]
We are still working on this, but there is some likelihood that we will retire our signup app in the next month. This is due to a number of complications that are introduced by the implementation of our new sales tax system. We have seen a steady decline in the use of the Signup App […]
GiveSignup is a free platform for nonprofits, with no monthly or subscription fees. We only make money from processing fees that you can absorb or pass on to your supporters so that your nonprofit can get free websites, free domains, free CRM, free email marketing, free Facebook Fundraising integration, and free DIY fundraising. When you […]
Did you know that we offer a solution to allow participants to register for several of your races in one transaction? Multi-Race Bundles make registration easy for your customers, and registration management easy for you. You can use these bundles to upsell your races and drive registration to races that your participant may not typically […]
RaceJoy is specially designed to work with varying levels of cell conditions to accommodate participants and spectators around the country and on courses in areas that have intermittent cell conditions. However, RaceJoy should only be used at sites where the Start and Finish and at least 70% of the course has good cell conditions. When […]
Supportive, happy customers are what helps your race grow. The more somebody likes your race, the more likely they are to speak positively about it to their friend. We had the opportunity to invite Nic DeCaire, of Fusion Racing, to our 2019 Symposium to speak about how you can create a community of supporters. Learn […]
For the 8,000+ nonprofits who use RunSignup, fundraising is an essential part of their events. But it’s more than just collecting donations–everything from your communications strategy to your social media presence can affect your results. At Symposium, we invited some experts from the nonprofit space to share their knowledge about how to recruit, motivate, and […]
Last year, 154 million emails were sent through the RunSignup email marketing system across 20,000 races. That’s a lot of emails. Email is one of your best bets when you are looking for mass communication methods for your race. An email marketing system will save you the time of manually sending communications from your personal […]
Jen Miller’s NYTimes weekly newsletter contained some more “bad news” about the state of races: “Triathlons appear to be facing the same kind of participation slump that hit running in the mid-2010s: U.S.A. Triathlon’s membership dropped about a quarter over a five-year period. And that’s not all — on July 26, Wanda Sports Group, which owns, among […]
This is Bob. I’m getting a bunch of “Congratulations on your 10th Work Anniversary” on LinkedIn today. At our Symposium, Allison and I talked about this being our 10th year in business and what we have planned for the next 10 years (more of the same in Endurance and, of course GiveSignup for nonprofits). But […]
Your brand is important. That’s why we continue to create features for you to make your RunSignup site your own. Over the past year, we’ve released several features so you can take your race website one step further. This year, we had RunSignup’s Matt Sinclair hold a session at Symposium to run you through how […]
