Product News! New and Improved RaceDay CheckIn App

Efficient Race Day Processing of Participants  We are very excited to launch our new and improved RaceDay Check-In mobile application! Available for Android and iOS devices, the new release of the free RaceDay Check-In app offers core functionality improvements, simplified user experience, and a refreshed interface. RunSignup’s RaceDay CheckIn app is designed for race organizers […]

New Automated Photo Bib Tagging

One of the magical features of our free photo platform is the automated tagging of people based on image processing of bib numbers. For each photo that is uploaded, we automatically send it to a scanning service and it returns the bib numbers. We add nice little touches like filtering for bibs less than 1000 […]

California Triathlon Offers Insurance Alternative for Triathlons

After 2 years of work, California Triathlon is pleased to announce the California Triathlon Endorsed Race Director Insurance Program.  At only $2.50 per participant, it offers an affordable insurance alternative for triathlons. A growing consortium of race directors from coast to coast will be utilizing the California Triathlon Endorsed Race Director Insurance Program to insure their […]

SignMeUp Closes

SignMeUp is the latest race registration vendor to close down, joining a growing list we have covered before in our Registration Market Analysis. As is typical, these closings happen quickly, without thoughtful migration strategies put in place. For example, their website is still up and telling people to create their race registration with them. This […]

How Social Influence Impacts Donors

I was taking a workshop on behavioral design today and the topic of social influence came up. Social influence is one of the most powerful drivers in how users make decisions. Here is an example. If you were walking down the street with your boss and you saw a dirty $10 dollar bill in the […]

Spring Forward Seminar: The New Event Formula

One year ago, 100% of our focus was on helping races and nonprofits pivot to virtual. It’s exciting, then, that April’s Spring Forward Seminar has a very different focus: getting back to live (and hybrid) events. The return of live events isn’t the same as simply reverting to 2019 events, though. Events today are incorporating […]

Welcome, Steve!

We are excited to announce our newest team member, Steve Bingham-Hawk.  Steve is joining the GiveSignup | RunSignup team as a Senior Account Manager.  As an existing GiveSignup | RunSignup customer, Steve comes to us as no stranger.  He has over 16+ years of experience in the endurance industry with extensive experience in conceiving, planning, and executing […]

ChronoTrack Streaming with RaceDay Scoring

RunSignup’s RaceDay Scoring and ChronoTrack Webinar The recorded session below provides an overview of how to integrate ChronoTrack streams with RaceDay Scoring for delivering officially scored race results. Special guest and ChronoTrack timer, Ryan Harrison with Hermes Sports and Events, provides a practical application and step-by-step guidance on setting up of using RaceDay Scoring and […]

Race Registration Market Analysis

We usually do a Race Registration Market Analysis twice a year – March and September. 2020 was an unusual year, but we did a special one in April, 2020 and September, 2020 to try to capture what was happening in the endurance market. We will share our data and then share observations from the market in general and specific […]

Changes Coming for Payments by Check

GiveSignup | RunSignup offers event organizers the opportunity to receive event proceeds by ACH or by check. Our preferred payment method is by ACH, but we do offer payment by check and we will continue to do so. However, check payments are expensive to make and they become even more expensive if they are lost […]

Three Steps to Help Your Charity Partner Raise More

More than 9,000 nonprofits raise money with GiveSignup | RunSignup for their fundraising run/walk/ride events. Additionally, nonprofits also raise money with GiveSignup | RunSignup as Charity Partners. Race organizations like to partner with nonprofits because it helps them grow participation as nonprofits encourage their supporters to participate and fundraise. Nonprofits benefit from partnering with races […]

Timer News: Results Source Now Available for Virtual Results

RaceJoy, Web, and TXT Result Submissions Timers using RunSignup’s RaceDay Virtual Results will be happy to hear we’ve rolled out the ability to quickly see the source participants use to submit their results. Timers now have an at-a-glance view of whether participants submit their results through the RaceJoy app, through the event’s result web page, […]

A Year Later, Events Are Back

We posted the other day about the positive signs of recovery we are seeing in transactions as we hit the one-year anniversary of the earliest pandemic shutdowns. Today, we want to take a minute to talk more about the activity we are seeing because one is thing clear: events are back. There is, of course, […]

Our One Year Anniversary with COVID Milestone

Monday, March 8 is a big day. It is our one year anniversary of understanding the impact COVID would have. And we simultaneously achieved a milestone that says we are coming back. Monday, March 9, 2020 A year ago, we pivoted our business realizing the impact COVID could have. We had started tracking it a […]

Publishing Results with MYLAPS & RaceDay Results

RunSignup’s RaceDay Results and MYLAPS Webinar MYLAPS timers can take advantage of providing quick access to scored results by publishing web results using RunSignup’ RaceDay Results. The recorded webinar below covers how to how to publish and manage web results when integrating with RaceDay Scoring. Crisp McDonald demonstrates how to set up the integration, adjust […]

Launch of RunSignup Timer Certification Program

New Registration & Marketing Timer Certification  We are super excited to launch the new RunSignup Timer Certification program! This certification program is designed to provide timers with the ability to offer their events new and expanded registration and marketing related services that help increase event registrations. The certification process includes in-depth training on RunSignup’s registration […]

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