Pre-Answer Participant Questions with a Race FAQ

Dive into any online forum for race directors, like the RD Hub on Facebook, and there’s one line of discussion you’ll always find: frustration with participants who ask the same questions over and over again. Better website content can eliminate emails – and make it easier to copy/paste answers and links for questions that do […]

Webinar Recap: How to Host a Successful Race this Fall

Race directors everywhere are adjusting their protocols to meet local guidelines and ensure runners are safe. While there’s no “one-size-fits-all” version of what you should do, there are lessons to be learned from every event director who successfully navigates new procedures. In this webinar, GiveSignup | Sales Lead Bryan Jenkins was joined by Clint McCormick, […]

Bird App Coaching Platform Integrates with GiveSignup | RunSignup

Guest Blog by Ann Conway, CEO of Bird. Bird has built an integration with RunSignup so participants can join a training program during race registration. There are a million running apps and training plans out there, but we know that runners aren’t looking for more data, they need motivation, accountability and support when training for […]

2022 Winter Symposium: Early Bird Registration is Open!

Like all of you, we have missed the creativity and energy that comes from in-person events, and we’re excited that our Early Bird registration for our in-person 2022 Winter Symposium is now open. Why join us? We focus on high quality educational sessions, hands-on technology training, and networking with peers from across the endurance and […]

Bibs & Chips in RaceDay Scoring

Timer Tip Tuesday Timers using RaceDay Scoring should check out this short training session on how to set up BibChip files in RaceDay Scoring. GiveSignup l RunSignup’s Crisp McDonald walks through the basics and provides a product demo exploring the potential issues when things are not set up correctly. This is an especially helpful Timer […]

Eventbrite Q2 2021 Report

We have been following Eventbrite since they are a similar company serving events and having a similar business model of charging for their services only with processing fees since they went public. We are also beginning to overlap with them more as nonprofits discover the GiveSignup Ticket Platform that is purpose built for nonprofits. We […]

RaceJoy: New Alternate Event Setup

For RaceJoy Certified Timers RaceJoy has introduced a new method for Certified Timers to set up courses in RaceJoy to coincide with the automated registration integration now being applied in RaceJoy. The training video below covers how to complete the alternate event processing where timers are able to apply a single map upload to multiple […]

WorldPay Transaction Processing is Down

Good news – it looks like WorldPay is processing transactions again as of 10:38 AM. Fortunately, only about 18 people were frustrated in their attempt to sign up for an event or make a donation. We will be contacting them directly in the next hour. We will update this blog as the status changes. Our […]

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