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Over the last couple weeks we’ve had a few nonprofits report issues with their Facebook Fundraiser integration. Meta has undergone some changes over the past month and our previous contacts are no longer with the company. We are still waiting on Meta to release a fix to the Fundraiser API and provide our team access […]
UltraRunning Magazine, known as “the voice of the sport” since 1981, has recently completed an integration with the RunSignup Results API to automate the population of results data on their free and open Ultra Results Listing service. UltraRunning Magazine provides race results and also curates individual results across all registration and results platforms. Here are […]
RunSignup is now enabled to take advantage of Facebook Conversion API for registration events.
I just wrote a blog for Founder’s Corner that talked about our Open approach. One of the key elements of our approach is having an Open API. This provides a way for other software programs to interact with data on our platform. For example, it allows a timing software vendor to download all participant information […]
We have released 3 additional APIs for fundraisers, charity partner fundraisers, and charity partner donations. This expands the GiveSignup | RunSignup OpenAPI capabilities for nonprofits. The API documentation, including sandbox is located at https://www.givesignup.org/API. OpenAPIs are important for several reasons: Allow secure programmatic access to your data Allows third party software vendors to integrate ticket […]
Many years ago, we introduced the Signup App for iPhone and Android. We retired the Signup app in November. However, the web version of that app was still available – https://signupapp.runsignup.com/. We will be taking that offline as well next week. As stated in the retirement blog post, there was very little use of the […]
Some of our customers may have inadvertently gotten an email from Sendgrid about updating API keys. There is no need to do anything as RunSignup | GiveSignup manage all of this in the background for our customers, and the 25 Million emails they send each month.
The foundation of our new Team Results, which is used for general Team Scoring and Cross Country as well as Virtual and Challenge events is our open Team Results API. Virtual Races and Challenges need to set up Groups/Teams for their participants to create and join. Once they do, the team results will appear in […]
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. […]
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. RunSignup provides the leading all-in-one […]
There are several steps your nonprofit must take in order to be considered for access to RunSignup’s Facebook Fundraiser API integration: Your nonprofit must have a fundraising run/walk/ride in RunSignup. Your nonprofit must be approved for Facebook Payments. Submit your race for approval to use the RunSignup – Facebook Fundraiser API integration. This process can […]
Managing your Facebook Fundraiser is straightforward with RunSignup’s easy-to-understand donation report and a simple process to reconcile your RunSignup and Facebook reports. Donations made on Facebook are paid through Facebook and show on Facebook financial reports. Donations made on RunSignup are paid through RunSignup and show on RunSignup financial reports. Your donations report (Donations/Fundraising >> […]
If you are a developer and looking to integrate with the RunSignup API, here is a quick start overview of how to make things work. You can do testing on https://test.runsignup.com. Here are the generic Getting Started and Overview pages from the site, but here is the general flow: Authenticating with the API There are multiple ways to do this […]
Moorestown, NJ – RunSignUp, the leading Race Management Platform in the US, today announced a capital investment of $1 Million by Bob Bickel, the founder and owner of the company. The purpose of the investment is to assure sufficient capital in light of the legal expenses from the Active lawsuits against 1N3 and TMT – https://runsignup.blog/2016/08/15/active-seeks-to-add-runsignup-and-bob-bickel-to-lawsuit/. […]
Races across the country are getting their races RaceJoy Ready so they can offer advanced runner tracking, GPS progress alerts at every mile and cheer sending on race day. Trend setters seeking to provide innovation for their events and reach a larger audience are choosing the buyout option and offering these features for free. As […]
First Road Race to Offer Free GPS Phone Tracking, Alerts and Cheers September 17, 2015 – Lansing, MI – Race organizers of the Fifth Third Capital City River Run, to be held on September 20, 2015, are providing participants and spectators an innovative tracking experience through RaceJoy, a RunSignUp product. RaceJoy is the leading GPS […]
The RunSignUp API has been extended to allow for better searching and sorting for races with a date range. We have added last_end_date and next_end_date to the response. We also added an option to search on start date only. If you add “search_start_date_only=T” to the URL, you’ll only get races based on the start date. This is […]
The RunSignUp Open API usually supports both JSON, XML and CSV formats. We have a preference for JSON, since that is the most common implementation of web service API’s today. Also, our largest partners – both The Race Director and RunScore – have implemented their interfaces in JSON.
You often hear the recommendation of “Let’s have a meeting” and “Let’s communicate more”. At RunSignUp we think meetings and communicating are a waste of time. Mark Nigro, the CTO at Bluestone Software and a very bright man, introduced me to the concept that communicating and having meetings was a waste of time. His concept […]
We are expanding the Custom Results API to include a mechanism for providing notifications. The concept is that a list of participants can be uploaded to RunSignUp a week or two before a race and participants and their friends and families can then sign up for notifications. When race day comes, the timer will be […]
We have been doing extensive additions to our Results Posting API in advance of some partners who will be private labeling our results platform. This is especially useful for timers or software developers who are creating their own scoring or timing software. By reusing RunSignUp Results, you can take advantage of our scalable platform with […]
We have expanded the Custom Results API and the user interface for displaying custom results. The Custom Results API allows an application to upload results and do custom formatting and upload more generic data. Here is an example used to upload Age Group Results and other Awards from RunScore. There are two key upgrades: Setting Data […]
We have added the ability to set custom questions via the API. See it here – https://runsignup.com/API/race/:race_id/questions/POST. We have a few technology partners and advanced customers who use our back end service and create their own custom user interface for a number of functions who needed this capability. So this might not impact many people […]
Warning: This is for developers. We have extended our OpenAPI to allow for Race and User Creation and editing. This API is being used by a couple of advanced users who have their own applications that have a need for creating races and users outside of the RunSignUp user interface. This is a powerful capability […]
Our Open API continues to expand. You can see all of it at RunSignUp.com/API. We recently added a set of functions to get and set Team information: https://runsignup.com/API/race/:race_id/teams/team-types/GET – Get the team types. You’ll need this information to create a new team. https://runsignup.com/API/race/:race_id/teams/GET – List existing teams. This way you can see if a team exists. https://runsignup.com/API/race/:race_id/teams/POST – […]
We recently added a Create Race API for a technology partner / OEM. We are not making this publicly available at this time, but it is something that may be useful for some advanced technology partners. It also represents the first step in putting an API wrapper around the Race Director and Partner side of […]
This is for advanced users who want to integrate an existing (or new) application with our Club API. The main purpose is for an application to sync data associated with members of a club with the external application. We are currently working with a club who uses a training application that needs to sync with […]
(Geek alert!) We have just released an extension to our Open API to include Club Membership access. This gives other software providers as well as advanced customers access to Club Membership information from their application. For example, another registration provider could now offer a similar capability to our discount to club members. While some might […]
We added an Event Transfer API: https://test.runsignup.com/API/race/:race_id/switch-participant-events/POST. This allows our technology partners to make more transparent syncing between their application and RunSignUp. This works by creating a brand new registration for the registrant and removing the old registrant, so a new registration id is generated. Also, only the basic information is copied over to the new registration. […]
In our last post we talked about Teamwork and the “Strength of the Pack”. The purpose of that post was to provide the context of why we are continuing to work on our Open API – a very technical topic. In simple terms, an API is how two programs work together. When we exchange participant or […]
As part of our efforts to create a modern and open platform for running, we are developing a number of interesting technologies that are useful to others. Of course the Open Running API is the foundation of these efforts, and we continue to get other users and are continuing to expand the API. One of […]
This will interest very few people in terms of the technical details, but it is another example of how software providers can use the Open API. We are currently working with a results software company and they want to upload Division Winners and Awards. A common (but complex) example is that the overall Male and […]
We are continuing to expand the RunSignUp API as we get more requirements from partners and from our own efforts to develop Mobile Apps. Of note, we have our first partner (who we will announce next week) who uses the new OAuth access. This industry standard makes it easier and more secure to connect with other […]
Open Running API allows various running systems to work together, including Registration, Timing and Results systems Moorestown, NJ – September 7, 2012 – RunSignUp, the leading innovator of online tools for Races and Running Clubs, today announced the availability of the Open Running API. This provides a simple, modern way for Registration, Race Listing, Timing, […]
RunSignUp has a number of advantages over older registration systems. We’ve talked a lot about our Cloud architecture providing a scalable infrastructure. Our rapid pace of software development is also allowing us to meet the needs of our race directors and timers. There are several important parts to this: Cultural. We listen to our users […]
Exciting title, huh? But changing R&D taxability from a simple expense to a capital investment requiring a 5 year amortization will have a profound impact on all software companies if the current law stays in place. To put a headline on it – it will cost RunSignup about $870,000 in additional federal taxes this year. […]
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Year in Review, 2022 Availability Report, Company Strategy, TicketSignup 2022 Product Recap, RunSignup 2022 Product Recap, and TicketSignup Product Roadmap. Also, here is our 2023 Roadmap Webinar. We are very excited about the coming year of advancements we have planned for our endurance customers using […]
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Year in Review, 2022 Availability Report, Company Strategy, TicketSignup 2022 Product Recap, RunSignup 2023 Product Plan, and TicketSignup Product Roadmap. Also, here is our 2023 Roadmap Webinar. One of the things we pride ourselves on is the concept of Continuous Improvement. Since the fundamental thing […]
December 2022 We just completed the sponsorship of another successful project with students from Rowan University. Two teams of students enrolled in the Computer Field Experience Course took part in an intensive 12 week hands-on project building a solution using the RunSignup API. The students operated completely independant as a “software services vendor” gathering […]
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Availability Report, RunSignup 2022 Product Recap, TicketSignup 2022 Product Recap, RunSignup 2023 Product Roadmap, and TicketSignup Product Roadmap. Also, here is our 2023 Roadmap Webinar. RunSignup helped our customers process $400 Million for their events in 2022. We have continued our growth in our core RunSignup endurance […]
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Year in Review, RunSignup 2022 Product Recap and RunSignup 2023 Product Plan. Also, here is our 2023 Roadmap Webinar. We are bringing back our old Availability and Infrastructure Yearly Report after being distracted by the pandemic. We continue to post blogs about important issues that […]
We have two customer service positions now open at RunSignup; a full-time and a part-time Technical Customer Service Representative. You can work from our Moorestown, New Jersey office or from the convenience of your home. Below are more details. Interested in applying? Send your information to kristina@runsignup.com.
As with other Founders Corner blogs, I like to write these blogs to help myself make sure I am thinking about things clearly, as well as communicate important information that I want available to all employees and customers so we can get feedback and we all understand the path forward. I’ve written about pieces of […]
On this Thanksgiving Eve, we wanted to take a little time to say our thanks as a team! Here are 20 things we’re thankful about this year. 1. Thanks to Our Customers (that’s YOU!) First and foremost, we are SO THANKFUL for our customers. Our business only exists because of your business, and we’re thankful […]
Part of Bob’s continued ramblings. This one covers an overview of the how and why we do reviews and our compensation. Annual Reviews We like to do reviews and compensation adjustments on an annual basis. There are a number of positives around doing this on an annual basis: Reviews Over the past several years we have […]
Part of Bob’s continued ramblings. There have been tons of layoffs recently in the technology sector. The major factor driving this is a shift from investor perspectives of value on growth vs. profitability. And that was driven by very low interest rates. That is not the point of this blog, but just to follow that […]
RunSignup’s API offers industry technology providers an easy way to integrate their technology into our platform to provide increased value and a seamless experience for both race organizers and participants. We are pleased to share RunGo’s recent announcement of their integration with RunSignup’s platform.
There are now fundraiser email replacement tags for Email V2. Using these dynamic replacement tags with the Email V2 fundraiser recipient list gives your peer to peer fundraising event more power to automate and customize communications with your fundraisers. We make it easy to use fundraiser replacement tags with a dropdown tags menu for fundraising […]
We are planning to do an upgrade to Amazon AWS Aurora MySQL 2 sometime in the next week and a half. We expect less than 5 minutes of potential system impact. Another blog will be posted the day before we do the upgrades. Planned Impact There should be minimal impact with the whole upgrade process […]
We have been doing the race registration market analysis every 6 months for many years. We include a ton of analytical data, and also include our analysis of happenings and directions in the market (of course that analysis is done from our perspective and is sometimes biting to competitors but tries to be honest). Here […]
