Fundraiser Page Audit Trail
We have added an audit trail to track who made changes to a Fundraiser Page. This is useful for customer support and for managing when multiple people may have access to editing a team fundraising page.
Aligning Teams and Fundraising Teams
While some races want to have a separate definition for Teams and Fundraising Teams, there is also a need to align these so they are essentially the same. This has an advantage in that a team can be created or joined on the first step of registration rather than waiting until the Fundraising step. To […]
Automatically create Fundraising Page for Imported Participants
We have added an option that automatically creates a fundraising page when importing participants. This option is only visible for races that have donations set up and allow fundraisers. Note you can set up standard options like Fundraising Goals and Donor Lists. When a participant is imported, if there is an email associated with the […]
Year-Over-Year Fundraising and Donation Report
We have added a Year-Over-Year fundraising and donation report. The report can be access under Donations>>Reports. In the ACTIONS drop-down menu, select Year Over Year Summary. Then, select the Donation Periods you want to compare and hit GENERATE REPORT: This will give you the YOY summary report to compare donation counts, quantities, individual and team fundraiser comparisons, […]
RunSignUp Symposium Slides
Here are the slides from the RunSignUp Race Director and Timer Symposium. RunSignUp State of the Union – Bob reviews the past year and introduces RaceDay Go, RaceDay Photos, RaceDay SignUp Kiosk and more. Donations & Fundraising – CASA Superhero Run – Barbara Herzog Race Director Checklist – Trish Portuese, Championship Racing […]
Delay Donations Until Charity Setup
When races invite their charity partners to process donations directly, this ensures the race does not have to keep track of money coming to them that would then have to be redistributed to their charity partners. We have just added an option to not accept any donations until the charity partner has set up their […]
Lots of Fundraisers
We have done some performance improvements for races that have thousands of Fundraisers. The Relay for Life had 2,700 and the page load speed was lagging. We have optimized this now so it is back to sub-second on a fast Internet connection.
New Charity Management Page
We have simplified the initial Charity Management page to be a list of Charities where you can Add, Edit, and Delete. We used to list them all, which was difficult to manage if there were a number of charities as in the example below.
Quick Donation on Checkout Page
We have added the ability for races to have a quick donation on the checkout page. This appears right below the credit card number and can be set for a single charity and and single $ amount as shown below: If checked, it will automatically update the checkout amount: To set his up, you must […]
New Option for Fundraising Teams
We have added an option that requires all fundraisers to be part of a team. This is useful for those races that are trying to get the benefit of more people working together. We’ve added it as another option on the Fundraiser SetUp section under Donation Setup:
Charity Improvements
We have added better ways to allow multiple people within a charity to have access to their RunSignUp charity account. In addition, we now allow charities to enter in their own manual donations. Charity Access From your Profile, clink on My Charities. There is a new option to grant access to others to see reports […]
Semper Fi Fund Community Athletes Case Study
We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users. View the PDF Version of the Semper Fi Fund Community Athletes Case Study Semper Fi Fund Community Athletes and RunSignUp The Semper Fi Fund Community Athletes program uses RunSignUp to […]
Donations and Fundraising from Aut2Run
One thing we frequently hear our Partners warn against is the creation of a Race/Run/Walk for fundraising without fully understanding the creativity and labor required to make such an event profitable. Fundraising events can be labor-intensive time vacuums, but they can also be hugely significant fundraising vehicles when done with the right mix of passion, logistics, and […]
Charities with their own donation system
Now you can add charities that want all donations to be made to their own system and website. The option is at the bottom of each charity, and can only be set for new charities as shown on the right. Note existing charities can not be set to this. These charities appear on the Donation […]
CASA Superhero Run Richmond Case Study
We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users. This CASA Superhero Run Case Study focuses on creating a family-friendly event, cultivating fundraisers, and creating a positive volunteer experience. View the PDF Version of the CASA Superhero Run Case Study CASA […]
Simple Donation Refunds
Refunding donations is an uncommon occurrence. Now when it happens, you will be able to process the refunds easily. On the donation report, you will see a “Refund” button in red on the far right column by each donation. Clicking on that button brings up the form below: Note the option menu in the far […]
Donor and Fundraising Goal Widgets
Now you can put a scrolling list of donors anywhere on your website, as well as our cool fundraising goal wheel. The example on the right shows each widget. These widgets can be placed anywhere on your website with a simple line of code. Building these widgets is simple. Go to the Promotion -> Widget […]
Updated Fundraiser Report
We have fine tuned the Fundraiser Report with some suggestions made by the Semper Fi Fund. The key additions are: Click on the name of each fundraiser to go to their detailed information including contact information and details on their fundraising. Fundraiser search to quickly find the information on each fundraiser or fundraiser team. With […]
Search Fundraisers
We have added a nice fast search capability for races with lots of fundraisers like the Semper Fi Marine Corps Marathon. Here is a screen shot – the list of people comes up similarly to Google searches and our Results searches (pretty cool): And here is what the fundraising page looks like for a fundraiser […]
Manual Donations for Multiple Charities
You can now add manual entries for cash and checks received for multiple charities. This makes reporting easier when your race is supporting multiple charities.
Fundraising Reports
Thanks to suggestions from the Semper Fi Fund, we have made a number of improvements on the Fundraising reports. It is now easier to view fundraisers, their associated charities, where they are as a % of their goal, and so forth. Here are two screen shots that show all the columns we show, and of […]
Gobble Gobble Four Miler Case Study
We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users. This Gobble Gobble Four Miler Case Study focuses on creating techniques for fundraising and engaging Sponsors. View the PDF Version of the Gobble Gobble Four Miler Case Study Overview: The Gobble Gobble […]
Rock & Stroll Case Study
We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users. This Rock & Stroll Case Study focuses on supporting donations for multiple charity partners. View the PDF Version of the Rock & Stroll Case Study Overview: Rock & Stroll used RunSignUp for […]
Syracuse Half Marathon Case Study
We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users. This Syracuse Half Marathon Case Study focuses on creating demand through a premium event, and customizing a race to encourage group participation and donations. View the PDF Version of the Syracuse […]
Fundraising Minimums
We now give you two different options to set for your Fundraisers. One for asking a Fundraiser to raise a minimum amount of money, and the other where if they agree to raise that much money, their race fee is waived.
Gulf Coast Runners Case Study
We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users. This Gulf Coast Runners Case Study focuses on Club Member Management, Social Event Signups, Donations, and operating as a guide for Charity Races. View the PDF Version of the Gulf […]
Multi-Charity Donation Reports
When a race has multiple charities that can runners and donors can chose from, RunSignUp now offers a convenient report and search capability for showing the multiple charities. Thanks to the Genworth Virginia 10 Miler for this idea!
Your Favorite Features
We take pride in our our continual feature development, but it is still really overwhelming to hear our customers talk about how features have changed their workload and driven their businesses. The most amazing thing? Most of these customers also told us that they know they are only using a small percentage of the available features. Just […]
Updates to Donations & Fundraising
Our new Donation and Fundraising system has been out for over a month, and we have gotten some great feedback. And by great, I mean suggestions for how to improve things even more! So we released an update today to the process people go thru. It reduces the complexity for runners during registration who want […]
Making Direct Payments to Your Charities
Many races would prefer for RunSignUp to make payments to the charities. Races can now invite a Charity to manage this payment information when they set up each charity: An email invitation is sent. It will need to be accepted, and any donations made before then will be sent to the race. Note the field […]
Tying Groups and Fundraising Teams together
RunSignUp offers three different ways to group people together: Groups/Teams – this is a generic grouping mechanism that allows for things as diverse as Triathlon relay teams to social groups of people to get together. Corporate Teams – this is a powerful way to allow organizations to set up teams that they pay for and […]
Waiving Race Fees for Fundraisers
Many races raise money for charity. One of the common practices is to offer free entry to runners who raise a minimum amount for the charity. Many large marathons like Boston, New York and Pittsburgh even reserve slots for charity fundraisers. The RunSignUp Fundraising 2.0 platform has been designed to address all of the aspects […]
Donor Comments
Donors are now able to add comments that will go to the fundraiser they are donating to:
Donation Setup Overview
Race Directors have a lot of powerful tools at their disposal to enable donations and fundraising with the new 2.0 release. The starting point is setting things up. This How To Set Up Donations video explains the steps you need to take to set up some powerful capabilities:
Becoming a Fundraiser
We have a new video on How to Become a Fundraiser. Feel free to embed this on your website or point to it to help fundraisers sign up for your race: Here is an additional video on How to Edit or Manage your Fundraiser:
Tax Deductible Race Fees
When a donor receives something of value in return for their donation, that value is typically subtracted from the value of the donation. For example, if a race fee is $25 and the runner gets a shirt and other goods and services such as timing, then there may be $12 of value received. This means […]
Donation Reporting
The new Donation 2.0 system has enhanced reporting. Some of the highlights are: New Graphical Summary Summary of each Charity if multiple charities Segment each level of donation and the number of donations at each level Report of all donations See Manual Donations that were entered when receiving cash or check Quick Edit for each […]
Donations by any other name
We now allow you to change the Tab title from Donate to anything you want. Need some ideas? How about: accord, ante up, award, bequeath, bestow, chip in, confer, contribute, devote, do one’s part, dole out, feed the kitty, get in the act, get it up, give, give away, grant, hand out, lay on, pass […]
Multiple Charities 2.0
With our new Donation and Fundraising system, we have given new features for supporting multiple charities. The first thing you will notice is how each charity gets their own “card”. Each card can have a logo and automatically lists the goals and amount raised in real time. Splitting Donations – One of the coolest features […]
Donations and Fundraising 2.0
Overview We redesigned our Donation and Fundraising system based on the feedback from the thousands of races who use these features with our platform. Our goal was to meet the needs of our customers, make things more intuitive and easier to understand, and keep the flexibility that can let each race tune the system to […]
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FirstGiving – RunSignUp Press Release
RunSignUp and FirstGiving partner to provide races an integrated fundraising solution March 11, 2014 – Moorestown, NJ – RunSignUp and FirstGiving have partnered to offer a simple way for race directors to use FirstGiving for fundraising within the RunSignUp race registration process. Race directors can now tie their event to one or more of the […]
New Processing Fee Calculations on Donations
Up until this morning, we proportionally split the processing fee across the components that made it up. For example, if a person signed up for a $20 race and made a $20 donation, the $3.00 processing fee would be allocated evenly – $1.50 each. The problem with this was that many races set things up […]
New Donation Reports
With the recent release of the new Financial System, we have made a number of enhancements to the Donations Reports. Simplified Summary Simplified Multi-Charity Report Analysis of donation range Powerful Searching Comprehensive Reporting CSV Download Now it is simple to create reports to the multiple charities your race may be helping to raise money for […]
Multiple Charity Donations
One of the races that uses RunSignUp for registration and donations supports 7 different charities. They wanted to give runners the ability to donation some money to more than one charity at a time. We thought that was a good idea and added it! (Also note the nice little rotating graphics of the different charities […]
Donation & Custom Question Updates
We are on a big roll right now to put in all the features we added to Clubs back into the Race side. Today we are releasing some improvements to the Donation setup as well as the Custom Questions setup. These are mostly minor, but do include the nice new Mobile design. We will keep […]
Corporate Teams, Competitive Teams and Fundraising Teams
RunSignUp supports three types of teams for races: Fundraising Teams Competitive Teams Corporate Teams Fundraising Teams is the ability for a group of people to join together as a team for the purpose of raising money for a charity run. In RunSignUp, race directors can enable this capability so that anyone can create and join […]
Happy Running Geeks
It has been a good week at RunSignUp. We get excited about two things. One, when we make a customer happy and hear about it. And two, when we finish a major project that will really help race directors, timers and runners. And we did a lot of that this week! On Tuesday we visited […]
Winter 2011 Feature Enhancements
Winter Updates – all of these features are currently available: Age-Base Pricing – You can set pricing for multiple age ranges. RunSignUp automatically calculates the prices so when Mom signs herself and her family up everyone is assigned the right price automatically. It is accessed via the “Customize” tab and the “Registration” sub-tab in your Race […]