Healthy Kids Running Series: A Case Study

Motivating kids to lead a healthy and active lifestyle About Healthy Kids Running Series Healthy Kids Running Series (HKRS) was founded by Jeff Long, President and Founder of Pattison Sports Group. The nonprofit aims to combat childhood obesity by introducing children to the world of running. Open to kids aged 2-14, HKRS provides their runners […]

Custom Partner Dashboard Charts

Larger race organizations that operate large or multiple races have a need for more detailed analytics and quick views to see how they are doing. We have provided a number of reports to help with this over the years, but they were never customizable and not all in one place – until this coming week! […]

Partner Website Image URL Enables New Display Options

The Philadelphia Marathon is using RunSignUp Sites to drive their dynamic website. We recently created a new feature that allowed them to put nice graphics to highlight new interactive map storyboards (really cool – check them out) on their front page (highlighted by the red box in this screen shot): To do this, simply create […]

Partner Website Home Button

You can now add a custom URL link for the “Home” button on your Partner Website (not available to race websites) that will redirect to another website. This is convenient for timers who are using the nice calendar and result features on Partner Websites, but want to redirect other traffic back to their main website. […]

Large Races Using Partner Websites

We have a couple of large races like the Philadelphia Marathon and the Fifth Third River Bank Run that are now using our Partner Website infrastructure to host their race website. They are finding it more secure than WordPress, and quicker to add content and take advantage of their race database on RunSignUp. And it […]

ChronoTrack RunSignup Partnership Explained

We are at the ChronoTrack Conference this week presenting with ChronoTrack on the meaning of this new partnership. Here is what we are presenting and discussing. There are several strategic reasons for this partnership: Allow customer choice with an open approach – picking the technology they want to use Integrate the data so it is shared […]

Partner Websites – Page Meta Description

We have added the capability to set the Meta Description to each page under the Advanced Page Options in each page on Partner Websites. The Meta Description is typically what is shown on a Google Search. For example: The setup is under the Advanced Page Options as you create or edit each page on your Partner […]

Race Calendar Listing Notifications

We have updated the automatic notifications we send out when simple race listings are created. This is for customers using our Race Calendar widget – for example running stores or running clubs. When race directors want to just put up a simple listing (rather than use RunSignUp for registration), that now triggers a notification to […]

Replace RunSignUp Logo with Partner Logo

Partners can now replace the RunSignUp logo on the top left of race website pages with their own logo. This is particularly nice for race series who want to use the nicely formatted RunSignUp Website pages instead of the widget. Set this up on your Partner Dashboard under Races -> Settings:

ReDirect WebPage Questions Button

We have added an option to our Race Director Contact button we put on Race Websites. This option allows the race to redirect the button to your own race contact page. This is set up in the Miscellaneous Settings Page on the Race Director Dashboard: We have also added a partner level setting that will […]

Partner Setting to Turn Off Confirmation Calendar Notifications

In our new Confirmation Email Customization, we added the automatic generation of a calendar event to be attached to the email. This makes it simple for the participant to add your race to their calendar on their phone or computer with one click. Some races and partners do not like this. We give each race […]

More Partner Level Comparison Reports

We have added a new report that allows you to easily show year over year comparisons for a particular race (or city if you hold a race series). It also includes number of repeat participants in each year. Here is a sample: You can reach this report by clicking on your Partner Dashboard menu item, […]

Partner Website – Automated Race Pages

There is now an option to automatically create pages for all the races in your Partner Website. This means as you add and change races, you do not need to do any changes to your website. They automatically appear in your Upcoming Races Calendar and when people click on the links in the calendar they […]

Add-On Report for Partners

We have added a new report for Partners with Race Series that offer the same products across many races. It provides a consolidated view for all Add-On orders. This is a follow-on to our Store Reports, but designed especially for Add-Ons. The URun races series like BlackLight Run and Bubble Run is offering an option […]

Partner Websites – Placeholders

You can now create your own Placeholders which will be dynamically updated on your Partner Website whenever you make a change on the setup. Placeholders can be defined on the Partner Website -> SetUp page: Then you can use the placeholder tag, such as %standardPrice% anywhere on your website in content areas. This means if you […]

Partner Websites – SEO Optimizations

You can now set up your Description as well as your Keywords for Partner Websites. These are both useful mechanisms for improving your Search Engine Optimization. The setup is in your Partner Dashboard under Website -> Setup. You can put a number of keywords, but the more keywords, the lower value Google will place on […]

Race Calendar Options

Race Calendar Widgets are a quick and easy way for running stores, clubs and timers to put a list of races on their website. We have added a few options to allow for: Customize title to something other than “Race” – this is useful for Clubs who might have a training run calendar Highlight specific […]

Partner Website – Facebook and Twitter Feeds

We have added the ability to add Twitter and Facebook Feeds to partner Websites (these will be coming to Race and Club sites soon). These should be put into the Sidebar as they do not look good in full page mode: These are simply Integrated Components that can be selected when you build a new […]

Partner Website – Race Series Maps

We have added the ability to have a national map showing all locations of partner races as well as a grid view that is perfect for race series as part of our Partner Website capability. Coupled with this is a new Grid View that shows each location as a “card” with the ability to upload […]

Partner Website Race Listing Options

We have added several race listing options. For example, there is new “Condensed View” which is clean and slick (and look awesome on mobile devices): We have also added other options to the Upcoming Race list: Use the race location as the race name Include other Race ID’s in your race list (beyond just the […]

EMail Subscription Form for Partner Websites

We have added an integrated Component that you can now set in a Custom Section and add to any Partner page that allows visitors to sign up for your newsletter. You simply select the “Email Subscription Form” Component, and which email list you want them to go into (you can set a New List in […]

Free Partner Website Setup

Update: Partner Websites are live on production as of 12/2/2015. We have some customers that were on old WordPress Sites, and those will be shut down at some point and we encourage moving to this new platform. We have extended our Free Race and Club Website capability to our Partners who manage multiple races. The […]

Repeat Participant Reports

We have added a new report to show you the people who come back to your race. If you have multiple years of registration data in RunSignUp (remember you can upload previous years participant information even if this is your first year on RunSignUp), this will show you how many people have run your race […]

Partner Level Participant Report

We have added the Participant Report that is part of our Race Dashboard to our Partner level Dashboard. This allows partners to generate do searches and reports that span across all of their races. Note this is only for Partner Owners and Secondary Owners to protect the data. People with limited access to the Partner […]

Partner Dashboard Improvements

We continue to make improvements to the New Partner Dashboard. Improved Search. We refined the search capabilities of the search bar to improve the ability to find participants. We also expanded the date range to all dates, which can be refined in the search results screen shown in the next section. Improved Search Results. We […]

New Partner Dashboard

We have released a new Partner Dashboard for our customers like Timers, Race Series, Running Stores Running Clubs and others with many races to manage. The first thing existing partners will notice is the fact we use the same layout menu system that the Race Dashboard uses. However we made this black and grey so […]

Enhanced Partner Reporting – Multi-Year Comparison Charts

For our Partners with multiple races – either timers, event managers or companies with race series – we now offer simple year over year comparison charts. This is an expansion of the earlier Partner Reports we had released. Here is an example of a timer who started introducing RunSignUp to their races in 2013 and […]

New Partner Dashboard Reports

We have added several new reports for Partners to see a quick overview across all of their races. The first is reached by clicking the “View Live Dashboard” button on the top left of the Partner Dashboard. It produces a quick view report of total registrations, transaction volume and revenue share: The Top Races & […]

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