A streamlined race day leads to happy participants (and race directors). With the RaceDay Technology suite, we aim to deliver you products to streamline typical race day tasks. RaceDay team members Matt Avery and Crisp McDonald spoke with some of our Symposium guests about our RaceDay Registration platform and RaceDay CheckIn app. Learn how to... Continue Reading →
Jamie Orr, founder of Run The East, a Greenville, North Carolina based race timing and event management service provider recently completed RunSignup's RaceDay Certification program. We noticed he was making full use of the various RaceDay Suite of Technology that RunSignup offers. So, we checked in with him to get some insights that we could... Continue Reading →
We have expanded Multi-Race Bundles to include some more features to make signup even simpler: Team Joining Combining Questions Combining Add-Ons and supporting shipping address validation Display Customizations Granting access to non-race directors Detailed Transactions download Combining Results Notifications Corral Support Single Bib Number option These are in addition to what has been released for... Continue Reading →
Teams and Groups are becoming an increasingly popular way to attract participants. However, there are always questions about how to make this as simple and obvious as possible to attract the most people. On Monday, August 6, we are taking another step forward as part of our User Experience Manifesto to help races maximize the... Continue Reading →
We are excited to announce the initial public release of Multi-Race Bundles. The purpose of the Multi-Race bundle is to offer a choice to participants to buy a bundle of any number of races and events together in a single transaction. Participant View This example is for a bundle between the two races in Moorestown,... Continue Reading →
Little things we do add up for our users. One is when people enter their address, we ask for their Zipcode and then auto-fill the City and State. We use ZipCodeAPI to do this little magic trick. Since the average city is 8 characters long (http://www.geographylists.com/list17f.html), and a state is 2 characters, RunSignUp has saved... Continue Reading →
Before your registration opens, make sure to get your race enabled for RaceJoy. Here are the top five reasons for enabling sooner rather than later. Reason One: Promotion and Visibility = Increase Registrations The sooner you get your race loaded and live in RaceJoy, the sooner your promotion begins. RaceJoy’s Race Calendar currently includes more... Continue Reading →
We are introducing a new way for races to do a lottery where participants enter their credit card up front and it is charged later. This is in addition to the many ways we already support like Waiting Lists and Loyalty Programs used by races like Boilermaker and Space Coast Marathon. The new system is on... Continue Reading →
Fast registration is something every race should strive for. One of the features we offer is for participants to save their credit card information securely. Here are the latest stats from January, 2017: 11.1% of participants save their credit card 10.3% of participants have registered this month with their previously saved card This is another... Continue Reading →