Meet RunSignup
Our Story
RunSignup creates best in class technology for endurance events. Our Development team builds the best software in the event industry to boost registrations, optimize event operations, and streamline RaceDay. Our Sales and Customer Support team makes sure that our customers can use RunSignup’s tools to their maximum potential throughout the full event cycle: Marketing, Registration, Fundraising, and RaceDay. We’re focused on delivering easy, accessible technology for endurance events at a low cost, and with no advertising or spam. This simple business model keeps our costs low, makes us efficient, and keeps our heart in the right place…focused on technology for events.
As a race director and runner frustrated by existing online registration platforms, RunSignup founder Bob Bickel set out to build a better one that solved problems for race directors and participants in 2009. Today, RunSignup is the largest registration platform for endurance and peer-to-peer fundraising events with more than 7 million participants signing up each year.
In February 2022, RunSignup formally announced TicketSignup to bring the same robust infrastructure and focus on event technology to general admission and timed entry ticket events like festivals, farm events, golf outings, light shows, haunts, and more.
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More Than 28,000 Events Choose RunSignup Because…
We value your trust above everything.
RunSignup is a PCI Level 1 payment facilitator and we’ve processed more than $1.7 billion, with all transaction dollars going directly to your event’s bank account and 100% on-time payment. Since 2015, we’ve had just 4 minutes of downtime while doing more than 2,000 software releases per year. We don’t lock you into any contracts – we want happy customers and if you aren’t satisfied, you can leave at any time. Our dedicated support staff is available 7 days per week to assist your team.


Our free marketing tools boost your registrations.
Promote your event with unlimited free email, free websites (not just a page), custom social sharing, and digital marketing integrations. Grow your event by incentivizing attendees to bring their friends and family with automated Referral Rewards. Drive revenue and a sense of urgency with the most flexible registration pricing options available.
Your attendees won’t see our brand, only yours.
Unlike other registration platforms, we don’t show our brand and logo to your participants – and we’ll never send your participants marketing emails for other races. From custom domains to fully customizable notifications and email, and an race website that’s easy to build and design, your participants will only see and engage with your brand.


We make your registration simple.
Participants have a smooth and easy sign up process with mobile-responsive, SEO-optimized websites. Your registration data is always available to easily view and export. We reduce your team’s customer service with powerful admin and self-serve participant management options for everything from deferrals and event transfers to waitlists and bib exchanges.
We have the technology you need on Event Day.
Schedule pre-event emails and streamline check-ins with our easy to use mobile CheckIn App. Sell tickets at the door with our integrated Point of Sale system using Square credit card and phone chip and tap readers or take cash.


Our success is tied to your success.
Our transparent, transaction-based processing fees mean that we only make money when people sign up for your event. This business model keeps us aligned with event directors and ensures that we are partners in building great and free technology that grows your event and makes you successful.
Guiding Principles…
Company News
Registration Market Analysis March, 2023
We have been doing the US 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…
Read MoreGuest Timer Insights: Zack Loggins
The recorded Timer Tip Tuesday below hosts special guest, Zack Loggins, founder of Georgia-based Runners Fit Race Works timing and event management company. Zack started his timer business in 2010 while at college in north Georgia to help pay for his tuition and pulled from his personal experience as a runner. His first year resulted in timing 60 events and he has grown the business to now provide timing and event services for an expected 200 events this year.
Read More2022 Top 100 Largest Races
We are returning with our Largest 100 Races Report now that things are returning to normal (although plenty of things were not really back to normal still in 2022). First, several notes:– This is based on an earlier set of data we…
Read MoreWelcome, David Drew!
We are excited to announce our newest team member, David Drew. David is joining RunSignup as a Technical Customer Service Representative. He will primarily be focused on providing support for timers using RaceDay Scoring as well as runner tracking. To welcome Drew…
Read MoreRunSignup.com Changes
*The new website is now live (and you’re reading this on it!). Over the next week or so, we will be releasing a new “content” website for RunSignup – info.runsignup.com. We have spent the past couple of months creating new content for the…
Read MoreRunSignup Roadshow: Thanks, Tampa!
We kicked off our 2023 RunSignup Roadshow in Tampa last week, and what a way to start! Attendees joined us at Ordinance One in New Port Richey for three hours of education and conversation over food and beverages. We are thankful to the 45 race directors…
Read MoreWelcome, Duy Nguyen & Matthew Brady
We are excited to announce our 2 newest team members, Duy Nguyen and Matthew Brady. Duy Nguyen and Matthew Brady are joining RunSignup as part of the software engineering co-op. To welcome Duy and Matthew to our team and to give them…
Read MoreGuest Blog – Reviews as a service for the Mass Participation sports industry
Guest Blog: Alexandros Tanti, CEO & Co-founder of Racecheck My first-ever triathlon was a life-transforming experience. From a logistical and organisational perspective, everything worked like clockwork, allowing me to enjoy the race and embrace the experience fully. Crossing the finish line filled me…
Read MoreFounders Corner – Tax Impact of R&D Expense Amortization Due to 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act taking effect in 2022
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…
Read MoreRunSignup 2022 Product Recap
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Year in Review, 2022 Availability Report, Company Strategy, TicketSignup 2022 Product Recap, 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…
Read MoreRowan University: Leaderboard Field Experience Project
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…
Read More2022 Year in Review
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Availability Report, Company Strategy, TicketSignup 2022 Product Recap, RunSignup 2022 Product Recap, 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…
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