Recent Blogs


Corporate Teams: When, Why, and How to Use Them (or not)

Corporate Teams are one of the most powerful RunSignup features, but they aren’t one we talk about a lot for a very simple reason: they aren’t appropriate for most races. For most events, the basic Group/Teams function is ideal, but for true corporate team…

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Email Deliverability

One of the common questions we get is “My Email did not get through to all recipients. What happened?” Email deliverability is much less than most people know. According to Sendgrid, fully 21% of emails never make it to a users inbox….

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Certified Timer Spotlight: Jamie Orr, Run The East

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,…

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Running USA Wrap-Up

Seven of us spent a few days in Puerto Rico at the 2019 Running USA Conference, meeting with customers, comparing notes between events, and hearing about the newest ideas in the running industry. A few highlights… Volunteering (and fun) On Saturday, before…

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Multi-Race Bundles: Set Minimum & Maximum Races

We have made an enhancement to our Multi-Race Bundle options. You can now set the minimum and the maximum number of races that a multi-race registrant can choose during the registration process. For instance, you can set-up a multi-race bundle and include 10…

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Continuous Learning

One of the Guiding Principles of RunSignup is Learning. We are at RunningUSA down in Puerto Rico for the next couple of days and have already had a bunch of wonderful opportunities to learn from others. We figured it was also a…

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RaceDay Certified Timers Embrace New Technology

It’s the first week after RunSignup’s RaceDay Certification tour and timers that went through the training are energetically embracing RaceJoy and RaceDay Scoring. Already, certified timers have enabled RaceJoy for more than 80 new races across the country. Some timers are choosing to try RaceJoy out at…

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Third Annual RunSignup RaceTrends Report Shows Flat Race Participation

Moorestown, NJ – RunSignup released their Third Annual RaceTrends Report exploring the state of the endurance industry. The report was built by mining RunSignup registration and finisher data over a four-year period to generate transparent statistics, identify trends in the industry, and provide recommendations to…

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Updating 10,000 Race Websites

We updated our old race website template that had been our default from around 2014-2017. This means that over 10,000 race websites were automatically updated to look modern and sleek with lots of new options. Now both the side menu option (this…

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RunSignup Joins Race Directors Hub as a Community Partner

We’re joining with Race Directors Hub, the thriving endurance industry forum from the online resource Race Directors HQ, as a Community Partner to the Facebook group! The group was launched by Race Directors HQ editor Panos Gonos in October 2017 and has grown into Facebook’s…

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