We recently were approved by the telecom carriers to have our own Short Code to support results notifications and emergency txt services for races. We have been using a shared short code service provider. Having our own short code assures us of having the…
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We have added several new features for Groups or Teams. Event Soft Caps The first one is “Soft Caps”. This is very useful for wave races, for example, obstacle course races. The basic idea is that you may have a cap of…
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Jeff Bezos Annual Amazon_Letter is out. We have written about it in 2015, 2016 and 2017 since Amazon is a major role model for RunSignup, as well as the infrastructure that runs our business. As usual, he covers a bunch of amazing statistics. Like AWS Cloud Computing is…
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We have added a powerful new capability to custom questions – having a unique answer. This is very useful for races who want to specify which participant is doing each leg – for example Bob is doing leg 1, Jeff is doing…
Read MoreWe are seeing an increase in interest for long distance endurance relay events where runners can share in a challenging, memorable experience together. With this, we’ve been doing a great deal of work with RaceJoy to deliver the features that the teams…
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It’s no secret that the endurance industry is BIG business for charities large and small. While your local charity 5K will likely find that turning a race into a profitable endeavor is a lot harder (and requires a lot more sponsors) than…
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In an ongoing effort to help race directors optimize their relationships with participants, we are adding Notes to the RunSignup CRM. This is very useful to mark notes of why you might have given a refund to a person, or that a…
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We have released a CSV transformation tool to assist with data importing. It is one of our utilities we make public along with a CSV Merge and an Elfscore converter available at RunSignup.com/Utilities. The new merge utility reads the header of each column…
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Due to changes in the APIs from Instagram, we will be removing the “Instagram User Widget” and “Instagram Hashtag Widget” from our custom content pages. What’s Happening: This change by Instagram (owned by Facebook) is likely a result of the Cambridge Analytica…
Read MoreOne of the very first concepts of RunSignup was that we were NOT in the advertising business. This led to the corollary decision that we did not own or co-own customer data. We made this decision for several reasons. First, we felt…
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