Recent Blogs


Customize Email Results Notifications

We have added the ability to customize Results Notifications with rich HTML, and of course the custom tags we have always supported. The new editor looks like the editor in other parts of RunSignup: The tags are very extensive and allow timers to also send…

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Transfer to Waitlist

We have a couple of large customers who have sold out events with Waitlists. Some participants signed up for another event wish to transfer themselves to the event with the waitlist. In this example, a person in the Marathon event for the…

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Sponsor Logo Views

Thanks to our new RunSignUp Analytics, we can now show the number of sponsor logo views on a per sponsor basis. This now includes counting the sponsor watermarks on photo views. In this example, Lacas is the sponsor with their watermark on the…

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RunSignup Analytics

The first step of RunSignup Analytics has been released into production. As the name implies, this is similar to Google Analytics for races using the RunSignup platform. Over time it will collect and process all of the web interactions that your participants…

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Registration Market Analysis – April 2017

We did the first Market Analysis last September, and a second one in March and the third one ins September, 2016. We will continue to do this every 6 months and try to make it better with your feedback (so feel free to send suggestions or corrections…

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Shipping Address Correction Stats

Since releasing our Shipping Address Validation that uses the USPS validation mechanism, we have had a lot of customers make nice comments. They use it to let participants that want their Bibs, Giveaways or Add-Ons shipped to a correct address. This is similar to how…

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Delayed Credit Card Payment Lottery

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…

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Bib Fonts for Photos

We use Google Vision to automatically tag photos in our Race Day Photo platform. We are collecting more data on what works best and what does not. We’ve had one race have bad tagging results with Google Vision reading the “7” as…

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Sponsor and Photo Stats of the Day

ust a couple of interesting stats. Races have loaded over 38,000 Sponsors into our Sponsor Management System. Best Damn Race in New Orleans recently uploaded over 15,000 photos for their race. 64% of those photos were tagged with our Google Vision software. Not…

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