Recent Blogs


Want to expand your race day communications? RaceJoy has the answer!

RaceJoy offers a variety of communications options that offer real-time messaging with a highly engaged audience of participants, their supporting family and friends, and your race operations team. From pre-loaded text formatted messages that reach the masses to individualized text-to-audio messages, you…

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RunSignUp Demonstrates Continued Commitment to Secure Data and Transaction Processing with new Leadership Role

The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) announced today the launch of a new Payment Facilitator Committee, with Kevin Harris (RunSignup Chief Finance and Operations Officer) taking the role of Vice-Chair. ETA Press Release: http://www.electran.org/publication/transactiontrends/eta-announces-new-payments-facilitator-committee/ As noted in the release, the committee “will serve as a…

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Show Sponsor Levels

ere is now a simple display option that shows the Sponsor Levels: When turned on, it will show the various levels:

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RaceDay Scoring – Why Build it

When we announced the RaceDay Go Platform, we talked about our desire to build out the RaceDay Scoring component for timers. As we embark on the considerable development effort (multi-person project that will continue forever), it is a fair question to ask ourselves and for…

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The Mighty Mud Dash Encourages Referrals

Referrals can be one of the single most powerful marketing tools for your race, making up 7-13% of total registrations for races with referral rewards activate. To maximize the program, your runners have to: The Mighty Mud Dash in Texas (www.mightymuddash.com) is…

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Sponsor Management

RunSignup is rolling out a major new part of our platform – Sponsor Management. And as usual, it is FREE! Sponsors are an important part of most races. They bring in revenue (for Bob’s Scott Coffee Run, they provide more revenue than…

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Club Membership Required on Specific Events

We have added an Advanced Option under Club Membership Discount Pricing that requires membership in a club for specific Events. This can be very useful for Clubs with their own race series who might have a specific Event like a Club 10K that is…

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Time-based Refund Policy

We have added the capability to set a time based Refund Policy. For example give a full refund 120 out from the race, but only a 10% refund the month before a race. This is set under Refund Policy (and can also…

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Manually Add Referral Codes to Registrations

You can now add Referral Codes to Registrations. This happens when you get called up by a participant who says they referred a friend (although the friend did not click on the referral link so the system would automatically catch it) and…

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