Recent Blogs


Trail Running is Paving the Way for Green Running!

At the US Trail Running Conference in San Luis Obispo, California this last week the RaceJoy team got to connect with race directors and vendors in the trail running industry. We get a lot of great ideas for RaceJoy from this group and definitely…

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Who Should Receive the Proceeds for a Race?

RunSignup makes it convenient for sponsoring entities or their authorized representatives (including timers and event management companies) to receive the registration proceeds for races. Either the sponsoring entity or the authorized representative can set up a payment account with RunSignup and receive…

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Sales Tax Refunds

As with all things Sales Tax related, there are complexities when it comes to refunds and sales tax! This will not be released for another month or so, but we have begun development on how sales tax refunds are handled. This blog will…

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Webinar Recap: Sales Tax and Races

Watch the Webinar View the Slides Read the Q and A We will try to provide information as directly as possible, but remember that RunSignup does not provide tax, legal or accounting advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only,…

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Sales Tax Webinar Q&A

We held a Sales Tax Webinar on August 21, 2019 to review the status of our Sales Tax implementation work, expected to complete by early October. We had hundreds of people attending and this is a list of the questions asked (trying to remove…

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RaceJoy on the Tour de Mont Blanc

James and Shelly Harris, the creators of RaceJoy, are celebrating their anniversary this year by hiking the Tour de Mont Blanc. This is ten days of hiking roughly 100+ miles. The trail goes around Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Europe and takes…

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Prevent Donations to Team Fundraisers

All fundraisers on RunSignup have their own individual fundraising page. If they choose to join or are required to join a fundraising team, their individual donations (both via RunSignup and the Facebook Fundraiser API Integration) automatically roll up to the team total. You…

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Becoming a Race Director

A new book just came out, Organizing a 5K, by Crystal Waters McCulough. We saw it on a post on Race Directors HQ, and ordered it and read it this past weekend. It is a great book for people thinking about putting on…

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Website Cover Page Data Components

As discussed when we first announced Cover Pages, we are beginning to add live data components to cover pages. We have added three, with many more to come over the next two months: You can see some of these live on ScottCoffeeRun.com. The top…

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Symposium 2019: Timer Day Keynote Speaker

This year’s Timer Day was bigger than ever before. For the first time ever, we awarded a timer with the Alan Jones Timer of the Year Award. The award was named after Alan Jones because of his contributions to the race industry…

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