Recent Blogs


Strike-Through Pricing for Event Grouping

When you group events together to make the display of events clearer, you can now also do strike through pricing. If all events are the same price and have the same strike through price, it will appear like this: If the events…

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SkiSignUp.com

In addition to RunSignUp, BikeSignUp, and TriSignUp, SkiSignUp.com is now available to prevent confusion for ski events using our software. All events(running, biking, triathlons, skiing, and more) are listed on each iteration of the site, and race directors can access all of their races…

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Shipping Address Validation

An increasing number of races are shipping items to their participants before the race (or after!). Some races charge a shipping charge, and some bundle it into their pricing. However, if items are returned, that can create frustration for the participant and…

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Customize Event Details on Race Websites

We have made some nice customization capabilities for generating a stronger “Call to Action” over the past month or so, including Strike Through Pricing and Event Highlighting with images and call-outs. By default, we include Details on each events that explain the ending registration date…

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Thanksgiving Stats – 2016

We are very thankful for all the people who made use of RunSignup yesterday. We were also thankful our self-serve technology worked so well (and we didn’t have too many support calls!). Here are the numbers for 2016 Thanksgiving Day (find the…

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Thanksgiving Stats 2016

We are very thankful for all the people who made use of RunSignUp yesterday. We were also thankful our self-serve technology worked so well (and we didn’t have too many support calls!). Here are the numbers for 2016 Thanksgiving Day (find the…

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The Right Side of Technology

At our core, we are a technology company. Yes, we are completely focused on endurance, but so are many races. Yes, we care about our customers, but so does every race. But races simply do not have the focus or expertise to…

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Does Your Race Need a Native App?

We made a decision almost 2 years ago that we would not have a stand alone app for registration that consumers would use, and that RaceJoy would be a single app, and we would not create an app for each race. There…

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Recording Matching Gifts

In addition to the ability to Matching Gift Data Links, RunSignUp now offers races a way to keep track of Matching Gifts on a per donor basis. In the Donor Report example below, Bill Hewlett’s employer, HP has made a matching gift donation….

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Email Marketing Whitelabeling

Enabling Whitelabeling is one of the best ways to improve email deliverability. It allows you to send through your own domain name, rather than sending with RunSignUp’s default settings. By placing your domain information into the emails rather than the default settings,…

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