Recent Blogs


U.S. Registration Market Analysis September 2016

We did the first Market Analysis last September, and a second one in March. 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 to bob.bickel at runsignup.com). We…

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http/2 Support

We have been doing a lot of infrastructure improvements over the past couple of months as a part of our PCI Level 1 Certification.  That is the highest level and requires extra measures of auditing and security and scanning, including a week…

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RaceJoy Releases Split Pace Alerts!

RaceJoy is rolling out split pace alerts for those using GPS-based progress alerts. RaceJoy’s progress alerts are typically issued at every mile for running and walking events and every five to 10 miles for cycling and longer distance events. The alerts include…

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Choose Your Own “Giveaway” Name

We’ve had feedback that some races do not like the term “Giveaway”. You now have an option for setting the name so it appears on the Menu as well as the Page. The setting is under Participant Management: Participants will see this…

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Aligning Teams and Fundraising Teams

While some races want to have a separate definition for Teams and Fundraising Teams, there is also a need to align these so they are essentially the same. This has an advantage in that a team can be created or joined on…

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Sponsor Watermarks on Photos

You can now set a Sponsor log as the watermark on your race photos. Simply choose to apply a sponsor watermark in either the lower left or right corners of your race photos as shown on the right. You can set this…

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Photo Bib Management

We have added several tools to help manage the automatic bib tagging that we do with Google Vision (since it is not quite as smart as a human, but a lot faster and cheaper). This is done on a per photo location…

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Team Roster Information Expanded

Team Captains now have access to a report of group/team members, contact info and t-shirt sizes. Many team captains order their own team shirts in addition to the ones the race gives out. So, the captains need an easy way to pull…

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