Recent Blogs


Changing Events and Add-Ons for Imported Participants

We have a number of races who have moved to RunSignup from another vendor while registration is open. This typically means they import those registrations into RunSignup and use the RunSignup Participant Management capabilities so participants can do self-management. In Add-On and…

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Harrisburg YMCA Race Series Case Study

We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignup users.  This Harrisburg YMCA Race Series Case Study focuses on reaching a broad cross-section of a community, coordinating with a…

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Fast Registration – TXT and Email Notifications

In our pursuit of having the fastest registration platform, we now give users the ability to save their preferred TXT and Email notifications in their profile. This means when the next race wants the same information, it automatically populates. These are saved…

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Fast Registration – Saving Giveaway Preferences

As part of our project to make registration as fast as possible, we have introduced a way to save Giveaway Preferences. The idea is save a participants preference for Giveaway Shirt Size and auto-fill that when they sign up for their next…

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More Partner Level Comparison Reports

We have added a new report that allows you to easily show year over year comparisons for a particular race (or city if you hold a race series). It also includes number of repeat participants in each year. Here is a sample:…

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Referral Rewards – Using your own URL

We have added the capability to direct Referrals to your own URL. To get the referral codes to work, you will need to check for a GET parameter of “raceRefCode” in your site’s URL.  Then, when outputting the widget code, you will need to add…

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Using Email to Promote Referrals

With the release of Referrals 2.0, there is an opportunity to send reminders to participants to share with their friends. The integrated RunSignup Email system is perfect for this, since emails are generated right from the database. So you can add Placeholders to…

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Automated Coupons

As part of the Referrals 2.0 release, participants can now receive an automatic coupon to share with their friends and family to encourage word of mouth marketing for your race. First, set up the Referral Tracking Set this up in the Dashboard under Promotion…

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Enhanced Sharing and Facebook

As part of our Referrals 2.0 release, we have made major improvements to allow participants to share with their friends. This is enhanced when you provide incentives for participants to share, and coupons for their friends. The enhanced sharing can be customized by going to…

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