Recent Blogs


The Big Short and Registration Payments

I went to The Big Short movie last night. I consider myself an amateur economics student of that time period and have read all the books – The Big Short, Too Big To Fail, and the ones by Geitner, Bernanke and Paulson. I found the network effects of financial leverage…

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Fundraiser Refunds

You can now set a registration fee for Fundraisers, but automatically refund part or all of it once they meet a certain goal. For example you may have a registration fee of $100, but do an automatic refund of $100 once the…

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Refunds for Group Size

Race Directors can now make refunds to group members who joined a team before the group size discount was met. This is a powerful extension to our Group Pricing, so group members are not waiting on each other to sign up for the…

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Microsoft Ends Support for IE 8, 9 and 10

Microsoft is ending support for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 next week. We will likely be following suit later this year for all race director and partner interfaces, but will have to continue to provide some support for the interfaces runners…

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Fraudulent Races

Unfortunately, one of the things we have had to get good at this year is catching fraudulent races that have been set up (in addition to fraudulent transactions and hacking attempts). Over the past two days, we have caught 2 fraudulent races…

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Quick Donation on Checkout Page

We have added the ability for races to have a quick donation on the checkout page. This appears right below the credit card number and can be set for a single charity and and single $ amount as shown below: If checked,…

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Happy Festivus: An Airing of Grievances

In keeping with the traditions of Festivus, we have a few grievances to air: Runners…We have a problem with your procrastination (Race Day registration,anyone?!), your insistence on registering on your phones, wanting us to remember your credit card info, and your expectation that results be instant and easily…

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Charity Default Message for Fundraisers

Charities can now set a default message that will appear on each Fundraiser’s page. The fundraiser can modify this message, but it provides for better “standard customization” capabilities for charities working with many fundraisers. Note each Charity can set their own message…

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2016 Roadmap

We are really excited about our roadmap for 2016. We will have our 6th birthday in January, and have done a good job of getting the basics of registration right (see our 2015 Year in Review for some details). We are now at the…

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2015 Availability Report

Perhaps tempting fate writing this 2 weeks before the end of the year… We had 8 minutes of total down time in 2015. That is 99.998% uptime. The good news is that all 8 minutes were planned downtime for required system upgrades…

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