Recent Blogs


RunSignup – Built for the Long Run

I (Bob) have taken a bunch of vacation time and had minor surgery that required time off, so I’ve had time to do a lot of reading (Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (great play!) and Ben Bernanke’s Courage to Act and a bunch of web stuff)….

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Faster Page Loads

We are always working on improving user experience, and made some updates for the new Free Race Websites we introduced a couple of months ago. We made a change today that reduced our CSS files by more than 50% and saves 36 kilobytes. This means…

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Custom “Event” Text for Races

We have added the ability for races to customize the “event” wording on the front-end of the registration page. This is particularly helpful for races with waves or tournaments, where the word “event” doesn’t exactly meet their needs. The custom event text can…

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Volunteer Assignments in Runner Profile

We have made a update to the system so users can now see their volunteer assignments directly from their RunSignup profile. Volunteers can click on the “My Volunteer Assignments” link to view their volunteer commitments and additional volunteer information like start time,…

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USA Triathlon Membership Pricing Changes Coming

USA Triathlon has notified us of their plans to increase Membership Pricing effective January, 1, 2016. Our integration with USATriathlon will change effective that day as we.. Here is their notice: UPCOMING CHANGEFor the first time in four years, USA Triathlon is…

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Secure Credit Card Storage

We are pleased to announce a new feature on RunSignup.  Effective today we will begin allowing participants to store a credit card at the time of registration to be used for future registrations and purchases. Here is how it will work; when…

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Holding Manual Payments

If you are on Manual Payments, you will see an option on your Financial Summary – Payments page for holding payments. Many small races are on Manual payments and may not want the complexity of getting daily or weekly payments and only…

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Availability – October 2015

We did a database upgrade this morning, and some users may have received an error message during the approximately 1 minute the database was down. If they re-submitted their page everything would continue to process as normal. We upgraded from MySQL 5.5…

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