Thanks Mollie Bickel!
Mollie Bickel is our number one reader of this blog! Thanks Mollie! Here’s a picture from a few years ago…
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September 9, 2025
How Schools Can Use RunSignup | GiveSignup for Fundraising
Schools are always looking for creative, effective ways to raise money for programs, extracurriculars, and student initiatives. Whether you’re organizing a 5K race or running a student-led fundraiser, RunSignup and GiveSignup offer simple, powerful tools that make fundraising seamless for teachers, parents,...Read More about How Schools Can Use RunSignup | GiveSignup for Fundraising
September 9, 2025
Can RaceDay Scoring Handle My Weird Scoring Situation?
One of the most common questions we hear from timers is: “Can RaceDay Scoring handle my unique scoring situation?”The answer is almost always yes – and often in more than one way. RunSignup’s RaceDay Scoring is both powerful and flexible, giving timers the ability to...Read More about Can RaceDay Scoring Handle My Weird Scoring Situation?
September 8, 2025
The RunSignup Community Grant Returns for 2026
We are excited to announce the return of the RunSignup Community Grant Program for 2026! The Community Grant returns after a COVID-triggered hiatus to give back to the endurance community. How? The Community Grant supports endurance-related nonprofit organizations. In 2026, $10,000 is...Read More about The RunSignup Community Grant Returns for 2026
September 8, 2025
Back to School Extracurricular 3: Tickets
This is an extracurricular for our Back to School series reviewing the key content and updates from the last year before you dive into the busy fall race season. Your third (and last) Extracurricular covers ticketing. Looking for a different topic? You...September 8, 2025
Back to School Extracurricular 2: Fundraising
This is an extracurricular for our Back to School series reviewing the key content and updates from the last year before you dive into the busy fall race season. Your second Extracurricular covers fundraising for your race. Looking for a different topic?...Read More about Back to School Extracurricular 2: Fundraising
Recent Blogs
Mobile Native
We just released a bunch of refinements to really make the sign up process “Mobile Native”. This means everything is optimized for a great mobile experience. Minimize TypingFor example on the right when you enter the ZipCode field the full number keypad…
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Hiding Pages in your Race Website
ou can now hide pages in your race website from the Race Page -> Menu Order page on your race dashboard. This is useful if you had a store, but no longer have items to sell. It also allows you to work…
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Partner Dashboard Improvements
We continue to make improvements to the New Partner Dashboard. Improved Search. We refined the search capabilities of the search bar to improve the ability to find participants. We also expanded the date range to all dates, which can be refined in the search…
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New Partner Dashboard
We have released a new Partner Dashboard for our customers like Timers, Race Series, Running Stores Running Clubs and others with many races to manage. The first thing existing partners will notice is the fact we use the same layout menu system…
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Advanced Payment Delays
Advanced Payment (aka Vantiv) accounts with payments made on August 10 (you would see this in the View Payments button on the Financial Summary page) will see a one day delay in the payment receipt into your bank account. Here is the…
Read MorePayment Delays
Advanced Payment (aka Vantiv) accounts with payments made on August 10 (you would see this in the View Payments button on the Financial Summary page) will see a one day delay in the payment receipt into your bank account. Here is the…
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Southwest Cafe Margarita 5K 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 Southwest Cafe Margarita 5K Case Study focuses on the Check-In App and RunScore Results. Southwest Cafe Margarita…
Read MoreRunSignup Employees In Your Shoes
This weekend, RunSignup’s own Johanna Goode is putting on her first race as a race director! Johanna is part of the Fishtown Beer Runners and came up with the idea of The Philadelphia Mayors Cup where all of the 35 running clubs in Philadelphia could compete…
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Mid-Year Availability Report
For the first 6 months of 2015 we had 99.998 availability, with NO unplanned outages (knock on wood). We have had 1,590 releases of our site this year thru August 3, with only 2 requiring us to take the site down (2…
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