Recent Blogs


How Great Technology Enables Marketplace Differentiation

At RunSignUp, we’re technology nerds. We love thinking of – and then creating – fancy new features and functionality, but in a vacuum that technology is useless.  Andy Harris from Columbus Running Company gave a great presentation at the 2015 RunSignup Race Director/Timer…

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Advanced Payment Delay

Vantiv, our credit card processor for Advanced Payment accounts had delays in their batch processing yesterday that resulted in us being unable to execute funding instructions before 6PM. This will result in a payments that daily payment customers would expect today to…

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New Store and Add-on User Interface

We have updated the interface for store and add-on items to be much easier to use and nicer to look at! Below is an example of what an item would look like on a phone. Below are some other examples. One recommendation…

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Future Trends in Registration Systems

As stated in our Registration Systems Market Analysis, we do a bi-annual internal meeting to discuss how we have done, and plan where we are heading. We thought we would share our current view on what is happening in the registration market in…

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Running Club Websites Released

We have released the same website capabilities for Clubs that we recently released for Races. All of the existing Clubs were automatically updated. The new design brings a number of benefits: We have also updated your Club Dashboard where you set everything up…

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AWS Outages

There have been outages on Amazon AWS, our cloud infrastructure provider, this morning. This has caused some delays in completion of transactions and notification to customers. The good news is that unlike other systems with less fault tolerance built into them, RunSignup stayed…

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Maintenance Outage on Tuesday

RunSignUp will be unavailable for 1-2 minutes between 3:45-4:15AM Eastern on Tuesday, September 22 to do a database upgrade. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Registration Market Analysis – September 2015

We are a very open company (with things like public annual and availability reports as well as public roadmap), and we thought we would share some analysis we have done as well as general thoughts on the future size and direction of the registration market. We do…

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HeatMaps for Races and Partners

We have introduced Heatmaps for Races and Partners (folks who manage multiple races). Here is an example of a small Race Series Partner Heatmap: You can see the cities where they have races and how many people relatively have signed up from…

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