Recent Blogs


RaceDay Primer for Race Directors

Today, technology advancements now means any sized race can offer many of the same race day features that even the largest races, like the NYC Marathon, offers. All races can now offer real time tracking, split alerts based on timing equipment on the course, officially scored finish times within seconds of participants’ finishing, txt notifications, online photos, and more. In addition, newer technology innovations like dynamic bib assignment are bring a host of advantages such as reduced cost, greater efficiencies, and more revenue by allowing registration to remain open even after the gun goes off. But much of this is kind of a mystery to race directors, and this blog aims to help race directors understand all that is available to them so that they can deliver the quality of a big race experience regardless of the event size and budget.

Read More

How RunSignup Supports USA Cycling Events

Many race directors select RunSignup to manage registration for USA Cycling (USAC) sanctioned events. RunSignup assists race directors by helping you comply with the requirements of USAC waiver signatures as well as collecting USAC Membership ID numbers (if required for your type…

Read More

Membership Level Discounts for Races

We have added the ability to give discounts to different levels of Membership when signing up for a race. For example a 50% discount for Gold Members and 10% discount for Silver Members. This is additional capability beyond the overall Membership Discount…

Read More

RaceDay Check-In App Label Printing

In a recent webinar we covered how to use RunSignup’s free RaceDay CheckIn app’s label printing feature. This feature helps to streamline packet pickup and reduce potential confusion. Races can print various things such as a participant’s name, age, division, bib number, shirt size, swag information, etc. There are a lot of features available within the CheckIn app, and this is one that we recommend races look at possibly using.

Read More

Font Size Options for Email V2

You can now edit font size in Email V2. In addition to headings and paragraph text, you can seamlessly adjust text size in emails. We continue to add more Email V2 features that give you more email design and layout capabilities.

Read More

Trail Running Film Festival on TicketSignup

The Trail Running Film Festival brings a night of independent trail running films and community to running stores across the US and the world. In addition to helping a growing number of ultras and trail races with registration on RunSignup, running stores…

Read More

Umbrella Fundraising Teams for Peer to Peer Fundraising Events

Peer to Peer fundraising events can now create Umbrella Fundraising Teams. Umbrella Fundraising Teams group fundraising teams into super teams. Umbrella Fundraising Team pages feature dynamic counts for number of teams, number of team members, and total donation amount raised by included…

Read More

Eventbrite Q4 2023 Earnings Recap

We say this sincerely – we wish Eventbrite was doing better. They are the only public company in the event ticket/registration space and are the segment leader. If they were growing it would show that events are back and bring an overall…

Read More