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Participant Insurance for Increased Registrations and Revenue

Races using RunSignup for registration can choose to turn on participant insurance from the leading insurance provider, Protecht Regshield. This is free for event organizers and is another source of revenue for the race with the automated revenue share program we’ve established with the insurance provider. Participants have the option to purchase insurance when registering for the event for a nominal fee. Since we recently switched providers to Protecht Regshield, we’ve seen more than 15,000 participants purchase the insurance coverage and as high as 39% participation levels.

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AWS Service Outage

Update as of June 13, 2023 5:29PM EDTAWS is reporting that it is now fully operational and all service issues have been resolved. RunSignup impacted services are fully operational as well. Note that PageView data accuracy may have been impacted during the…

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Referral Rewards to Increase Registrations

Referral reward programs empower participants to become the ambassadors for your race and allow you to reach a broader audience with minimal investment. RunSignup offers events an easy way to set up and run an referral effective program to help bring in more registrations. Below provides guidance on how to set up a successful program using the free tools within your race dashboard.

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Race Emergency Preparedness for Wildfires

If you’re on the US East Coast, you may be facing health advisories related to Canadian wildfires. But even if you’re not currently impacted by air quality concerns, an emergency preparedness plan can help you deal with whatever issues may arise. We…

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RaceDay Scoring v3.3.40 is Now Available!

Feature Updates Added Last Completed Segment Time and Cumulative Time Fields. These will be especially useful for events with many segments as an easy way to track progress using a single field. This in combination with the Last Completed Segment column could…

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RaceDay Scoring for Cross Country Events

This recorded session provides an introduction and overview on how to use RaceDay Scoring’s cross country scoring functionality. It is a great resource for timers currently using RaceDay Scoring and wish to prepare for timing their cross country events. This 30 minute webinar covers everything from definitions and settings related to cross country to team scoring to generating reports for cross country events.

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Tickets for Track Meets and Tournaments

A growing number of timers and event organizers use TicketSignup to sell tickets for track meets, along with other sporting events like lacrosse tournaments and baseball games. It’s fast and easy to set up admissions with TicketSignup’s free and easy-to-use ticket platform….

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3 Columns for Email V2

You can now add 3 column sections to your emails. This allows for even more flexible email design and layout options. We continue to add more design options to RunSignup’s free Email Marketing – no coding required!

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Email Save as Draft

One of the most frequent requests we have received from users of our new Email V2 system was to make the saving of a draft email more obvious. We have added that feature now at the bottom of the page after first…

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