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Launch of RaceDay Scoring v3.0: Team Scoring Upgrade

NEW RELEASE NOW AVAILABLE We are incredibly excited to announce RaceDay Scoring Version 3.0 new team upgrade release is now available for industry timers. This latest release of RaceDay Scoring encompasses substantial innovation for timers scoring events with a team or group component, such as running…

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RaceJoy Certified Timers Advanced Training

As hybrid experiences continue across the country, timers are helping events offer RaceJoy’s race day experience for both onsite and virtual course options for all types of events – relays, ultras, triathlons, duathlons, and so on. Below are advanced training sessions designed…

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Payment Account Transition – Bank Account Verification

With the coming of May, we are now required to verify bank account information. This is part of updates to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Fincen) rules that banks and credit card processors belong to and are required to comply with. This also coincides…

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Eventbrite Q1 2021 Report

We have been following Eventbrite since they are a similar company serving events and having a similar business model of charging for their services only with processing fees since they went public. We are also beginning to overlap with them more as…

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Large Events Progress Report: Moving Forward in 2021

It was only two months ago that we declared that events were back, citing dozens of small, local races and a handful of modified events exceeding 1,000. For all the optimism we felt then, even we underestimated the speed and velocity of event…

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Welcome, Michael!

A big welcome to Michael Lindeboom who joined the RunSignup development team this week.  Michael is a stellar addition with over 30 years of solid development experience.  Michael has seen it all contributing to everything from mainframes to mobile; on-premise to cloud…

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How to be a Race Director: 2021 Education Round-Up

With our 2021 Spring Forward Seminar we capped off a year of extensive virtual education focused on helping event professionals and nonprofits manage the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic and pivot events from in-person to virtual to hybrid. Between multi-session virtual seminars and webinars…

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Spring Forward Seminar: Recordings and Resources

Thanks to all the nonprofits, event directors, and timers, who registered to join us for our Spring Forward Session! You can refer to all the videos and resources below as you start preparing your Hybrid event strategy in 2021. Key Resources These…

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Payment Account Transition Update

As announced several weeks ago, we are now in the middle of the payment account transition to a new payment processor. We transitioned about 600 accounts last week, and all new accounts that are created are on the new platform. Most other acocunts…

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Fundraiser and Charity Partner APIs

We have released 3 additional APIs for fundraisers, charity partner fundraisers, and charity partner donations. This expands the RunSignup OpenAPI capabilities for nonprofits. The API documentation, including sandbox is located at https://www.givesignup.org/API. OpenAPIs are important for several reasons: The RunSignup API is very…

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