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…

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Vantiv Payment Processing Delays

Vantiv, one of our back end payment processing providers, had issues with their payment processing reports during the week of July 13. This delayed some Advanced Payments by a day. We are working with them to try to make sure this does…

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Donation Processing Fee Drops to as low as 4%

We are pleased to announce that as a result of our work on the new Payment Processing techniques as well as the support of our partners, we are dropping the processing fee rate on donations. The rate is dependent on the payment processing mechanism…

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Database Upgrade – New Financial System

This was a major upgrade and we had to do a major database upgrade which caused our system to be unavailable for less than 5 minutes this morning. There was a gap of about 6 minutes between the last registration before the…

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Becoming a Payment Facilitator

NOTE: We are now a Payment Facilitator. Over the next month, we will be moving to the next level of sophistication in our credit card processing and become an official Payment Facilitator (sometimes called a Payment Service Provider). This will ensure we are meeting banking and…

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Invoice System

We have added a simple Invoice System to allow race directors to send invoices to sponsors and anyone that needs to pay the race. An email is automatically sent and they can make payment via online payment thru RunSignup or via offline….

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Hiding SignUp Fees

By default, we show the SignUp Fee up front if the runner will be paying for it.  We think this is a good practice as it let’s runners know the total cost. However, some races do not want to show this until…

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Payment Gateway Problems

UPDATE:  THE ERROR HAS BEEN CORRECTED.  LOOKS LIKE WE IMPACTED REGISTRATION FOR ABOUT 2 HOURS. FULL REPORT LATER. POSTMORTEM: One of our employees was handling a support call when they inadvertently accessed a configuration page on our Administrative pages. They accidentally reset…

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Payment Gateway Outages

Over the past two weeks our Payment Gateway provider, Braintree, has had a couple of outages.  This impacted some users who were trying to pay. The first outage was on November 6 from 4:45-5:02 PM Eastern time. This outage was caused by…

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Saving Runners Money

RunSignup was designed to fix some of the things that bugged us as runners when we signed up for races. One of those things was paying a fee for each runner signed up. So we changed things to being a fee on…

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