We have made it simple for fundraisers to “bring back their team” – sending them invites once your team fundraising page is complete. Set this up in your Fundraising Settings (Dashboard—>Donation—>Setup) and click on “Enable Bring Back my Team”) Once this feature…
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We have released a new participant management feature that will allow participants to receive a refund when someone else takes their place. This is particularly useful for sell out races with a waitlist. A good example is a race may be sold…
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One of the great features of RunSignUp is the ability to let participants make their own changes. However, some races want to prevent editing of certain fields – in particular people changing their names to do improper bib transfers. We now have…
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As we continue to get more races shifting to RunSignup from a previous system, we are creating easier ways to import past data. We have just extended the tool that allows you to create past events to quickly create past events from…
Read MoreA race’s website is their primary means of branding a race, the promotional tool to draw runners, and communicate with participants about important information. Many race website suffer from one or more of the following problems: RunSignup provides a free race website…
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With the decline of registrations in our sport, the overabundance of small registration providers, the closing of RaceIt, and most customers abandoning another vendor because of a scenario we predicted in “The Big Short and Registration Payments“, races should make sure they…
Read MoreWe have released another update to our new Race Websites Template, with some new cool options: Here is a sample page with the new content and countdown clocks and event highlight: This shows a simple example of the event highlighting: Setup is easy…
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Building great software is a complex art. It takes a blend of understanding the problem, creating an innovative solution, leveraging advanced technology, and being able to build a complex system based on code. It does not just happen. You can’t just outsource…
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The closing of RaceIt in November may prove to be the canary in the mine for registration companies in the declining race registration business. There are now rumors of another failing registration company, and there could be more coming. The real harm comes…
Read MoreRaceInsights now allows you to see specifically the amount of money coming from Registrations and Donations. Here is an example. Note how the table at the bottom shows the amount of each coming from website referrals and from email (you can drill…
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