Enhanced Sharing and Facebook

As part of our Referrals 2.0 release, we have made major improvements to allow participants to share with their friends. This is enhanced when you provide incentives for participants to share, and coupons for their friends. The enhanced sharing can be customized by going to…

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Referrals 2.0

These are awesome releases!  RSU is crushing it in 2016! Facebook sharing and Refund Referrals have the ability to have a BIG impact on our business and we’re really excited to test them out. We also like the idea of arming the participant…

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Automated Referral Refund Rewards

As part of our big Referrals 2.0 release, you can now set up automated refunds as a reward to participants who refer others. Referrals can be turned on to automatically generate a special URL with a special referral code each time someone registers. The…

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Team Import

We have expanded the ability to do Team Imports with the following features: Note the fields that can be imported.  For example since the team type is specified in the CSV, different team types can be imported in the same CSV. 

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Mobile Increase

Captain Obvious says Mobile is important for races. In comparing the start of 2016 with the start of 2015, the numbers for Mobile access are up 20% and purchasing they are up 50%: We have been tracking the increase in the Mobile…

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Solano Turkey Trot Case Study

We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignup users.  This Solano Turkey Trot Case Study focuses on the benefits of easy access sharing, and changing race day registration. …

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The Big Short and Registration Payments

I went to The Big Short movie last night. I consider myself an amateur economics student of that time period and have read all the books – The Big Short, Too Big To Fail, and the ones by Geitner, Bernanke and Paulson. I found the network effects of financial leverage…

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Fundraiser Refunds

You can now set a registration fee for Fundraisers, but automatically refund part or all of it once they meet a certain goal. For example you may have a registration fee of $100, but do an automatic refund of $100 once the…

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Refunds for Group Size

Race Directors can now make refunds to group members who joined a team before the group size discount was met. This is a powerful extension to our Group Pricing, so group members are not waiting on each other to sign up for the…

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Microsoft Ends Support for IE 8, 9 and 10

Microsoft is ending support for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 next week. We will likely be following suit later this year for all race director and partner interfaces, but will have to continue to provide some support for the interfaces runners…

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