Boilermaker Loyalty Program Opening

Boilermaker, the historic 15K road race in Utica, NY, opened up a Loyalty Program registration this morning at noon. They are opening up registration only to finishers of last year’s race for a week – next weekend they will open remaining slots to everyone…

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Database Maintenance

UPDATE: the migration was successful. It took 2 minutes from 10:45 – 10:47. There were no lost transactions, but some people did have to wait on the checkout page or click refresh. A second migration ran from 3:00PM- 3:04 PM. We are…

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Clean API’s and No Meetings

You often hear the recommendation of “Let’s have a meeting” and “Let’s communicate more”. At RunSignup we think meetings and communicating are a waste of time. Mark Nigro, the CTO at Bluestone Software and a very bright man, introduced me to 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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Nite Lites Christmas 5K 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 Nite Lites Christmas 5k Case Study focuses on setting yourself apart from the competition to create a successful first-year…

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Gobble Gobble Four Miler 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 Gobble Gobble Four Miler Case Study focuses on creating techniques for fundraising and engaging Sponsors.  Overview: The Gobble Gobble…

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Rock & Stroll 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 Rock & Stroll Case Study focuses on supporting donations for multiple charity partners. Overview: Rock & Stroll used RunSignup…

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Spring Lake 5 Opening

The Spring Lake 5 Mile opened for the second year with us. They sold out their 12,000 slots in the first 9 hours. They opened at 5AM and has nearly 2,000 registrations in the first 6 minutes! We were monitoring our systems, and are…

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Oauth Integration Docs and Sample Code

Attached are detailed documentation and sample code in PHP and Node for connecting with RunSignup via OAuth. This is useful for our partners who want to integrate tightly with our security system and give users bi-directional access to their information. RunSignUp OAuth…

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“Software is Eating the World”

My good friend Sacha Labourey wrote this blog today – CloudBees Raises $23.5 M because Software is Eating the World. He makes the point clear: “Software is not a tool that “helps” businesses anymore. Software has become *the* business. Everything companies do, from interacting with prospects,…

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