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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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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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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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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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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We reported back in February that the squabble between Apple and Facebook over user privacy was probably going to result in changes to the Facebook Ads platform. Here is the latest update on how Facebook is changing their ad system and what you…
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Spring is here and RunSignup | GiveSignup is climbing out of the COVID fog strong with growth across our entire organization. With that investment, we were able to comb our networks for additional high-caliber tech talent which has resulted in another great addition…
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Q1 2021 marks the turning point for our business. Looking back on the quarter, the year started slowly with many customers and supporters consumed with very high COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths, concerns about vaccine distribution, and the tumultuous passing of power…
Read MoreOver the next couple of weeks we will be rolling out new payment processing. We have done a major refresh of the code and moving to new payment processors, Adyen and Payroc. The purpose of this is to prepare properly for our…
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SignMeUp is the latest race registration vendor to close down, joining a growing list we have covered before in our Registration Market Analysis. As is typical, these closings happen quickly, without thoughtful migration strategies put in place. For example, their website is still up…
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