Club Header Image Cropping

We have added the ability to quickly crop an image when uploading your Club Membership header. Simply click the image uploader to pick an image: When you pick the image, it will automatically load into this convenient cropping tool that allows you…

Read More

Trail Running is Paving the Way for Green Running!

At the US Trail Running Conference in San Luis Obispo, California this last week the RaceJoy team got to connect with race directors and vendors in the trail running industry. We get a lot of great ideas for RaceJoy from this group and definitely…

Read More

Who Should Receive the Proceeds for a Race?

RunSignup makes it convenient for sponsoring entities or their authorized representatives (including timers and event management companies) to receive the registration proceeds for races. Either the sponsoring entity or the authorized representative can set up a payment account with RunSignup and receive…

Read More

Prevent Donations to Team Fundraisers

All fundraisers on RunSignup have their own individual fundraising page. If they choose to join or are required to join a fundraising team, their individual donations (both via RunSignup and the Facebook Fundraiser API Integration) automatically roll up to the team total. You…

Read More

Becoming a Race Director

A new book just came out, Organizing a 5K, by Crystal Waters McCulough. We saw it on a post on Race Directors HQ, and ordered it and read it this past weekend. It is a great book for people thinking about putting on…

Read More

Symposium 2019: Timer Day Keynote Speaker

This year’s Timer Day was bigger than ever before. For the first time ever, we awarded a timer with the Alan Jones Timer of the Year Award. The award was named after Alan Jones because of his contributions to the race industry…

Read More

Customize “Charity” Wording

You can now customize the wording for “Charity”. This is useful for races that have branded Charity Partner programs, such as Crescent City Classic’s Run For It Charity Program. It also provides flexibility to rename “charity” to “nonprofit” or “charity partner.” Once you…

Read More

Donor Covered Fees

When you create a fundraising run/walk/ride powered by RunSignup, you can choose to absorb the processing fee, pass it to your supporter, or split the processing fee 50/50. RunSignup charges a low 4% processing fee on all donations (yes, that includes credit…

Read More

Symposium 2019: Fundraising Panel

For the 8,000+ nonprofits who use RunSignup, fundraising is an essential part of their events. But it’s more than just collecting donations–everything from your communications strategy to your social media presence can affect your results. At Symposium, we invited some experts from…

Read More

Are Races a Good Business?

Jen Miller’s NYTimes weekly newsletter contained some more “bad news” about the state of races: “Triathlons appear to be facing the same kind of participation slump that hit running in the mid-2010s: U.S.A. Triathlon’s membership dropped about a quarter over a five-year period. And that’s…

Read More

Subscribe to Our Blog

Customize Lists...
Loading