Symposium 2019: Going Green

We love giving our customers the opportunity to speak at our Symposiums. Brandon Hough, founder of Advanced Running Project, joined us this year to talk about how your race can make an effort to go green. Events can generate a lot of…

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How The Scott Coffee Run Uses RunSignup

Bob was inspired to start RunSignup based on being one of the race directors at the Scott Coffee Run. Eight years later, it is useful to see how the race makes use of RunSignup technology today (this will be a long blog…

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Processing Fee Price Elasticity

There is a wide variance in processing fees consumers are willing to pay for different events – from low RunSignup-like fees to high Ticketmaster type fees. And yet consumers are willing to still sign up for the race or buy the tickets….

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Continuous Learning

One of the Guiding Principles of RunSignup is Learning. We are at RunningUSA down in Puerto Rico for the next couple of days and have already had a bunch of wonderful opportunities to learn from others. We figured it was also a…

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Private Event Registration Option

You can now set up private events that do not display on your race page or event selection page. This is a nice option for races that want to offer private registration to a certain group of people and do not want…

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Custom Columns for Participant Report

We have added a way to easily customize Column Names/Headings as well as order on the Participant Report. For example, change this default view: to this: This first step in creating a custom report view is to Save the Report after you…

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Repeat Participant Data in Participant Reports

We have added a way to view the repeat participant counts in your participant reports. To view this information, you must first unhide the fields in the report options. You can do this by going to Participants>>View Participants. Select the Report Options…

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Multi-Factor Authentication

We have released the capability to do Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA, or sometimes called 2-Step Verification) on RunSignup. This is optional for all users (required for RunSignUp employees). MFA is currently gaining popularity as an additional layer of security. The basic idea is…

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