Successful race promotion goes beyond the obvious social media, race flyer, email marketing model and looks at ways to get participants more involved as de-facto ambassadors for the event. One simple option: Groups & Teams. Teams (or groups) can have a broad definition. A few usages we see: Relay teams Competitive teams (scored as a… Continue Reading →
RaceJoy had the most usage of relay teams at a single race since its inception at this last weekend’s Colfax Marathon in Denver, Colorado with close to 700 teams using RaceJoy. RaceJoy recently released an industry breakthrough where it virtually ties relay team phones together to provide progress alerts for the team. Colfax is one of… Continue Reading →
You can now import fundraisers onto a team directly. Use the Fundraiser Team ID number (You can find this at the end of the URL on the Fundraiser Team Report page or on each Fundraiser Team page or on csv export files.
While some races want to have a separate definition for Teams and Fundraising Teams, there is also a need to align these so they are essentially the same. This has an advantage in that a team can be created or joined on the first step of registration rather than waiting until the Fundraising step. To… Continue Reading →
We have added a setting that allows an administrator password to override Group/Team passwords during onsite registration. We received feedback that many team members don’t actually know their relay team password, which can be confusing during onsite/race day registration. This administrator password can be added in the Kiosk Settings under Go Race Day>>Race Day Registration>>Kiosk Mode…. Continue Reading →
We now offer an option to allow for age-based pricing with corporate team registrations. If this option is turned on, the age-based pricing will override any special corporate team pricing the race may have set-up. This is a very nice option for races where students and/or seniors receive discounts that might be greater than the discounted corporate team pricing…. Continue Reading →
To prevent errors, we do not allow Corporate Teams to be deleted. They can be hidden on the Edit Team page: This now will show on the reports, so when you download CSV’s they can be sorted easily.
We now give Corporate Team Captains the ability to buy additional entries for the race. The cost is the same set for that team type in the Corporate Team setup. This is a new option that is enabled in the Corporate Team Pre-Paid Package dashboard setup: You can also set up packages with defined #… Continue Reading →
We have added an option that requires all fundraisers to be part of a team. This is useful for those races that are trying to get the benefit of more people working together. We’ve added it as another option on the Fundraiser SetUp section under Donation Setup:
CAUTION – USE THIS FEATURE CAREFULLY. We have added an option to allow Race Directors and Corporate Team Captains to change the employee status of participants. The idea is that if someone signed up as an employee for the corporate team, but are actually not an employee then their employment status can be changed. Race… Continue Reading →
