Virtually every running event has bibs for each participant. Assigning bib numbers and getting bibs printed is an integral process of event management and can be very tedious and time consuming.

Race Director Guru offers a Bib Assignment service to help streamline this process.

How Does Bib Assignment Work?

The process is very simple. When participants register for your event, they are assigned a bib number. The number they are assigned is based on the bib sequence you setup.

Example:

Let's say you setup a Registration Category called "10 k" and you want bib numbers to start at 100, increment by 1, and start with an A. You create a Bib Sequence, call it something like "10 k Sequence", set the start number to 100 and the increment to 1. Then edit your 10k Registration Category and in the Bib Sequence drop down select "10 k Sequence". When people register for your 10k, the first registrant will get bib A100, the second A101, the third A102 and so on.

What are Prefix and Postfix?

Many times, you want bibs for each category to start or end with a unique value. For example, you might want your 5k bib numbers to start with 5K so bib numbers would be 5K1000, 5K1001, etc. Your 10k bib numbers could be 10K100, 10K101, etc.

What If I Have Multiple Registration Options for My Event?

Let's say you have a 10k with options for Kids, Adult, and Senior. And let's say the price increases as the event gets closer. Not a problem. When you set up each 10k registration category, make sure and assign the same bib sequence to each category.

In the above example, you would select "10k Sequence" for every 10k registration category. That way, each registrant will be assigned the next bib number in that sequence.

How Do I Get a Report of Bib Numbers?

You can get the bib number in Event Registration, Reports, All Registrations, Export to Excel. The bib numbers are included as a column of data.

How Do I get Bibs Printed?

Using the Running Guru Report Scheduler, you can setup a report to be automatically emailed to you or your printer on a daily or weekly basis. This report sends all new registrations with the bib number.