Your Race. Your Platform.

No. Most race directors start with 9 products: Tickets for registration, Active for race discovery, Sites for your race website, Apps for the runner mobile app, Campaigns for email, Sign for digital waivers, Inbox for runner support, Echo for local SEO, and Reputation for post-race reviews. That covers everything for a typical local-to-mid-size race. The full Ops stack (Dispatch for course operations, Signal for GPS tracking, Display for leaderboards, POS for expo merchandise, Ledger for financial reconciliation) is available when you scale to multi-day festivals or world-major events. You never pay for products you do not use.

Registration through Tickets with waiver signing via Sign. A race website generated by Sites. Email campaigns through Campaigns for early-bird pushes and race-week info. Runner support via Inbox. Local SEO through Echo. Post-race photos tagged by bib in Studio. Reviews collected through Reputation. Results and a runner app through Apps. That is 9 products, one login, and it replaces RunSignUp, Mailchimp, Squarespace, and the manual photo tagging you were doing after every race.

When your race grows beyond what registration and marketing tools can handle. A 2,000-runner half marathon with 12 aid stations needs Dispatch for supply logistics. A 10,000-runner event with start corrals needs Access for zone control. A multi-day festival with an expo needs POS for merchandise and Display for signage. A race with a title sponsor needs Ledger for financial reconciliation and Deals for the sponsor pipeline. The products are there when the race needs them.

Yes. Calisto integrates with 56 regional payment gateways across 30+ countries. Use your existing merchant account or negotiate your own rate. You are never locked into a single processor. For data hosting, Calisto supports bring-your-own-backend architecture. European races facing GDPR can keep runner data in Frankfurt. Most race platforms force their cloud and their processor. Calisto gives you the choice.

Destination marathons draw runners from dozens of countries. Calisto was built for this from day one: multi-currency entries so runners pay in their local currency with regional payment methods (iDEAL in the Netherlands, PIX in Brazil, UPI in India), multi-language race communications delivered in the runner language, and regional payment gateways covering 30+ countries. The data model, billing layer, and locale handling were all designed for global race operations from the start.

Yes. The same platform a community running club uses for a neighborhood 5K is the same platform a destination marathon uses for 50,000 entries across six continents. You do not outgrow Calisto and migrate to a different tier. Community races start with registration, results, and email campaigns. Growing events add course dispatch, sponsor management, and spectator ticketing. Major marathons add multi-entity financial management, custom API integrations, and granular permission controls. Same platform, same login, same data.

Spectators visit a public tracking page (no login required), search by bib number or runner name, and follow multiple runners simultaneously. Split times refresh every 10 seconds. Predicted finish time updates as the runner progresses through each timing point. Pace alerts notify spectators when their runner passes a checkpoint. The tracking page is the link families text each other at 6am on race morning.

Share a public sign-up link. Volunteers select roles (aid station, course marshal, finish line, medical support, expo), pick shifts and stations, sign a digital waiver via Calisto Sign, and receive a QR code for race-day check-in. Race directors see who checked in and who did not from one dashboard. Training courses deploy through University for medical staff and safety-critical roles. Calendar manages shift rotations and break schedules.

For a local 5K with a bakery sponsor, you track it in a simple list. When sponsor relationships get complex, Calisto Deals provides a Kanban pipeline from prospect to signed contract. Create tiered sponsorship packages (Title, Gold, Silver, Bronze). Generate branded proposals with audience demographics and prior-year data. E-signature via Sign. Track activations, deliverables, and ROI. Ledger reconciles sponsor revenue alongside entry fees. Campaigns sends sponsor co-branded emails. The depth is there when the relationship demands it.

Design your finisher certificate with a template builder: background image, layout, merge tags for runner name, finish time, placement, and date. Bulk generate for all finishers or let runners download from the results page. High-resolution PDF. For photos, Studio handles race media production with bib-number tagging so runners find their finish-line photos on their results page. Social sharing cards pre-formatted for every platform.

Calisto was designed by someone who has stood in a parking lot at 5am wiring timing mats and assigning volunteer stations. The aid station resupply dispatch exists because that person watched a station run dry at mile 8 while the supply truck sat in traffic with no GPS visibility. The medical incident log exists because a runner collapsed at mile 18 and the closest medical team did not know for four minutes. The sponsor activation tracker exists because a title sponsor once asked for proof their banner was displayed. Every workflow reflects a real race-day scenario.

Yes. Start for free with full access to all 50 products across all three suites. No credit card required, no time limit, and no feature restrictions. You only pay the 2% revenue share once you begin processing transactions.