What is a finisher certificate?
A finisher certificate is a picture-style award that displays on a participant’s individual results page. Suitable for both digital sharing and physical printing, they confirm participation and completion by displaying names, dates, times and placing. They also incorporate colours, logos and imagery according to event and partner branding.
Depending on your needs, you can:
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use one design for most or all of your event, or
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add unique designs for each race or challenge.
Screenshot follows with a sample design.
Finisher certificates are a fantastic way to digitally reward event participants for completing what they signed up to do. Once downloaded, participants can print and hang them up, or share them online through social media platforms. Finisher certificates put that "finishing touch" on your event cycle.
Locating the certificates page
- Sign in to Race Roster.
- Visit the event dashboard.
- Use the left hand menu bar to open Apps > Results.
- Now inside the Timing tools, navigate to the Certificates tab near the top of the page.
You are now inside the Finisher Certificates page, where you should see one or more cards (boxes) featuring your designs. Screenshot follows.
What you see above: The master toggle is on, the Default card has the Auto-apply toggle on, and you can click "Create new certificate".
Enabling finisher certificates
Near the top of the page on the right hand side, a master toggle appears.
This toggle is an on/off switch used to show or hide certificates on results pages.
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When the toggle is on, participants can see finisher certificates on their results pages. Each certificate card can still be turned on or off on its own.
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When the toggle is off, no finisher certificates show to the public on those pages. The same card also explains that a default design can apply to many races. You can still create custom certificates for specific races when you need a different layout or branding.
Distinguishing default certificates and custom certificates
Default certificates
Pressed for time but still want something to show? Our default certificate is designed to display basic race timing information. When enabled, it displays the event date, participant name, sub-event name, chip time, division and place overall, using the Race Roster blue and white colour scheme.
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The Default card shows a preview with sample data, so that you can see the layout.
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Enabling Auto-apply applies this design for races that are not tied to another certificate.
- When Auto-apply is toggled on, you may see text like "Applied to: All other current and future races." Exact wording can vary.
You may click the blue "Customize" button to open the editor and change the default design. Screenshot follows to highlight the unique elements of the default certificate.
Custom certificates
Custom certificates allow for a wide creative range on how you want this digital reward to look. Custom certificates can come in specially handy when:
- your races have different target audiences (for example, a Marathon finisher certificate may need a more sophisticated design as compared to that of a Kids Fun Run)
- your races are individually sponsored (for example, the Bob's Buoys 5K and the Grace Gym 10K may need different logos and colour schemes)
- you are capturing different results data for each race and challenge (for example, your event may feature an in-person 5K that is chip-timed, as well as a virtual 1000-minute walking challenge where chip time is not relevant)
Click the blue "Create new certificate" button to create custom designs for select races. After you save, a new card appears for that design.
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You can use the Enabled toggle as on or off.
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The card shows text like "Applied to: [name of race(s) using that design]".
Screenshot follows to highlight the unique elements of custom certificates.
