Notifications

Push Notifications are like text messages that can be sent to Race Monitor app users.

Race Monitor features three types of push notifications, Race Notifications (manual), Series Notifications (manual), and Racer Alerts (automated).

NOTE: Please do not use this functionality for promoting sponsors. Using it in that manner is against Apple's, Google's, and Microsoft's usage policies.

Race Notifications

These are push notifications that you can send to users that have viewed the live timing for the given race.

When users first view* the live timing for your race, if their device has push notifications enabled for the app, they're automatically subscribed to notifications from your event. Whenever you send a race notification, it will be delivered to only the users that have viewed your live timing and are still subscribed to notifications from your race (users can disable notifications from your race through the race's information screen)

* Relaying accounts can be flagged as "high volume" if a large number of notifications are sent for each race. If you're a high volume user, we've probably contacted you about it already. If you're not sure if you're a high volume user, please contact us and we can verify your status.

Series Notifications

Enhanced relaying accounts have the ability to send push notifications to users that have followed your series.

This can be useful for further engaging the followers of your race series. In particular, it's useful for notifying users of pre-race related items (schedule changes, timing is now online), where users may not have had the opportunity to view the live timing for a given race.

Racer Alerts

Users can enter the names of racers that they follow, and the Race Monitor servers will automatically send out notifications to them when those racers show up in the live timing for the race.

Mobile users that have upgraded to Race Monitor Plus, and desktop version users (Mac and Windows 8), have access to this feature.