Payouts

How your money flows

Run This uses Stripe, the payment platform behind millions of businesses, to move money safely. When an athlete registers, their payment routes to your event's payout account automatically (your event receives exactly your listed price, with the processing fee paid by the registrant on top) and it becomes available for payout once Stripe finishes settling it (typically a couple of business days). Payout settings live in your event's director dashboard under Payments, and the choice is per event: one payout account can back every race you put on.

Two ways to get paid

• Bank account payout (most directors). No Stripe account needed. You fill out one secure form, your identity and the bank account that should receive money (a legal requirement on every registration platform), and you're done. Payouts arrive by direct deposit, and Run This is the only dashboard you ever use.
• Your own Stripe account. For organizations that already use Stripe or want a direct relationship with it. You get your own Stripe dashboard alongside Run This.

Setting up

1. Open your event's Payments page

   Director dashboard → Payments (under Manage event).

2. Pick a method

   Choose bank payout or Stripe account. If you already set up a payout account for another event, connect it with one click instead.

3. Complete the secure form

   Stripe verifies your details (usually quickly) and brings you back. The status card shows Ready when the event can take money.

Who can see payout settings

Each event has a single payments manager, by default, whoever created the event. Only they (and Run This support) can view or change payout settings, see transactions, or pay off the fee tab. Co-directors see a locked panel instead. Refunds (registrations and donations) and cancellations are open to every director of the event (see who can refund). The manager can hand the role to a co-director from the Payments page.

The Event Organizer Agreement

Every event accepts the Event Organizer Agreement before its dashboard can be used. You'll be prompted the first time you open it, and again at renewal if the agreement has changed. The money-related highlights: your organization is responsible for its own taxes on event proceeds (a 1099-K is issued when the IRS requires it); processing fees are non-refundable; payouts go only to the bank account verified during payout setup; and chargebacks on your registrations are resolved against your event's funds.

Nonprofit verification

Pricing is the same flat rate for every event (see runthis.run/pricing), and donations already carry the lowest fee platform-wide. What verification decides is whether donor receipts may say a gift is tax-deductible.

On the Payments page you enter the organization's EIN and legal name, tell us how your event relates to it, and tick one box confirming that relationship is true. That second part changes the answer completely. Run This checks that the EIN is a live 501(c)(3) in the IRS file; your confirmation is what stands behind the relationship.

You are the organization. Registration and donation money goes to the 501(c)(3) directly. Once the EIN verifies, donor receipts include the organization's legal name, its EIN, and a standard acknowledgment the donor can keep. If your event still pays out through Run This's account (an arrangement carried over from the old platform), you can verify now and the tax language starts on its own once the event connects its own payout account.

You raise money for the organization. Your event collects the money and gives it to the charity afterward. Your registrants paid your business rather than the charity, so nothing they paid is deductible to them and receipts say nothing about taxes. What you hand over afterward may well be deductible by your business on its own return, which is a different taxpayer, so ask your accountant. We show a “Benefiting” badge where people donate.

Sending donations straight to the charity. If the organization you raise money for should receive donations directly, open a charity partner payout slot on the Payments page. You open the slot; the charity's treasurer (or whoever holds its bank details) completes the same secure form your own payout account used. From then on, donations made on your event's donate page settle to the charity's own account, and your Finance page keeps them separate from the money your event banks. Registration money still goes to your event's payout account. A donation added during registration checkout goes to the charity too: the athlete pays once, the entry fees are transferred to your event and the gift is transferred to the charity, and the checkout tile says so. That gift shows on your Finance page and the charity page as its own donation, with its own receipt, and is refunded on its own from the Payments table (refunding the registration leaves the gift with the charity). Refunding such a gift returns everything the athlete paid for it; the charity gives back the gift amount, and the non-refundable fees on it go on your event's fee tab, the same way a full registration refund's do. It does not appear in the roster CSV's Donation column or on the check-in card, which only carry donations your event banked. While the charity's form is unfinished, donations pause rather than falling into your account, so a gift never lands with the wrong party: the Donate page refuses, and the checkout shows a paused notice instead of the donation chips. Receipts follow the money: a gift that settled with the charity is receipted in the charity's name, through your event, and once the charity is verified as a 501(c)(3) on your Payments page that receipt carries tax-deduction language. Gifts that landed with your event stay receipted by your event.

Giving the charity its own page. Under Charity partner payouts, enter the email address of the charity's treasurer (or whoever keeps its books) and send an invite. They sign in to Run This with that address and get a Charity partner page: every gift that settled to the charity's account, payout status, the events raising money for them, and a CSV for their records. They see donors by first name only; donor contact details stay with your event. You can invite more than one person and remove anyone later. The charity's side of this is described under For charity partners.

Managing money in Run This

Whichever method you choose, you manage the money inside Run This. Your Finance insights page is the money view. What your event has taken in, donations, and fees as registrations roll in; and you issue refunds from the Registrations roster. Payouts to your bank are handled automatically by the payment processor on its own schedule.

Refunds

When you refund a registrant, you choose how much to give back, up to everything they paid. The processing fee is non-refundable, so the refunded amount comes out of your event's funds.