The easy way toorganize and manage yourrunning events
Create your race, open registration, collect payments and run the kit tent. Withdraw what you have earned the moment a payment lands. Everything you need to take registrations and deliver a smooth race day, right from your phone.
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Everything you need to organize running events in one place
Registrations
Easy Registrations
Make registration effortless for your participants. No accounts, no sign-ups, no friction — just a simple registration experience that confirms every entry instantly and keeps your participant data up to date in real time.
Payments
Seamless Payments
Collect registration fees through Mobile Money and cards across East and West Africa. Give participants a convenient way to pay from one secure registration page, with every payment recorded automatically.
Payouts
Instant Payouts
Access your event revenue as soon as participants pay. Withdraw funds instantly to any mobile money network or bank of your choice across East and West Africa, without waiting for lengthy settlement periods — giving you greater control over your event finances.
Dashboard
Real-Time Event Management
Run your event from one powerful organizer dashboard. Track registrations, payments, participants and payouts in real time, receive instant notifications for every activity, and stay on top of your event from anywhere.
Communication
Automated Receipts & Emails
Keep every participant informed automatically. Registration confirmations, payment receipts and important event updates are delivered straight to their inbox, giving participants a clear record of every transaction.
From registration and payments to participant management, communication and payouts, Laces brings the essential tools for running a successful event together in one platform.
Your money
Cash out the moment a runner pays
You are not waiting on a payout cycle, a settlement window or the end of your event. Every registration is credited to your balance as it is confirmed, and it is yours to withdraw straight away: any day of the week, including weekends.
- Every payment is confirmed and credited to you as it happens
- Withdraw to a bank account or straight to mobile money
- Weekends included, so a Saturday race pays out on Saturday
Your first withdrawal is free. After that the payment provider's standard transfer charge applies, see the full rates.
The Organizer App
Create your event. Start taking registrations. Get paid instantly.
Set up and manage your event from your phone in minutes. Add your distances, registration questions, pricing and race-kit details, then publish and start accepting registrations immediately. Track registrations and payments in real time, get notified whenever someone registers, and withdraw your earnings as soon as participants pay — all from one powerful organizer app.
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app.laces.runHow it works
Four steps, and you have been paid
- 01
Create your race event
Pick a template (road race, marathon, fun run, cycling event or charity race) and the distances, sign-up questions, pricing and race-kit details arrive already filled in. You edit rather than construct.
- 02
Share the link
Publish and share one link. Runners discover the event, pick their distance, register and pay from their phone: the mobile-money prompt happens right on the page, and the entry confirms in real time.
- 03
Run the day
Check in registered runners, issue bibs and race kits, take cash at the desk and watch stock drop per pickup point. Every collection is recorded as it happens.
- 04
Withdraw instantly
You are not waiting for the event to end or for a payout cycle to come round. Every payment lands in your balance as it is confirmed and is yours to withdraw straight away, to a bank account or mobile money, any day of the week including weekends. Your first withdrawal is free.
Organizers are already making race day easier
The organizers running their events on Laces: taking registrations, collecting payments and handling race day from one link.
“Silent Runs ran the Buule Trail Run on Laces: entries, mobile-money payments and race-day kit collection, all from one link.”
Silent RunsBuule Trail Run“Silent Runs ran the Buule Trail Run on Laces: entries, mobile-money payments and race-day kit collection, all from one link.”
Silent RunsBuule Trail Run“We put The Leadership Mirror on Laces and stopped chasing payments entirely. One link handled registration, payment and the attendee list — we just showed up and facilitated.”
Verge KompassThe Leadership MirrorPricing
Free for organizers. Get your money, instantly.
Creating and managing your event is free. We only charge when a runner makes a paid registration: UGX 500 + 2.9%. No paid registration, no Laces fee, and everything you earn is yours to withdraw instantly, any day of the week.
UGX500
+ 2.9% of the ticket price
per ticket sold, paid by the runner, not you
- No monthly feesNo subscription, no platform rent, ever.
- No setup costsCreate your organization and list events for free.
- You only pay when you sellNo sales, no charge. Free events are free to host.
- The runner pays it, not youIt is added at checkout. You receive the full ticket price.
- Withdraw your money instantlyEvery payment is yours to withdraw as soon as it is confirmed, any day of the week.
Free events are always free to host.
For runners
Looking for your next start line?
Browse races and marathons near you, pick your distance and pay in minutes. Your ticket arrives by email straight away.
Questions organizers actually ask
Nothing to start, nothing monthly, nothing to list. UGX 500 + 2.9% comes off successful orders only, and free events pay nothing at all.
Instantly. Every entry is credited to your balance the moment the payment is confirmed and is yours to withdraw straight away, to a Ugandan bank account or to mobile money, any day of the week including weekends. There is no settlement wait, no payout cycle and no waiting for the event to finish. Your first withdrawal is free.
Yes. A mobile-money payment is confirmed within seconds and your balance updates as it happens, so you can watch entries and money arrive live while registration is open. Nothing is held back until the event is over. Withdrawing is a single tap from that balance, and how quickly the transfer lands after that is down to your bank or mobile-money provider.
No, and there is no laptop version to miss out on. Everything an organizer does happens in the app: create and publish the event, take payments, run the kit tent, read the money, export your data.
Register them at the desk and take the cash. Their ticket is emailed to them, and the order code shows on screen straight away: they can pull it up any time at laces.run/o/{order_code}. They appear in the same manifest, so the kit tent still works for them.
Keep it and point registrations at your Laces page, or move the whole thing over and put your own domain in front of it.
Your next race, live in minutes at no cost
No upfront fees, no contract, no waiting. Create your event and share the link.