Finish-only events

One mat. No splits. Still a first-class race on SplitKit.

If your entire timing setup is a start gun and a finish mat — high-school and college cross country, conference championships, charity 5Ks, turkey trots, trail races — SplitKit treats you as a first-class citizen. You get a $1.99 Finisher’s Pack tuned to what your meet actually produces, with the same 10% commission and zero setup cost as the marathon side of the catalog.

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$1.99 Finish-Only Pack · participant-paid

The Pack is auto-priced to match the data you actually have.

Every contest in SplitKit is auto-classified at configure time. A contest with zero intermediate splits (just a start and a finish) resolves to the $1.99 Finish-Only Pack — three artifacts your finishers can self-purchase. A contest with at least one intermediate mat resolves to the full $4.99 Pack. Same toggle. Same flow. The price the runner sees matches the data their race produced.

Auto-detected at configure time — no manual override
Free Pack-notification bundle still ships (Finish Line SMS + Email)
Free participant Personal Results Page on every finisher
10% commission flows the same way as the $4.99 tier
The runner pays the price tied to their contest. A weekend with both a marathon ($4.99 Pack — has splits) and a 5K ($1.99 Pack — finish mat only) charges each participant the price tied totheir contest. A pure-XC meet just shows $1.99 everywhere. Honest pricing — no charging a finisher for a split-by-split performance report their race didn’t produce.

What’s in the $1.99 Finish-Only Pack

Three artifacts. All of them work from finish-mat data alone — no intermediate split required.

Finisher’s CertificateName, finish time, division placement, your meet’s branding. The artifact every coach and parent wants on the fridge after a championship.
Social Media Race StoryAuto-generated short narrative built from the runner’s finish — shareable on Instagram, friend-of-XC-mom-tier LinkedIn, the school’s athletics page. Tells the story the data supports without inventing splits.
Branded Share CardBig-text result card optimized for Instagram Story / TikTok / Snapchat — the format the high-school and college runner audience actually shares on. Your meet name, your colors, finish time front and center.

Why three, not four? The Detailed Race Performance PDF and Advanced Individual Results (position trajectory + pace progression) both require split data. Selling them on a finish-only meet would be dishonest — so the $1.99 Pack drops them by design. Same Pack unlock surface. Just the three artifacts that match what your meet actually produces.

Who this is for

Cross country first — and the adjacent finish-only world.

This tier exists because a significant slice of RaceResult timers has no business with a four-artifact marathon Pack. Your finishers cross one mat, and the existing platforms either ignore you or charge you marathon-tier prices for a meet that doesn’t need them. SplitKit’s $1.99 Pack closes that gap.

High school cross country — invitationals, conference championships, sectionals, state qualifiers
College cross country — conference championships, regionals, NCAA-D2/D3 invitationals
Charity 5Ks — one-mat events where the cause matters more than the splits
Turkey trots & holiday 5Ks — high-volume, family-heavy finish-only fields
Trail races — courses where intermediate timing isn’t practical or worth the cost
Fun runs & corporate 5Ks — one-mat fundraisers and team-building meets
The parent-conversion thesis. Cross country runners are mostly high-schoolers. Their parents are the ones with the credit card. A $1.99 certificate + share card after a championship is a near-zero-friction purchase — and it’s the kind of artifact a parent saves, prints, and posts. That’s the conversion engine on the XC side of the catalog.
What you can expect to earn

10% commission on every $1.99 Pack — same flow as the marathon tier.

~9% conversion is our current estimate — an unmeasured planning assumption shared across both Pack tiers. The economics scale with field size — a championship invitational with 600 runners across multiple schools pencils to a usable check on what used to be a $0-revenue meet for the timer.

XC / finish-only meet~9% buy at $1.99You earn (10% of net)
300-runner conference championship~27 purchases~$4
600-runner invitational~54 purchases~$9
1,000-runner championship 5K~90 purchases~$15
2,500-runner turkey trot~225 purchases~$37

Per-runner economics are still smaller than the $4.99 tier — but you’re also charging $0 to time a championship that previously generated $0 in software revenue. The math compounds across a season of Saturday meets.

SMS cost recouped from commission, $0 floor. The Pack-notification bundle ships free to every finisher (text + email). Twilio cost is netted from your commission balance at billing-close — your balance can never go negative.

The highest-leverage upsell on your line card

If a race director is on the fence about adding intermediate timing to one of their finish-only meets, the per-Pack price jumping from $1.99 to $4.99 (2.5×) is one of the largest revenue levers on the table. One extra mat at a championship 5K is the difference between a $15 commission check and a $40 commission check on the same 1,000-runner field.

Honest framing, not pressure. If the race genuinely doesn’t need splits, $1.99 is the right price and we’ll never tell a runner otherwise. But for the meet where one mid-course split mat would actually improve the experience, the math is on the table. Use it.

Try the demo. Then connect your first XC meet.

The canonical XC demo is a fabricated 1,000-runner championship 5K — Mid-State Conference XC Championships. One contest. One mat. Real $1.99 Pack unlocked for Marcus Thompson (bib #7); on-course state for Avery R. (bib #142). It’s the exact preview a finish-only timer should see before connecting.

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