Bib transfers that don't land in your inbox.
Entrants are already reselling bibs off-platform, with no verification and no paper trail. We'd rather give them a safe way to do it that also works for you — with a direct integration path so it plugs into your process instead of creating more of it.
What's happening whether you're involved or not
Injuries, schedule conflicts, and DNS entries mean bibs change hands every race season. Right now, most of that happens somewhere you can't see.
It's already happening off-platform
Entrants resell bibs in Facebook groups and WhatsApp chats today, whether you have a policy for it or not. You get none of the visibility and all of the risk.
Wrong-name entrants are a liability
An informal handoff means the wrong medical info, the wrong emergency contact, and a results list that doesn't match who actually ran.
Your own transfer fee goes uncollected
If you charge a fee to process a transfer, an off-platform swap means you never see it — the runners just skip your process entirely.
What PassTheBib already handles — zero setup on your end
This is live today. Confirming your policy with us is the only thing required to get all of it.
Escrow-backed payment, not a Venmo request
A buyer's payment is held by Stripe and only released to the seller once the transfer is confirmed done. Neither side is exposed the way an informal swap leaves them.
Your transfer fee, shown and paid automatically
Tell us what you charge to process a transfer and we surface it upfront on every listing for your race, so it's paid alongside the sale instead of chased down after.
Only your race's actual policy — nothing looser
We list a race only once you've confirmed an official transfer policy for it, and if your rules cap resale price, we enforce that cap in the listing itself, not just in fine print.
Verified people, not anonymous swaps
Every account is a real, OTP-verified email — a step up from an anonymous post in a resale group with no way to follow up if something goes wrong.
A path from “we list your race” to “it's genuinely part of your process”
You don't need to commit to all three phases to start — phase one needs nothing from you but a confirmed policy. The rest is a conversation about what's actually worth building for your race.
List your policy, we handle the marketplace
You confirm your existing official transfer process and any fee or resale cap. We list eligible entries, hold payment in escrow, and the buyer and seller carry out your process themselves — same as if they'd found each other directly, just verified and paid for correctly.
Direct notification into your own process
The moment a transfer is confirmed on PassTheBib, we push it straight to you — a webhook into your registration system, a scheduled CSV export, or a formatted email your back office can act on directly. No runner has to email you to say a transfer happened; you already know.
A co-branded exchange, embedded on your own site
For organizers who want it fully seamless: an "Official Bib Exchange" you link to from your race site and confirmation emails, carrying your branding, powered by PassTheBib's escrow and verification underneath. Entrants never have to go looking for a resale group again.
The terms, plainly
- There's no cost to you to be listed — we charge our service fee to the buyer, on top of your transfer fee, never instead of it.
- You keep full control: set your fee, set a resale cap if your rules require one, and we enforce both automatically.
- You can pull a race from listing at any time if your policy changes.
- Phase 2/3 integration work is scoped with you directly — we're not asking you to build anything before we've agreed it's worth it for your race.
We're piloting partnerships with a handful of races this season.
Tell us about your race, your current transfer policy (or lack of one), and what a good integration would look like for you. A real person reads every message.
support@passthebib.comWant to see exactly what we do and don't take responsibility for first? Read our Bib Transfer Policy.