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 (school and college cross country, championship meets, charity 5Ks, turkey trots and holiday fun runs, trail races), SplitKit treats you as a first-class citizen. You get a $1.99 Finisher’s Pack, including the Finisher’s Video (shareable on Reels and TikTok), 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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The Finisher’s Video adapts to finish-only events.

Both are real renders from live results, not mockups. Which one your finishers get depends on a single thing: whether you published a course for the contest. Neither invents data your mat did not record.

If you publish a courseThe course, run.A real cross country championship, timed on a single finish mat. Because the meet published a course, the film traces it: the runner moving through the loop, their division winner ahead of them, elapsed and distance climbing to the official time.
If you do notThe distance, covered.No GPX, no problem. The same race becomes a distance rail: gun at one end, your certified distance at the other, mile markers between, and the division winner on the lane above so a finisher can see the gap close or open. No invented map.
$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, the artifacts your finishers can self-purchase built from finish-mat data alone. A contest with at least one intermediate mat resolves to a $4.99 Full Pack. Same toggle. Same flow. The price the runner sees matches the data their race produced.

Auto-detected at configure time, no manual override
Participant finish notifications follow consent, region and send gates
Free participant Personal Results Page on every finisher
10% of net commission follows the same formula as the Full Pack
The runner pays the price tied to their contest. A weekend with both a marathon ($4.99 Full 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

All built from finish-mat data alone, no intermediate split required.

Finisher’s VideoBuilt from the gun start and the finish mat alone: elapsed time, distance, time of day, the finish moment itself. No intermediate splits needed.
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 fewer artifacts? The Detailed Race Performance PDF and Advanced Individual Results (position trajectory + pace or speed 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 artifacts that match what your meet actually produces.

Commission terms

10% of net revenue on each purchased $1.99 Pack.

Commission follows actual purchases; SplitKit does not guarantee a purchase rate or earnings. Net revenue accounts for payment processing, refunds and chargebacks.

Eligible finish-notification SMS cost is recouped from commission, with a $0 floor.Participant finish notifications follow their consent, regional and send-gate rules. Paid spectator tracking texts are a separate event-funded service and are not activated by the Pack.

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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