endurace.pro vs BookMyRace: Which Is Better for Race Organizers?

BookMyRace is built for races, like endurace.pro, and its flat 6% is close to our rate. So the real question is what you get around the fee, and when the money reaches you. We are endurace.pro, so we are not neutral, but every BookMyRace figure below comes from its own pages, read on 12 November 2026.

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Why race organizers choose endurace.pro

• No platform fee on your first event. You pay only payment gateway charges (around 1% to 2%, usually lower with UPI). After that it is a flat 5.99% with no other charges.
• Going live is free. There is no listing or setup fee, and you pay only when you sell.
• Money before race day. Withdraw half your sales on demand before the event; the rest arrives three days after.
• Refunds handled for you. Cancel an event and every athlete is refunded in full, automatically.
• Built for races. Distances, waivers, groups, waitlists, bibs and check-in are part of the product, not workarounds.

What it costs

endurace.pro: Your first event has no platform fee, though payment gateway charges apply (around 1% to 2%, and usually lower when athletes pay by UPI). After that it is a flat 5.99% per entry with no other charges. There is no limit on participants, and every tool is included from your first event.

BookMyRace: its homepage says “Payment gateway + platform fee at flat 6%”. It does not say how GST is treated.

A ₹1,000 entry, side by side

• endurace.pro, first event: the athlete pays ₹1,000. There is no platform fee, only payment gateway charges of around 1% to 2%, usually lower with UPI. That is roughly ₹10 to ₹20.
• endurace.pro, after the first event: a flat 5.99% per entry with no other charges. That is ₹59.90, leaving ₹940.10.
• BookMyRace: 6% of ₹1,000 is ₹60, with gateway included. The page does not say how GST is treated, so we cannot give a final deduction.

A first event with 300 entries at ₹1,000: on BookMyRace that is 300 × ₹60 = ₹18,000. On endurace.pro there is no platform fee on a first event, so you pay the gateway charge alone, around 1% to 2% of ₹3,00,000, which is roughly ₹3,000 to ₹6,000.

Your athletes pay the ticket price, nothing more

On endurace.pro athletes pay exactly the ticket price. We add no booking fee and no convenience fee, which keeps your entry price clean and your checkout honest.

BookMyRace’s pricing-details page says checkout may include taxes, a convenience fee, a payment processing fee and optional add-ons, depending on the event and organizer setup. It does not say who pays each in every case.

Get paid before race day

Permits, medals, timing and shirts are paid for long before race day. On endurace.pro, once your payout details are verified, half of your sales can be withdrawn on demand before the event, and the rest is paid three days after. We did not find payout timing on BookMyRace’s pages.

If you have to cancel, we make it painless

Cancel an event and every athlete is refunded in full, automatically, including unclaimed group places. Each person gets one email with your reason and their refund, and you follow every refund on one screen: Waiting for balance, Being paid, Refunded. No commission is charged on those refunds. BookMyRace’s policy says an organizer who cancels “may choose” the remedy, and that convenience fees, gateway charges and taxes may not be refunded unless stated.

Everything you need to run the race, built in

This is where endurace.pro earns its fee. Every tool below is included from your first event, with no limit on participants.

Set up in an afternoon

Build your event with a cover, gallery, schedule, FAQs and social links, then share an unpublished preview link with your team before you go live. Our team reviews each event before it is published, so athletes see a clean, trusted listing.

Distances, tickets and prices

Offer a 5K, 10K and half marathon in one event, in km or miles, each with its own price and capacity. Add early-bird tiers with opening and closing dates, hidden tickets for VIPs, clubs or sponsors that unlock with a code or link, and promo codes with limits you control.

A registration form made for races

A mobile-first form collects name, phone, date of birth, gender, T-shirt size, blood group and emergency contact, checked on the phone and again on the server. Add your own questions per distance, including a time question that rejects anything that is not a time, such as an expected finish of 52:10.

Waivers with proof

Every registration keeps the signed name, the time and the exact waiver wording, even if you change the text later. If anyone ever asks who agreed to what, you have the record.

Groups, families and sold-out distances

Athletes can book several people on mixed tickets and pay once. You set the largest group per ticket, from 2 to 25, so one buyer cannot take the whole field. A place nobody claims goes back on sale, and the waitlist, on by default, offers it first to whoever has waited longest, with a 24-hour hold.

Payments that recover

Checkout handles failed or abandoned payments automatically, confirms a successful payment within seconds, and issues a PDF receipt for each paid booking. Athletes manage their bookings, resume a payment or cancel with a refund preview, all in My Bookings.

Emails that work for you

Athletes get automatic emails for bookings, refunds, cancellations and waitlist offers. You can also write your own messages to any athletes you select, such as a reminder about kit collection.

Race day without the chaos

Search and filter your registration list, export it to CSV with each runner’s blood group and emergency contact for your medical team, assign bib numbers and check in every person, including each member of a group. Add manual entries for people who register offline.

Money, reports and your team

See earnings, refunds, payouts and commissions for your organization in one place. Invite your team as owner, admin, moderator, financial or viewer, so everyone sees only what their role allows.

Be found by new athletes

Approved events appear on endurace.pro, with search-friendly pages by country, city and sport and tools for athletes to search, find races near them, save events and browse a calendar. Every organizer gets a branded page at endurace.pro/organizers listing all their races, plus a CRM of their athletes across events and tracking links that show which channel brought each registration. Athlete reviews, moderated by our team, build trust for your next edition.

Run it again next year

Link yearly editions of the same race into a series, so your history builds credibility and your athletes come back.

Quick verdict

If you want a platform built for endurance races, with no platform fee on your first event, money before race day, automatic refunds, and every race tool included, endurace.pro is the stronger choice.

Questions to ask any race platform

• What do athletes pay at checkout, in total, for a ₹1,000 entry?
• When do I get my money, and can I draw any of it before race day?
• If I cancel the event, who refunds the athletes, and who pays the fees?
• Does it store waivers, emergency contacts and bibs?

What we checked

We read these pages on 12 November 2026: BookMyRace’s homepage, pricing details, cancellation and refund policy and organizers page. Terms change, so please confirm them on the platform’s own pages. Where a page did not state something, we say so instead of guessing.

Ready to list your race? See how endurace.pro works for organizers. Going live is free. You pay only when you sell.