Arches, Drops & Races
Always be careful accessing the “administer the balloons” section when your sales are busy. If a balloon has just been created it will show on your list as “inactive”. Whilst you’re looking at your list the buyer completes their payment and on the server their balloon is now active (but on your screen it’s inactive). […]
Organic style arch to frame the bar in Brigg, Boughton. Back again in 2024 & 2025:
I know 12% sounds steep, hopefully the below explains how I only just break even. If it was highly profitable I could offer the race for free and just take the 12%… but it’s not. The concept for taking card payments and sending a BACS was requested by those using the race who had no […]
Here’s a wall, freestanding with vinyl graphics & Gold Orbz installed at Manchester Central entrance for those insta selfies. Latex colours Navy, Gold & White
The move to PHP was completed in September 2022 and everything is running so much better. During the changeover there were live races on both servers so to save confusion I ran the old server as balloonrace.com and the new as balloonrace.net. Now the move is complete both domains point to the new server. The […]
The easiest way to run the race is to use the stripe option and I bacs a payment to your bank account. Stripe will accept payments from all over the world and you simply set the page up, share the URL and watch the sales build. If you sell balloons by cash you can add […]
Here’s 500 drop in Neon coloured balloons installed on 29th December ready for New Yeas Eve.
Here’s 3 x 500 balloon drops installed at The NEC. The first drop was over the entrance for the morning and then 2 more drops over a stand for an evening drinks reception.
There are 2 ways to find contact details for the winning balloons. Login to your admin area, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click “administer the balloons taking part” to see all names & contact emails: Alternatively scroll down to the bottom of your admin page and click “Download the balloon data […]
The upgrade is now complete, more info here: The balloon race software was built in 2008 when ASP was “a thing”. Over the years PHP has been the go to platform and ASP has been left behind and is now dated. In August 2021 balloonrace.com is being completely rewritten to go live in September. The […]
You control when your sales start and finish by selecting “show” or “Hide” for your Buy a Balloon button. From within your admin area you can customise where the button links to and even change the style. The top button is the default “Buy a Balloon” and if “Show” is selected links to the “Register […]
There are 3 ways to track your balloon. 1 – Click on the leaderboard on your homepage: 2 – Use the search box on your homepage: 3 – See balloons in flight: