RPRA Race Management Software 2021 -
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:37 am
RPRA TPRS Race Management Software 2021
RPRA Race Management Software 2021 -
Dear Secretary,
Hope you are keeping well. Just a quick update explaining what is available for 2021.
The RPRA TPRS software has some great advantages for managing all aspects of pigeon racing and is easy to use. It has a dedicated team of people led by Derren Brown based at the RPRA HQ to support your organisation. Video tutorials and written materials are available online. Zoom is another function which is available to do live remote training sessions.
The setup of the software for a secretary is minimal and accurate and takes less than 5-minutes.
o Installation – Video tutorial http://pigeon.org.uk
o Login - Username and Password
o Synchronise the database. Click the button. – Video tutorial
o Add the distances for any RPRA race point for your members instantly. 24/7 access.
o Add new members by using the member’s RPRA number. Contact details are from the RPRA database. Managing the club’s membership list keeps a club’s records at the RPRA up to date. This will drastically reduce mundane work at HQ and reduce the workload of club secretaries.
o These tasks 1-4 have full demonstration on the training website at http://pigeon.org.uk These materials are currently being transferred to the new RPRA website.
• The NIPA Secretary sets up the race programme centrally and uploads to the RPRA cloud. Club secretaries simply press the green sync button to download the race programme. Liberation times are also controlled by the central organisation. This feature greatly reduces the time for the club secretary and increases accuracy of results.
• Sections. Within the NIPA organisation small cluster of clubs have been grouped together to produce Section results. E.g. Coalisland & Dist, Mid-Antrim Combine, further groups can be generated on request.
Each club produces their result and uploads it to the RPRA Results website. Hard copies of results can be printed locally. Hard copies of results can be saved as .doc, pdf or xls format. Each club is independent and can set all their own pool amounts and have extra races if required. All end of year, averages, prize card production facilities are available. Every function required by a secretary is available. Any ‘special report’ can be added on request.
Compiling the full NIPA result takes seconds by pressing download from the web. The initial result can be uploaded and if pools and prize money require processing this can be done and then the result uploaded again.
Have a look at the results produced by participating clubs last year. Use the dropdown menu remember to select 2020! Fanciers can add the page to their favorite’s. A hyperlink can be embedded into the NIPA website, Facebook group or other social media sites.
Link to the RPRA results website http://www.wm28vps.co.uk/RaceResults All NIPA organisations are grouped together NIPA – Open etc.
Link to the latest software https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jySY-h ... nCLAK/view
Link to the training site http://pigeon.org.uk ZOOM could be used and hosted by the Ian Evans from the RPRA. I can share my screen and take an organisation through a full race.
Website integration
The MNFC has upgraded their IT infrastructure using the RPRA TPRS program. I was the MNFC Race Secretary of the MNFC for 8 seasons and know that their new system will take pigeon racing administration again forward in the UK. The training I create for them to manage some trial races will be available through online support using Zoom to NIPA free of charge.
The MNFC has online entry into all their races and this available from their website. The process is fully automatic. Fanciers select the race, add any combination of pools setup by the club in the TPRS software, payment is made through the club’s own Worldpay account. (MNFC has a flat charge per transaction, some card companies want to charge a percentage e.g. 3% to the value of the purchase per transaction. £1000 on entry £30 charge!! Worldpay 13p per transaction!).
I suggest you have a look at how they can manage the content of their website themselves. Their website has a content management system and they have learned the skills to upload their own content. Incorporating Facebook and links to the RPRA results site are basic functions. The exercise of finding out what they done may save you a lot of time, cost and get a product which would be as good as the MNFC or possibly better!
Race Security
Once you have completed managing a race you will see the built-in race security which the software provides. At a marking station when an ETS clock is passed back to the fancier by the OIC the clock can be synchronized. A marking station requires 1 laptop, the process takes 20 seconds to synchronise the clock and extract the marking data. This records the time the birds were marked, the chip rings used and the clock’s serial number. This information is uploaded to the RPRA cloud when marking is finished.
At clock stations the hard copies produced as normal and when the data is taken from the clock and used for the result, when the result is uploaded the fancier’s clock serial number along with chip ring numbers used are uploaded to the RPRA cloud. A full report can be run to compare the marking data and final result data. Obviously, this report should be empty! A security check on a club’s internal paperwork trail is complete.
Before the season starts the members, full clock details can be uploaded to the cloud. Most ring assignment sheets are nowadays put in the bin! TPRS puts life rings chip rings and serial number it into the RPRA cloud. Duplicate clocks can be uploaded as well. Week by week results are monitored. If a fancier changes a chip ring it will be identified. There is nothing wrong with a chip ring needing replacement. However, if suddenly a full new set appear you may wish to ask some questions! Uploading an administration list for a fancier can be done at anytime i.e. before young bird season starts or if a new clock is required.
The TPRS system does have this facility to monitor the security of races. The RPRA Team would help introduce this facility for your organisation. The week by week monitoring of clocks has increased benefits. A lost clock can be detected when used anywhere where the software is being used. A fancier simply needs to let the RPRA know when it has been lost and it can be identified when used.
The RPRA central results website
There is a great opportunity to develop awards automatically for Ace Pigeon Awards loft performances. The possibilities are over to what you want to do with the data. I expect the site will evolve once clubs are all using the site. Navigation is fine, but I would like to see NIPA have its own display link. We have responded this year to requests from secretaries using the system. Amending results through typo errors is a good example. The training for the update is on the training site.
I have observed the NIPA results produced in the BHW. Although all result can be exported into Excel, a special result report can be generated to collate all the information and provide the format needed at the BHW. If there is any other information you require, I’ll do my best to help.
Kind regards, Peter Humphries
The information below will enable the NIPA/MAC Secretary to login to a club’s accounts. Please note that the username and password would enable with the software to access contact details. Please share the document appropriately with GDPR in mind. We can send each secretary an individual document with their usernames and password if necessary.
RPRA Race Management Software 2021 -
Dear Secretary,
Hope you are keeping well. Just a quick update explaining what is available for 2021.
The RPRA TPRS software has some great advantages for managing all aspects of pigeon racing and is easy to use. It has a dedicated team of people led by Derren Brown based at the RPRA HQ to support your organisation. Video tutorials and written materials are available online. Zoom is another function which is available to do live remote training sessions.
The setup of the software for a secretary is minimal and accurate and takes less than 5-minutes.
o Installation – Video tutorial http://pigeon.org.uk
o Login - Username and Password
o Synchronise the database. Click the button. – Video tutorial
o Add the distances for any RPRA race point for your members instantly. 24/7 access.
o Add new members by using the member’s RPRA number. Contact details are from the RPRA database. Managing the club’s membership list keeps a club’s records at the RPRA up to date. This will drastically reduce mundane work at HQ and reduce the workload of club secretaries.
o These tasks 1-4 have full demonstration on the training website at http://pigeon.org.uk These materials are currently being transferred to the new RPRA website.
• The NIPA Secretary sets up the race programme centrally and uploads to the RPRA cloud. Club secretaries simply press the green sync button to download the race programme. Liberation times are also controlled by the central organisation. This feature greatly reduces the time for the club secretary and increases accuracy of results.
• Sections. Within the NIPA organisation small cluster of clubs have been grouped together to produce Section results. E.g. Coalisland & Dist, Mid-Antrim Combine, further groups can be generated on request.
Each club produces their result and uploads it to the RPRA Results website. Hard copies of results can be printed locally. Hard copies of results can be saved as .doc, pdf or xls format. Each club is independent and can set all their own pool amounts and have extra races if required. All end of year, averages, prize card production facilities are available. Every function required by a secretary is available. Any ‘special report’ can be added on request.
Compiling the full NIPA result takes seconds by pressing download from the web. The initial result can be uploaded and if pools and prize money require processing this can be done and then the result uploaded again.
Have a look at the results produced by participating clubs last year. Use the dropdown menu remember to select 2020! Fanciers can add the page to their favorite’s. A hyperlink can be embedded into the NIPA website, Facebook group or other social media sites.
Link to the RPRA results website http://www.wm28vps.co.uk/RaceResults All NIPA organisations are grouped together NIPA – Open etc.
Link to the latest software https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jySY-h ... nCLAK/view
Link to the training site http://pigeon.org.uk ZOOM could be used and hosted by the Ian Evans from the RPRA. I can share my screen and take an organisation through a full race.
Website integration
The MNFC has upgraded their IT infrastructure using the RPRA TPRS program. I was the MNFC Race Secretary of the MNFC for 8 seasons and know that their new system will take pigeon racing administration again forward in the UK. The training I create for them to manage some trial races will be available through online support using Zoom to NIPA free of charge.
The MNFC has online entry into all their races and this available from their website. The process is fully automatic. Fanciers select the race, add any combination of pools setup by the club in the TPRS software, payment is made through the club’s own Worldpay account. (MNFC has a flat charge per transaction, some card companies want to charge a percentage e.g. 3% to the value of the purchase per transaction. £1000 on entry £30 charge!! Worldpay 13p per transaction!).
I suggest you have a look at how they can manage the content of their website themselves. Their website has a content management system and they have learned the skills to upload their own content. Incorporating Facebook and links to the RPRA results site are basic functions. The exercise of finding out what they done may save you a lot of time, cost and get a product which would be as good as the MNFC or possibly better!
Race Security
Once you have completed managing a race you will see the built-in race security which the software provides. At a marking station when an ETS clock is passed back to the fancier by the OIC the clock can be synchronized. A marking station requires 1 laptop, the process takes 20 seconds to synchronise the clock and extract the marking data. This records the time the birds were marked, the chip rings used and the clock’s serial number. This information is uploaded to the RPRA cloud when marking is finished.
At clock stations the hard copies produced as normal and when the data is taken from the clock and used for the result, when the result is uploaded the fancier’s clock serial number along with chip ring numbers used are uploaded to the RPRA cloud. A full report can be run to compare the marking data and final result data. Obviously, this report should be empty! A security check on a club’s internal paperwork trail is complete.
Before the season starts the members, full clock details can be uploaded to the cloud. Most ring assignment sheets are nowadays put in the bin! TPRS puts life rings chip rings and serial number it into the RPRA cloud. Duplicate clocks can be uploaded as well. Week by week results are monitored. If a fancier changes a chip ring it will be identified. There is nothing wrong with a chip ring needing replacement. However, if suddenly a full new set appear you may wish to ask some questions! Uploading an administration list for a fancier can be done at anytime i.e. before young bird season starts or if a new clock is required.
The TPRS system does have this facility to monitor the security of races. The RPRA Team would help introduce this facility for your organisation. The week by week monitoring of clocks has increased benefits. A lost clock can be detected when used anywhere where the software is being used. A fancier simply needs to let the RPRA know when it has been lost and it can be identified when used.
The RPRA central results website
There is a great opportunity to develop awards automatically for Ace Pigeon Awards loft performances. The possibilities are over to what you want to do with the data. I expect the site will evolve once clubs are all using the site. Navigation is fine, but I would like to see NIPA have its own display link. We have responded this year to requests from secretaries using the system. Amending results through typo errors is a good example. The training for the update is on the training site.
I have observed the NIPA results produced in the BHW. Although all result can be exported into Excel, a special result report can be generated to collate all the information and provide the format needed at the BHW. If there is any other information you require, I’ll do my best to help.
Kind regards, Peter Humphries
The information below will enable the NIPA/MAC Secretary to login to a club’s accounts. Please note that the username and password would enable with the software to access contact details. Please share the document appropriately with GDPR in mind. We can send each secretary an individual document with their usernames and password if necessary.