Collection formats, trophies and timing

Outdoor challenges that run under your brand.

Trails, summits, huts, slopes or stages become GPS-verified checkpoints. The experience happens outdoors, the measuring runs in the background: registration, tracking, leaderboards and automated emails in your brand’s design.

LIVE Latest efforts
  1. Alain B. Umbrailpass
  2. Markus V. Hörnli
  3. Stefanie J. Hörnli
  4. Aurelia Z. Oberalp
  5. Alexander S. Furka
  6. Claudia L. Susten
  7. andrea b. Schnebelhorn
  8. Mattia B. Schnebelhorn
  9. Pascal F. Oberalp
  10. Pia L. Furka
Badge unlocked: summit moment at the Gotthard
Automatic email: “Chapeau, 3 passes done”
Sponsor offer unlocked
Live leaderboard updated on your website
Level reached: Legend
100+
events delivered
30'000+
participants
800'000
activities evaluated
  • Datasport
  • Eiger Ultra Trail
  • Bieler Lauftage
  • Züri Velo Cup
  • Alpenbrevet
  • Summits4Hope
  • Lake and Alps
  • Swissalpine
  • Red Bull
  • Züri Escape
  • Tour de Suisse
  • Cycling Unlimited
  • Moosalpregion
  • Swiss Cycling
  • Graubünden Trail Run
  • Tempo Sport
  • Cycle Week
  • Davos Klosters
  • Giordana
  • Rockand Hike
  • Octopus Gravel
  • Engadin
  • Val Surses Savognin

Your own challenge in three steps

  1. 1

    Concept

    Together we define checkpoints, rules, rewards and the season logic.

    Duration: one or two workshops.

  2. 2

    Implementation

    Registration, tracking and leaderboard are embedded into your website, via iFrame or API, in your brand’s design.

    Lead time from order: around six weeks.

  3. 3

    Season

    Participants collect, LaceUp measures, and your marketing automatically gets occasions for emails, social posts and sponsor deliverables.

References

Unsere Projekte

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Rockand Hike – 7 Hills Challenge

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Summits4Hope

Ride4Kids TEAM 124

In the 2025 season, 99 cyclists collected Swiss passes and – through sporting effort and personal fundraising – raised a total of CHF 51,795 for children in …

Four formats, one platform

Trophy

Collecting checkpoints — passes, summits, villages. The format that carries the whole season and turns a race day into a months-long relationship.

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All formats can be extended with digital badges — for reaching a number of checkpoints, say, or completing all routes in one day.

Tour

Total time across multiple routes

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Race

Timing to the second, with route validation.

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Enduro

Total time across several segments within one activity.

Not every challenge runs across a season. For classic races, LaceUp times to the second with route validation – no mats, no chips, no on-site setup.

Why not just Strava or a paper collection pass?

LaceUp
Strava
Paper collection pass
Presence in your brand
your brand
Strava brand
your own print
Participant data belongs to you
with you
with Strava
only what is filled in by hand
Reaches all participants
even without a sports app
Strava users only
whoever sends the card back
Multiple competition formats
Trophy, Tour, Race, Enduro
prescribed
collecting only
Automated communication
included
no
follow-up not possible
GPS-verified checkpoints
with route validation
segments
stamps, no evaluation
Embedding in your website
iFrame and API
no
not digital
Costs
from CHF 5'000 per season
media budget
printing and postage both ways
fully covered partial or with limitations not possible

In short: with the alternatives you give up your brand, your contacts or the evaluation. With LaceUp, all of it belongs to you.

What our clients say

«The Alpenbrevet Extended has lastingly strengthened Andermatt's standing as a leading cycling destination.»
Porträt Hugo Farey Hugo Farey
Head of Events & Activities, Andermatt Swiss Alps
«Thanks to the Alpenbrevet Extended, our hotels see increased demand – and that across the entire season.»
Porträt Kevin Schreiber Kevin Schreiber
Director of Sales, Orascom Hotels Management
«LaceUp is our reliable partner for all digital cycling formats. That opens up exciting opportunities for us in a growing market.»
Porträt Gabriela Buchs Gabriela Buchs
CEO Cycling Unlimited
«LaceUp is the ideal digital complement to our brick-and-mortar business and gives our community fresh impetus. The combination of digital and physical is a perfect fit for us.»
Porträt Marcel Kamm Marcel Kamm
Managing Director, Tempo Sport
«With LaceUp, new digitally driven sports worlds open up for us – tracking, data integration and the outdoor experience merge into a real competitive advantage.»
Porträt Michael Schild Michael Schild
Co-Founder Trackmaxx

What it costs

Three packages, all prices per season. Whether collection format, timing or both combined, billing is by checkpoints/routes.

Pilot

CHF 5'000
per season

Up to 5 checkpoints/routes. Registration, GPS verification and leaderboard in your branding.

Programm

from CHF 13'500
per season

Up to 25 checkpoints/routes. Additionally multilingual support, partner and sponsor logic, and custom evaluations.

More than 25 checkpoints/routes or several regions: on request.

The more checkpoints/routes your format includes, the cheaper each one becomes: from CHF 1'000 in Pilot to under CHF 550 in Programm.

For perspective: in the Saison package and with a thousand participants, a new consent-based contact costs you under ten francs. Not for one click, but for a whole season of touchpoints. In many projects a single partner or sponsor carries the entire season.

We work in three-year cycles because a format grows in its second and third year. Across three seasons, prices are 20 percent lower.

Check your package and get a guide price

Frequent questions

What does an event with LaceUp cost?

We work with three packages per season: Pilot from CHF 5'000 per season for up to five checkpoints/routes, Saison at CHF 9'200 per season for up to twelve checkpoints/routes including badges and automated emails, Programm from CHF 13'500 per season for up to 25 checkpoints/routes. With a three-year agreement, prices are 20 percent lower.

On request we also deliver projects end to end, including concept, copy, graphics, photos, videos, marketing and website.

How much internal effort does it take on our side?

For the concept we plan on one or two workshops. After that, your effort lies mainly in communication: embedding happens via iFrame or API on your website, while registration, tracking and evaluation run with us.

We handle technical support for participants entirely.

How fast can we launch?

Lead time from order is around six weeks – from the concept workshop to the embedded, ready-to-launch challenge on your website.

How does the technical integration work?

The leaderboard, the start list and the latest activities can be embedded into your own website with a simple iFrame. For complex integrations, an API is available.

Registration and login for participants run through our portal, branded with your logo and background image.

Emails such as registration confirmations and notifications for new badges or stages can be customised in layout and copy.

What can I customise?

For the integration on your own website you use our iFrames with a neutral layout. You can use your own icons per stage, checkpoint or badge. In emails you can adapt the logo and the copy.

With the API integration you have full control. We are happy to advise you and show you various examples.

Where is the data hosted, and what about GDPR and Swiss data protection?

Data is hosted with Hetzner in Germany, in ISO 27001 certified data centres entirely within the EU. Processing follows the GDPR and the revised Swiss Data Protection Act (revFADP); Switzerland and the EU mutually recognise each other's level of data protection as adequate, so data exchange is cleanly regulated. A data processing agreement is in place with Hetzner.

LaceUp is operated from Zurich. Activity data belongs to the participating athletes; as the organiser you receive a time-limited, purpose-bound right of use.

Can we finance the challenge through a sponsor?

Yes. Every checkpoint reached, every badge and every level is an occasion for a personalised message – and thus a sponsorable deliverable. In many projects a single sponsoring partner covers the whole season.

What happens if too few people take part?

We work without physical on-site infrastructure. So there is no minimum number of participants and no cost per start place.

Because a challenge runs across the whole season rather than on one race day, participation builds up over months – even late joiners still collect checkpoints.

Can I charge a registration fee?

Yes, that is possible. You can add a payment step to the registration flow. Participants can then only register once you have approved them.

Where can I run my event?

Geographically, there are no limits to your event. Since we work without any physical on-site infrastructure, we can run events anywhere in the world.

And if a participant runs into technical problems?

We handle technical support: participants can reach us directly through our support form, and we help quickly and competently – e.g. with drained GPS devices, detours, GPS outliers and the like.

Who owns the data?

Activity data fundamentally belongs to the participating athletes.

As the organiser, you receive a time-limited, purpose-bound right to use the relevant data within your event (e.g. leaderboards, segment times, completed checkpoints, contact details). This right serves exclusively the operation, analysis and communication of your event.

Good to know: with Strava challenges (i.e. without LaceUp), the rights to segment times remain with Strava. Commercial use of that data may violate Strava's terms of service. Segment times recorded by LaceUp, by contrast, are our own measurement data and legally free to use within the scope of your event.

What happens to the data and contacts after the season?

The contacts who registered with you with consent stay in your database – they belong to you, not to someone else's app.

The right to use the activity data is time-limited and purpose-bound to your event. Leaderboards and results remain available as a reference for the coming season.

Let’s talk about your project.

Tell us briefly where you’re planning a challenge and for whom. We’ll get back to you within two working days with a first assessment and a guide price.

Or directly: go@laceup.ch