Custom made event/race booking and registration software

Hi all,

I'm building a booking system for our races here in the UK. So far we've used sail racing systems or just spreadsheets.

1. What do other other folks use?
2. Am I reinventing the wheel?
3. Would anyone else be interested in using it? (it'll be free)

My plan so far is that we'll use WordPress as a base (because I use it for work everyday and know it fairly well!) so that anyone can copy and use the plugin we make.

Features:

• Register paddlers and collect details of boat(s), emergency contact, experience
• Event organisers can add details of their event, set number limits, experience limits, costs
• Event organisers could make an event page if they don't already have a website, or just use the booking element of our system if they do (and if their website is WordPress I can help integrate, or they could use our plugin)
• Accept bookings and collect payment to organiser's paypal
• Results system - categories, times, hotspot, etc
• Use paddler info (with permission) for other events (mailchimp list or similar)
• Compliant with GDPR

I'd welcome any feedback or requests, and if anyone has a list of surfskis with manufacturer, model, dimensions that would be awesome.

Free??
I can host the system through my work and it'll be free for paddlers, organisers, manufacturers & sponsors. Why? Because making surfski events easy to run makes more people likely to organise them, which is good for everyone.

Sounds great.

Ive used Webscorer for the past 4 years to run a ski race in the UK. You can use the basic free version for timing & results or the Pro version which takes care of entries etc.