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# Plugins at a glance

The suite is eight plugins. Five form the core; three are optional.

| Plugin                                                       | What it does                                                                                        | Requires                     | Role                            |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | ------------------------------- |
| [**raceevent**](/race-timing-suite/plugins/raceevent.md)     | The event itself: name, date, place, registration window, payment details. Also season maintenance. | —                            | **Required** — install first    |
| [**racetrack**](/race-timing-suite/plugins/racetrack.md)     | The structure: tracks, checkpoints, entry prices — and the archive of finished editions.            | raceevent                    | **Required**                    |
| [**racers**](/race-timing-suite/plugins/racers.md)           | The people: competitors, categories, start lists, on-site check-in.                                 | raceevent, racetrack         | **Core**                        |
| [**racetiming**](/race-timing-suite/plugins/racetiming.md)   | The timing engine: passings at checkpoints, the marshal's keypad, mass-start generation.            | raceevent, racetrack, racers | **Core**                        |
| [**racereports**](/race-timing-suite/plugins/racereports.md) | The results: live board, rankings, splits, checkpoint times. **The reason to run the suite.**       | all of the above             | **Core**                        |
| [**racereg**](/race-timing-suite/plugins/racereg.md)         | Online sign-up, approval, substitutes, QR payment.                                                  | raceevent, racetrack         | Optional — **work in progress** |
| [**racerfid**](/race-timing-suite/plugins/racerfid.md)       | Imports passings from an RFID chip system.                                                          | — (independent)              | Optional                        |
| [**terminovka**](/race-timing-suite/plugins/terminovka.md)   | Sends results to terminovka.sk, the Slovak race calendar.                                           | — (independent)              | Optional                        |

## How they fit together

```
                    raceevent          the event (as settings, not data)
                        │
                    racetrack          tracks · checkpoints · prices · archive
                        │
                     racers            competitors · categories
                        │
                   racetiming          when did who pass which point
                        │
                  racereports          → results, rankings, live board


    racerfid       feeds times into racetiming        (independent)
    racereg        feeds people into racers           (independent of racers by design)
    terminovka     sends finish times out             (independent)
```

## The one thing to understand

**Only the raw passings are stored.** A time is: *this bib, at this checkpoint, at this moment.*

Every elapsed time, split, gap and ranking you ever see is **calculated on the spot** from those raw rows. Nothing is saved.

This is why:

* correcting a time in `racetiming` updates **every** report immediately — there is nothing to rebuild;
* you never edit a result — you fix the time behind it;
* to preserve an edition permanently you must **archive** it, which freezes a snapshot.

## What "optional" really means

* Without **racereg**, competitors are entered by hand or imported. Everything else works.
* Without **racerfid**, times are typed on the keypad. Everything else works.
* Without **terminovka**, results simply stay on your site.
* Without **racereports**, you have no results at all — and no archive. It is not optional in practice.