KeepsYa™ vs TeamSnap
TeamSnap manages your team. KeepsYa runs your registration business. Those are different jobs.
Updated August 18, 2026 · KeepsYa 0.185.2 + KeepsYa Pro 0.26.55 · TeamSnap, current cloud release (SaaS)
The short version: TeamSnap is the household name for managing a team’s season: schedules, availability, chat, lineups, in an app many parents already have. KeepsYa is for the business side: selling spots in camps, clinics and trainings from your own website, tracking every dollar including cash, and running check-in day. Some clubs genuinely use both; if you only monetize sessions, KeepsYa replaces the part you would otherwise pay per player for.
The clearest way to choose: follow the money and the domain. TeamSnap registration runs on their platform, on their pages, with platform pricing that grows with your numbers. KeepsYa registration runs on yoursite.com, with your Stripe or PayPal account, your Zelle QR code at the field, and a flat cost that ignores how good your season was.
Side by side
| KeepsYa | TeamSnap | |
|---|---|---|
| Registration on your own website and domain | ✓ | — hosted platform pages |
| You own your data ⓘ | ✓ | — |
| Cost scales with players / registrations | — | per-team and platform plans; see their pricing |
| Offline payments tracked (cash, Zelle, Venmo, check) | ✓ | — |
| Family accounts with saved players | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rosters with medical and emergency info | ✓ | ✓ |
| QR check-in with codes emailed to families | ✓ | — |
| Deposits, waitlists, credits and refund workflow | ✓ | varies by plan |
| Team chat and availability app for parents | — | ✓ |
| Game schedules, lineups, live scoring | — | ✓ |
| Referral program with store credit | ✓ | — |
| Punch cards and prepaid packages | ✓ Pro |
— |
| Rename the app to your program’s words (participant, coach, roster) | ✓ | fixed platform terms |
| Built-in AI (discovery interview, content & ad writer, flyer maker, parent chatbot) | ✓ Pro: discovery interview, writers, flyer maker, chatbot |
— no native AI suite |
Where KeepsYa wins
No per-player tax
Your 200-player summer costs the same flat amount as a 20-player winter. The platforms charge the other way around.
Your website does the selling
SEO, your brand, your analytics. Every registration deepens YOUR site, not a platform’s.
Real-world money
The cash envelope and the Zelle screenshot are normal in youth sports. KeepsYa treats them as real payments with balances and reminders.
Private clubs and delegated partners
Run hidden, invite-only sessions and give a partner club its own member group, share link and a delegate who invites and manages their own families, all on your site with the same booking and no per-player fee.
Where TeamSnap fits better
Running the season
Game schedules, availability polls, lineups and team chat, in an app parents already know.
League coordination
Multi-team leagues with divisions and standings are platform territory.
No website at all
If your program has no web presence, their hosted pages get you registering today.
The money math
KeepsYa’s cost never scales with your success: the core plugin is free forever, and KeepsYa Pro is one flat yearly license. Platforms priced per month, per player or per registration take a growing cut as you grow. Run your season’s numbers against their pricing page; the gap usually pays for your whole website.
What they cost
Quote-based for clubs and leagues (pricing scales with registration volume); free to start for a single team, with paid upgrades. See their pricing →
Keepsa: free core, flat yearly Pro license. We re-check these figures weekly; tell us if you spot a change.
or lock founders pricing: KeepsYa Pro at $149/yr for the first 500 (regular $199/yr)
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Our 30-day, no-questions-asked guarantee
Try KeepsYa Pro and love it, or get a full refund, automatically. If Pro is not right for your program, just log in and cancel within 30 days of your purchase and we will refund your charge automatically. No emails, no hoops, no questions. And if you ever get stuck before then, a real person replies within one business day.
More than an affiliate program: a growth flywheel
KeepsYa Pro turns your own families into your marketing engine and rewards them for it. Affiliate commissions, family referrals and the stored-value ledger are not three features, they are one self-perpetuating loop:
A family shares their link
Every family gets a personal referral link, and partners get an affiliate link, straight from your KeepsYa site.
A friend signs up
The new registration is tracked automatically and attributed to the referrer, first-touch, no codes to chase.
The family earns spendable credit
They receive real, owner-funded account credit (or a cash commission), held in your stored-value ledger and payable after the service is delivered.
They come back and spend it
That credit pulls the family into next season, and their friend now has a link of their own.
The result: your customers promote you, get rewarded, and keep coming back, while you keep every dollar and own all the data. One referral can pay for a whole year of Pro. See how the Pro flywheel works →