KeepsYa™ vs Event Tickets Plus
Both extend The Events Calendar. One sells tickets. The other runs your registration business.
Updated August 18, 2026 · KeepsYa 0.185.2 + KeepsYa Pro 0.26.55 · Event Tickets 5.28.3.2 (Event Tickets Plus, current release)
The short version: If you sell general-admission tickets to audiences, Event Tickets Plus is excellent and battle-tested. If people sign up children or players for sessions you run, with rosters, owed balances, waivers and day-of attendance, that is exactly the part ticketing stops short of, and exactly what KeepsYa is.
This is a family comparison: both products plug into The Events Calendar, so your events, venues and calendar pages stay the same either way. The difference is what happens after someone clicks register. A ticket is a row in an attendee list. A KeepsYa registration is a player on a roster, attached to a family account, with a balance, a waiver, medical notes and a QR check-in code that arrives in the confirmation email.
Side by side
| KeepsYa | Event Tickets Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| You own your data ⓘ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built on The Events Calendar | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sell paid registrations online | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom registration fields | ✓ | ✓ |
| QR check-in | ✓ browser, no app needed; codes emailed to families |
✓ via companion app |
| Family accounts with saved players | ✓ | — |
| Rosters with age, medical and emergency info | ✓ | — |
| Offline payments tracked (cash, Zelle, Venmo, check) | ✓ | — |
| Owed-balance reminders and one-tap mark paid | ✓ | — |
| Deposits, waitlists with promotion, self-serve reschedule | ✓ | — |
| Cancellation workflow with credit, forfeit or refund | ✓ | — |
| Per-day camp attendance and no-show follow-up | ✓ | — |
| Referral program with store credit | ✓ | — |
| Punch cards and prepaid packages | ✓ Pro |
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| Automatic multi-child / sibling discount | ✓ | — per-ticket, not family-aware |
| 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
After the sale
Ticketing ends at the ticket. KeepsYa keeps working all season: who owes what, who showed up, who needs a nudge, who deserves a credit.
Built for families
One parent account, several kids, saved player profiles, emergency contacts. Nobody re-types a birthdate twice.
Cash is a first-class citizen
Most youth programs still take cash, Zelle and checks. KeepsYa tracks every offline dollar, chases it politely, and reconciles it.
Where Event Tickets Plus fits better
General admission
Concerts, conferences, fundraisers, anything where the buyer IS the attendee and the relationship ends at the door.
The full Events suite
If you already run their Pro calendar, Promoter and Filter Bar stack, ETP slots straight in.
Pure ticket volume
High-volume one-off ticket sales with seat-style inventory are its home turf.
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
Event Tickets has a free core. Event Tickets Plus is a paid add-on, now sold within The Events Calendar bundles: Essentials $259/yr, Pro $399/yr, Elite $599/yr. 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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Feature notes reflect each product’s public documentation and published feature lists as of June 12, 2026. Products change; check their site for current details and pricing. All trademarks belong to their owners; KeepsYa is not affiliated with or endorsed by any product compared here.
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 →