KeepsYa™ vs Eventbrite
A ticketing marketplace that charges per ticket, or your own registration software with no per-sign-up fee. Here are both sides.
Updated August 18, 2026 · KeepsYa 0.185.2 + KeepsYa Pro 0.26.55 · Eventbrite organizer pricing, verified June 19, 2026
The short version: Eventbrite is superb for public, discoverable events where strangers buy tickets and the relationship ends at the door. But its fees ride on every paid ticket, and your attendees register on eventbrite.com, not your site. If families sign up children or players for sessions you run, with rosters, balances, waivers and check-in, KeepsYa does that on your own site with no per-registration fee.
The structural difference matters more than any feature row. Eventbrite is a marketplace you list on; KeepsYa is software you own. On Eventbrite, paid tickets carry a 3.7% + $1.79 service fee per ticket plus 2.9% payment processing per order, and the buyer, the data and the SEO live on Eventbrite. With KeepsYa, registrations happen on yoursite.com, every byte lives in your own WordPress database, and the only money that leaves is your own payment processor’s rate.
Side by side
| KeepsYa | Eventbrite | |
|---|---|---|
| You own your data ⓘ | ✓ | — |
| Per-ticket / per-registration platform fee | — free core; flat yearly Pro license |
✓ 3.7% + $1.79 per ticket, plus 2.9% per order, on paid tickets |
| Free events cost nothing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Runs on your own WordPress site and domain | ✓ | — hosted on eventbrite.com |
| You own the attendee data and relationship | ✓ | — marketplace owns discovery and the buyer |
| Family accounts with saved players | ✓ | — |
| Rosters with age, medical and emergency info | ✓ | — |
| Offline payments tracked (cash, Zelle, Venmo, check) | ✓ | — |
| Owed-balance reminders, deposits, waitlists | ✓ | — |
| QR check-in | ✓ browser, codes emailed to families |
✓ via organizer app |
| Public discovery marketplace and built-in promotion | — | ✓ |
| 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
No cut of every sign-up
Eventbrite’s fee rides on each paid ticket. KeepsYa is free core plus a flat Pro license, so your busiest season ever costs the same as your quietest.
Your site, your families
Registrations happen on your own domain and the data stays in your WordPress, not behind a marketplace login you do not control.
Built for programs, not just tickets
Rosters, family accounts, owed balances, waivers, deposits and per-day camp check-in: exactly the parts ticketing stops short of.
Where Eventbrite fits better
Public, discoverable events
Concerts, festivals, conferences and one-off public events where marketplace discovery helps sell the tickets for you.
Strangers buying tickets
When the buyer is the attendee and you want reach over relationship, the marketplace is the whole point.
No website needed
List and sell without building or running a site of your own.
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
Free to publish events. On paid tickets, attendees pay a 3.7% + $1.79 service fee per ticket plus 2.9% payment processing per order; free events have no fees. The optional Eventbrite Pro marketing add-on starts at $15/mo. 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 →