KeepsYa™ vs WooCommerce Bookings
Both live in your WordPress. One thinks in products and carts; the other thinks in players and rosters.
Updated August 18, 2026 · KeepsYa 0.185.2 + KeepsYa Pro 0.26.55 · WooCommerce Bookings, current release (requires WooCommerce)
The short version: WooCommerce Bookings turns time slots and resources into products inside a full ecommerce store, which is perfect when bookings sit next to merchandise in one cart. KeepsYa skips the store: registrations are not products, kids are not cart items, and a season is not an order. If you do not otherwise need WooCommerce, you are maintaining a whole ecommerce stack to approximate a registration system.
The shape mismatch shows up everywhere once you look: a parent registering two kids for camp with a deposit, a waiver, a medical note and a cash balance is technically possible to model as a Woo order with product add-ons, but every step fights the cart metaphor. KeepsYa models it natively because that IS the model: families, players, events, balances, rosters, check-in.
Side by side
| KeepsYa | WooCommerce Bookings | |
|---|---|---|
| You own your data ⓘ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Requires the WooCommerce stack | — needs only The Events Calendar (free) |
✓ |
| Sell physical products alongside | — | ✓ |
| Time-slot and resource booking (rooms, rentals) | — | ✓ |
| Events, camps, tiered packages, schedules | ✓ | — modeled as products |
| Family accounts: one parent, several kids | ✓ | — |
| Rosters with age, medical and emergency info | ✓ | — |
| Waivers and per-player custom fields | ✓ | via add-on extensions |
| Offline payments with owed-balance chasing | ✓ | — manual order status only |
| QR check-in and per-day attendance | ✓ | — |
| Waitlists with promotion, credits, reschedules | ✓ | via additional extensions |
| Referral program with store credit | ✓ | via additional extensions |
| Automatic multi-child / sibling discount | ✓ | via additional extensions |
| 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
One plugin, one model
No store setup, no product variations gymnastics, no extension shopping list. Install, create an event, take registrations.
Registration-shaped data
Players, families, rosters and balances as first-class objects, not orders with metadata bolted on.
Day-of operations
QR check-in, attendance, no-show follow-up. A cart plugin has no opinion about what happens at the field.
Where WooCommerce Bookings fits better
You already run Woo
If merch, gear or gift cards already flow through your store, keeping bookings in the same cart has real value.
Resources, not rosters
Court rentals, room hire, equipment: inventory that gets booked by the hour fits its model exactly.
The Woo ecosystem
Hundreds of payment, tax and shipping extensions if your needs sprawl beyond registrations.
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
$249/yr for the extension, and it requires the free WooCommerce core to run. 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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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 →