Good evening Jae and welcome to the Events Calendar forum!
Thank you for your interest in our products.
We’ll be glad to answer your questions.
I haven’t used the ticket portion but I am not understanding why the paid licenses are needed to sell tickets
Simply put, the paid licenses for our premium Event Tickets Plus plugin provides you with updates and support for 1 year.
Our free Event Tickets plugin does not integrate with e-commerce plugins such as WooCommerce.
what are the benefits for using event ticket plus vs Eventbrite tickets plugin.
It’s a matter of personal preference. Eventbrite tickets does not integrate with WooCommerce, but Event Tickets Plus does.
Typically EvenBrite users prefer prefer handling over all of the transactional aspect to Eventbrite while our Event Tickets Plus users prefer to keep the purchase process on their websites.
Also I need to be able to set different option for tickets/pricing and wanted to know which plugin (if any) will allow me to do that.
It depends on what you are looking to add as options, but I would say Event Tickets Plus is probably the plugin you need.
Could you expand on what options you had in mind ?
Let me know if that helps.
Have a great day!
Geoff B.