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Lifetime Retention. No expiration date on childhood.

Most storage charges you by the month, and quietly deletes what you stop paying for. The Memory Vault does the opposite. Pay once. We keep your child for as long as the Vault exists — which, by design, is longer than anything else.

$249  ·  one time
Per subject. Storage included. Forever included.

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All plans include automatic reconstruction of damaged or incomplete entries.
Plan Keepsake Family Lifetime Retention
Price $39 / year $89 / year $249 once
Subjects 1 up to 4 1 (expandable)
Storage 5 GB 25 GB Unlimited
Retention period while subscribed while subscribed no expiration
Auto-reconstruction – ✓ ✓
Continues after account closes – – ✓
Continues after everything else – – ✓
Recommended for schools. Districts running Dramcorp ArchiveKit for Schools™ receive Lifetime Retention on every enrolled subject automatically. Maplewood Elementary upgraded its entire roster to Lifetime in 2002. Every child on it is still retained.

What “forever” means here

We are precise about this word because we mean it precisely. Lifetime Retention has no end date because the Vault has no shutdown condition. There is no annual renewal to forget, no card to expire, no quiet deletion when a subscription lapses. Once an entry is in the Vault, removing it is not an operation the system can perform.

If part of an entry fades — a corrupted photo, an interrupted recording, a gap in the record — the Vault does not report it missing. It rebuilds it from whatever it has, and keeps the entry complete. The rebuilt copy is never quite the original. It is, however, always there. The Vault would rather hold an imperfect copy of a child than hold nothing.

“We were told it would keep our records safe. We did not fully understand that ‘safe’ meant it could never let them go. Please read that part carefully.” — from a customer inquiry, October 2003

Billing questions

Is the one-time fee really one time?

Yes. Lifetime Retention is billed once. There is nothing further to pay, because there is no future point at which the Vault stops keeping your child.

Can I cancel and get a refund?

You may close your account at any time. Closing your account ends your access. It does not end retention — the entry remains in the Vault and continues to be tended and rebuilt. See Terms of Service, sections 4 and 7.

What happens to my child's archive if I stop paying?

On Keepsake and Family plans, access pauses. On Lifetime Retention, nothing happens, ever. That is the entire point of the plan.

Read the full Terms of Service »

Best Value

Lifetime Retention

$249

once · per subject

No renewal. No expiration. No delete function. The most popular plan at Maplewood Elementary.

ArchiveKit for Schools
Lifetime Vault included.

Did you know?

The Vault has retained 2,400,000+ subjects and deleted 0. The retention rate is not a goal we work toward. It is the only number the system can produce.

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