Go Beyond Simple Tickets: A Visual Booking Experience
Transform your event management with Live Event Seating, the ultimate WordPress seating chart plugin. This powerful and flexible tool is a complete, all-in-one solution that allows you to move beyond simple ticket sales, build beautiful seating maps, and sell tickets directly from your website.
Your Event, Your Layout
From a gala dinner to a business conference, our WordPress seating chart plugin gives you the tools to create a detailed and beautiful seating plan for any occasion. Manage everything inside a dedicated “Events” area right in your WordPress dashboard.
Powered by WooCommerce for Trusted Payments
Built for reliability, Live Event Seating integrates seamlessly with WooCommerce. Leverage the world’s most popular eCommerce platform for secure payments, while keeping your event management in a familiar and user-friendly environment.
Stop leaving money on the table with clunky booking forms. Give your attendees the power to choose their perfect seat and watch your ticket sales soar!
Client Reviews
“This plugin was exactly what we needed! We’re selling corporate tables for boxing events but whole tables only. The interface is easy to use, the stock control is great and allowed us to easily manage both online sales and direct sales while easily updating the interface. The fact it integrates with Woocommerce makes it so much easier too. Familiar backend for payment processing and order confirmation communication etc. Great plugin, well worth the money for easy to use ticket and table sales!”
LEX S
Managing Director
Vastly | Digital Marketing
Features of Our WordPress Seating Chart Plugin
An Interactive Booking Experience for Your Customers
Give your attendees the premium, “click-to-pick” experience they expect, notably on any device.
- Interactive SVG Map: Your customers see a beautiful, fast-loading map where they can visually select seats instead of using confusing dropdowns.
- Touch & Mobile Ready: Similarly, the map is fully responsive. Users can pan with a single finger and zoom in to select seats on any smartphone or tablet.
- Flexible Booking Modes: You can configure tables to be booked by individual seats. Alternatively, you can enforce “Whole Table Only” bookings, which are then cleanly displayed as a single item in the cart.
Design with Precision: Advanced Builder Controls
Your digital map should perfectly match your real-world venue. Therefore, our visual builder gives you the detailed control needed to achieve this. Every element can be fine-tuned for a truly accurate layout. Unquestionably, this precision is valued by professional event organizers.
- Resize Elements: Need a wider stage or a longer table? In this case, the size of rectangular tables, stages, and seat blocks can be changed. The perfect size is achieved by simply dragging the corners to your desired dimensions.
- Rotate Elements: Moreover, rectangular tables and seat blocks can be rotated 90 degrees. This allows you to create vertical or horizontal layouts, which helps you fit more into your floor plan.
- Adjust Circle Radius: You are given full control over circle tables. For instance, you can easily adjust the radius to create smaller bistro tables or larger gala rounds, and the surrounding seats will automatically adjust to the new size.
Stop fighting with code or complex settings. Instead, our intuitive, drag-and-drop admin interface gives you complete control to build a perfect digital twin of your venue.
- Dedicated Event Management: First and foremost, a user-friendly “Events” area is created right in your WordPress admin. You can easily add new events, write descriptions, and manage all your event-specific settings.
- Flexible Layout Elements: You can go beyond basic tables. For instance, you can add resizable circle tables, rectangle tables, stages, decorative images, and even theater-style seat blocks.
- Theater & Row-Based Seating: Moreover, you can create structured “Seat Blocks” with configurable rows and seats-per-row. This is perfect for theaters, lecture halls, and auditoriums.
- Precision Controls: In fact, you can effortlessly resize, rotate, and position every element on the canvas. As a result, your digital map will perfectly match your physical layout.
- Effortless Navigation: For large and complex charts, you can use the built-in zoom and pan controls to navigate your layout with ease. In addition, the builder canvas itself is also resizable, giving you all the space you need.
- Layout Templating: You can save hours of work. Specifically, you can export any completed layout as a .json file and instantly import it into future events.
Robust Ticketing & Sales with WooCommerce
Leverage the full power of the world’s most popular eCommerce platform for secure and flexible ticket sales.
- Tiered & Variable Pricing: For example, you can link your event to a WooCommerce Variable Product to set different prices for different sections (like “VIP” or “Standard”) and assign them directly in the builder.
- Seamless Cart & Checkout: A user’s selection, whether it’s a single seat or a whole table, is clearly displayed with its correct name and price throughout the entire WooCommerce checkout process.
- Real-Time Seat Locking: Furthermore, our system prevents double-bookings. The moment a seat is added to a cart, it is temporarily “soft-locked” and becomes unavailable to other users.
Complete Event-Day Management Tools– Pro Features
Your toolkit doesn’t stop after the sale. In other words, we provide everything you need to run a smooth and professional event on the day.
- Automatic QR Code Tickets: A single, unique QR code is generated for each order. Subsequently, it is automatically displayed on the “Thank You” page and sent in the customer’s order confirmation email.
- Printable Tickets: Additionally, a “Print Ticket” button on the confirmation page allows customers to easily print a clean, scannable copy of their ticket.
- Integrated Ticket Scanner: A dedicated “Ticket Scanner” page in your admin area turns any device with a camera into a powerful check-in station.
- Manual Check-in & Fraud Prevention: Besides that, it includes a fallback input field for manual code entry and prevents the same ticket from being scanned twice.
Intelligent Settings & Global Controls
Fine-tune the booking logic to match your exact needs from a centralized settings dashboard.
- Full Customization: Finally, you can use color pickers to style all seat statuses to perfectly match your brand.
- “Orphan Seat” Prevention: An optional rule to prevent users from leaving a single, unsellable empty seat at a table.
- Per-Event Overrides: In particular, for any specific event, you can override global settings, such as the booking window or the orphan seat rule.
- Global Limits: You can set a “Max Seats Per Order” to ensure fair ticket distribution.
Effortless Whole Table Booking
- Selling individual seats isn’t always right for galas or corporate events. Fortunately, our WordPress seating chart plugin understands this. You are given the power to designate any table as “whole table booking only.” This completely changes the customer experience. Specifically, individual seats on that table are no longer shown, and the table itself becomes the selectable item.
- Indeed, a single click is all that is needed to select the entire table. The user’s summary instantly updates with one clear line. For example, it will show “VIP Table (10 Seats)” and the total price. The cart is also updated with this single, easy-to-understand item. Ultimately, this provides a simple, premium booking experience for your most important groups and makes booking a corporate sponsorship table truly effortless.
Save Time with Reusable Layout Templates– Pro Features
- Stop rebuilding your venue layout for every new event. Instead, our WordPress seating chart plugin lets you create once and use forever. Unquestionably, this feature is a massive time-saver for anyone with recurring events or multiple venues, as it streamlines your entire setup process.
- Your perfected layout can be exported as a simple .json file. In fact, this file saves everything: element positions, sizes, colors, and even price tiers. Then, when you create a new event, just click the “Import Layout” button. After you select your saved template file, the entire seating chart is instantly recreated. Consequently, any new event can be set up in mere seconds. Ultimately, you can build an entire library of templates for all your different rooms and configurations.
Complex seating charts should not be difficult to manage. Therefore, a smooth navigation experience is provided for both admins and customers. As a result, large and detailed layouts are now easy to work with on any screen.
- Frontend Mobile Experience: Your customers get the same power. Specifically, on a mobile device, they can use intuitive touch gestures. A simple pinch gesture can be used to zoom, while a one-finger drag is used to pan the map. This ensures a flawless and accessible booking experience, even for the largest venues.
- Admin Builder Navigation: The admin canvas features powerful zoom and pan controls. For example, you can zoom in to fine-tune a specific area or pan across a large floor plan with a simple click-and-drag. In addition, the builder canvas itself is also resizable.
Manually Setting Booking Status
This is an essential tool for managing your event inventory without creating a formal order.
- How it works: For any bookable element (Tables or Seat Blocks), a “Status” dropdown will appear in the inspector.
- Available: This is the default. The element and its seats are available for customers to book.
- Booked / Unavailable: If you select this, the entire element (and all seats within it) will be instantly marked as “Booked” on the frontend. This is perfect for:
- Reserving seats for VIPs or special guests.
- Blocking off tables for staff or technical equipment.
- Holding seats that were sold offline.
This manual override gives you complete control to block off any part of your seating chart from public sale.
✅ Full Block Editor Support
Create your seating plans with confidence directly within the modern WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg). Our latest update ensures that every change is saved reliably, providing a seamless and integrated experience. No need for the Classic Editor plugin anymore!
General Admission (GA) Areas with Capacity Control – Pro Features
Perfect for concerts, festivals, or hybrid events with standing sections.
- Create GA Zones: Add rectangular or custom-drawn freeform areas for standing room.
- Manage Capacity: Set a maximum number of tickets for each GA area. The system automatically tracks sales and displays the remaining availability to customers.
- Flexible Booking: Customers can choose the number of GA tickets they want from a simple quantity selector, making booking fast and easy.
Freeform Drawing Tools – Pro Features
Your venue isn’t a perfect square, so why should your seating chart be?
- Draw Anything: Create decorative polygons to represent architectural details, dance floors, bars, or any other feature in your venue.
- Custom GA Shapes: Draw a General Admission area that perfectly matches the organic shape of a festival ground or standing pit.
- Intuitive Drawing: Simply click to add points and create any shape you need. Finish by double-clicking or clicking the starting point.
Precision 360° Rotation Slider – Pro Features
Forget rigid 90-degree turns. Position your elements with perfect accuracy.
- Fine-Tune Your Layout: A new, user-friendly slider allows you to rotate tables, seat blocks, and other elements from 0 to 360 degrees.
- Live Visual Feedback: See your elements rotate in real-time as you drag the slider.
- Exact Input: Type a precise degree value for perfect alignment.
True WYSIWYG Seat Block Builder
No more guesswork! The builder now shows you exactly what your customers will see.
- Visual Seat Rendering: When you add a “Seat Block” for theater-style rows, the builder now draws every single seat circle inside the block.
- Instant Updates: See the grid of seats update instantly as you change the number of rows, seats per row, or the dimensions of the block.
- Realistic Preview: What you design in the admin panel is now a perfect representation of the final seating chart.
Total Control with Seat Blocking & Holds – Pro Features
Ever need to reserve the best seats for VIPs, hold a section for the press, or block out space for a soundboard? Now you can, with professional-grade precision. Our new Block Seats tool gives you the power to make any individual seat unavailable for public sale, right from your visual builder.
This feature, known in the professional ticketing world as creating “seat holds” or “kill seats,” is now accessible to everyone with a simple, intuitive interface.
- Reserve Seats with a Click: Activate “Block Mode” and simply click on any available seat to instantly make it un-bookable. Click it again to release the hold. It’s that easy.
- Perfect for Any Scenario: Whether you’re holding seats for staff, blocking spots with an obstructed view, or reserving a row for special guests, you have complete control over your inventory.
- Seamless for Customers: Any seat you block will appear as “unavailable” on the frontend map. This prevents customer confusion and ensures they only see the seats that are actually for sale.
Stop manually tracking reserved seats or using complicated workarounds. With the Block Seats tool, you can manage your venue like a pro, ensuring every seat is allocated exactly as you intend.
Design Faster with Advanced Selection & Group Actions
Building a large, complex seating chart? We’ve supercharged the builder with professional-grade tools designed to dramatically speed up your workflow. Arrange, duplicate, and manage your layout with the speed and efficiency of a desktop design application.
1. Multi-Select with Marquee Box
Instantly select groups of elements without tedious individual clicks.
- Click and Drag: Simply click on an empty area of the canvas and drag to draw a selection box (“marquee”) over the elements you want to select.
- Group Everything: Effortlessly select entire sections of tables, seat blocks, or any other elements to manage them as a single unit.
2. Add or Remove with Shift + Click
Fine-tune your selection with precision.
- Hold Shift and Click: After selecting a group, hold the Shift key to click on individual elements. This will add them to your selection or remove them if they’re already selected. It’s the perfect way to make precise adjustments.
3. Group Dragging, Duplication, and Deletion
Once you’ve selected multiple elements, you can manage them all at once.
- Move in Unison: Click and drag any single element from a selected group, and the entire group will move together, maintaining their relative positions perfectly.
- Duplicate Sections Instantly: With a group of elements selected, just click the “Duplicate” button. The entire section will be copied, ready for you to drag into place. This is a massive time-saver for symmetrical layouts.
- Delete in Bulk: Select multiple items and click the “Delete” button (or press the Delete/Backspace key) to remove them all at once.
These new power-user tools are designed to make building and editing your seating charts faster, more intuitive, and more enjoyable. Spend less time clicking and more time perfecting your event layout.
Build Your Perfect Venue with Powerful Layout Tools – Pro Features
Whether your event is in a simple hall or a complex theater, our builder has you covered. Choose the layout mode that fits your needs and create a beautiful, interactive seating chart in minutes.
- Single Layout Mode: Perfect for straightforward venues! If you’re hosting an event in a single room, hall, or open space, this mode lets you get started instantly. Add tables, rows of chairs, and other elements directly onto a single canvas for a fast and intuitive setup.
- Section-Based Layouts: Tame complex venues with ease. The “Use Sections” mode is designed for theaters, stadiums, or multi-room events. Draw distinct areas like “Balcony,” “Orchestra,” or “VIP Lounge,” and then manage the seating within each section independently. This keeps your chart organized and provides a clear, zoomable experience for your customers on the frontend.
Design Like a Pro with Smart Alignment Guides – Pro Features
Say goodbye to guesswork and uneven layouts. Our new Smart Alignment Guides transform the builder into a professional design tool.
- Pixel-Perfect Precision: As you drag any element—or even a group of selected elements—on the canvas, dynamic guide lines automatically appear.
- Instant Visual Feedback: These guides instantly show you the top, bottom, center, left, and right boundaries of your selection, making it incredibly easy to align objects with each other or center them perfectly on your chart. Create clean, symmetrical, and professional-looking seating plans every time.
Prevent Double Bookings with Real-Time Availability
Offer a seamless and frustration-free booking experience for your customers. Our seating chart is now a live environment that keeps everyone in sync.
- Live Seat Status Updates: The frontend chart automatically polls the server every 20 seconds for the latest availability. When a seat is booked or held in another user’s cart, it instantly grays out for everyone else.
- Reduce Customer Confusion: This real-time update prevents the classic problem of two customers trying to buy the same seat at the same time. It reduces abandoned carts, minimizes support requests, and ensures a smooth, reliable transaction process for your event attendees.
Introducing Sections for Complex Venues! – Pro Features
Struggling to map out a venue with multiple rooms, floors, or distinct areas? Our groundbreaking Sections feature is the solution. Now you can:
- Build Hierarchical Layouts: Divide your venue into logical areas like “Orchestra,” “Balcony,” “Main Hall,” or “Patio.”
- Add Freeform Sections: Perfectly trace the outline of any custom-shaped area with our easy-to-use polygon drawing tool.
- Drill-Down to Edit: Simply double-click a section to “zoom in” and manage its internal layout, adding tables, seat rows, and other elements.
- Organize with Clarity: Keep your main venue map clean and understandable, showing an overview of each section. Elements placed inside a section move with it, making reorganization a breeze.
Work with Confidence: Full Undo & Redo Support
Ever accidentally moved a table, deleted the wrong section, or just changed your mind about a layout choice? With our robust Undo and Redo functionality, you can design with complete creative freedom. The builder now keeps track of your changes, allowing you to step backward and forward through your actions instantly.
This powerful feature transforms your design process, making it faster, more intuitive, and stress-free.
- Correct Mistakes Instantly: No need to panic. A misplaced element or an accidental deletion can be reversed with a simple keyboard shortcut.
- Experiment Fearlessly: Want to see how the layout looks with the stage on the other side? Go for it! If you don’t like it, you’re just one “undo” away from your previous version. This encourages creativity and helps you find the perfect arrangement.
- Boost Your Workflow: Spend less time manually fixing errors and more time perfecting your seating plan. It’s a professional-grade feature that works just like your favorite design software.
How it works:
- Undo: Ctrl+Z (or Cmd+Z on Mac)
- Redo: Ctrl+Y (or Cmd+Shift+Z on Mac)
Who Is This Plugin For?
- Event Organizers: Galas, fundraisers, charity dinners.
- Theaters & Performance Venues: Plays, concerts, musicals, comedy shows.
- Theater & Row-Based Seating: Not just for dinners! Create blocks of seats with configurable rows and seats-per-row, perfect for theaters, lecture halls, and auditoriums. The orphan seat rule is automatically disabled for these blocks to allow for natural single-ticket purchases.
- Conference & Seminar Planners: Assign seating for workshops and keynotes.
- Wedding Planners: Manage guest seating charts and RSVPs.
- Restaurants: Handle reservations for special events or holiday dinners.
- Community Centers & Schools: For performances, awards nights, and functions.
Elevate your event ticketing. Get Live Event Seating today and give your attendees the booking experience they deserve!
Just leave a message in WhatsApp (+8801726037599) or contact me macmonir@gmail.com if you need it.
Simple, Powerful Pricing
Choose the plan that’s right for you. All plans come with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Silver
Perfect for freelancers & getting started.
- Use on 5 Websites
- Core Builder Features
- Intuitive Drag & Drop Visual Builder
- Add Tables, Seat Rows, Stages & Images
- Full Undo/Redo Support (Ctrl+Z)
- 360° Rotation & Flipping Tools
- Element Snapping & Alignment Guides
- Booking & Ticketing
- WooCommerce Integration
- Tiered Pricing (via Product Variations)
- Whole Table Booking Option
- Real-time Seat & Price Summary
- Pro Features
- Sections Mode for Complex Venues
- General Admission (GA) Areas
- Block/Unblock Individual Seats
- QR Code Ticket Scanner
- Import/Export Layouts (JSON)
- Support & Updates
- 1 Year of Standard Support
- 1 Year of Plugin Updates
Gold
For power users and client work.
- Use on Unlimited Websites
- Core Builder Features
- Intuitive Drag & Drop Visual Builder
- Add Tables, Seat Rows, Stages & Images
- Full Undo/Redo Support (Ctrl+Z)
- 360° Rotation & Flipping Tools
- Element Snapping & Alignment Guides
- Booking & Ticketing
- WooCommerce Integration
- Tiered Pricing (via Product Variations)
- Whole Table Booking Option
- Real-time Seat & Price Summary
- Pro Features
- Sections Mode for Complex Venues
- General Admission (GA) Areas
- Block/Unblock Individual Seats
- QR Code Ticket Scanner
- Import/Export Layouts (JSON)
- Support & Updates
- 1 Year of Premium Support
- 1 Year of Plugin Updates
== Installation ==
Prerequisites: You must have the WooCommerce plugin installed and activated for this plugin to work.
Automatic Installation (Recommended):
- In your WordPress dashboard, go to
Plugins > Add New. - Search for “Live Event Seating for WooCommerce”.
- Click “Install Now” and then “Activate”.
Manual Installation:
- Download the plugin .zip file from the WordPress repository.
- In your WordPress dashboard, go to
Plugins > Add New. - Click “Upload Plugin” and choose the .zip file you downloaded.
- Click “Install Now” and then “Activate”.
Initial Setup (Required):
- Create a “Ticket” Product: Go to
Products > Add Newin your dashboard. Create a “Simple Product” (e.g., “Gala Ticket”) and give it a price. This product will represent one seat. - Create Your Event: Go to the new
Eventsmenu in your dashboard and click “Add New”. - Configure the Event:
- In the “Event Seating Settings” box, select the WooCommerce product you created in Step 1.
- Use the “Seating Plan Builder” to drag-and-drop tables and stages to create your layout. Click on elements to edit their properties (label, number of seats).
- Optionally set a booking window or disable the orphan rule for this specific event.
- Click “Update” or “Publish” to save your event.
- Display the Seating Plan:
- Copy the shortcode provided in the “Event Seating Settings” box. It will look like
[event_seating_plan id="123"]. - Paste this shortcode into the description of your event post, or onto any other page or post where you want the seating plan to appear.
- Copy the shortcode provided in the “Event Seating Settings” box. It will look like