Seating Charts

Create detailed event seating plans in minutes with intuitive, drag-and-drop tools

Quickly lay out tables and chair rows

With tools like auto-format and snap-to grids, you can quickly add multiple rows of tables or chairs to start setting up your spaces. Choose from a variety of table types as well as hundreds of other elements, including furniture, walls/doors, dance floors, stages, trade show booths, audio/visual, and lighting.

Manage guest lists and assigned seating

Upload or enter your attendee list into our guest list tool to manage contact details, event RSVPs and meal choices. Then quickly drop attendees onto seats in your layout or auto-seat all attendees at once. View counts for seated attendees/available seats and clearly display guest names plus meal choices and RSVP/VIP status.

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Perfect for any kind of event or venue

Our seating chart software lets you set up seating arrangements for any kind of event, including wedding receptions and ceremonies, gala dinners, fundraisers, banquets, meetings, corporate events and parties. It’s also a great tool for venues, restaurants, hotels, and other event spaces.

Share layouts online + check in guests

Now you can give your staff, clients and vendors access to seating charts for easy online collaboration. Or download and print out full-color PDFs of your seating plans with table seating breakouts plus name badges and equipment lists. And easily process arriving guests with our multi-user guest check-in app.

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Save time with templates and customizations

Create room outlines of your space boundaries and then build out reusable templates for your most used event seating setups. Build out your own custom element libraries to save time. Even upload your logo to brand your event floor plan designs.

See why over 70,000 event and hospitality professionals rely on our seating plan tools

"I personally LOVE the floorplan tool because it lets us create amazing, detailed layouts to scale and assign guests to seats."

-Tal Orion, Tal Orion Event Management

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A closer look at Planning Pod’s seating plan software

Discover how event professionals use our event seating tools to quickly create to-scale diagrams

Drag-&-Drop Functionality

Use our event seating chart software to easily add one or multiple elements at a time, plus select and move, edit or delete single or multiple elements.

Alignment Tools

Make sure your floor plan items line up precisely with snap-to grids and vertical/horizontal spacing features to arrange multiple tables or elements at once.

Smart Menus

Need to make changes to multiple elements at once? No problem. Just select elements and then instantly duplicate, rotate, add/remove chairs, and change colors or table numbers.

Auto-Layout Feature

When adding tables or chair rows, simply use the "Add Multiple Rows" option to create grids of elements that are precisely spaced to your specifications.

Guest List Manager

Track details for attendees like contact information, RSVP status and meal choices and assign the same list to multiple floor plans if you need multiple seating assignment layouts for the same event.

Assigned Seating Charts

Drop singles or groups of guests onto tables or chair rows and easily move them to different tables/seats. Seat or unseat all attendees with a single click and view attendee details like names and RSVP status in the layout design.

Guest Check-In App

Keep your at-the-door lines short by using our multi-user app to check in guests quickly and efficiently at multiple entrances.

Downloads & Reports

Download and print out PDF files of your event designs with table breakout pages and attendees' names on seats. Export spreadsheets for guest lists, equipment lists and name badges.

Viewing / Measurement Options

Easily show and hide attendee information like names, RSVP/VIP status and meal choices. Use imperial or metric measurements based on your regional preferences.

Mobile Compatible

Want to view floorplans and seat assignments on-the-go and show them to vendors and clients? Simply log into your account via your mobile web browser to view your designs on tablets or smartphones.

Templates & Room Boundaries

Build seating chart templates for setups you use repeatedly. Upload room outline files to trace room walls with our boundary tool ... or create your event space walls/boundaries from scratch.

Favorite Element Library

Do you repeatedly use the same standard elements or use custom elements for many designs? Save them in your favorites library so you can easily access these items when building seating charts.

Table & Chair Library

Choose from round tables, half-rounds, rectangular tables, square tables or serpentine tables. Build custom chair configurations and seating capacities, clear spaces, more.

Chair Rows + Other Elements

Implement chair rows as well as furniture, trade show booths, architectural items, A/V, lighting, floors, stages, and shapes into your seating plans.

Rulers & Notes

Know exact distances and measurements between items in your seating charts with adjustable rulers. Use custom notes to add clarity to your floor plans.

Permissions & Security

Create user groups to set permissions for different user types. Then invite new users into your account so they can login and collaborate on seating layouts.

Easy-to-use event seating chart software for building layouts fast