Assigned Seating Made Simple
Easily create interactive seating maps, leverage seat types (like VIP) to generate more revenue, and empower your attendees to select the exact seats–and experience–they’re looking for.
One calendar. Countless ways to make it your own.
How it works
1. Build your map
Use our elegant seating map builder directly in the WP Admin. Create an unlimited number of seating maps for all your future events.
2. Add seat types
Designate specific seats on your map as general admission, reserved, accessible, VIP, or whatever you want.
3. Create tickets
Easily create tickets for each seat type. Adjust pricing per seat type to incentivize sales and boost revenue.
4. Sell assigned seats
Customers get to use your interactive seating map to choose the exact seats they want.
Your customers will love the Seating experience
No confusion, no stress
Give your customers peace of mind by allowing them to reserve the seats they want in advance.
Interactive seating maps
Our beautiful, interactive seating maps are easy to navigate and a pleasure to use.
Color coded seats
Seating types are instantly identifiable through color coding.
Real-time availability
Seating availability on the maps is updated in real time, so what customers see is what’s actually available.
Time-locked seat selections
Seat selections are locked until the reservation timer runs out, ensuring that customers have a reasonable amount of time to purchase their selected seats.
Smooth checkout experience
Customers can select their seats and check out in just a few clicks.
Seating features
Map builder
Seating’s visual map builder is snappy, fast, and intuitive. Whether you’re mapping 50 seats or 500+, this builder can handle it.
Seat types
Not every event is general admission. Sometimes you need designated accessible spots, discounted seats, or VIP areas. Seating makes it easy to create any seat type you can imagine.
Ability to block seats
Sometimes seats are reserved, obstructed, undergoing maintenance, or otherwise unavailable. Seating makes it easy for you to block seats you don’t want to go on sale.
Flexible seat pricing
Every seat type can be priced separately when creating tickets. This gives you the flexibility to charge higher or lower prices based on a seat’s location or other selling points.
Countdown timer
A countdown timer adds urgency to the purchasing process, boosting conversions. It also ensures that seat selections made during that time-frame are locked-in.
Dynamic ticket inventory
Since Seating is a connected SaaS solution and not a WordPress plugin, we’re able to show seat availability in real-time, meaning there’s never any double-booking.
Manage seat assignments
Seating puts you in control of the ticketing process. Easily change, transfer, delete, or manually create seat assignments.
Data Ownership
With Event Tickets and Seating you never have to worry about a third party restricting your access to essential ticketing data like attendee lists, emails, and more. It’s yours!
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
Seating is a new SaaS product that is an add-on for Event Tickets.
With Seating, admins can create Seating Maps and Seat Layouts to reflect their venues and seat configurations. When creating tickets, they can then associate an event with a specific Seat Layout, and each ticket with a specific Seat Type. When buyers go to purchase tickets on the front-end, they choose from a dynamic map of the Seat Layout and purchase tickets according to their selected seats.
Nope, you only need to have Event Tickets active and a valid license for Seating. With a valid license, you can connect to the Seating Builder SaaS and that provides the seated ticket functionality.
You only need Event Tickets (free) to use the Seating add-on. It does not require Event Tickets Plus or The Events Calendar. However, when paired with Event Tickets Plus you are able to take advantage of advanced features such as attendee registration and QR code check-in for assigned seating tickets.
Seating requires the free Event Tickets plugin. To add Seating navigate in your WP Admin to Tickets > Settings > Licenses and enter your Seating license key. Then click the green button to connect your site to the Seating Builder service.
Currently, event tickets created for use with Seating can only be sold using Tickets Commerce–the native ecommerce solution for Event Tickets. We will integrate with WooCommerce in a future release.
Seating is designed for use with the Block Editor and does not support the Classic Editor.
