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Comedy club seating software · table-led rooms

Plan the room around the stage. Sell every reserved seat.

Draw your tables and rows once, then sell every show on your own website and at the door. Guests pick a seat at a table, or a whole table, and pay through your own payment gateway.

$0.50 a ticket, first 25 free.

No subscription. Guests pay into your own payment gateway.

Prefer the guest view? Preview the released buyer map

Focused scope: this is reserved-seating and sell-to-entry software. It is not performer booking, lineup scheduling, club CRM, membership, email marketing, accounting, or a complete food-and-beverage system.

Comedy room · table-led plan
Front table tier · 4 places
Table 3 · whole table, 4 chairs

Illustration of a table-led room. It is not a capacity or compliance plan.

  • 176

    places in the released Comedy Club chart

  • $0.50

    a ticket, first 25 free

  • 14

    payment gateways, paid to your own account

  • 1

    room plan for every show

Choose the room model first

Comedy club seating: tables, rows, or both.

Table-led, row-led, or mixed: the map should match how the club actually operates.

The right starting structure depends on what the guest chooses and what staff must navigate during service.

01 · Table-led

Tables define the room.

Use individual reserved seats around each table when guests choose their exact place and staff need stable table context.

02 · Row-led

Rows maximize the seating field.

Use straight or curved reserved rows when table service is secondary and the room behaves more like a small theatre.

03 · Mixed room

Tables front, rows rear.

Combine premium table positions near the stage with reserved rows behind them while preserving one event inventory.

Model the operating room

A useful chart carries more than dots.

Start with the stage relationship, then preserve the identifiers and context that buyers and operators need. The venue remains responsible for validating measurements, access, fire and occupancy rules, service clearances, and sightlines.

  • Stage focusOrient sections and buyer navigation toward the performance.
  • Table + seat identityKeep the table group while every reserved place remains selectable.
  • Aisles + service pathsRepresent the deliberate space around tables instead of filling every gap.
  • Categories + price zonesCarry position context without forcing price policy into the room geometry.
  • Accessibility contextUse semantic accommodations and venue-authored notes; the chart is not access-route certification.
  • Limited-view contextCommunicate venue-authored restricted or obstructed-view flags without promising a sightline.
Released starting chart

Start from an actual comedy-room layout, not a blank canvas.

The released Comedy Club chart begins with spaced cabaret tables around a compact stage and rear reserved seating. Its 176 places are an editable starting point and not a capacity recommendation for your room. Rooms with fixed rows and a raised stage usually start from the theatre and performing arts layouts instead.

  • Open and edit it in the public Designer
  • Keep table groups and individual seat identity
  • Preview the same published chart as a buyer
Comedy Club · released template
176places in this starting chart
Primary geometry
Round cabaret tables
Focal point
Compact stage
Rear format
Reserved rows

Edit it to your measured room, operating plan, local rules, access requirements, and service paths.

Start from a comedy club template.

Open a real layout, move the tables to match your room, and publish. Every template is free to edit.

All table templates
Comedy Club template in 3D: round tables close to a compact stage, reserved rows at the back

3D · 176 seats

Comedy Club

Small round tables close to the stage.

Cabaret template in 3D: tables in front of the stage, rows behind

3D · 300 seats

Cabaret

Tables up front, rows behind.

Nightclub template in 3D: a dance floor ringed by VIP tables, with a mezzanine

3D · 756 seats

Nightclub

A dance floor ringed by VIP tables, plus a mezzanine.

One room · many shows

Sell comedy show tickets from one room, night after night.

Reuse the layout. Keep each night independent.

The physical club can stay stable while showtime inventory, holds, blocks, sales, Orders, tickets, and entry belong to the individual event.

  1. 01Build the roomAuthor the stage, table groups, rear rows, labels, categories, and access context once.
  2. 02Create the showPublish a reviewed chart snapshot into a show event with its own readiness and sales mode.
  3. 03Operate live inventoryBuyer and operator views share that event's free, held, sold, and blocked seat state.

Sell directly with SeatLayer, or integrate seating into your platform.

These are separate operating routes. The difference is who owns checkout, Orders, tickets, refunds, entry, and customer support.

Direct club · managed

Add reserved ticket sales to your website.

Buyers pick a seat or a place at a table on your website and pay through your own gateway. The box office sells from the same live map, and the door scans tickets from a phone.

  • Sell tables whole or by the chair, online and at the counter
  • Refund or cancel any order from the dashboard
  • $0.50 per ticket, 25 free to start
Platform · SDK + API

Put the seat picker inside your product.

Render JavaScript or React seat selection in your buyer flow while your trusted backend coordinates holds and final booking.

  • Your platform owns payment and customers
  • Your platform owns orders, tickets, refunds, scanning, and support
  • SeatLayer protects the reserved-seat inventory
For venues and large-volume customers

Running a busy club? Sell in your own brand.

Clubs with large volumes can sell on their own domain in their own brand, or talk to us about a custom setup.

Talk to us Start free
  1. Step 1

    Self-serve

    $0.50 a ticket

    First 25 free, no subscription. Set it up yourself from the dashboard.

  2. Step 2

    White label

    • Your brand, on your own domain
    • Buyers pay into the organizer's own payment account
    • For platforms on the SDK, the SeatLayer badge goes away with any credit pack

  3. Enterprise and custom

    • A custom setup on your own domain
    • Connected to your box office or CRM
    • Migration from your current system
    • An SLA and invoicing for large on-sales
    • Features built for you

Benchmarked at 200,000 seats · 10,000 buyers on one event, 9 ms seat hold at p99Every run is public on GitHub

Pricing

Pay only when a ticket sells.

Your first 25 tickets are free. After that it is one flat price per ticket, and nothing to pay in a month you sell nothing.

See full pricing
Hosted ticketing · sell on your website

Pay per ticket.

25
first tickets free
$0.50
per ticket after that
$0
a month, no subscription
  • Buyers pay you directly, through your own payment account
  • Stripe, PayPal, Square and 11 more gateways
  • Sell online, at the box office and at the door
  • Embed on WordPress, Wix, Webflow, Squarespace, Shopify or any page

More for small rooms

Comedy club seating questions

6 questions

Yes. Round tables with individually selectable chairs and straight or curved reserved rows live in the same chart.

Yes. Draw the room once. Every show uses it and keeps its own free, held, sold and blocked seats.

Yes. Sell on your own website with SeatLayer's checkout, or put the SDK seat picker inside your own platform and keep your checkout.

No. It is an editable starting chart and not a capacity recommendation. Match it to your measured room, local rules, access needs and service paths.

$0.50 per confirmed ticket, and your first 25 tickets are free. There is no subscription. Guests pay into your own payment gateway.

No. SeatLayer is not currently a performer-booking, staff-scheduling, CRM, food-and-drink or accounting system. It handles the room, the seats, the sale and entry.

Didn't find your answer?

Inspect the room as a designer and a guest.

The Comedy Club template is public. Open it both ways, then start free when you are ready to sell a show.

Open in the Venue Designer Start free