The seating chart maker built for venues that sell seats.
Most "seating chart maker" tools draw a picture; this one draws sellable inventory. Build a wedding, classroom, event or theatre seating chart online — dragging curved rows, tables and sections on true venue geometry — with no signup and no watermark. Start from 50 real templates. Designing stays free forever, and a credit is only ever spent when you sell a seat.
Three ways people use the maker.
Every card below is a real template that opens straight into the editor — not an illustration. Start from the one closest to your room, then drag it into shape.
Event & theatre seating chart maker
Build a proper house: curved theatre rows, tiers, boxes, GA zones or a full arena bowl. Paint category price zones, mark accessible seats, and — when you're ready — publish the chart and sell reserved seats from it with a branded buyer picker embedded in your own site.
The payoff: the same chart you make becomes the checkout. Publish it, embed a picker, and sell seats with live inventory that can't double-sell — in English, Spanish, German or French. You pay only for seats you actually sell.
Weddings & banquets — when you're selling seats
Lay out your reception the way the room really is: round and rectangular tables, a head table, a dance floor and a stage, with category zones for different table tiers. Start from a banquet or wedding template, drag tables where they belong, number them, and share a link or publish.
Honest boundary: this builds the layout — tables, table numbers and zones — not the guest list. It does not import an RSVP spreadsheet or assign individual guest names to seats. It's a venue seat-map designer, so it's the room and the tables, done properly.
Classrooms & training rooms
Arrange desks and rows exactly as your room is set up — straight rows, a curved lecture bank, or an auditorium. Label every seat clearly, group sections, and share the finished chart with a link. Perfect for a classroom, a lecture hall or a school event where the layout is the point.
Honest boundary: it builds and shares the seating layout, with clear seat labels and rows. It does not import a student roster or auto-assign named students to individual desks — that's a job for your gradebook, not a venue designer.
Load the actual maker, right here.
No demo video, no screenshot — the real venue designer runs inside this frame. Click to load it, drag rows and tables around, and see what a seating chart maker feels like when it's built on real geometry. Still no signup.
Chart to done in three steps.
Pick a template
Open one of 50 real layouts — wedding rounds, classrooms, theatres, arenas — straight into the editor. No blank grid to fight, and nothing to install.
Drag it into shape
Ten tools: rows, tables, booths, GA and sections, with curved rows, category price zones, an accessibility taxonomy, 100-step undo and live validation. Move fast, walk anything back.
Share it — or sell from it
Export the chart as an open document, or publish it and sell reserved seats with a branded picker. Usage-based pricing applies only when you sell — never for designing.
What this maker is — and what it isn't.
"Seating chart maker" describes two different jobs, and this tool only does one of them. It's a real venue seat-map designer, not a guest-list arranger or a poster-printing tool. The split below shows exactly where that boundary sits.
A real venue seat-map designer
- True venue geometry — curved rows, tables, booths, GA and sections
- 50 templates across weddings, classrooms, theatres and arenas
- Category price zones and an 8-type accessibility taxonomy, including CART
- Free forever to design — no signup, no watermark, no time limit
- Open, portable chart-document export — no lock-in
- A path to publish and sell reserved seats from the same chart
Not a guest-list or print tool
- No guest-list or RSVP spreadsheet import
- No assigning individual named guests or students to seats
- No PDF or printable seating-poster export flow
- No place-card or escort-card generation
- Not a general drawing app — it makes sellable venue inventory
If your goal is to sell reserved seats from the chart you make, that's exactly what the rest of SeatLayer does — see the full feature set →
Questions people ask about the maker.
Is the seating chart maker really free?
Yes. Designing a seating chart is free forever — build, edit, rearrange and export as much as you like at no cost. You only ever pay when you sell seats online: 1 credit per sold seat, with 100 sold seats free every month, and credits never expire. Holds and blocks are always free, and there are no monthly plans.
Do I need an account to use it?
No account is needed to try it. Open any of the 50 templates at app.seatlayer.io/demo/designer and start dragging rows and tables immediately, with no signup. Create a free account only when you want to save your own chart and come back to it later.
Can I make a wedding seating chart with it?
You can build the layout side of a wedding — round and rectangular tables, table numbers, a stage or dance floor, and category zones — starting from banquet and wedding templates. It's a venue seat-map designer, so it handles the room and the tables, not guest-list import, RSVP matching, or assigning individual names to seats.
Can I make a classroom seating chart with it?
Yes. Start from the classroom or auditorium template and lay out desks and rows exactly as your room is arranged, with straight or curved rows and clear seat labels. It builds and shares the layout; it does not import a student roster or assign named students to specific desks.
Can I sell tickets from a chart I make?
Yes. Publish a chart and sell reserved seats from it with a branded buyer picker you embed in your own site — live inventory that can't double-sell, in English, Spanish, German and French. Pricing is usage-based only: 1 credit per sold seat, 100 free every month, no monthly plans.
Can I export the seating chart I make?
Yes. Every chart is a portable, open chart document you can export at any time — the geometry, categories and accessibility data come with you, with no lock-in. Note there's no PDF or print-poster export flow; the maker is a venue seat-map designer, not a print-layout tool.
Can I import a guest list and put names on seats?
No — SeatLayer is a venue seating chart maker, not a guest-list arranger. It designs the room itself: rows, tables, sections and price categories you can publish and sell. For placing named wedding guests or students, a guest-list tool like SeatPlan or a classroom tool is the right choice.
Can I print or export a PDF seating chart?
There's no print/PDF poster flow. Charts live as interactive maps you share by link or embed, and export as an open chart document (JSON) with all geometry and categories — built for selling seats online, not printing posters.
Open the maker and build your first chart.
Pick a template, drag it into shape, and share it — free, no signup. When you're ready to sell seats, the same chart becomes your checkout.