SeatLayer makes reserved seating part of your own product with dedicated SDKs, real-time inventory, sales channels, optional buyer 3D, non-expiring sold-seat credits, and hosted operations. TicketSpice combines capable reserved seating with its own event page, checkout, payment, tickets, box office, scanning, and marketing tools.
Discuss the architecture →Honest boundary: In SDK mode, SeatLayer does not replace TicketSpice event pages, checkout, payment, tickets, attendee operations, scanning, refunds, or support. A separate hosted reserved-seating path covers a narrower event and operator workflow.
Both products support capable reserved seating. Decide whether you need dedicated seating infrastructure or one vendor to run the complete ticket journey.
Are you adding reserved seating to a multi-tenant ticketing product? The guide to seating for ticketing platforms covers tenant boundaries, white-label authoring, buyer embedding, and trusted-server integration.
TicketSpice can embed its complete hosted page and exposes a general REST API plus order webhooks. SeatLayer exposes the seating product itself: authoring, transactional buyer selection, real-time inventory, channels, and operations across browser and trusted server.
JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Vue, Angular, seven server families, REST/OpenAPI, signed webhooks, and origin-restricted sessions make seating part of your product.
Inspect SDK & API coverage →Versioned assignment, scoped buyer access, live enforcement, reporting, and webhook attribution are released. Assigning inventory is free.
Inspect sales-channel docs →The same seating core supports 2D selection, optional 3D orbit and fly-to-seat context, an embeddable Venue Designer and Control Room, or hosted operations.
Review the 3D seat map evidence →Adoption boundary: this is an integration decision—not a TicketSpice account import. SeatLayer does not claim a direct TicketSpice checkout plug-in or automatic migration of venues, events, orders, attendees, tickets, or scans.
Start from a released template or author the structure in the Designer. Verify geometry, categories, accessibility, and view metadata.
Embed stable JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Vue, or Angular inside your checkout, or use a separate SeatLayer-hosted reserved-seating event page.
Create holds, re-inspect authoritative items, take payment in your system, book idempotently, and process signed webhooks.
No forced replacement: if TicketSpice's complete workflow fits, use it. SeatLayer earns consideration when the seating layer must live inside a product and operational model you already control.
TicketSpice facts below come from current official pricing, reserved-seating, venue, API, webhook, iframe, and pop-over pages reviewed 5 Sep 2026. “Not documented” describes only those reviewed public sources.
| Decision | SeatLayer | TicketSpice |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Reserved-seating infrastructure inside your own product, plus a secondary hosted reserved-seating path. | Complete event ticketing: hosted pages, checkout, payment, tickets, attendee data, box office, scanning, and marketing options. |
| Reserved seating | Yes. Parametric geometry, best available, holds, four live states, WebSocket deltas, server-authoritative booking, and webhooks. | Yes. Current help documents exact-seat and best-available selection, sections, movable seats, GA, square/round tables, tiers, holds, accessibility, and reports. |
| Venue authoring | Embeddable Venue Designer with 51 starting templates and open chart export, plus levels, sections, curves, tables, booths, GA, accessibility, and view metadata. | Venue templates and a builder with seated sections, individual seat movement, tables, GA, tiers, holds, accessible/obstructed seats, and uploaded seat views. |
| Website embed and checkout | Embed transactional seat selection inside the checkout you own, or use a hosted event page with the organizer's connected Stripe or Razorpay account. | Iframe and pop-over options embed the complete TicketSpice-hosted ticketing page and checkout in a website. |
| SDK, API, and webhooks | Stable JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Vue, and Angular seating SDKs plus seven server families, REST/OpenAPI, signed webhooks, origin-restricted sessions, and real-time inventory. | REST API for pulling collected page information plus order-oriented webhooks. Official help says webhooks are not real-time and should not drive synchronous workflows. |
| Inventory channels | Released channels provide versioned assignment, scoped buyer access, live enforcement, reporting, and webhook attribution. Assigning inventory is free. | Current reserved-seating help documents seat holds with codes, visibility, release dates, group or individual purchase, and pricing inside the TicketSpice page. |
| Visual seat context | Complete 2D journey plus optional chart-derived interactive 3D with live selection, venue orbit, fly-to-seat navigation, and sourced panorama handoff. | Current help documents uploaded seat-view images. A chart-derived interactive buyer 3D journey was not documented in the reviewed public surfaces. |
| Entry pricing | 100 free Platform/SDK credits every month, then $50 buys 500 confirmed-sold-seat credits at $0.10 each. Larger packs reduce the unit price to $0.05. No subscription or minimum commitment. | Current base online fee is $0.99 per paid ticket over $5, plus processing. Tickets at $5 or less and paid box-office tickets are $0.49; optional features and processor choices can add fees. |
| Unused value | Purchased credits never expire. Buy once and use the balance whenever customers confirm sold seats. | No setup or core monthly fee and no prepaid reserved-seat credit bucket, so core rollover is not applicable. Some optional marketing/data tools have monthly charges. |
| Hosted and enterprise paths | Hosted event page, Box Office, Control Room, tickets, and door tools, plus enterprise terms above 100,000 sold seats per month, SSO/SAML, SLA, DPA, and integration support. | The complete hosted product includes ticketing operations and offers optional custom domains, marketing automation, text messaging, data enrichment, and processor choices. |
| Workflow limits to verify | Your host owns surrounding business rules in SDK mode. Fixed Renewable Seasons provide immutable 2–20-event Plans, same-seat sales, incumbent Seat Rights, and renewal offers; first-class resale is not claimed. | Current help says reserved-seating pages are single-date and do not support season tickets, page-type conversion, seat coupons, action-driven venue price changes, post-order seat changes, or manual-selection quantity limits. |
| Best fit | Platforms, venues, and developers that want seating to be an owned, extensible product layer or need a narrower hosted seating operation. | Organizers that want one vendor to launch and run the complete ticket journey and whose event fits the current reserved-seating page model. |
Every link here points to SeatLayer-owned product evidence or SeatLayer's public GitHub repositories.
Pricing in plain terms: TicketSpice's fee buys a complete ticketing workflow; SeatLayer's sold-seat credit buys the seating layer. In SDK mode, your product still provides checkout, payment, tickets, refunds, support, and customer management. Official TicketSpice sources are linked below.
The SDK is the primary fit when reserved seating must become part of your product. Hosted reserved seating is available when an organizer needs SeatLayer event and operator surfaces without assembling the full front and back office.
Origin-restricted browser sessions render and hold seats. Your trusted server prices the order, takes payment, books idempotently, and processes signed webhooks. The Venue Designer and live Control Room can also be embedded.
Review the ticketing platform paths →Connect the organizer's Stripe or Razorpay account. That provider controls processing fees, applicable taxes, and payout timing; SeatLayer bills Hosted Ticket usage separately and can provide the event page, Box Office, Control Room, ticket issue, and door tools without becoming the organizer's CRM.
Review hosted operations →The legacy chart-preview iframe is non-transactional. Use the web SDK for your checkout, or a hosted embed for an eligible, staff-enabled Managed event with the organizer’s connected payment gateway. Managed Ticketing uses a separate Hosted Ticket wallet.
Review stable web SDKs, seven server families, REST/OpenAPI, webhooks, and public source.
SEAT-MAP PEERCompare an interactive seat-map licence with owning the seat state.
PLATFORM BUILDERSEvaluate tenant isolation, white-label authoring, buyer embedding, channels, and operations.
DIAGRAMMING COMPARISONCompare known-guest event planning with public buyer seat selection.
If the complete TicketSpice workflow fits, keep it simple. If seating must become your product layer, judge SeatLayer with the venue and checkout architecture you actually need.