WHY SEATLAYER
SeatLayer is reserved-seating infrastructure for ticketing platforms and venues. Use the complete buyer SeatPicker or a headless SeatingChart while your product keeps checkout. One published chart and live inventory drive 2D, optional 3D, holds, booking and operations.
Go live for $0: every Platform/SDK organization receives 100 free confirmed sold-seat credits each month. Paid packs start at $0.10 per sold seat, with no standard subscription; purchased credits never expire. Around 50% lower starting seat price than seats.io. Compare pricing.
Embed the SDK when you own booking. Use hosted when SeatLayer should also provide the event page, connected-gateway checkout, tickets and venue operations.
THE 60-SECOND DECISION
| Decision | SeatLayer approach | Verify |
|---|---|---|
| Ready UI or custom UI? | Mount the complete SeatPicker, or use the headless SeatingChart when your product owns the cart, timer and surrounding controls. | Surface comparison ↗ |
| Mobile application? | Supported React Native, Flutter, Swift/iOS and Kotlin/Android packages expose typed app-facing APIs around a version-pinned buyer runtime. | Mobile SDK guide ↗ |
| Buyer-experience control? | Theme and localize the complete picker, or compose custom buyer controls around the live chart. Your app keeps navigation, identity, analytics and checkout. | Customization guide ↗ |
| 2D and 3D? | Optional 3D is generated from the published venue and reads the same event inventory. The complete 2D path remains available, and opening 3D does not consume another sold-seat credit. | Open live 3D ↗ · Pricing → |
| Distributed sellers? | Allocate exact seats to sponsors, agencies, presales, groups, and box office without copying the event. Invite partner teams into role-scoped contexts, release unsold seats automatically, and retain sales attribution and reports. | Sales Channels → |
| Renewable seasons? | Publish an immutable 2–20-event Plan, coordinate same-seat holds and booking, import incumbent Seat Rights, and issue time-bounded renewal offers. Your platform keeps pricing, checkout, orders, tickets and refunds. | Seasons API ↗ |
| Billing contract? | Every Platform/SDK organization receives 100 free SDK seat credits each month. After that, one prepaid credit is consumed the first time a place is confirmed sold; purchased credits do not expire, with no standard subscription or minimum commitment. | Published pricing → |
| Large-venue evidence? | A public 53,018-seat buyer fixture is directly testable, with its desktop-browser method, timings and limitations published separately. | Run the public demo ↗ |
| Embedded or hosted? | Embed the seating layer in your stack, or use a hosted seated-event path with event page, connected-gateway checkout, per-seat tickets, Box Office and door tools. | Compare delivery paths → |
Account secrets and final booking stay on a trusted server. SeatLayer is not a CRM or a general event-marketing suite.
FLEXIBILITY, SHOWN IN CODE · CURRENT NATIVE PACKAGES
Flutter, React Native, SwiftUI/UIKit and Compose/Android Views supply replaceable native buyer controls around the shared WebView map while SeatLayer keeps venue geometry and inventory behavior consistent behind the public SDK APIs.
Use SeatLayerPicker for the complete buyer flow and a typed checkout handoff.
Theme, strings, behavior and builder slots can restyle, hide or replace individual picker regions.
Use the platform scope or state holder and exported native components to arrange your own header, map, cart, controls and 3D chrome while SeatLayer keeps holds and checkout state.
One SDK, three ways to build. Start with the complete picker, replace individual controls, or compose your own native layout.
Available packages: Flutter is 0.7.2 on pub.dev and React Native is 0.3.4 on npm. The mobile SDK guide links to current iOS and Android releases.
Compare all four native SDKs ↗Inspect every Flutter control ↗Build a custom layout ↗Inspect the React Native SDK ↗
CLOSEST ALTERNATIVES
Compare pricing, interface control, deployment and the buyer experience.
A mature embedded-seat-map platform with published support for production seasons, channels, holds, resale and web/mobile integrations.
An SDK and booking-state platform with cloud tiers plus published on-premises and air-gapped deployment options.
A specialist in commissioned, true-to-scale venue twins, interactive 3D maps and seat-level 360° visualizations.
A licensable interactive-maps specialist with prebuilt and custom UI options for ticketing and resale experiences.
All-in-one systems can bundle event creation, payment, ticket delivery, marketing and general-admission workflows.
An event-diagramming route for planning room layouts, guest seating and collaborative event setup.
Official product references, reviewed 5 September 2026: seats.io · seatmap.pro · 3D Digital Venue · Seatics · Social Tables. The seats.io Flutter package was reviewed 29 August 2026.
PUBLIC EVIDENCE
Inspect every material claim without repository or sales access.
Pan, zoom, focus sections and select seats in the same public stadium fixture used by the published renderer measurement.
Test the large-stadium chart ↗The desktop run publishes the hardware, browser, fixture, interaction sequence, p95 timings and limitations. At 53,018 seats, the measured p95 interaction frame was 17.6 ms.
Read the renderer method ↗Open a buyer chart, switch into the optional 3D tour and return to the complete 2D path. The view is tied to the published seating model.
Open the 3D theatre ↗Compare the complete picker, headless chart, framework packages, seven server SDKs and supported React Native, Flutter, iOS and Android packages.
Inspect SDKs and registries →STRONG FIT / DELIBERATE NON-FIT
DIRECT ANSWERS
VERIFY BEFORE YOU BUY
Open the 53,018-seat stadium, inspect the method, then compare the integration surface against your checkout and mobile architecture.