Event seating setup
Give an event its seating plan — floors and layout modes, the first-run choice, and applying a venue arrangement with zone mapping.
Seating setup (event sidebar, under Setup) is where an event gets its plan — either built from scratch or copied in from a venue arrangement. It's the authoring hub; the day-to-day live view is the Seating plan.
Starting from an arrangement
The fast path for venues you've drawn before:
Apply the arrangement
In Seating setup, choose Apply arrangement and pick one of the venue's layouts. The event receives a complete, independent copy.
Map zones to ticket types
The dialog lists the arrangement's zones and asks which of the event's ticket types each one sells — Front → "Standard (chairs)", Gallery → "Balcony". It warns about zones left unmapped; unmapped seats can't be sold until they get a type.
Done — review the plan
The copied plan opens for review. Adjust anything: this copy is the event's own.
Re-applying later replaces the event's plan — fine while nothing is sold; once seats are sold, the sold-seat protection keeps occupied seats safe.
Starting from scratch
No arrangement? The event first-run shows a single choice-card pair: is it one area (a single open space — the editor opens straight away) or multiple sections (you'll draw section outlines first, then detail each)? Your pick creates the event's first floor; you can add more floors and change a floor's mode later.
Floors
Add, rename, and delete floors to match the building: Main hall, Balcony, Foyer. Each floor has its own layout and shows as a tab for buyers. The live preview on the setup page mirrors what the public will see as you work.
From each floor you drill down: sections (drawn outlines on the floor, each opening the detailed seat editor) or directly into the one-area editor.
Seated ticket types come to life here: a seated type's capacity is simply how many seats on this plan carry it. Add seats → capacity rises; a sold-out type whose zone gains seats feeds its waitlist first.
Related
Venues and arrangements
Reusable places and layouts — zones without prices, the arrangement design studio, and version snapshots you can restore.
The seat editor
The complete drawing editor — every tool, table shape, inspector field, alignment and renumbering command, plan setting, validation check, and protection rule.