Live Event Seating is the most powerful WordPress seating chart plugin for selling event tickets with WooCommerce. Let your customers visually pick their perfect seat on a beautiful, interactive SVG map — then check out securely using any WooCommerce payment gateway. From gala dinners and theater performances to conferences and weddings, this all-in-one visual ticket booking plugin handles everything from seat design to QR code check-in.

Stop losing sales to clunky booking forms. Give attendees a premium, Amazon-style seat selection experience and watch your ticket revenue soar.

🎯 Key Features

🗺️ Drag-and-Drop Visual Seating Plan Builder

Build your venue layout in minutes with an intuitive admin canvas. Add round tables, rectangular tables, stages, and theater-style seat blocks. Resize, reposition, zoom, and pan with full precision. What you design is exactly what your customers see — no coding required.

🖱️ Interactive Frontend Seat Selector

Your customers see a responsive, SVG-based seating map that works beautifully on desktop, tablet, and mobile. Click a seat to select it, click a table to book all seats at once. The visual experience dramatically improves conversion rates compared to standard dropdown booking forms.

🛒 Deep WooCommerce Integration

Every seat is processed as a WooCommerce product, giving you access to the world’s largest payment gateway ecosystem. Selected seat IDs appear directly in the cart, checkout, and order confirmation. Supports Simple Products for flat pricing and Variable Products for tiered pricing (e.g., VIP vs. Standard sections).

📱 Automatic QR Code Tickets

A unique QR code is automatically generated for every order and included on the Thank You page and in the WooCommerce order confirmation email. Customers can also print a clean ticket with one click.

📷 Built-In Ticket Scanner & Check-In Dashboard

No third-party apps needed. Use your device’s camera directly from the WordPress admin to scan attendee QR codes at the door for fast, efficient guest check-in. A manual entry fallback is also available.

🔒 Real-Time Seat Locking (No Double Bookings)

The moment a user adds a seat to their cart, it is temporarily locked (default: 15 minutes). Other visitors will see it as unavailable, eliminating double-booking conflicts during peak sales periods.

🧠 Intelligent Orphan Seat Prevention

Maximize revenue with smart booking logic that prevents unsellable isolated seats. When a customer’s selection would leave a single lonely seat at a table, the system prompts them to adjust — ensuring you never lose a seat to a gap that nobody wants to fill.

📅 Flexible Booking Windows

Set a Booking Open and Booking Close date for each event. The seating plan will only be visible and active during the defined sales window — perfect for presale launches and ticket cutoff deadlines.

🎨 Fully Customizable Seat Colors & Branding

Use built-in color pickers to style Available, Selected, and Booked seat states to match your brand identity. The frontend legend updates dynamically to always reflect your chosen colors.

♻️ Layout Templates (Export)

Designed a great venue layout? Export it as a JSON file. Save hours of setup time when running recurring events in the same venue.

🌍 Multilingual & Translation-Ready

Fully .pot file included with pre-built translations for Bengali (bn_BD), German (de_DE), Spanish (es_ES), French (fr_FR), Italian (it_IT), Japanese (ja), Dutch (nl_NL), Portuguese (pt_PT), and Russian (ru_RU).

📊 Admin Booking Overview

A dedicated Current Bookings panel on each event shows exactly which seats are sold, along with the linked WooCommerce order for each — giving you complete visibility at a glance.

🏟️ Perfect For

• Gala Dinners & Fundraisers — Assign table seats and manage VIP sections
• Theaters & Performance Venues — Sell tickets for plays, concerts, musicals, and comedy shows
• Conferences & Seminars — Assign seating for workshops, keynotes, and breakout sessions
• Wedding Planners — Manage guest seating charts and RSVPs with ease
• Restaurants & Supper Clubs — Handle table reservations for special events and holiday dinners
• Community Centers & Schools — Sell seats for performances, award nights, and graduation ceremonies
• Sports & Entertainment Venues — Manage block seating and row-by-row booking

⚙️ How It Works – Quick Setup in 4 Steps

1. Create a Ticket Product — Set up a Simple or Variable WooCommerce product with your ticket price(s).
2. Build Your Event — Go to the new Events menu in your dashboard and add a new event. Link your ticket product and design your venue layout using the drag-and-drop builder.
3. Embed the Seating Map — Copy the auto-generated shortcode (e.g., [event_seating_plan id="123"]) and paste it onto any page or post.
4. Go Live & Get Paid — Customers browse your interactive map, select seats, and checkout through WooCommerce. QR code tickets are sent automatically.

📋 Requirements

• WordPress: 5.8 or higher
• WooCommerce: Required (latest version recommended)
• PHP: 7.4 or higher
• PHP GD Library: Required for QR code generation (available on all standard hosts)

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do I need WooCommerce installed?
Yes. This plugin is a WooCommerce extension. It uses WooCommerce for all cart, checkout, payment, and order management functionality.

Q: How do I display the seating plan on my website?
After creating an event, a unique shortcode like [event_seating_plan id="123"] is automatically generated. Paste it into any WordPress page, post, or widget area.

Q: Can I set different prices for different sections?
Yes. Link your event to a WooCommerce Variable Product and assign different price tiers (e.g., “VIP,” “Standard”) to specific tables or seat blocks directly in the builder.

Q: What prevents two people from booking the same seat?
The plugin uses a real-time seat locking system. Once a seat is added to any cart, it is locked for 15 minutes (configurable), preventing any other user from selecting it.

Q: Is it mobile-friendly?
Yes. The frontend seating map is fully responsive and supports touch gestures for panning and selection on all smartphones and tablets.

Q: Can I limit how many tickets one person can buy?
Yes. The global Settings page includes a configurable “Max Seats Per Order” limit enforced on both the frontend and server side.

🔄 Latest Updates

• Fix: Full compatibility with the Gutenberg Block Editor — seating plan data now saves reliably in both Block and Classic Editor modes.
• Tweak: Refactored JavaScript save mechanism for more robust, instant data persistence.
• Previous : Added global Max Seats Per Order limit, dynamic color legend on frontend, and server-side seat limit validation.

🚀 Elevate Your Event Ticketing Today

Join event organizers, venue managers, and wedding planners who use Live Event Seating to deliver a world-class booking experience. With a visual seating builder, seamless WooCommerce integration, QR code tickets, and real-time seat locking, everything you need is in one plugin.

Get Live Event Seating now and give your attendees the experience they deserve.