Live Event Seating Lite – Seating Chart, Floor Plan & Ticket Sales

Description

The Easiest Way to Create & Sell Tickets with a Seating Chart in WordPress!

Are you trying to create a visual seating chart for an upcoming event? Building a custom venue map or an interactive floor plan in WordPress can be a challenge. Live Event Seating Lite is the ultimate solution. It provides a powerful, intuitive, drag-and-drop builder to create a detailed seating plan and now includes FREE WooCommerce integration for selling tickets!

Whether you are organizing a local concert, a church event, managing auditorium seating, mapping out stadiums, or handling table reservations for a gala or workshop, this seat booking system adapts perfectly to your venue.

🎥 See It In Action (Video Tutorials)

Want to see how easy it is to build a venue and sell tickets? Check out our quick video tutorials:

How to Create a Seating Chart

How to Connect Seats to WooCommerce

Advanced Venue Builder Features

🆓 Live Event Seating LITE (Free Version)

Now you can sell tickets directly from your seating chart with our built-in WooCommerce integration at NO extra cost!

Free Features Include:
* Visual Drag & Drop Builder: Create your seating chart right inside the WordPress admin area.
* Multiple Elements: Add circular tables, rectangular tables, seat rows, stages, images, and freeform polygon shapes.
* WooCommerce Ticket Sales: Link variable price products to events to accept payments easily.
* Interactive Seat Selection: Customers can click seats and see real-time pricing based on your product variations.
* Shopping Cart Integration: Add selected seats to the WooCommerce cart and proceed directly to checkout.
* Detailed Cart Display: Shows specific seat information (table/seat number), event details, and pricing in the cart and checkout.
* 5-Minute Seat Locking: Seats are automatically locked for 5 minutes when added to the cart, changing to an orange “reserved” color to indicate they are temporarily held. If the order is not completed, the seat is automatically released.
* Order Information Tracking: Comprehensive seat and event details (date, time, place) are automatically added to WooCommerce orders and displayed in admin order details, thank you pages, and email confirmations.
* Prevent Double-Bookings: Booked seats are marked as unavailable (gray color) to prevent overlapping sales.
* Multi-Level Pricing: Support for variable products with multiple price tiers (e.g., VIP, Standard, Economy).
* Intuitive Controls: Easily move, duplicate, and delete elements with smart snapping guides.
* Responsive Display: Use a simple shortcode [lesl_seating_plan id="YOUR_EVENT_ID"] to display your chart on any page or post.

🚀 Upgrade to Premium — More Power, More Sales, Zero Commission

The free version gets you started. The Premium versions give you everything you need to run a professional ticketing operation — from QR code check-ins and sold-out waitlists to self-service seat swaps and targeted discount codes.

👉 View All Premium Plans & Pricing

🏆 Which Version is Right For You?

1. LITE VERSION (Free)
Best for: Getting started with visual seat booking and WooCommerce ticket sales.
* Drag-and-drop visual builder
* WooCommerce ticket sales
* Seat selection and booking
* Display via shortcode

2. STARTER VERSION
Best for: A single venue or personal website (1 Website).
* 0% Ticket Fees: Keep 100% of your profits without paying third-party platform fees.
* Tiered Pricing: Charge different prices for VIP vs. Standard seats.
* Whole Table Booking: Allow corporate sponsors to buy a whole table with one click.
* Real-time Seat Summary: Live cart updating to prevent double-bookings.
* Advanced Builder Tools: Full Undo/Redo (Ctrl+Z), 360° rotation tools, curved seat rows, block/kill individual seats, and advanced alphabetic seat numbering.
* Pan & Zoom: Users can easily pan and zoom the displayed seating chart on any mobile device or desktop.

3. BASIC VERSION
Best for: Freelancers & agencies getting started (5 Websites).
* Includes all features from the Starter Version, expanded for use on up to 5 websites!

4. PRO VERSION
Best for: Power users, client work, and complex venues (Unlimited Websites).
* Everything in Starter & Basic, plus:
* QR Code Ticket Scanner: Scan tickets at the door using any smartphone camera for fast check-ins.
* Sections Mode: Build complex venues with multiple sections (balconies, orchestra pits, etc.).
* General Admission (GA) Areas: Sell standing-room or unreserved area tickets.
* Booking Manager: Centralized dashboard to view and manage all attendees.
* Import/Export Layouts (JSON): Save your venue as a template for future events.
* Calendar Integration: Native integration with The Events Calendar and Events Manager plugins.
* Countdown Timer: Seat lock timer displays directly in the cart and checkout page.
* Advanced Ticket Templates: Ticket customizer using a drag-and-drop builder.
* Seat & Table Add-ons: Offer food packages, drinks, and other WooCommerce products as optional extras when customers book a seat or table.
* Gutenberg Blocks: Add your seating map or waitlist form to any page — no shortcode needed. Choose the event from a block sidebar dropdown.
* 🔔 Waitlist System: Capture sales even when an event is sold out. [See details below ↓]
* 🔁 Seat Transfer: Let customers move their own seats after purchase. [See details below ↓]
* 👥 Group & Bulk Booking: Auto-select a block of adjacent seats for groups. [See details below ↓]
* 🎟️ Per-Seat-Type Coupons: Discount codes that apply only to the seat tier you choose. [See details below ↓]
* Premium Support.

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🔔 NEW PRO FEATURE: Waitlist & Sold-Out Capture System

Never lose a sale when an event sells out.

Most event organisers lose revenue the moment a show is fully booked. Interested buyers have nowhere to go — so they leave and book elsewhere. The Live Event Seating Waitlist System captures every one of those missed sales automatically.

How it works for your customers:
* When an event is fully booked, a clean waitlist signup form appears on the event page
* Customers enter their name and email to join — no WordPress account required
* The moment a seat is released (via cancellation, refund, or failed order), the next person on the list is automatically notified by email
* The email contains a unique, time-limited purchase link valid for 30 minutes — creating urgency and driving immediate conversions
* If the link expires unused, the system notifies the next person in the queue automatically — zero manual effort required

How it works for you as an organiser:
* A dedicated Waitlist Manager in your WordPress admin shows every entry — name, email, event, status, and join date
* Notify anyone manually with a single click, or let the system handle everything automatically
* Every person who joins receives an instant confirmation email so they know their spot is saved
* Remove or manage entries any time directly from the admin panel
* Works automatically on order cancellation, refund, and failure — no manual monitoring needed
* Smart auto-detect finds the correct booking page from your shortcode — works out of the box with no configuration for single-event setups

Add the waitlist form to any page with a shortcode or use the new Gutenberg block — no coding required.

👉 Get the Waitlist Feature in Pro

🔁 NEW PRO FEATURE: Self-Service Seat Transfer & Ticket Swap

Eliminate seat-swap support emails entirely.

After purchase, seat change requests are one of the most common — and most time-consuming — support tasks for event organisers. Customers want to upgrade, move next to a friend, or switch sections. Without a self-service tool, every request means back-and-forth emails and manual database edits.

The Seat Transfer system gives customers a self-service swap request form directly in their WooCommerce My Account page, with full admin control over every approval.

Customer experience:
* After logging in, customers visit My Account → Seat Transfer
* They select their current booking from a dropdown showing event name, seat label, and order number
* A live search field lets them find any available seat in the same event — designed to handle venues with 3,000+ seats
* They optionally add a reason (upgrade, accessibility, group seating) and submit
* A confirmation message appears instantly and an email acknowledges the request

Admin experience:
* All transfer requests appear in a dedicated Seat Transfers page under Seating Plan in your admin
* See customer name, email, event, from-seat, to-seat, reason, and status at a glance
* Approve with one click — the system automatically updates the seating map, the bookings table, the WooCommerce order item meta, and sends a confirmation email to the customer
* Reject with one click — a rejection notification email is sent to the customer automatically
* A full audit trail note is added to the WooCommerce order for your records

👉 Get Seat Transfer in Pro

👥 NEW PRO FEATURE: Group & Bulk Booking with Auto Seat Picker

Stop losing corporate clients and school groups to friction.

Corporate buyers, school groups, and event sponsors don’t want to click 30 individual seats one by one. They need a fast, professional booking experience — and without it, they abandon the process entirely.

The Group Booking mode adds an intelligent “Find Best Seats” toolbar directly above the seating chart, allowing any customer to book multiple adjacent seats in seconds — just like the airline booking experience your customers already know.

How it works:
* A Group Booking toolbar appears automatically above every published seating chart
* The customer enters how many seats they need (e.g. 12) and clicks “Find Best Seats”
* The system instantly scans the layout row by row and highlights the best available block of consecutive seats
* The customer reviews the suggested seats on the interactive map and confirms with one click
* They can also click “Clear” to reset and select seats manually if they prefer a different location

The algorithm is thorough and fair:
* Scans every seat row and table for the first available run of N consecutive seats
* Fully respects killed seats, blocked seats, soft-locked seats in other customers’ carts, and already-booked seats
* Works with both theater-style seat rows and round or rectangular table layouts
* Integrates with the existing cart and checkout flow — no separate booking path or extra steps

👉 Get Group Booking in Pro

🏆 Feature Comparison: Lite vs Premium

Wondering which version is right for you? Here is a quick breakdown:
👉 Compare All Premium Features Here