Guides
Guides
How to lay out, number and sell the places in your venue.
- How to plan a beach club layout that sellsA beach club sells places, not square metres. A good layout makes every set easy to find, easy to price and easy to book.
- Theatre seat numbering: rows, aisles and sectionsA ticket says "Stalls, row F, seat 12". Behind that line are a few conventions that make a house easy to sell and easy to find your way in.
- What a seat map needs for online bookingA picture of your venue is not yet a seat map. To sell from it, every seat on the picture has to be a record your booking system can find.
- Stadium seat numbering: how sectors, rows and seats workA stadium ticket reads "Sector 104, row 12, seat 7". Each part of that line answers one question for the fan: which gate, which stairway, which seat.
- How to plan a restaurant floor plan layoutA restaurant floor plan decides how many guests you can seat, how fast staff can serve them and how easily everyone finds table 14. Here is how to get it right.
- How to plan a gala dinner seating planA gala dinner is judged in the first ten minutes: can guests find their table, see the stage and reach the dance floor? The seating plan decides all three.
- Cinema seating layout and seat numberingCinema-goers pick a seat on a small screen in a few seconds. A clear layout and predictable numbering make that choice easy, at the counter and online.
- How to plan wheelchair spaces and accessible seatingAccessible places only work if guests can find them, book them and reach them. The seating plan is where all three start.
- How to plan a concert seating chartA concert can fill the same room as a seated symphony one night and a standing crowd the next. The seating chart has to handle both, and make each ticket easy to understand.
- Airplane seat numbering: what seat 12A meansSeat 12A is a row number and a seat letter. The conventions behind them are simple, but they have enough exceptions that a seat map has to get them exactly right.
- Bus and train seat layouts and how to number themA coach or a rail carriage is a long, narrow room with a fixed number of seats. The layout decides comfort, and the numbering decides whether passengers find their seat without asking.
- Parking space numbering: a system drivers can followA parking number is an address. Drivers use it to find their car, staff use it to manage the lot, and a booking system uses it to sell a bay. One clear scheme serves all three.
- How to build an interactive seat map for your websiteA clickable seat map does not need a heavy library. An SVG in which every seat is its own element with its data attached, one click listener and a lookup into your inventory are enough.
- How to convert a floor plan into a digital seating chartMost venues already have a plan: a PDF from the architect, a CAD file, a printed chart at the box office or a photo of the wall map. Turning it into a seat map you can sell from is mostly careful redrawing.
- Beach club pricing: how to set sunbed price tiersMost beach clubs do not need a price for every set. They need a few clear tiers that guests understand at a glance, and a map that shows them.