Seat the room with
your thumb, not a mouse.
Add your tables, tap to seat a guest, or fill the whole room in one go. Families stay together at one table, groups sit with groups, over-filled tables say so — and anyone the room cannot take comes back to you by name instead of quietly disappearing off the chart.
Included in the Event Pass · $29 once · Works on a phone
Built around the rules that actually matter
A family that arrives to find itself split across two tables will remember only that. Everything below follows from refusing to let that happen.
Tables the shape your room actually has
Give each table a name, a number of seats between 1 and 60, and a shape: round, long, top table or bench. Add them one at a time, or add ten identical tables in one go and rename the odd ones.
Assign by tapping, not dragging
Pick a guest, pick a table. That is the whole interaction. Drag-and-drop is unusable with a thumb and unreachable with a keyboard, and this is a job people do on a phone, on a sofa, over several evenings.
Fill the room in one tap, undo it in one more
Auto-seating places everyone who said yes, by the rules below, and tells you how many guests it moved. If the result is not what you wanted, a single undo puts every guest back exactly where they were before you pressed it.
A party is never split across two tables
An invitation confirmed for four needs four free chairs at ONE table. The planner seats the biggest parties first for exactly this reason: leave the party of six until last and there is nowhere left that can take all six at once.
Over-capacity is shown, not hidden
Put nine people on an eight-top on purpose and the table says so, in plain numbers, rather than refusing you or silently moving someone. The warning updates the instant you move a guest.
Only guests who said yes get a chair
Someone who declined never takes a seat. Someone who has not replied is left for you to decide about — and if you seat them anyway, their chairs count as spoken for, because they are.
What auto-seating will and will not do
Your hand-made seating survives the button
Auto-seating keeps the tables you set yourself and works around them, filling only the chairs you left. If you want it to start from an empty room instead, you have to ask for that explicitly — the button never quietly undoes an evening's work.
Nobody is dropped in silence
Anyone the room cannot take is handed straight back to you by name, with the number of chairs their party needed. Alongside it you get the shortfall in plain numbers — how many people said yes, how many chairs the room has, and how many short you are.
The same answer twice
Run auto-seating again on the same list and you get the same plan. Every tie in the ordering is broken deterministically, because a tool that produces a different chart each time is a tool you stop trusting after the second run.
Groups sit with groups
Guests who share their first tag — bride, work, cousins — are placed as one block into a table that can hold all of them, biggest block first. Anyone left over goes to the table already holding the most people who share one of their tags.
How it works
Add your tables
Name them the way your venue does, set how many each seats and pick the shape. Ten round tables of eight takes one action; the top table and the odd bench take one more each.
Let it fill the room
Tap auto-seat. Parties stay whole, tagged groups sit together, and any party it could not place is named at the top of the unseated column with the reason beside it — no tables yet, bigger than your biggest table, or no table with that many seats free.
Fix the ones that matter
Every plan has a handful of decisions only you can make. Tap a guest, tap a table, and it moves — with the capacity on that table updating as you go, and over-filled tables flagged.
Let guests find themselves
On the day, a guest opens their own invitation link and taps through to their table. They see the table name, how many places are kept for them, and the first names of the people they are sitting with.
The seating plan reads your replies
Seating is not a separate spreadsheet you keep in step by hand. It sits on the same guest list that sent the invitations and took the replies, so the number of chairs a party needs is the number that guest confirmed — not the number you originally offered them. Someone who declined does not take a chair, and a guest who changes their answer changes the plan. How invitations and RSVPs work.
Questions couples ask
How does the auto-seating decide who sits where?
In a fixed order. Only guests who replied attending are seated. Anyone you placed by hand keeps their table and their chairs are counted first. Then tagged groups are placed as blocks, biggest block first, into a table that can hold the whole block. Everyone left is placed biggest party first into the table already holding the most people who share one of their tags, with ties going to the tightest fit so the last few chairs in the room are not scattered one per table.
Will auto-seating undo the tables I set by hand?
No. Assignments you made yourself are kept and their chairs are consumed before anything else is placed, so auto-seating only fills what you left empty. Replanning the room from scratch is a separate, explicit choice.
What happens to guests it cannot place?
They are handed back to you by name, with the number of chairs their party needed, and they stay in the list of guests with no table yet. They are never silently left off the chart. Alongside them you are told how many people said yes, how many chairs the room has and how many short you are, so you know whether the answer is another table or a bigger one.
Does a guest who declined still take up a seat?
No. Someone who said they cannot come holds nothing, and if they are still sitting somewhere from an earlier plan, that is flagged as a stale assignment rather than counted against the table. A guest who has not replied yet is different: if you have seated them, those chairs are treated as spoken for.
Can a family of five end up split across two tables?
No. A party is atomic: an invitation confirmed for five needs five free chairs at one table or it is not placed there at all. If no single table can take them, they come back on the unplaced list rather than being divided between two.
Can guests see where they are sitting?
Yes. Their invitation link has a table lookup on it, so a guest who kept the link can answer the question themselves in a doorway without asking anyone. It shows their table, how many places are kept for them, and the first names of their tablemates — first names only, which is enough to find your seat and not enough to reconstruct the guest list.
Can guests choose or change their own table?
No. The guest view is read-only. Seating is the host's decision, and a guest link that could move a chair would move the wrong one.
Is the seating chart drag-and-drop?
No, deliberately. Assignment is two taps: pick a guest, pick a table. It works with a thumb on a phone, and it works with a keyboard — which browser drag-and-drop does not.
What does the seating chart cost?
It is part of an Event Pass at $29, paid once, with no subscription. The same pass carries the invitations and RSVPs the seating plan reads from, the guest list, the photo gallery and the digital guestbook.
Seat the room, then keep the photos
Invitations, replies, the guest list, the seating plan, the door and every photo your guests take on the day — one Event Pass at $29, paid once, with no subscription.