Creating large and elaborate seating chart layout

Creating large and elaborate seating chart layout

Designing a seating chart for a venue with hundreds or even thousands of seats can feel overwhelming. Tickera supports very large layouts, but building one enormous chart in a single canvas isn’t always practical—especially on mobile devices or smaller screens. A more efficient approach is to split the venue into zones and load each zone separately.

Here’s a method that works well for large or complex venues:

Start by creating a separate seating chart for each zone of the venue. You can create as many charts as you need and assign all of them to the same event. After that, create a dedicated page for each zone. Place the Pick your seats shortcode for the appropriate zone on its corresponding page.

Next, create a full-venue floor plan image using any graphic editing tool. This image will serve as your visual navigation. When your floor plan is ready, follow this tutorial to create multiple clickable zones inside the same image

Link each zone to the page that contains the seating chart for that specific area.

By default, clicking a zone takes the customer to a page where they must click the Pick your seats button. If you want the seating chart to load immediately without that extra click, you can install this free plugin and add the following snippet as custom JS:

jQuery(document).ready(function( $ ){     
    $(function() {     
    $(".tc_seating_map_button").trigger("click"); 
    }); 
})

This automatically triggers the seating chart to open as soon as the page loads, creating a smoother and faster experience for your customers.

Although the workflow may seem complex at first glance, it becomes intuitive once you start applying it. Breaking a huge venue into logical zones makes the seating process more organized and dramatically improves usability on all devices.

For more information about creating and editing seating charts, please visit our documentation here and if you need ideas on creative use of the Seating Charts add-on check our posts here and here.