PlanSeats MCP server
Connect PlanSeats to ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant that speaks the Model Context Protocol. Your assistant builds the floor plan, manages the guest list and seats every guest, on the same charts you use on the website.
Server URL
https://www.planseats.com/mcpConnect your assistant
Sign in once with your PlanSeats account. There is no API key to copy.
In Claude on the web or desktop, open Settings, then Connectors.
Choose Add custom connector, name it PlanSeats and paste the server URL.
Choose Connect, sign in to PlanSeats and approve access.
In a chat, turn PlanSeats on from the tools menu.
What to ask
Talk the way you would to a planner. The assistant picks the tools.
- Here is our guest list. Add everyone to our wedding chart in PlanSeats.
- Our reception room is 60 by 40 feet. Add 12 round tables of 8 and a dance floor.
- Seat everyone, keep my two uncles apart, and put the college friends together.
- Who still has not chosen a main course?
- Move Aunt Rosa to the table closest to the dance floor.
- Undo the last change.
In ChatGPT and Claude the assistant can also open the visual workspace, with your floor plan, tables and guest list right in the chat, so you can drag guests yourself.
Tools
Every tool the assistant can call, grouped by job. Each one says what it does to your chart.
- Reads
- Looks, saves nothing.
- Undoable
- Saves an edit you can undo for seven days.
- Asks first
- Shows you a review and waits for your yes.
Charts and the workspace
| Tool | What it does | Effect |
|---|---|---|
list_charts | Lists the seating charts you can open, newest first. | Reads |
create_chart | Starts a new, empty seating chart with a name and an optional date. | Undoable |
update_chart | Changes a chart’s name, date or location. | Undoable |
set_menu | Sets the meal options guests choose from, course by course. | Undoable |
get_chart_overview | Summarizes RSVPs, who is seated, meal counts and dietary needs. | Reads |
get_seating_chart | Lists every table with who sits in each seat, then who still needs one. | Reads |
get_chart_workspace | Opens the visual workspace: the floor plan, tables and guest list inside the chat. | Reads |
get_chart_website_link | Gives you a link to open the chart on the PlanSeats website. | Reads |
get_playbook | Tells the assistant the right order of steps for a job, like seating everyone. | Reads |
Guests
| Tool | What it does | Effect |
|---|---|---|
list_guests | Lists guests with RSVP, meals, table and seat, filtered and paged. | Reads |
search_guests | Finds guests by name, up to 100 at once, forgiving nicknames and typos. | Reads |
generate_guest_preview | Shows a pasted or uploaded list as households, with duplicates held back, before anything is saved. | Reads |
create_guests | Adds up to 200 guests at once, with RSVP, meal, contact and group details. | Undoable |
update_guests | Changes details on up to 200 guests: RSVP, meals, dietary needs, notes and more. | Undoable |
delete_guests | Removes guests and frees their seats. Undo brings them back with every detail. | Undoable |
Tables, furniture and the room
| Tool | What it does | Effect |
|---|---|---|
create_tables | Adds tables; two or more land together as a tidy grid. | Undoable |
update_tables | Changes how many seats tables have, the way the seat stepper does. | Undoable |
update_table_layout | Renames, renumbers, recolors, resizes, rotates or moves tables. | Undoable |
create_table_copies | Duplicates tables with the same size, seating and color. | Undoable |
update_table_grid | Arranges tables into one even grid inside the room. | Undoable |
create_elements | Adds furniture and decor, like a dance floor, bar or stage. | Undoable |
update_elements | Moves, rotates, resizes or relabels furniture and decor. | Undoable |
update_room_dimensions | Sets the width and height of a rectangular room in feet. | Undoable |
create_floorplan_import | Reads your venue’s floor plan from an image or PDF and opens it for review in the workspace. | Undoable |
Seating
| Tool | What it does | Effect |
|---|---|---|
set_seats | Seats, moves, swaps or unseats up to 50 guests as one change. | Undoable |
generate_seating_preview | Works out an auto-seat plan with your rules, without saving it. | Reads |
apply_seating_preview | Applies that auto-seat plan exactly as previewed. | Undoable |
create_seating_proposal | Saves a named seating alternative you can compare before using it. | Undoable |
list_seating_proposals | Lists saved seating alternatives and how they differ. | Reads |
get_seating_proposal | Opens one saved alternative with its seats and any problems. | Reads |
update_seating_proposal | Edits or discards a saved alternative without touching the real chart. | Undoable |
apply_seating_proposal | Makes a saved alternative the real seating, as one change. | Undoable |
set_seating_protection | Protects settled seats so auto-seat never moves them. | Undoable |
Seating rules and auto-seat
| Tool | What it does | Effect |
|---|---|---|
list_seating_rules | Lists the chart’s rules and whether the current seating meets each one. | Reads |
create_seating_rule | Adds a rule: keep these guests together, keep them apart, or seat a group at certain tables. | Undoable |
update_seating_rule | Renames a rule, turns it on or off, or changes who it names. | Undoable |
set_autoseat_setup | Creates guest groups and the rules auto-seat follows, the way the Auto-seat panel does. | Undoable |
Sharing, invitations and the seat finder
| Tool | What it does | Effect |
|---|---|---|
generate_share_link_preview | Prepares a view-only link for you to approve, showing exactly what anyone with it can see. | Asks first |
generate_share_revoke_preview | Prepares turning off a view-only link, for you to approve. | Asks first |
get_share_links | Lists your chart’s view-only links. | Reads |
generate_invitation_preview | Prepares an invitation for your partner or planner, with its email, for you to approve. | Asks first |
get_invitation_delivery | Checks whether an invitation email was delivered. | Reads |
list_collaborator_invitations | Lists the invitations you have sent and who accepted. | Reads |
get_seat_finder_link | Gives you the guests’ Find your seat page and how often it was scanned. | Reads |
Exports
| Tool | What it does | Effect |
|---|---|---|
generate_export | Opens an export review: a PDF or PNG chart, guest CSV, catering report, place cards or escort cards. | Reads |
Undo, redo and removals
| Tool | What it does | Effect |
|---|---|---|
list_chart_changes | Lists recent changes made through the assistant and which can still be undone. | Reads |
undo_change | Reverses an earlier change, from this chat or another, within seven days. | Undoable |
apply_chart_change | Redoes a change that was undone. | Undoable |
generate_removal_preview | Prepares removing tables or furniture, naming who would lose a seat, for you to approve. | Asks first |
generate_chart_delete_preview | Prepares deleting a chart, for its owner to approve. | Asks first |
How your chart stays safe
An assistant gets no more reach than you have, and nothing it does is final.
It acts as you
The assistant sees only the charts your account can open, with the same permissions you have on the website.
One chart, not a copy
Changes save to the chart you use on the website, and an open editor shows them as they land.
Undo for seven days
Any change made through an assistant can be undone from any chat for seven days.
Big steps wait for you
Removing tables, deleting a chart, sharing a link or inviting someone opens a review. Nothing happens until you confirm it.
Rate limits
Each person gets 60 tool calls a minute and a daily limit on guests added through assistants, so a runaway loop cannot flood a chart.
What an assistant receives, and what disconnecting does, is in the Privacy Policy.
Server reference
- Endpoint
https://www.planseats.com/mcp- Transport
- Streamable HTTP, stateless: one POST, one JSON answer.
- Authorization
- OAuth 2.1 with PKCE. Clients register themselves through dynamic client registration.
- Discovery
https://www.planseats.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp- Plans
- Every PlanSeats plan. Your plan’s limits apply exactly as on the website.
- Rate limit
- 60 tool calls a minute per person.
Troubleshooting
- The assistant does not use PlanSeats
- Start a new chat and check PlanSeats is turned on in the tools menu. If it still does not, disconnect and connect again.
- It asks you to sign in again
- Sign-ins expire after a while. Sign in again and pick up where you left off.
- Your chart is missing
- The assistant sees the charts of the account you signed in with. Check it is the same account you use on the website.
- You want to disconnect
- Disconnect PlanSeats in your assistant’s connector or app settings. That stops its access right away, and your charts stay in PlanSeats.