Sixty people, seven tables, and three groups who do not know each other. Draw the room, drag the names in, and change your mind as many times as you like.
Free for up to 20 guests and 4 tables. No credit card required.
A party plan does not need to be elaborate. It needs to exist before the day.
Put the tables where they are going, with the bar, the cake and the speakers in the right places. Rough is fine: you are deciding who sits where, not building a blueprint.
Which is mostly the children, the groups who have never met, and the two people who should not be at the same table.
Tag your guests by how they know you, then seat so every table has people who already talk to each other and a couple who do not yet.
Put the children where you can see them. Because the room is drawn, near is a real position rather than a hope.
Tag them and keep them at opposite ends while you rearrange everyone else.
Fill the tables by your groups, then fix the handful the rules got wrong. Faster than starting at an empty room.
Track replies alongside the seating, so the plan matches the headcount rather than the invite list.
Send a link to the person hosting with you, or to the venue, and they see the current version.
A seating chart for the entrance, as a PDF or a printed sign, so people seat themselves and you are not directing traffic all night.
Share a view-only link and anyone can check where they are sitting before they arrive.
For a standing party, no. For anything with a sat-down meal, almost always yes, and the reason is not formality. Without a plan the first fifteen people to arrive take the good tables, couples get split up at the door, and the people who know nobody end up together at the edge of the room.
The shortcut that works: seat the hardest people first. Anyone who needs to be near the door, near you, or away from the speakers. Children where an adult can see them. The two who are not speaking this year.
Then fill the rest in groups rather than individuals, and give every table at least one confident talker. A table where everybody is a stranger is the one that goes quiet.
Print it and put it by the door. A seating plan nobody can see does not save you the fifteen minutes it was meant to.
The tables, the guests and who is sitting where, in one place you can change on your phone.
When four people drop out the day before, you move a few names rather than redrawing anything.
A spreadsheet holds names in a column and nothing else. It cannot show you that table 4 is beside the speakers, that the kids are at the far end of the room from you, or that two tables have nine seats and eleven people.
Draw the room once and those things are visible instead of remembered.
A small party fits the Free plan, so you can try it before deciding it was worth it.
Sixty people is seven or eight tables and about four hundred ways to arrange them, which is exactly where a plan starts saving time. Under twenty guests you can probably do it on paper.
Yes, including the seating itself. It is designed to be worked on from a phone or tablet rather than only at a desk.
Does PlanSeats work on my phone or iPad?Make it a table like any other and put it where you want it in the room. Because the plan is a floor plan, "near the parents" and "away from the bar" are positions rather than intentions.
How do I add children, and can I mark someone as a child?Move or remove them. The rest of the plan stays as it is and the seat counts update.
No. Print the chart for the door, or share a view-only link that opens in any browser.
How do I share my seating chart with someone who does not have an account?A party up to 20 guests and 4 tables fits the Free plan. Bigger than that is $8.99/mo, and you can stop once the party is over.
See pricingDraw the room, drag the names in, print it for the door. Most of a party plan is an evening and then a few changes.
Free for up to 20 guests and 4 tables. No credit card required.