Let customers select and reserve exact seats or tables in WooCommerce, prevent double bookings during checkout, and validate entry with QR tickets.

Stachethemes

<h4>WooCommerce Seat & Table Booking System</h4>
<p>Stachethemes Seat Planner is a WooCommerce plugin for selling assigned seats, tables, and event tickets. Interactive maps, temporary holds during checkout, QR validation at the door, and a single dashboard to run the venue.</p>
<p><strong>Ideal for:</strong> cinemas, theaters, concerts, events, and restaurant table booking.</p>
<p><strong>Replace separate booking, seating, and ticketing plugins in WooCommerce</strong> with a single unified seat-based system—no second checkout, no disconnected inventory.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p>Seat Planner Lite is the core seat booking system for WooCommerce—maps, holds, checkout, and check-in in one plugin. Upgrade to <strong>Stachethemes Seat Planner</strong> (Pro) for multi-date events, discounts, custom fields, PDF tickets, CSV import/export, unlimited layout objects, and more – see <strong>Premium Features</strong>.</p>
<h4>Core booking & seat management</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Table & seat support</strong> – Build both table layouts and seating charts in the same system.</li>
<li><strong>Drag-and-drop seat planner</strong> – Design your venue with seats, tables, screens, labels, and static objects.</li>
<li><strong>Interactive seat selection</strong> – Customers pick seats in real time on a map with zoom, pan, and seat details.</li>
<li><strong>Cart hold timer</strong> – Temporary seat holds while customers checkout to help prevent double bookings.</li>
<li><strong>Handicap / accessible seats</strong> – Mark accessible seats so they stand out on the map.</li>
<li><strong>Auto-fill and pattern tools</strong> – Place rows or sections quickly when building your layout.</li>
<li><strong>Per-seat pricing</strong> – Set prices by location, section, or individual seat.</li>
<li><strong>On-site-only seats</strong> – Restrict selected seats to on-site purchase via seat status.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Checkout & customer experience</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Standard WooCommerce cart and checkout</strong> – No separate ticketing checkout to learn.</li>
<li><strong>Configurable redirect after adding seats</strong> – Send customers to the cart, checkout, or a custom URL; optional cart timer on the storefront.</li>
<li><strong>Unique QR code per seat</strong> – Generated for each purchased seat for validation at the door.</li>
<li><strong>Auto-complete paid auditorium orders</strong> – Configurable, including mixed-cart behavior.</li>
<li><strong>Front-end dark mode and accent color</strong> – Brand the seat-selection experience.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce coupon seat limits</strong> – Require a minimum or maximum number of auditorium seats in the cart before a coupon applies.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Manager & day-of operations</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Run the venue from one screen</strong> – See what is free, block seats for holds or VIPs, and fix availability without waiting on a customer order.</li>
<li><strong>Sell at the door or comp a seat</strong> – Create a single-seat order from the floor when someone pays in person or gets a complimentary ticket.</li>
<li><strong>Fix mistakes without re-checkout</strong> – Move a customer to another seat on an existing order when they picked the wrong one.</li>
<li><strong>Know who is inside</strong> – Filter by scanned tickets and reset check-in when staff scans the wrong code.</li>
<li><strong>Detect and fix double bookings and stale inventory</strong> – Automatically find conflicts, seats stuck as taken, and unpaid orders still blocking sales.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Check-in & ticket validation</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Built-in web scanner</strong> – Validate tickets with a camera QR scanner in your WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li><strong>Scan records</strong> – Each scan updates ticket status; invalid or already-scanned tickets are shown clearly.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrations & layout tools</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Shortcodes</strong> – Embed a “Select seat” button or live seat counts on any page.</li>
<li><strong>Elementor widgets</strong> – Select Seat Button and Seat Count widgets.</li>
<li><strong>Gutenberg blocks</strong> – Select Seat Button and Seat Count blocks.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Statistics & analytics</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>See how the event is selling</strong> – Seats sold, occupancy, revenue, and order counts at a glance; trends over time; breakdown by order or date; a simple read on how fast you are filling the house.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Premium Features</h3>
<p>Upgrade to <strong><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/stachethemes-seat-planner/" rel="nofollow ugc">Stachethemes Seat Planner</a></strong> on WooCommerce for the full feature set, including everything in Lite plus:</p>
<h4>Core booking & seat management</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Unlimited layout objects</strong> – No 100-object cap in the seat planner editor.</li>
<li><strong>Multiple event dates on one product</strong> – One seat map, many performances.</li>
<li><strong>Best Available</strong> – Auto-select the best contiguous seats; filter by price when seats have different rates.</li>
<li><strong>Optional sales rules</strong> – Stop sales before the event; prevent isolated empty seats; min/max seats per purchase.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pricing, discounts & upsells</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Seat-level discounts</strong> – Percentage or fixed amount on selected seats or groups; optional role restrictions.</li>
<li><strong>Custom fields per seat</strong> – Free or paid add-ons, upgrades, meal choices, and more (with conditional display).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Checkout & customer experience</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>PDF tickets</strong> – Attach ticket details and QR codes to order emails; optional My Account downloads.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Manager & day-of operations</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bulk create orders</strong> – Create orders for multiple seats at once from Manager.</li>
<li><strong>Full booking edits</strong> – Change seat, date, discounts, and custom fields on existing orders.</li>
<li><strong>Move bookings to another date</strong> – For multi-date products (bulk action supported).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Check-in & ticket validation</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Free Android app</strong> – Door check-in; pairs with your site via integration settings.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrations & layout tools</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>CSV import & export</strong> – Seat layouts in the seat planner editor; export bookings from the product or Manager (filter by date, choose columns).</li>
<li><strong>Script embed</strong> – Run seat selection on external sites with an allowed-origins whitelist.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Statistics, reports & analytics</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>CSV export</strong> – Statistics tables and booking exports.</li>
<li><strong>Automated email reports</strong> – Scheduled occupancy and sales summaries, with CSV and optional color-coded seat-map snapshot.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/stachethemes-seat-planner/" rel="nofollow ugc">Check it out on WooCommerce</a></p>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p><a href="https://stachethemes.com/seat-planner/demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Demo</a></p>
<h3>Source Repository</h3>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zbozhilov/stachethemes-seat-planner-lite" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repository</a></p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://mui.com/material-ui/material-icons/" rel="nofollow ugc">Material UI Icons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://react-hot-toast.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">React Hot Toast</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-zoom-pan-pinch" rel="nofollow ugc">React Zoom Pan Pinch</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.5</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: Gutenberg blocks – “Select Seat Button” (embed the add-to-cart flow on any page) and “Seat Count” (display available, sold, or other seat totals for a product).</li>
<li>Added: Site Health tools – now check for problems with QR Code.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: Dark mode option for the front-end interface. Turn it on in Dashboard -> Settings -> Colors to apply a dark theme to the date/time picker, seat selector form fields, and cart timer.</li>
<li>Added: WooCommerce coupon seat limits for auditorium products. On the coupon edit screen you can set a minimum and/or maximum number of auditorium seats required in the cart before the coupon applies.</li>
<li>Added: Elementor widgets – “Select Seat Button” (embed the add-to-cart flow on any page) and “Seat Count” (display available, sold, or other seat totals for a product and optional date). Find them under the Stachethemes Seat Planner category in the Elementor editor.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Update: QR Code now supports PHP 8.5</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.1</h3>
<p>Added: A new option for “Redirect Customers After Successful Addition” enabling admins to send customers to a custom URL after seats are added to the cart.</p>
<h3>1.6.7</h3>
<p>Added: Stalled Orders check in Dashboard -> Tools -> Booking Integrity. Lists pending/failed orders that hold auditorium seats without payment markers or an active slot lock (same rules as checkout conflict auto-cancel). Report only; does not modify orders.<br />
Update: Refreshed General tab UI for auditorium products in the admin.<br />
Fixed: Saving the seat planner, dates, discounts, or custom fields no longer fails when text includes certain characters (for example in seat labels).</p>
<h3>1.6.6</h3>
<p>Added: QR code scanner – choose which camera device to use<br />
Update: Various small improvements to the Seat Editor</p>
<h3>1.6.5</h3>
<p>Update: Security improvements<br />
Added: Better protection against double bookings. The plugin now checks seat conflicts earlier and helps prevent stale pending reservations from blocking available seats.</p>
<h3>1.6.4</h3>
<p>Update: Faster and more reliable seat updates when order statuses change (e.g. payment received, order completed)<br />
Update: Manager section now processes seat changes more efficiently</p>
<h3>1.6.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: RTL Support (beta) for right-to-left languages</li>
<li>Fixed: Orders with only seat tickets now automatically move to “Completed” after payment (e.g. Stripe) instead of staying at “Processing”</li>
<li>Update: Clearer description for the “Force Auto-Complete Mixed Orders” setting</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.6.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: Option in Manager -> Availability to filter seats by scan status using the “Scanned” toggle, showing only seats that have been scanned (QR code checked in)</li>
<li>Added: Option in the Manager Edit Seat page to unscan a ticket, view scan details, and clear scan status when needed</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.6.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed: Closing the color picker without choosing a new color no longer clears the color from your selected items</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.6.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Price input now allows decimal values</li>
<li>Added auto-fill mode in the Seat Planner Editor for faster objects creation</li>
<li>Added arc transform tool in the Seat Planner Editor</li>
<li>Added flip transform tool in the Seat Planner Editor</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.5.6</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added Statistics page in the Manager section with product analytics: summary cards (seats sold, occupancy, revenue, orders), revenue and sales over time (by event date or order date), sales-by-order and sales-by-date tables with CSV export, and velocity projection.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.5.4</h4>
<ul>
<li>QR code styling updated to use accent color</li>
<li>Added rotation feature in the Seat Planner Editor for rotating elements</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.5.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added option to create Order from the Manager section</li>
<li>Added new shortcode [stachesepl_count] for displaying the total seat count for auditorium product(s).</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.4.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added seat details tooltip on mobile devices</li>
<li>Added new option in general settings to show or hide the seat details tooltip</li>
<li>Other minor bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.4.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added Manager section in the Admin Panel</li>
<li>Added option to hide the QR Code</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>New tool “Edit Order”, enabling admins to modify existing orders data, such as changing seat ID.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>New general option “Enforce WooCommerce Cart Calculation”. This option helps fix the issue with missing cart price on certain themes.</li>
<li>Fixed issue where the cart timer may not work properly on certain carts</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.42</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a bug where setting a non-existent or invalid product ID in the shortcode caused a crash.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.40</h4>
<ul>
<li>Option to disable the “Select Seat” button on product listings (product loops) such as the Shop page and category pages.</li>
<li>New Accent Color option for simpler front-end UI color customization. Legacy color customization options have been removed.</li>
<li>Merged Cart Timer and Add to Cart settings into a new Cart Behaviour tab in the plugin settings.</li>
<li>Front-end UI now displays the Close button at all times.</li>
<li>Front-end UI buttons and elements now follow the Accent Color setting.</li>
<li>Converted the Round Corners option to a slider for better control over element border radius.</li>
<li>Minor fixes and improvements.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.38</h4>
<ul>
<li>The Plugin now uses it’s own “Select Seat”, “View Cart” buttons.</li>
<li>Added option to change colors for “Select Seat”, “View Cart”, “Add to Cart” buttons.</li>
<li>Added Front-end seat tooltip</li>
<li>Added Compatibility mode for cache plugins (e.g. WP Rocket, LiteSpeed) when lazy loading breaks due to JS optimization.</li>
<li>Added New editor option “Additional Class Name” allowing custom CSS classes to be attached to objects.</li>
<li>Improved UI for adding dates to the product.</li>
<li>“Seat Reservation Time” and “Auto-Complete Orders” options moved to the new General tab in plugin settings.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.36</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added new plugin dashboard centralizing settings and features.</li>
<li>Added new option “Auto-Complete Orders”: automatically marks orders as Completed when payment is received for auditorium products.</li>
<li>Added new option to control whether users are redirected after adding seats to the cart.</li>
<li>Added new option to choose whether users are redirected to the cart or checkout page.</li>
<li>Added new option to control whether customers are shown a message during redirection.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.35</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added Dashboard Widget showing Seats Sold & Revenue for the last 30 days</li>
<li>Added Option to Lock objects in the Drag & Drop Editor </li>
<li>Added Visual UI for turning grid-snap on/off, grid color, grid size</li>
<li>Added message when user is redirected to cart/checkout page on the front-end</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.34</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix where product can be incorrectly flagged as Unavailable</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.33</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix where deleting a draft order can accidentally release slot reservation</li>
<li>Other minor bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.32</h4>
<ul>
<li>UI/UX improvements</li>
<li>Added UI for Auto Incremental Patterns</li>
<li>Added Booking Integrity Checker Tools</li>
<li>Added option to check Reservation Details from the front-end if the user has Shop Manager role</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.28</h4>
<ul>
<li>Minor fixes & improvements</li>
<li>Enabled option to Scan QR Codes from the Dashboard</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.5</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add to cart seat validation improvements</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.4</h4>
<ul>
<li>Initial public release with core seat selection features.</li>
</ul>


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