<p><strong>Stachethemes Seat Planner</strong> is a WooCommerce extension for selling <strong>assigned seats</strong> from interactive floor plans – built for theaters, cinemas, event spaces, and venues that want professional seat booking without enterprise stadium ticketing complexity.</p>
<p>Customers pick seats on a live map; WooCommerce handles cart, checkout, coupons, and orders. You manage layouts, pricing, multiple show dates, box-office sales, check-in, and reporting from one plugin.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<h3>Core booking & seat management</h3>
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<li>Drag-and-drop <strong>seat planner </strong>– design your venue with seats, screens, labels, and static objects.</li>
<li>Customers select seats in real time on an interactive map (zoom, pan, seat details).</li>
<li><strong>Cart reservation timer</strong> holds seats while customers checkout, helping prevent double bookings.</li>
<li>Run <strong>multiple event dates</strong> on one product – one seat map, many performances.</li>
<li>Mark <strong>handicap / accessible seats</strong> so they stand out on the map for customers who need them.</li>
<li><strong>Best Available</strong> (optional) – auto-select the best contiguous seats; filter by price when seats have different rates.</li>
<li><strong>Auto-fill</strong> and pattern tools to place rows or sections quickly when building your layout.</li>
<li>Optional rules: stop sales before the event, prevent isolated empty seats, and restrict certain seats to on-site purchase.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Pricing, discounts & upsells</h3>
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<li>Set <strong>per-seat prices</strong> by location, section, or individual seat.</li>
<li>Seat-level <strong>discounts </strong>– percentage or fixed amount on selected seats or groups.</li>
<li><strong>Custom fields</strong> per seat-free or paid add-ons, upgrades, meal choices, and more (with conditional display).</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>
<h3>Checkout & customer experience</h3>
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<li>Works with standard <strong>WooCommerce cart and checkout</strong>-no separate ticketing checkout to learn.</li>
<li>Configurable redirect after adding seats: cart, checkout, custom URL, plus optional cart timer on the storefront.</li>
<li><strong>PDF tickets</strong> in order emails and My Account downloads, with a unique <strong>QR code</strong> per seat (optional).</li>
<li>Auto-complete paid auditorium orders when appropriate (configurable, including mixed-cart behavior).</li>
<li>Front-end <strong>dark mode</strong> and accent color options for a branded seat-selection experience.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Manager & day-of operations</h3>
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<li><strong>Manager dashboard</strong>-view seat availability by date, block seats, and override status without a customer order.</li>
<li><strong>Manually create or bulk-create orders</strong> from the admin – phone sales, comps, and box office in a few clicks.</li>
<li><strong>Edit bookings</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>
<li>Filter by scan status; <strong>unscan</strong> tickets when you need to reset check-in.</li>
<li><strong>Booking Integrity</strong> tools-scan for double bookings, ghost seats (meta out of sync), and stalled orders holding inventory.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Check-in & ticket validation</h3>
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<li>Validate tickets with the built-in <strong>web scanner</strong> (camera QR) in your WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li>Use the <strong>free Android app</strong> for door check-in (pairs with your site via integration settings).</li>
<li>Each scan records ticket status; invalid or already-scanned tickets are shown clearly at the door.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Integrations & layout tools</h3>
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<li><strong>Import and export seat layouts</strong> via CSV in the seat planner editor.</li>
<li><strong>Export bookings</strong> to CSV from the product or Manager (filter by date, choose columns).</li>
<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 for page builders.</li>
<li><strong>Script embed</strong> (optional) – run seat selection on external sites with an allowed-origins whitelist.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Statistics, reports & analytics</h3>
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<li><strong>Manager Statistics </strong>– summary cards for seats sold, occupancy, revenue, and orders.</li>
<li>Sales and revenue over time (by event date or order date).</li>
<li>Detailed tables by order or by date, with <strong>CSV export</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>Velocity projection</strong> to help forecast sell-through for upcoming dates.</li>
<li><strong>Automated email reports</strong> (optional) – scheduled occupancy and sales summaries, with CSV and optional color-coded seat-map snapshot.</li>
</ul>

Stachethemes Seat Planner

<p>Allow customers to easily select and purchase seat-based products. Customizable seating layouts, dynamic pricing, and real-time seat availability.</p>

<p>Let your customers book reservations, appointments or rentals on their own — no phone calls required. Save yourself time and fill up your calendar by letting your site do the work for you.</p>
<h2>Let customers book classes, schedule appointments, or reserve items</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Screen-Shot-2021-07-16-at-09.40.07.png"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8331041 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Screen-Shot-2021-07-16-at-09.40.07.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="285" /></a></p>
<p>Whatever options you want to offer to your customers, Bookings makes it possible:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Define set options</b>, like fixed time slots for a class, appointment or guided tour</li>
<li><b>Let customers choose the times that work best</b> by giving them the flexibility to book whatever range they need, like checking into a hotel</li>
</ul>
<p>With either option, you can also<b> block time off as un-bookable</b>, leaving you time to take care of your other priorities and<b> create buffers between bookings</b>, to make sure the schedule works for you.</p>
<p>Get as specific as you want with your time slots—the extension allows for bookings in days, hours, even minutes.</p>
<h2>Book one-on-one appointments or multi-person events</h2>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-395570" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bookings-multiperson@2x.jpg?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="277" /></p>
<p>You can set the minimum and maximum number of participants: limit a booking to one-at-a-time for appointments or let multiple people reserve a class or tour.</p>
<h2>Offer special pricing for groups, days, or individuals</h2>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-395549" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bookings-costs@2x.jpg?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="238" /></p>
<p>Offer discounts for groups or people booking multiple slots, show lower prices for early birds, higher prices on weekends, or special prices for kids. Bookings lets you customize pricing any way you want.</p>
<h2>Show availability in the customer’s time zone</h2>
<p>If your services are online or if you’re shipping something to the customer, display your availability in the customer’s time zone so they book the time they really need. Whether bookings come from New York, New Mexico or New Zealand, they’ll be within the hours you set, so no surprise appointments!</p>
<p>It’s perfect for virtual classes, online appointments, or rentals that need to be delivered to the customer.</p>
<h2>Require confirmation, offer free cancellations — it’s all up to you</h2>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-8331037 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Screen-Shot-2021-07-16-at-09.38.54.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="323" /></p>
<p>Set up confirmations, allowing you time to review before making the booking official. Automatically send out reminders leading up to a booking to reduce no-shows, and set whether bookings can be cancelled.</p>
<h2>Send reminders and reduce no-shows</h2>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-395523" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bookings-keepintouch@2x.jpg?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="300" /></p>
<p>Remind clients about their appointments with handy notification emails when a reservation is made, confirmed, and a day before the booking date.</p>
<p>If you’d like to do more, you can send a special reminder right from your site.</p>
<h2>Never get double-booked</h2>
<p>Avoid double bookings by assigning the needed resources to a particular booking. For example, if your 2:00 bride books a fitting and a stylist until 3:30, that stylist won’t appear available for the bride scheduling a fitting at 3:00. You’ll never have to worry about offering the same resource to two customers at the same time.</p>
<h2>Manage your calendar <em>your</em> way — including syncing with Google Calendar</h2>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7370319 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Markup-2021-01-25-at-16.57.34.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="267" /></p>
<p>Use the calendar view to see how your day or month is shaping up. Update existing bookings or availability, or filter to view specific services or resources.</p>
<p>Still have customers calling in to make bookings the old-fashioned way? Add them manually from the calendar while you’re on the phone.</p>
<p>Manage bookings on your store, and see it reflected on your Google Calendar in 60 seconds or less.</p>
<h2>Give your bookings a boost</h2>
<p>For a fully-customized experience, consider these add-ons other WooCommerce customers use with Bookings.</p>
<ul>
<li>Take a deposit for a reservation with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-deposits/">Deposits</a>.</li>
<li>Use <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/automatewoo/">AutomateWoo</a> to help improve your customer’s experience, decrease cancellations, or even upsell customers after they make bookings with automated booking confirmation or completion emails.</li>
<li>Sell more bookings by presenting a calendar or schedule of available slots in a page or post with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/bookings-availability/">Bookings Availability</a>.</li>
<li>Try our free <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-accommodation-bookings/">Accommodation Bookings</a> add-on, if you have a hotel or B&B</li>
<li>Allow service providers to submit and manage offerings themselves using <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/product-vendors/">Product Vendors</a>.</li>
<li>Offer add-ons for services, such as an oil treatment with a massage, or limited edition merchandise with a group booking for a baseball field, using <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/product-add-ons-integration/">Product Add-Ons</a>.</li>
</ul>

WooCommerce Bookings

<p>Allow customers to book appointments, make reservations, or rent equipment without leaving your site.</p>

Stachethemes Seat Planner vs WooCommerce Bookings