Stachethemes Seat Planner Lite

WooCommerce Seat & Table Booking System

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.

Ideal for: cinemas, theaters, concerts, events, and restaurant table booking.

Replace separate booking, seating, and ticketing plugins in WooCommerce with a single unified seat-based system—no second checkout, no disconnected inventory.

Features

Seat Planner Lite is the core seat booking system for WooCommerce—maps, holds, checkout, and check-in in one plugin. Upgrade to Stachethemes Seat Planner (Pro) for multi-date events, discounts, custom fields, PDF tickets, CSV import/export, unlimited layout objects, and more – see Premium Features.

Core booking & seat management

• Table & seat support – Build both table layouts and seating charts in the same system.
• Drag-and-drop seat planner – Design your venue with seats, tables, screens, labels, and static objects.
• Interactive seat selection – Customers pick seats in real time on a map with zoom, pan, and seat details.
• Cart hold timer – Temporary seat holds while customers checkout to help prevent double bookings.
• Handicap / accessible seats – Mark accessible seats so they stand out on the map.
• Auto-fill and pattern tools – Place rows or sections quickly when building your layout.
• Per-seat pricing – Set prices by location, section, or individual seat.
• On-site-only seats – Restrict selected seats to on-site purchase via seat status.

Checkout & customer experience

• Standard WooCommerce cart and checkout – No separate ticketing checkout to learn.
• Configurable redirect after adding seats – Send customers to the cart, checkout, or a custom URL; optional cart timer on the storefront.
• Unique QR code per seat – Generated for each purchased seat for validation at the door.
• Auto-complete paid auditorium orders – Configurable, including mixed-cart behavior.
• Front-end dark mode and accent color – Brand the seat-selection experience.
• WooCommerce coupon seat limits – Require a minimum or maximum number of auditorium seats in the cart before a coupon applies.

Manager & day-of operations

• Run the venue from one screen – See what is free, block seats for holds or VIPs, and fix availability without waiting on a customer order.
• Sell at the door or comp a seat – Create a single-seat order from the floor when someone pays in person or gets a complimentary ticket.
• Fix mistakes without re-checkout – Move a customer to another seat on an existing order when they picked the wrong one.
• Know who is inside – Filter by scanned tickets and reset check-in when staff scans the wrong code.
• Detect and fix double bookings and stale inventory – Automatically find conflicts, seats stuck as taken, and unpaid orders still blocking sales.

Check-in & ticket validation

• Built-in web scanner – Validate tickets with a camera QR scanner in your WordPress dashboard.
• Scan records – Each scan updates ticket status; invalid or already-scanned tickets are shown clearly.

Integrations & layout tools

• Shortcodes – Embed a “Select seat” button or live seat counts on any page.
• Elementor widgets – Select Seat Button and Seat Count widgets.
• Gutenberg blocks – Select Seat Button and Seat Count blocks.

Statistics & analytics

• See how the event is selling – 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.

Premium Features

Upgrade to Stachethemes Seat Planner on WooCommerce for the full feature set, including everything in Lite plus:

Core booking & seat management

• Unlimited layout objects – No 100-object cap in the seat planner editor.
• Multiple event dates on one product – One seat map, many performances.
• Best Available – Auto-select the best contiguous seats; filter by price when seats have different rates.
• Optional sales rules – Stop sales before the event; prevent isolated empty seats; min/max seats per purchase.

Pricing, discounts & upsells

• Seat-level discounts – Percentage or fixed amount on selected seats or groups; optional role restrictions.
• Custom fields per seat – Free or paid add-ons, upgrades, meal choices, and more (with conditional display).

Checkout & customer experience

• PDF tickets – Attach ticket details and QR codes to order emails; optional My Account downloads.

Manager & day-of operations

• Bulk create orders – Create orders for multiple seats at once from Manager.
• Full booking edits – Change seat, date, discounts, and custom fields on existing orders.
• Move bookings to another date – For multi-date products (bulk action supported).

Check-in & ticket validation

• Free Android app – Door check-in; pairs with your site via integration settings.

Integrations & layout tools

• CSV import & export – Seat layouts in the seat planner editor; export bookings from the product or Manager (filter by date, choose columns).
• Script embed – Run seat selection on external sites with an allowed-origins whitelist.

Statistics, reports & analytics

• CSV export – Statistics tables and booking exports.
• Automated email reports – Scheduled occupancy and sales summaries, with CSV and optional color-coded seat-map snapshot.

Check it out on WooCommerce

Demo

Live Demo

Source Repository

GitHub Repository

Credits

• Material UI Icons
• React Hot Toast
• React Zoom Pan Pinch

1.7.5

• 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).
• Added: Site Health tools – now check for problems with QR Code.

1.7.3

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

1.7.2

• Update: QR Code now supports PHP 8.5

1.7.1

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.

1.6.7

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. Update: Refreshed General tab UI for auditorium products in the admin. Fixed: Saving the seat planner, dates, discounts, or custom fields no longer fails when text includes certain characters (for example in seat labels).

1.6.6

Added: QR code scanner – choose which camera device to use Update: Various small improvements to the Seat Editor

1.6.5

Update: Security improvements Added: Better protection against double bookings. The plugin now checks seat conflicts earlier and helps prevent stale pending reservations from blocking available seats.

1.6.4

Update: Faster and more reliable seat updates when order statuses change (e.g. payment received, order completed) Update: Manager section now processes seat changes more efficiently

1.6.3

• Added: RTL Support (beta) for right-to-left languages
• Fixed: Orders with only seat tickets now automatically move to “Completed” after payment (e.g. Stripe) instead of staying at “Processing”
• Update: Clearer description for the “Force Auto-Complete Mixed Orders” setting

1.6.2

• 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)
• Added: Option in the Manager Edit Seat page to unscan a ticket, view scan details, and clear scan status when needed

1.6.1

• Fixed: Closing the color picker without choosing a new color no longer clears the color from your selected items

1.6.0

• Price input now allows decimal values
• Added auto-fill mode in the Seat Planner Editor for faster objects creation
• Added arc transform tool in the Seat Planner Editor
• Added flip transform tool in the Seat Planner Editor

1.5.6

• 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.

1.5.4

• QR code styling updated to use accent color
• Added rotation feature in the Seat Planner Editor for rotating elements

1.5.1

• Added option to create Order from the Manager section
• Added new shortcode [stachesepl_count] for displaying the total seat count for auditorium product(s).

1.4.1

• Added seat details tooltip on mobile devices
• Added new option in general settings to show or hide the seat details tooltip
• Other minor bug fixes

1.4.0

• Added Manager section in the Admin Panel
• Added option to hide the QR Code

1.3.0

• New tool “Edit Order”, enabling admins to modify existing orders data, such as changing seat ID.

1.1.0

• New general option “Enforce WooCommerce Cart Calculation”. This option helps fix the issue with missing cart price on certain themes.
• Fixed issue where the cart timer may not work properly on certain carts

1.0.42

• Fixed a bug where setting a non-existent or invalid product ID in the shortcode caused a crash.

1.0.40

• Option to disable the “Select Seat” button on product listings (product loops) such as the Shop page and category pages.
• New Accent Color option for simpler front-end UI color customization. Legacy color customization options have been removed.
• Merged Cart Timer and Add to Cart settings into a new Cart Behaviour tab in the plugin settings.
• Front-end UI now displays the Close button at all times.
• Front-end UI buttons and elements now follow the Accent Color setting.
• Converted the Round Corners option to a slider for better control over element border radius.
• Minor fixes and improvements.

1.0.38

• The Plugin now uses it’s own “Select Seat”, “View Cart” buttons.
• Added option to change colors for “Select Seat”, “View Cart”, “Add to Cart” buttons.
• Added Front-end seat tooltip
• Added Compatibility mode for cache plugins (e.g. WP Rocket, LiteSpeed) when lazy loading breaks due to JS optimization.
• Added New editor option “Additional Class Name” allowing custom CSS classes to be attached to objects.
• Improved UI for adding dates to the product.
• “Seat Reservation Time” and “Auto-Complete Orders” options moved to the new General tab in plugin settings.

1.0.36

• Added new plugin dashboard centralizing settings and features.
• Added new option “Auto-Complete Orders”: automatically marks orders as Completed when payment is received for auditorium products.
• Added new option to control whether users are redirected after adding seats to the cart.
• Added new option to choose whether users are redirected to the cart or checkout page.
• Added new option to control whether customers are shown a message during redirection.

1.0.35

• Added Dashboard Widget showing Seats Sold & Revenue for the last 30 days
• Added Option to Lock objects in the Drag & Drop Editor
• Added Visual UI for turning grid-snap on/off, grid color, grid size
• Added message when user is redirected to cart/checkout page on the front-end

1.0.34

• Bug fix where product can be incorrectly flagged as Unavailable

1.0.33

• Bug fix where deleting a draft order can accidentally release slot reservation
• Other minor bug fixes

1.0.32

• UI/UX improvements
• Added UI for Auto Incremental Patterns
• Added Booking Integrity Checker Tools
• Added option to check Reservation Details from the front-end if the user has Shop Manager role

1.0.28

• Minor fixes & improvements
• Enabled option to Scan QR Codes from the Dashboard

1.0.5

• Add to cart seat validation improvements

1.0.4

• Initial public release with core seat selection features.