Free seating chart maker
Seating chart maker: plan the room, print the plan
Lay out the room with round, long and head tables, paste your guest list, and drag guests to their seats or let auto-seat keep each party together. Then print the room chart, a card for each table and a find-your-table list.
- Drag or tap to seat
- Auto-seat keeps parties together
- Prints on A4 or Letter
- Names stay on your device
- Free to start
An empty room.No tables yet. Use Add table above to start.
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One payment unlocks any number of guests and tables, keep-apart rules for auto-seat, the alphabetical find-your-table list and 2 × 2 or 3 × 3 posters, with no "Made free" line. It also unlocks every other OneJob tool. No account, no subscription, refund within 14 days if it isn't right.
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How it works
- Set out the room. Round, long and head tables, a dance floor, a stage, the bar and the door. Drag them into place; they line up and never land on each other.
- Seat your guests. Paste the list with families and groups as parties, then drag guests or whole parties onto tables, or let auto-seat spread them evenly.
- Print the plan. The room chart, a card for each table and a find-your-table list, on A4 or Letter, or save them as a PDF.
How to make a seating chart
A seating chart is two jobs: deciding who sits with whom, and telling everyone on the night. Start with the first and leave the printing for last, once the RSVPs are in.
- Group before you seat. Families, friend groups and teams are parties. Seat the parties first and the single guests last; they are the easiest to fit.
- Fill tables evenly. Tables of seven and eight feel full; a table of ten beside a table of three does not. Auto-seat spreads guests evenly on its own.
- Mind the rooms within the room. Older guests away from the speakers, families with small children near the door, the people you most want to talk to near you.
- Keep apart who must be kept apart. With the unlock, mark the pairs and auto-seat puts them at different tables.
- Tell people where to go. An alphabetical list at the door gets a room of 150 seated in minutes; a card on each table confirms it.
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Questions
Is the seating chart maker free?
Free to start, with no sign-up: plan and print up to 30 guests at 4 tables, with the room chart on one sheet and a card for each table. Bigger plans, keep-apart rules for auto-seat, the alphabetical find-your-table list and 2 × 2 or 3 × 3 posters use a single one-off unlock that covers every OneJob tool. It is not a subscription, and you can have a refund within 14 days.
Are my guest names uploaded?
No. The plan is made in your browser and guest names never leave your device. If you leave "Remember this plan" ticked, the plan is saved in this browser only, so it is here next time; untick it and the saved copy is deleted. No tracking cookies; one functional cookie keeps your unlock.
How do I add my guest list?
Press "Edit or paste guest list" and paste one name per line, from a document or a spreadsheet column. Put a party name on its own line ending in a colon ("Moreau family:") and the names under it, with a blank line after the party; or write the party in brackets after a name, "Jo Lee (Lee family)", or paste two spreadsheet columns, name and party. Guests already on the list keep their seats.
How does auto-seat work?
Auto-seat seats everyone without a seat and keeps everyone you placed. Each party sits together, beside any of its members already seated, and guests are spread evenly across the tables rather than filling one table before the next. A party is split only when no table has room for all of it, and head tables are filled last. With the unlock it also keeps apart any pairs you mark.
Can I seat guests without dragging, on a phone or with a keyboard?
Yes. Tap or select a guest (or a party name) in the list, then tap a table, or pick the table from the "Seat at" list and press Seat. Pinch or use the + and − buttons to zoom, and drag the empty floor to move around. With a keyboard, Tab to a table and use the arrow keys to move it.
What can I print?
The room chart (a map of the room with every table and its guests) on one sheet, a card for each table listing who sits there, two to a sheet, and with the unlock an alphabetical find-your-table list for the entrance and the room chart as a 2 × 2 or 3 × 3 poster tiled across A4 or Letter sheets. Press "Print or save as PDF", and turn off the browser's headers and footers for the cleanest result.
How do I put the poster together?
Each sheet has corner marks and a label such as "Row 1, column 2". Trim each sheet along its marks and tape the sheets edge to edge in that order. Names are kept whole on one sheet, never split across a join.
Will I be charged again?
No. The unlock is a single payment with nothing to cancel, and it covers every seating plan after this one and every other OneJob tool. It is saved in your browser. No tracking cookies; one functional cookie keeps your unlock.
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What if the unlock isn't what I needed?
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