A room layout is usually rebuilt from scratch for every event: a seating plan in a spreadsheet, a booth list in another, and a PDF from the venue that nobody can edit. In Geiger Events, layouts belong to the venue. You build a room's seat map or exhibitor hall once, and every event held there picks it up.

Seat maps

A seat map is a configuration of a venue — "End-stage concert", "In the round", "Banquet rounds" — made of sections you place on the floor and fill with seats. For each section you set:

• Rows and seats per row, with row labels and a first row to start from.
• Seat numbering, including odd/even numbering counted outward from a centre aisle, the theatre convention.
• Aisles after given seat numbers.
• Shape — curve, rake toward the back, tiers — and the direction the section faces, so a bowl section can turn toward the stage or the field.
• Tables, with seats per table, for galas and banquets.
• GA zones, which sell by capacity and have no chairs, for standing floors next to seated sections.
• Accessible seats, marked on the map.

Already have a seat list from a box-office system? Import it from CSV; exports from most systems work as-is. The editor keeps a running total capacity as you build, and configurations move through Draft, Active and Archived so a work-in-progress layout never reaches a live event.

Exhibitor halls

For expos and trade shows, a hall map lays out booths over the venue's floor. Generate rows and columns of booths with a code prefix and starting number (A1, A2, A3…), set each booth's size and size class, and add a price when the event sells booths directly. Hide booths that should not be sold, and add zones and features — stages, catering, lounges — as floor furniture that never sells. The result feeds sponsors and exhibitors booth assignment.

Built per venue, attached per event

Seat maps and halls live on the venue record in venue management. When you create an event at that venue, attach the configuration it should use. Turn on reserved seating and buyers pick their exact seat from that map at checkout, with each seat held while they pay.

Questions organisers ask

Can one venue have several layouts?

Yes. Each venue can hold multiple seat map configurations and multiple halls — a theatre setup and a cabaret setup of the same room, for example — and each event picks one.

Can I mix seated and standing areas?

Yes. Add a GA zone with a capacity alongside seated sections; the zone sells by headcount while the sections sell by seat.

Is there a drag-and-drop diagram tool for furniture and room setups?

Full event diagramming — an object library, setup-style capacity checks and 3D walkthroughs — is on the roadmap. Today's layouts cover seating and booths, which is what ticketing and exhibitor sales depend on.

See it in context in expo and trade show management or club ticketing, or check plans on the pricing page.