SeatLayer Seating Charts Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Add a real seating chart to any page or post. Visitors see live availability, pick
the seats they want, and pay — with the money going straight into your own payment
account.
How it works
- Design your venue and create an event in your SeatLayer dashboard.
- Connect your Stripe or Razorpay account there, under Payments.
- Drop the SeatLayer block on a page, or use
[seatlayer_chart event="your-event"].
What you get
- Live availability — seats update as other people buy, without a page refresh.
- Real venue layouts: rows, tables, booths, general-admission areas, multiple floors.
- Works on phones. Pinch to zoom, tap to select.
- Seats are held while a buyer checks out, then released automatically if they
don’t finish — so two people cannot buy the same seat. - Buyers get an emailed confirmation listing their seats.
About payments
SeatLayer is not a payment processor and never holds your money. You connect your
own Stripe or Razorpay account, and buyers pay you directly. Refunds happen in your
own payment dashboard; SeatLayer notices them and puts the seats back on sale.
Requirements
A SeatLayer account. The plugin embeds charts from an existing account — it is not
a standalone seating designer.
External services
This plugin is a client for SeatLayer, a hosted seating and ticketing service. It
does not work standalone, and using it means your site and your visitors talk to
SeatLayer. Exactly what is sent, and when:
cdn.seatlayer.io — the seating chart renderer.
- When: only on pages that actually contain a chart. The browser loads
https://cdn.seatlayer.io/seatlayer-js@0/seatlayer.js. - Sent: nothing the plugin adds. As with any script request, the browser sends
its own IP address, user agent, and referring page.
api.seatlayer.io — seat availability, seat holds, and payment sessions.
- When (visitor): as soon as a chart renders, to fetch the seating layout and
live availability; then when a visitor selects seats, to hold them; then, if
they buy, to start a payment. - Sent (visitor): the event key, the seats selected, and — at the payment step
only — the buyer’s email address and, if given, their name. A payment is
started with the hold identifier alone: the plugin never sends an amount, and
the SeatLayer server recomputes the total from its own records. - Also sent, only when Checkout is set to “Let buyers pay without leaving this
site”: the web address of the page the chart is on, so a buyer returning from
Stripe lands back on it. It is the page’s own public URL and nothing else — no
visitor data. SeatLayer uses it only if it matches an embed domain you declared
in advance, and otherwise ignores it. - When (administrator): only if you save a secret key, and only inside the block
editor, to list your events in a dropdown. Your server makes this call, not the
browser, and the key is never sent to a browser. - Sent (administrator): your secret key. No visitor data.
app.seatlayer.io — the hosted buyer page, used in the default handoff mode.
- When: only if a buyer chooses to check out. Their browser is redirected to
https://app.seatlayer.io/e/EVENT?hold=HOLD_ID. - Sent: the event key and the hold identifier, in the URL. No amount, and nothing
about the buyer.
checkout.stripe.com / checkout.razorpay.com — the payment step, and only if
you switch Checkout to “Let buyers pay without leaving this site”.
- When: only after a buyer has selected seats and pressed pay. Razorpay’s script
is loaded into your page to open its payment window; Stripe redirects the
buyer to its own page. - Sent: what the gateway needs to charge — the amount and currency, which
SeatLayer computed, plus the buyer’s email. Your site does not send this; the
payment window and the redirect are set up by SeatLayer and your own gateway
account. - Stripe: https://stripe.com/privacy — Razorpay: https://razorpay.com/privacy
Card details are handled by Stripe or Razorpay on the account you connected.
They never pass through this plugin, your WordPress site, or your database.
Service terms: https://seatlayer.io/terms
Privacy policy: https://seatlayer.io/privacy
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