Seat guests from your phone
On a phone, tick guests in the Drag & Drop chart and tap Seat to choose their table. On the Visual chart, tap a seat to choose who sits there.
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- Pro
Works on your phone
On the couch with your partner, phone in hand? You can do your seating there. On a phone you tap instead of dragging, and everything saves as you go.
In the Drag & Drop chart
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Open Seating from the menu and tap Drag & Drop. To seat lists the guests still waiting, and Tables lists your tables.
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Tick the circle beside each guest or party you want at the same table (1), then tap Seat 2 guests (2). To seat just one guest or party, tap their name instead.
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Tap a table with room (1). A table without enough free seats is greyed out and says Not enough seats.
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To change something, open Tables and tap a table to see who's at it. Tap a guest to take them off the table or move them to another one.
In the Visual chart
Tap Visual, then Room to see your room, or Guests to see each table seat by seat. Tap a seat to choose who sits there: the seat picker opens from the bottom. Tick one or more guests and tap Assign Guest.
Good to know
- Adding tables: in Drag & Drop, tap Add in Tables. On the Visual chart, the bar along the bottom has Tables, Elements, Text and Settings.
- To change a Drag & Drop table, open Tables and tap ⋯ beside it. Edit Table changes its name or seats. Delete Table asks first, then removes it, and anyone seated there goes back to To seat.
- To change a table on the Visual chart, tap it on Room. Edit selection opens, where you can rename it, change its seats or delete it.
- Your other chart actions are in the ⋮ menu: Saved Charts, New Version, Save As and Mark as Final, plus Preview & print on the Visual chart.
- Drag & Drop comes with Standard and Pro, and the Visual chart with Pro and the free Pro trial.
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- Make a drag and drop seating chartIn Seating, open Drag & Drop Seating Chart, choose Add table for each table, then drag guests or whole parties from To seat onto the tables.
- Seat guests on the Visual Seating ChartClick a seat on the room, tick one or more guests and choose Assign. Several guests sit together, clockwise from the seat you clicked.
- Save versions and mark your final seating chartUse Save As or New Version to try different plans, Saved charts to switch between them, and Mark as Final on the plan you're going with.