SeatingChart does one job: it turns a guest list into a floor plan. You add the tables, add the people, and place each person on a real seat — then you print the chart for the venue and the alphabetical list for the door.

Why it exists

Planning a seating chart usually ends one of two ways: paper and pencil, which works until the fifth revision, or a heavyweight events platform that wants your email, your wedding date, and eventually your money. The middle ground — a focused tool that respects both the problem and your privacy — barely existed.

The seat level is where this tool differs from most. “Alice is at Table 4” isn’t enough for a real wedding: it matters which seat — the aisle spot for a grandparent’s walker, the two cousins kept at opposite ends, the place card the caterer marks for allergies. Every seat here is a position you can assign, swap and count.

How it works

Everything runs inside your browser tab. Tables and guests are plain data; the chart is drawn as SVG; dragging and tapping are pointer events that behave the same on a mouse and a touchscreen. Named events and the autosaved draft live in your browser’s local storage — there is no server, no account, and no upload at any point. Print produces two pages (the chart, then the alphabetical guest list) through your browser’s normal print pipeline; the PNG export renders the chart to an image locally.

Because nothing is sent anywhere, the site keeps working offline once the page has loaded — a property we consider a feature, not a side effect.

What it doesn’t do

It doesn’t model the venue’s true dimensions — the room is a planning canvas, not a measured floor plan, and seat counts are per-table numbers, not a capacity survey of your actual space. It doesn’t sync between devices (local storage is per-browser), and it doesn’t enforce etiquette — that’s what the guides are for.

Who’s behind it

SeatingChart is built and maintained by a small independent team that makes single-purpose utility sites. If something is broken, missing or confusing — a table shape you need, a print layout that comes out wrong — tell us at hello@tolerence.net or through the contact page.