Updates in real time

See every table fill,
the moment it happens.

The Table Occupancy Tracker is a live board of every table at your event: who is seated, who has arrived, and how full each one is. Lay the room out, seat whole parties in one move, and watch the whole floor update in real time on every device as your team scans guests in at the door.

Real-time across every device  ·  Seat a whole party in one click  ·  Captain & kitchen links built in
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    Press play and watch the room fill, exactly what you see on the night as guests scan in at the door.

    Before, during & after

    Valuable at every stage of the night

    Knowing where everyone sits is not just a day-of tool. It helps you plan the room, run the door, and close the books.

    Before the event

    Plan the perfect room

    Lay the room out before a single guest arrives, so the night runs itself.

    • Describe the room once and every table exists
    • Set capacity and seat sponsors and captains
    • Seat every waiting party from one plan
    During the event

    Watch the room fill live

    As staff scan guests in, the board moves in real time on every device at once.

    • Live occupancy and check-in bars per table
    • Instant over-capacity alerts
    • Move a guest to a new table in a click
    After the event

    Close the books cleanly

    When the night ends, the full picture is already done for you.

    • Export the final who-sat-where manifest
    • See final attendance by table
    • Report back to sponsors with real numbers
    Build the room

    Set the room up your way

    Lay out every table, set who is where, and give each one a capacity, a sponsor, and a captain. Works whether buyers picked their own seats or you are assigning them yourself.

    Set up the room first

    Describe your room in one line, like 20 tables of 10 seats, and every table exists before a single guest arrives. Names are yours to edit, so a Head Table sits beside Table 1 through 18.

    Every table on one board

    See your whole floor plan as a grid of table cards, each with its own capacity and guests.

    Reuse a room next year

    Copy the tables, capacities, zones, and sponsors from one of your own past events. Your tables stay, the copy fills in the rest, and no seating comes across.

    Sponsors on every table

    Tag the sponsor for each table so the room you promised is the room they get.

    Table captains

    Name a captain for each table to lead the table and help you seat their guests.

    Set capacity per table

    Give each table its own seat count, or set a default and override the exceptions.

    Say what kind of table it is

    Round, square, long, oval and crescent tables, plus booths, high-tops, bar seating, lounges, boxes, cabanas and picnic tables. Put one beside the seat count and the board names it the way you sell it: a 6-top round, a 6-seater booth, a 4-top high-top. Got a 10-seater and the style does not matter? Say so, and it counts as a 10-top.

    Notes on every table

    Two kinds, because they are two different things. A staff note like "pillar blocks the stage view" stays with your team. A guest note like "closest to the stage" is the line you sell the table on.

    Zones for tables that touch

    Name the areas of your room. Two tables in the same zone can take a party too big for either one, and a table on its own is never offered as a neighbor.

    Whole table, seats, or mixed

    Handle tables sold as a whole, sold seat by seat, or a mix of both, all on one board.

    Bulk update tables

    Download a CSV, fill in sponsors, captains, capacities, zones, styles, and notes in a spreadsheet, and upload it back.

    Seat the room

    Place a whole party in one move

    The hardest job of the night is putting a group of twelve somewhere they all fit. Say who sits together once and the board does the arithmetic, shows you the plan, and waits for you to agree before anything moves.

    Say who sits together

    Type the same party name beside everyone in a group on your guest list. Type a table or sponsor name instead and that group goes straight to that table.

    Seat a party of any size

    Enter a party size and the room narrows to the tables that can take the whole group, tightest fit first, so a party of six never strands four seats on a ten top.

    Move a group in one click

    Every guest waiting to be seated is listed by party, largest first, with the tables that fit them. One click seats the whole group.

    Fill the room

    Propose a seat for every waiting party at once and read the whole plan before you commit. Each row says which table and why, and the same room always produces the same plan.

    Pack tight or spread evenly

    Close up the empty sections, or keep every table lively. Same room, two ways to fill it, and the preview tells you what each one costs.

    Split a big group next door

    A party of fifteen with a table of ten fills their own table first and spills onto the table beside it, rather than being moved somewhere else entirely.

    Keep these two apart

    Write down the pairs who should not share a table. The plan warns you before it seats them together, including when one of them is already sitting there.

    Undo, properly

    The last ten changes you made are on a history list. Put one guest back, or return a whole party to where they started, in a single click.

    Room setup health

    A banner separates a table you set to hold ten and filled with twelve from one that was never given a capacity, so only the real problem reads like one.

    See it live

    The whole room, updating in real time

    This is the part that matters. As staff scan guests in at the door, every bar and count here moves instantly, on your phone, the box office laptop, and the captain's tablet, all at once.

    Real-time across every device

    Scan a guest at the door and the board updates everywhere at the same moment. No refresh.

    Live occupancy bars

    Each table shows how full it is right now, filling as guests arrive.

    Over-capacity alerts

    A table that goes past its seat count turns red and flags how many it is over, before it becomes a problem.

    Live check-in counts

    See who has arrived at each table and across the whole room, updated the instant they scan in.

    Seats open, at a glance

    Every card carries a color-coded chip: four seats open, full, or two over. A Seats Open total sits in the header beside your other counts.

    Your table mix, live in the toolbar

    Every table style and count sits in a strip above the board, updated as seats change, so you never have to open Room Inventory just to see what you are working with.

    Spoken for vs. still open

    See how many tables already carry a sponsor or a name and how many are genuinely still up for grabs, not just how many seats happen to be empty.

    Find anyone fast

    Search by table, sponsor, captain, party name, guest name, zone, table style, or anything you wrote in a note.

    Sort and filter by space

    Sort tables by how full they are or by seats open, and narrow the board to only the tables you can still seat someone at.

    Read the room by zone

    Break the board into sections, one per zone, each with its own count of tables, seats, seats open, and guests arrived. Answer "what is left on the terrace" without reading a single card.

    Room Inventory

    What the room is made of, not who is in it: how many 10-top rounds, how many 6-seater booths, what is sold and what is still open, by style or by zone. Copy it, download it, or print it for a sales call.

    Every table, sold or not

    On a reserved seating event your seating chart is the room. Every table on it gets a card here, including the ones no one has bought yet and the ones you took off sale, so an empty table is inventory instead of a blank space.

    What is left to sell

    A Left to Sell count sits in the header, and one filter narrows the board to tables with seats still on sale, tables sold out, tables on hold, and tables you took off the market.

    Seats sold with no name yet

    Your chart says a table is booked and no one has sent their guest names in. The card says so, in words, and the board tells you how many people that is across the whole room.

    Run the night

    Fix the floor without leaving your seat

    Plans change on the night. Move a guest, balance a table, hand your team exactly the view they need, and export the final picture when it is over.

    Move guests between tables

    Reassign a guest from one table to another in a click. Every move is logged so nothing gets lost, and a table that filled up while you were deciding says so instead of quietly overfilling.

    A link for each table captain

    Send a captain a link to their own table and nothing else. On their phone they see who is sitting there, what each guest ordered, and who has arrived, updating as the door works. They cannot change a thing.

    A link for the kitchen

    Give your caterer the meal counts for one question, table by table. No names, no ticket numbers, and nothing to click, so it is safe to forward around a kitchen.

    View-only for the people watching

    A board member or venue contact can watch the room fill and answer questions without being able to move a guest, edit a table, or import anything.

    Smart grouping

    Automatically merge individual seat tickets like "Table 1-1" and "Table 1-2" into one clean Table 1 card.

    Virtual cards

    Raffle tickets and add-ons group into separate cards and never count against your seating capacity.

    Compact & display options

    Switch to a dense view, choose which fields to show, and focus on what matters tonight.

    Print table sheets

    Print a clean seating list for the door, the captains, or the kitchen.

    Export the final room

    Download the finished manifest, who sat where and who showed up, the moment the night ends.

    Perfect for

    Made for events seated by the table

    If your guests sit at tables, whether they picked their seats or you assigned them, this is how you run the room.

    Galas & banquets

    Track every table of ten as the room fills, and keep sponsors seated exactly where you promised.

    Fundraisers

    Watch sponsor and donor tables check in live, and move a late guest to an open seat in a click.

    Weddings & private dinners

    See who has arrived at each table and keep the head table and family tables in order.

    Award nights & ceremonies

    Seat VIPs and honorees by table and know the instant each one arrives.

    Corporate galas

    Assign company tables, tag each sponsor, and hand captains their own guest list.

    Dinner & supper shows

    Give the kitchen an accurate, live headcount by table all night long.

    Conferences with tables

    Manage assigned tables for banquets and breakouts across a big attendee list.

    Faith & community dinners

    Seat your congregation by table and check everyone in without a clipboard.

    Booster & sports banquets

    Seat teams and families together and watch the room fill in real time.

    Why organizers rely on it

    Run a seated event without the clipboard

    No printed lists that are wrong by the time doors open. One live board that everyone on your team sees at once.

    Real-time, everywhere

    Every scan updates the board instantly, on your phone, the box office, and the captain's tablet.

    Never oversell a table

    Capacity and over-capacity alerts flag a crowded table before it becomes a scene at the door.

    Sponsors seated right

    Sponsors and captains sit on every table card, so the room you promised is the room they get.

    Before, during & after

    Plan the room, run the night, and export the final picture, all from the same live board.

    For organizers

    Live in four steps

    Step 1

    Set up the room

    Describe your room in one line, then add capacities, sponsors, captains, and zones by hand or with a CSV upload.

    Step 2

    Seat

    Buyers pick their own tables, or you seat whole parties yourself from the board in a click each.

    Step 3

    Go live

    Open the doors. Every scan fills the board in real time on all of your devices.

    Step 4

    Wrap up

    Export the final seating and attendance the moment the night ends.

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    Works with

    However your guests get to their seats

    Reserved Seating

    Let buyers pick their own seat, row, or table, then track exactly how each table fills on the night.

    Explore reserved seating

    Bulk Editor

    Running general admission and seating guests yourself? Assign placements in the Bulk Editor and watch them here.

    Explore the Bulk Editor

    Guest List

    Comps, sponsors, and invited guests come in through the Guest List, and the Party Name column beside each of them is what tells this board who sits together.

    See the Guest List

    Event check-in

    Every scan at the door lands on this board within a second, whichever surface made it: the app, a staff link, the kiosk, or the box office.

    Explore event check-in
    Questions

    Table occupancy, answered

    Does it really update in real time?
    Yes. The board is live. As your staff scan guests in at the door with the check-in app, the occupancy and check-in bars here update instantly, on every phone, tablet, and laptop watching at the same time. There is nothing to refresh.
    Do I need reserved seating to use it?
    No. It works for reserved-seating events that use the seating manifest, and for general-admission events where you would rather assign tables yourself. For GA, set placements in the Bulk Editor and the tracker shows them here.
    Can I move a guest to another table?
    Yes. Reassign a guest from one table to another in a click, right on the board. Every move is logged, so you always know who changed what.
    Can I see it before and after the event, not just during?
    Absolutely. Before the night, use it to plan capacity, seat sponsors, and spot empty or over-full tables. During, watch the room fill live. After, export the final manifest of who sat where and who showed up.
    What happens if a table goes over capacity?
    The table card turns red and flags exactly how many guests it is over, so you can rebalance before it becomes a headache at the door.
    Can I set sponsors, captains, and capacities in bulk?
    Yes. Download a CSV, fill in each table's sponsor, captain, and capacity in a spreadsheet, and upload it back. No table-by-table typing.
    Do raffle tickets and add-ons clutter the board?
    No. Raffle tickets and add-ons are grouped into separate virtual cards and never count toward your seating capacity, so your table counts stay accurate.
    How does it know who sits together?
    Two ways. Everyone on the same order arrived together, so they are treated as one party. For guests you added yourself, type the same party name beside each of them on your guest list and they become a party too. Type a table name or a sponsor name there instead and that group is sent straight to that table.
    Can it seat the whole room for me?
    It can propose a plan for every waiting party at once and show you the whole thing before anything moves, with the reason for each table spelled out. It is not AI and it does not guess: the same room and the same waiting list always produce the same plan, and nothing happens until you say so.
    What if a group is too big for their table?
    They fill their own table first and spill onto the table standing next to it, so a sponsor never ends up moved away from the table with their name on it. Tables only combine when you have put them in the same zone, because nothing else tells us which tables are near each other.
    Can I give a table captain their own view?
    Yes. Create a link for that table and send it to them. It opens on their phone with no login, shows only their table, and updates as guests are checked in at the door. It is read only, so a captain can never change your seating or check anyone in.
    Can I give the kitchen the meal counts?
    Yes. Create a kitchen link from the board and it shows the counts for one registration question, broken down table by table. It carries no names, no ticket numbers, and nothing clickable, which is what makes it safe to forward around a kitchen.
    Can someone watch without being able to change anything?
    Yes. A team member with View Only access sees the whole live board and can search it, but every edit control is gone and the server refuses the change even if someone goes looking for it.
    What if I make a mistake?
    Undo it. Your last ten changes are on a history list, and seating a whole party counts as one entry, so putting a group back where they were is a single click.
    Can I tell a 6-top from a 6-seater booth?
    Yes. Give each table a style: round table, long table, booth, high-top, lounge, box, or bar. Put that beside the seat count and the board names the table the way a venue says it out loud. A round table set to 6 is a 6-top round. A booth set to 6 is a 6-seater booth. Change the seat count later and the name changes with it, so the label can never drift away from what the table actually holds.
    How do I know what inventory I have left to sell?
    Open Room Inventory. It counts the room rather than the guests: how many of each kind of table you have, how many seats that is, how many are sold, how many are open, and how many tables still have no one on them. Read it by table style or by zone, then copy it, download it as a spreadsheet, or print it for a call.
    Can I keep notes on individual tables?
    Yes, and there are two kinds on purpose. A staff note is for your team, like "pillar blocks the stage view" or "wheelchair space on the left". It shows on the card, on the printed sheet, and in your export, and it never leaves your side of the product. A guest note is the line you sell the table on, like "closest to the stage". That one appears on the table captain's page and on the inventory sheet you send a sponsor.
    Will my table captain know where the table is?
    Yes. The captain page carries the zone and the kind of table, so someone handed a link on the night can find it. The kitchen page carries the zone too, next to each table's counts, so a runner knows which part of the room the food is going to.
    I use reserved seating. Why could I only see tables that had guests?
    You cannot any more. On a reserved seating event the board now reads your seating chart, so every table you drew has a card here whether or not a ticket has been sold at it. Seat counts come from the chart too, unless you set a capacity yourself, in which case yours wins.
    Can I see which tables are not for sale?
    Yes. A table you took off sale on your chart carries a "Not for sale" chip and sits quietly greyed on the board, so your team never offers it by mistake. Seats being held show the same way, and one filter narrows the board to either.
    What is the difference between Seats Open and Left to Sell?
    Seats Open counts chairs with no one in them, which is what you need at the door. Left to Sell counts seats your chart will still take money for, which leaves out the ones you held back and the ones already bought by someone who has not sent their names in. They are two different questions, so they are two different numbers.
    How current are the seating chart numbers?
    The board itself is live. The chart figures are read every few minutes rather than every second, and the line under the toolbar says when they were last checked. Take a table off sale and click Refresh to see it here straight away.
    Can I set styles and notes for a whole room at once?
    Yes. They are columns in the same table CSV as sponsors, captains, capacities, and zones. Download your current tables, fill the columns in a spreadsheet, and upload it back. A cell you leave blank keeps whatever is already there, so a file that only sets capacities can never wipe a note it never mentioned.

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    Run your next seated event on a live board your whole team can see. No setup fees, no cancellation fees, and you are paid as you sell.

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