Create a new venue (with seating plan)

What is this?

With Add venue you create a room or hall your choir uses. For events you then choose it from the list and see whether it is already booked. With a seating plan, it is also the basis for seating tickets: buyers see the plan in the ticket shop and choose their seat.

How to create a venue

1. Open Ensembles > Choir > Choir settings > Venues.
2. Click “Add venue”. The venue opens on its own page.
3. Enter the name, for example “Parish Hall” or “City Hall, Main Hall”, and optionally a description.
4. Enter the address: Street, Postal Code, City and Country.
5. Optionally enter the capacity: how many people fit in.
6. For seating tickets: Tick Seating plan for ticket sales, create the price categories and build the seating plan (see below).
7. Click “Save”.

Building the seating plan

Price categories and seating plan only appear once Seating plan for ticket sales is ticked.

1. Create the price categories: Click Add Category, enter a name and choose a color.
2. Build the seating plan in the editor below. It uses the full page width so you can drag rows comfortably.

The editor's toolbar offers:

• Select: click and move elements
• Seat Rows: create a row with Row Label, Number of Seats, spacing and price category
• Areas: mark sections of the hall
• Stage, Table and Obstacle, for example a pillar
• Block: block individual seats from sale or release them again
• Zoom to zoom in and out

The color of the price category shows in the plan which seat belongs to which category.

Permission

You need Create & edit venues. By default administrators and moderators have it.

Tips

• Use descriptive names, for example “City Hall, Main Hall”, if you use several rooms in the same building.
• Create the rehearsal room too. Then you see right away while planning whether another choir in your family (main choir, sub-choirs, projects) has already booked it.
• Start the seating plan rough and refine it later. You can edit it at any time.