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Explain how to set up seating plans and layouts, and how to sell tickets that way

@mschrumpf mschrumpf self-assigned this Jan 13, 2026
@mschrumpf mschrumpf assigned leiascyr and unassigned mschrumpf Jan 27, 2026
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@mschrumpf mschrumpf assigned leiascyr and Jopretix and unassigned mschrumpf, leiascyr and Jopretix May 6, 2026
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Miscellaneous suggestions.

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This article tells you how to use the seating feature of pretix.
This feature allows you to create seating plans.
You can then use those seating plans to sell tickets for individual seats.
This is useful if, for example, your event is taking place at a theater, a stadium, or a dining hall.
Your customers will be able to look at the seating plan and choose their preferred seat.

The seating plan feature allows you to create seats and organize them in numbered rows and different zones.
You can use zones to represent a complex venue layout, for instance, one including orchestra, mezzanine, box seats, and a floor.
A clean organization of those different spaces into zones on your seating plan can help your customers find their preferred seat while placing an order.
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I feel like those two paragraphs somehow overlap: in the first one use cases are listed (theater, stadium, dining hall) as well as in the second one for organizing zones (orchestra, mezzanine, box seats, floor). I feel like one could merge those two paragraphs without loosing information.

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This is genuinely difficult. I improved some things about the introduction and made others worse. Can you take another look at it?

If we're still not happy with this, I propose limiting the introduction to a very limited initial description of the feature, and moving a more detailed description of its capabilities to ## General usage.

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