The AllSeated Alternative

Side by side, for the seating chart specifically:

Want the wider field? See our honest comparison of the best wedding seating chart tools —AllSeated, and the rest, side by side.

AllSeated was, for years, a popular browser tool for wedding floor plans and seating — loved for its to-scale and 3D venue views. It was renamed Prismm, then acquired by Cvent in 2025, and in the process moved firmly toward venues and enterprise event teams. Our explainer on what happened to AllSeated walks through each date with Cvent’s sources and an export checklist.

You laid out the venue as a to-scale or 3D floor plan, added tables, and then dragged every guest onto a seat yourself — the room views were the strength, the seating was manual:

• To-scale and 3D floor plans — genuinely its best feature, aimed at visualising a venue.
• Manual seating — you dragged each guest onto a chair yourself; there was no relationship-aware auto-seat.
• Guest list + RSVPs imported from a spreadsheet.
• Built for professionals — venues and planners, rather than a couple planning one wedding.

Even before the retirement, the fit for a couple had drifted:

• It’s being retired. You can’t start new events in Prismm, and after June 2027 old work is view-only — not where a live plan should live.
• Enterprise pricing. Prismm is priced and sold for venues and event companies, not a single wedding.
• Seating was always manual. No keep-together / keep-apart, no one-click seating — you placed everyone by hand.
• More than you need. Full 3D venue diagramming is overkill when you want a clear seating chart you can hand your caterer.

Lovely Seating keeps what couples liked about AllSeated — a floor plan you build in the browser — and drops what didn’t fit: no enterprise contract and no manual-only seating. You lay out your room with tables, a dance floor and bar, and the tool seats everyone for you.

• Start from your AllSeated list. Import the guest list you already built in AllSeated in one step — no re-typing anyone (more below).
• A floor plan of your room. The floor plan maker lets you drag and drop your real layout — round, banquet, head and sweetheart tables, plus the dance floor, bar, stage and other venue objects — and seat guests chair by chair.
• Automatic seating. Tag who must sit together and who to keep apart, and Auto-Seat places your unassigned guests in one click, honouring every rule — locked guests and reserved tables stay put, and one click undoes it.
• Every guest detail. RSVPs, meals, dietary notes, age and accessibility flags, plus-ones, groups and households — all joined to the seat.
• Complete exports (Pro). Nine export types in seven themes — a printable floor-plan seating chart, A–Z list, table list, table cards, table numbers, meal directory, place cards, welcome sign and a guest CSV — all from the same plan.
• A “find your seat” page for guests. Publish a guest page + QR code so guests search their name and see their table — and embed it on your wedding website (Pro).
• Free to build, no cap on guests. The free plan covers one wedding with unlimited guests and Auto-Seat; a one-time $39 Pro unlocks exports, place cards, the guest QR page and collaboration with your partner or planner — no subscription.

AllSeated tracked RSVPs and meals too. The difference in Lovely Seating is that every detail stays joined to the seat — a plus-one, a dietary flag or a late decline updates your plan and your caterer counts at once. Each guest carries RSVP, meal choice, dietary notes, age and accessibility flags, side, group and household, and you can sort, filter and bulk-edit the whole list.

Open any guest and you get the full picture at a glance — no jumping between the guest list and a separate seating canvas.

And because meals live on the guest, you get a running count the moment you need it — the exact number your caterer needs, dietary flags included:

Still pulling the list together? Lovely Seating keeps every guest in one organised list, and the guest list import brings in an existing spreadsheet or CSV without retyping.

This is the part AllSeated never did for you. In AllSeated you placed every guest onto the floor plan by hand — and again whenever an RSVP changed. Lovely Seating lets you set relationships once and seat the whole room in a click:

• Must sit together. A hard rule — couples, families, a guest and their carer always land at the same table.
• Would prefer together. A soft preference — honoured when there’s room, relaxed when there isn’t.
• Keep apart. A hard rule — feuding relatives or an ex never share a table, and the reason stays private.

When a plus-one appears or a late RSVP comes in, you don’t rebuild the room — re-run Auto-Seat and it seats anyone still unassigned into open seats, while guests you’ve already seated stay put. Lock anyone you never want moved, and undo any run in one click. Prefer to place people yourself? You still can, on the same plan — with a warning if you seat someone who’s declined or overfill a table.

We’d rather you land in the right place than just sign up. Here’s the honest split:

Export it as a CSV (or copy it from a spreadsheet) and import it into Lovely Seating — it takes minutes and you don’t re-type anyone. It matches the columns for you, links plus-ones, and flags duplicates before anything is added. (It’s a one-time CSV import, not a live sync with other platforms.)

Stuck on a step? The Lovely Seating help center walks through importing a CSV — including one exported from The Knot, Zola or Joy — merging duplicates and adding plus-ones.

Weighing up more than one option? These are the closest side-by-sides:

• Planning Pod seating chart alternative — a full event-business suite with auto-seat, built for venues and planners.
• PerfectTablePlan alternative — powerful auto-seating and sized floor plans, but a Windows/Mac install with no phone or tablet version.
• Top Table Planner alternative — a simple web planner with place cards and partner logins, but every guest is seated by hand.