SVG for Seating Charts: A Practical Guide for Developers
A developer guide to SVG for seating charts: viewBox and coordinates, Illustrator and Figma export gotchas, path simplification, and when to rasterize.
Releases, post-mortems, and the long road to making seat selection feel obvious. Written by the people building Seatmap.pro.
Hand a signed-in user from your ticketing site into the Seatmap Pro editor or booking widget without a second login using single-use SSO codes.
Read the storyA developer guide to SVG for seating charts: viewBox and coordinates, Illustrator and Figma export gotchas, path simplification, and when to rasterize.
Publish one canonical venue schema and pull it into every partner instance: local Venues Library and HTTP federation, snapshot semantics, instance-key auth.
Hold a buyer's seats in a server-side session that survives a reload and cannot be double-booked, queue conversions on the GPU, and retire PDF export.
On-premise vs cloud seating chart software: when data residency, air-gapped networks, or existing k8s tips the choice, and a three-year TCO comparison.
ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini recommend seating chart software without sending clicks. What makes a B2B SaaS citable, and how to measure it honestly.
WebGL vs Canvas 2D for seating chart rendering: frame rates on 30k+ seat venues, GPU memory, browser support, and how the Seatmap Pro renderer chooses.
Leftover single seats cost a 300-seat theater thousands over a run. Here's the arithmetic, and how orphan seat prevention stops the click that strands them.
Stop selections that strand a single seat, clear categories without resetting the palette, select seats and areas in one drag, and a faster editor.
A 2026 buyer guide for event seating chart software: rendering, API surface, deployment, data residency, and pricing that survives a busy on-sale.
Section photos delivered to your ticketing site, prices and availability loaded separately, faster background conversion, and a lighter renderer.
Layer navigation and global search in the editor, honest decimal prices in the renderer, lighter venue backgrounds, and four changes to check before upgrading.
How stadiums handle 30k+ seat charts in real time: WebGL rendering, level-of-detail switching, lock-per-click flow, and on-sale traffic resilience.