Seating Kiosk

For weddings, galas and launches

Guests arrive, type their name,
and read their table off a screen.

No printed chart to crowd around, no host with a clipboard. A tablet at the door answers the only question anybody has in the first two minutes — and a console behind it keeps the list, draws the room and watches the night.

Try it

These open the real screens, running the code a venue runs, against a demo event whose guests are invented. Nothing here is a mock-up and nothing you do touches a real guest list.

The arrival kiosk

Type a name — try Amara, Chen or Okafor — and it finds the guest and shows their table. Then ask it for directions and it will walk you to the chair from the door.

Open the kiosk

Works on a phone. It is a full-screen venue display.

The RSVP page

What a guest receives before the day. They find their own household, say who is coming, and answer whatever the planner asked — a meal choice, a dietary note, a song.

Open the RSVP page

By name, because not everybody keeps the email.

Walk-in registration

For somebody who never replied and turned up anyway. They register at the door and are given a table and a chair in one step, or told to find a representative — and a staff member is told at the same moment.

Open the registration flow

Off by default on a real event, and behind its own token.

How it works

Three surfaces, and only one of them needs a password.

  1. Before the day

    A planner imports a guest list from a spreadsheet, or invites people to reply. Replies come back by name, so a guest who lost the email can still answer. The console turns the answers into a seating plan.

  2. At the door

    The kiosk holds the whole guest list on the device, so it keeps working when the venue's wifi does not — including the directions. A guest finds their name, reads their table, and walks.

  3. During the night

    A live map shows every table and how full it is, in words as well as colour. Staff can hold a table back, add chairs, or move somebody — and every change is recorded, so "I was moved" has an answer afterwards.

What a planner does

The console groups itself into these five stages, and it tells you which are done for each event. This list is read from the console's own definition, so it cannot drift from what is actually there.

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What is built

Written down plainly, because a feature list that overstates itself costs more than it earns.

Working

  • Guest list import from CSV and Excel, with a wizard that reads a seating chart as well as a plain list
  • RSVP by name or by link, with reminders and a full delivery record
  • The arrival kiosk, offline, with its own branding per event
  • Directions from the door to the chair, also offline
  • Walk-in registration, seat claiming that cannot double-book, and an alert when nobody can be seated
  • A floor-plan editor, a live seating map, and an append-only record of every seating change
  • Photo galleries per guest, with consent recorded before anything is indexed

Not finished

  • Payments are wired but refuse every sale until a signing secret is set, which is deliberate
  • Outbound email needs a sending key before any message leaves
  • Face matching is built behind a provider interface and stays switched off until it is configured
  • Real-time updates are a few seconds behind rather than instant

Have a look at the console

The Control Center is where the list, the room and the night are managed. It needs an account — there is no public demo of it, because it holds real guests' names and contact details.

Open the Control Center