Print Seating Charts by Section

On event night, print seating charts in advance to help streamline walk-up sales and allow you to quickly assign patrons to remaining available seats. If you print your seating chart shortly before the show, your chart will accurately depict all sold seats and those open and available for purchase.

When to Print Seating Charts

The key to printing an accurate seating chart lies in setting an Inactivation Date. This is the date and time you set when online ticket sales are long longer available to the general public. You’ll want to set your Inactivation Date for the day of the event and set the time to approximately 1-2 hours before doors open. Print seating charts after the inactivation period has passed will provide an up-to-date representation of sold seats.

Before the event, print any remaining tickets needed without accompanying seat or row information. As walk-up sales occur, simply cross off the open seats from your printed chart and mark appropriate seat rows and numbers on your pre-printed tickets.

Voila! Your patrons will not be scrambling for their seats, and you’ll experience effortless event and seat management.

Print Settings for Different Browsers Charts

Printing Background Colors and Images
Note: Seating charts use “background colors” to show pre-sold seats. Most browsers’ print settings turn off printing of background colors and images by default. You’ll want to turn those settings on before printing your seating charts to see both sold and unsold seats. Find your browser and operating system, and then look below to follow our step by step instructions for your computer.

Internet Explorer 7 on Windows

1. Click Tools at the top of the browser window.
2. Scroll down to and click Internet Options
3. In the newly opened window, click the Advanced tab to the far right.
4. Scroll down in the Settings to the section on Printing #Check the box Print Background Colors and Images
5. Click Apply
6. Click OK
7. Click the Preview button.
8. Confirm that the printed page mirrors the seating chart in your browser.
9. Print seating charts.

Firefox 3.0 on Windows

1. Click File at the top of the browser window.
2. Scroll down to and click Page Setup
3. In the newly opened window, click Print Background Colors and Images
4. Click the Preview button.
5. Confirm that the printed page mirrors the seating chart in your browser.
6. Print seating charts.

Firefox 3.0 and higher on Apple Macintosh

Click to open in a new tab

1. Click File at the top of the browser window.
2. Scroll down to and click Print.
3. In the newly opened window, click the small arrow to the right of the Printer name at the top of the page. This will expand the window to display the settings.
4. Check the box labeled Print Background Colors.
5. Check the box labeled Print Background Images.
6. Click the Preview button.
7. Confirm that the printed page mirrors the seating chart in your browser.
8. Print seating charts.

Safari 3.0 and higher on Apple Macintosh

Click to open in new tab

1. Click File at the top of the browser window.
2. Scroll down to and click Print.
3. In the newly opened window, click the small arrow to the right of the Printer name at the top of the page. This will expand the window to display the settings.
4. Check the box labeled “Print backgrounds”.
5. Click the PDF button in the lower left hand corner.
6. Click the “Open PDF in Preview”.
7. Confirm that the printed page mirrors the seating chart in your browser.
8. Print seating charts.

We hope this guide helps you to print seating charts to improve gate efficiency. For an even more efficient even, ThunderTix offers bar code scanners for purchase and also for one week rentals. There are four styles of Bar code scanners available and we offer rentals and sales for each.

Together, reserved seating and barcode scanning help improve the overall experience for your patrons. You can have your event ready in 5 minutes, and with a credit card processing account, tickets are offered for immediate sale. Should you choose to add shipping or processing fees, all money collected goes directly to you.

This guide should be used in conjunction with our ‘Seating Chart Layout Setup‘ as part of your overall strategy to reserved seating.