Event Design

From weddings to galas, meetings to trade shows, our event layout software lets you design any event like a pro

Churn out amazing designs with little effort

You don't need to be a CAD expert or a professional event designer to wow clients, vendors and attendees with your design chops! Our drag-and-drop tools do all the heavy lifting for you. And features like auto-format, snap-to grids and rulers make it easy to add and align rows of tables and chairs instantly.

Hundreds of design tools at your fingertips

Included is a full library of event layout elements, including tables of all shapes and sizes, chairs, furniture, stages, dance floors, expo booths, architectural items, audio/visual, lighting, shapes, more. Quickly edit, rotate, and duplicate elements. Easily add colors, images, labels and detailed notes.

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Collaborate online and manage guests

Invite staff, clients and vendors to view and edit event designs online. Download and email or print full-color PDFs of your designs with table breakouts plus equipment lists. Upload attendee lists into our guest list tool. Manage RSVPs and meal choices and create assigned seating charts in your layouts. Then use our event check-in tool to track guests at the door.

Streamline processes with templates

Upload background images of the rooms or spaces you use to host your events or draw your own custom space boundaries with our tools. Then create reusable templates of event designs that you use frequently to save time. And build out a personal library of custom elements that you can quickly pull into new layouts.

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Boost sales and marketing efforts

If your prospects and customers can easily visualize how their events will look and flow, your chances of closing more sales go way up. That's why our online event designer app is such a huge asset to event planners, banquet sales managers and venue managers. It allows them to easily collaborate with leads online and to bring life and color into their proposals and pitches.

See why over 70,000 event professionals rely on our event design tools

"I personally LOVE the floorplan tool because it lets us create amazing, detailed layouts to scale and assign guests to seats."

- Tal Orion, Tal Orion Event Management

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Drag-and-Drop Convenience

Our WYSIWYG interface lets you effortlessly drag one or more elements into your event layout. Then simply click on one or multiple elements to edit or move them.

Intuitive Menus

Click once on elements and a simple menu appears to make updates like duplicate, add/change color, rotate, add/remove chairs, and change table number.

Auto-Formatting

Simply select the table or chair row type you want to add to your design and then create grids with the number of rows, items and spacing you desire, all in a single action.

Easy Alignment of Elements

Turn on snap-to grids so elements you add to your event design "snap" into place. Or select multiple elements in the layout and arrange them with a single click.

Mobile Compatible

Build your event designs on any web-enabled computer. Then easily view them on tablets and smartphones with our mobile-friendly login and interface.

Multiple Viewing Modes

Choose between normal or full screen view for creating designs. Show/hide attendee names, meal choices, VIP/RSVP status, more.

Keystroke Shortcuts

Shorten your design time with familiar keyboard shortcuts like delete, copy-and-paste, zoom in/out and a dozen more app specific actions.

Imperial & Metric Compatibility

Set up your event space designs in imperial or metric measurements ... and convert from one to the other in a single click.

Timesaving Templates

For recurring event designs, templates allow you to quickly load and adjust floor plan layouts you frequently use.

Room / Space Boundaries

Upload an image of your room/space boundary and trace the walls with our room boundary tool ... or build precise wall boundaries from scratch.

Branding and Images

Want to add your logo or special image to each event design you create? Just use this tool to upload and scale logos/images to your floor plans.

Venue Libraries

Once you build out an event design template, you can assign it to a venue room/space in your account and quickly create new layouts for those spaces.

Favorite Elements

Save pre-built or custom elements in a favorites library so you can easily access them when you build new floorplans. Saves tons of time.

Table & Chair Elements

Includes standard round, square, rectangular, half-round and serpentine tables + create your own custom size. Add chair row configurations and clear space / social distancing.

Trade Show Elements

Build your entire trade show design by using auto-format to instantly lay out rows of exposition booths and aisles. Includes tracking for voice/data/power hookups, exhibitor names, and space availability.

Other Elements

Add and customize elements for floors, stages, shapes, furniture, audio visual, lighting, signage, walls, decor, architectural items, and more.

Guest List Manager

Upload, enter and manage attendee contacts and information. Track meal choices, RSVPs, VIP status, invitation priority plus export lists to csv files.

Event Seating Charts

Add a guest list to one or more event designs and then drag-and-drop guests individually or in groups onto seats. Reseat guests with a single click. View attendee names in the design.

Event Check-In App

Our check-in tool lets you manage check-ins at one or multiple entrances with one or many tablets or smartphones, keeping lines short.

Event Design Downloads

Download, email and print full-color PDF files of event designs with table breakouts. Download/print name badges to Avery stock. Export equipment lists.

Descriptive Notes + Rulers

Create descriptive notes in the design itself to provide instructions/clarity. Use adjustable rulers to measure between elements in your event designs.

Users and Security

All your account data is encrypted, plus each user has their own login, and you can establish different data permissions for each group of users in your account.

Setup/Teardown Instructions

Include textual instructions for vendors, staff and other team members for setting up tables, chairs, stages, displays, decor, placesettings, centerpieces, table favors, and more.

Event design software for creating polished floor plan layouts in minutes