Planning Pod is fully customizable to fit any of your event management and business needs, regardless of what business you are in. Let us create the right solution for you from our 40+ time-tested tools.
Learn about Planning Pod and why 70,000+ event and hospitality professionals have chosen our platform and company to help them manage their events and businesses.
Access expert guidance and insights via our blog, webinars and white papers. Learn about using our platform via our Help Center. Or contact us with questions.
Planning Pod is fully customizable to fit any of your event management and business needs, regardless of what business you are in. Let us create the right solution for you from our 40+ time-tested tools.
Learn about Planning Pod and why 70,000+ event and hospitality professionals have chosen our platform and company to help them manage their events and businesses.
Access expert guidance and insights via our blog, webinars and white papers. Learn about using our platform via our Help Center. Or contact us with questions.
Event design software for creating polished floor plan layouts in minutes
Bring your vision to life with easy-to-use event design and diagramming tools that streamline your processes and impress clients
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.
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.
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."
A closer look at Planning Pod’s event diagramming software
Discover how event and hospitality professionals use our event design tools to create professional diagrams
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.
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