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Compare Seats.io's reserved seating charts with ExpoFP's expo floor plans, exhibitor profiles, wayfinding and sponsorship.",{"home":25,"compare":26,"page":27},"Home","Compare","ExpoFP vs Seats.io",{"badgeText":29,"headline":30,"subheadline":31,"ctaLabels":32,"bullets":36},"Comparison Guide","ExpoFP vs Seats.io for Trade Show Booth Sales","Seats.io is excellent at reserved seating for ticketing; ExpoFP is built for selling booths and guiding attendees around an expo floor.",[33,34,35],"Try ExpoFP Free","Book a Demo","See Pricing",[37,38],"Prepared by the ExpoFP product team","Last verified: {lastVerified}",{"stats":40},[41,43,46,48],{"value":42},"Free to start",{"value":44,"caption":45},"{trialDays}-day trial","No credit card",{"value":47},"DIY from {diyPrice}\u002Fmo",{"value":49,"caption":50},"No app needed","For attendees",[52,53,54,55,56,57],"Overview","Comparison","Costs","How to switch","FAQ","Related pages",{"heading":52,"lead":59,"paragraphs":60},"Seats.io is a leading reserved-seating platform. It gives ticketing companies and venues a floor plan designer for drawing seating charts, an embeddable renderer for seat picking on desktop and mobile, real-time holds that prevent double bookings, best-available seat selection, 3D charts and \"view from seat\". According to its website it handles millions of bookings a month for ticketing platforms and venues around the world. If you sell tickets to theaters, stadiums, gala dinners or comedy clubs, it's a strong, mature choice.",[61,62,63],"Some event organizers also use seating-chart tools to sell trade show booths: each booth becomes a bookable object, and exhibitors \"pick a seat\". That works for the transaction itself. But a booth isn't a seat. After the booking, the booth needs an exhibitor profile with logo and description, a searchable exhibitor directory, categories, turn-by-turn wayfinding for attendees, kiosks on the show floor, sponsorship placements and analytics on who looked at which booth. A seating chart also usually lives inside a ticketing checkout, so you need a ticketing platform or your own developers around it.","This page is for organizers who **sell booths with a seating chart tool** and are looking for a **Seats.io alternative for trade show and expo floor plans**. One of them, Trading Card Game Con, put it this way:","\"We have used Seats.io in the past, but I will shift everything new to ExpoFP!\" — Trading Card Game Con",{"heading":65,"cards":66},"Quick verdict",[67,73],{"title":68,"items":69},"Keep using Seats.io if",[70,71,72],"You sell reserved seats for tickets: theaters, arenas, stadiums, gala dinners, seated conferences.","You're a ticketing platform or developer who needs a white-label seating chart component inside your own checkout.","You need seating-specific features like best available seats, no single empty seats, season tickets and resale.",{"title":74,"items":75},"Switch to ExpoFP if",[76,77,78,79,80],"You run a trade show, expo, convention or fair and need to sell booths, not seats.","You want exhibitor profiles, a searchable directory and exhibitor self-service on the same map exhibitors bought from.","You need attendee wayfinding, area maps, kiosks and a mobile floor plan with no app download.","You want to sell sponsorship: featured placements, sponsored listings, banners, logos in booths and booth extras.","You'd rather have a ready-to-use organizer tool than integrate a developer component into a ticketing system.",{"heading":82,"featureColumnLabel":83,"rows":84},"Feature-by-feature comparison","Feature",[85,92,99,106,113,120,127,134,141,148,155,162,168,174,181,188,195,202,209],{"title":86,"cells":87},"Primary purpose",[88,90],{"text":89},"Interactive floor plans for trade shows, expos, conferences, fairs, festivals, corporate events and venues",{"text":91},"Reserved seating charts for ticketing platforms and venues",{"title":93,"cells":94},"Typical user",[95,97],{"text":96},"Event organizers, sales and marketing teams",{"text":98},"Ticketing companies, developers, venue owners",{"title":100,"cells":101},"Drawing \u002F editing",[102,104],{"text":103},"FP Designer: drag, drop, merge and resize booths; 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The trouble starts after the booking. An exhibitor buys booth 412, and now you need their logo, description and contact details on the map. In a seating-chart setup, that usually means collecting assets by email, tracking them in a spreadsheet, and building or buying a separate exhibitor directory. Attendees then use one tool to find exhibitors and another, often a static PDF, to find their way.","The second cost is integration. Seats.io is designed as a component for ticketing platforms, so it shines when a developer wires it into a checkout. If you're an organizer without that stack, you're stitching together a ticketing tool, a seating chart, a directory, a map PDF and a payment flow, and keeping all of them in sync every time a booth is merged, split or reassigned.","The third cost is missed revenue. Expo floors earn money beyond booth rent: featured exhibitors, sponsored listings, banner placements, logos on booths and sponsor trails. Seating tools aren't built to sell those.",{"heading":223,"columnLabels":224,"rows":228},"Before vs after",[225,226,227],"Step","Before","After",[229,232,235,238,241],{"before":230,"after":231},"Model booths as seats in a seating chart and sell them through a ticketing checkout.","Exhibitors see live booth availability and reserve or pay by credit card directly on the expo map.",{"before":233,"after":234},"Chase exhibitors by email for logos and descriptions.","Each exhibitor gets a personal auto-login link to update their profile; you approve.",{"before":236,"after":237},"Publish a separate exhibitor list and a static map PDF.","One map with search, categories, bookmarks and turn-by-turn wayfinding.",{"before":239,"after":240},"Sponsorship sold offline in a separate deck.","Sponsored listings, featured placements, banners and logos in booths live on the map.",{"before":242,"after":243},"Rebuild the chart and lists for next year.","Copy last year's map and exhibitors into the new event.",{"heading":245,"paragraph":246,"buttonLabels":247},"See an expo floor plan in action.","Explore the live demo at https:\u002F\u002Fdemo.expofp.com, or start a free {trialDays}-day trial, no credit card required.",[33,34,35],{"heading":249,"steps":250},"How to move from Seats.io to ExpoFP",[251,254,257,260,263],{"title":252,"text":253},"Export your layout","Save your current chart or venue plan as an image or file, and export your list of booths and exhibitors.",{"title":255,"text":256},"Build the floor plan","Draw it in FP Designer on the DIY plan, or upload your file and let the ExpoFP team build it (Light, Standard and Pro).",{"title":258,"text":259},"Import exhibitors","Add exhibitors and send each one a personal auto-login link to complete their profile.",{"title":261,"text":262},"Open booth sales","Turn on reservations and, if you need it, online payments so exhibitors can reserve or buy booths on the map. Add sponsorship packages and booth extras.",{"title":264,"text":265},"Publish","Share your custom URL (yourevent.expofp.com), embed the map on your event website or app, and set up kiosks for the show floor.",{"heading":267,"paragraphs":268},"When Seats.io is still the right choice",[269],"Seats.io remains the right choice for reserved seating. If your event includes a seated keynote, a gala dinner, a concert or any ticketed session with assigned seats, Seats.io's best-available logic, holds, season tickets and 3D view-from-seat are purpose-built for that job. Ticketing companies that need a white-label seating component inside their own checkout are its core audience. Many organizers can reasonably use both: a seating chart for ticketed seated sessions, and ExpoFP for the exhibition floor, booth sales and attendee navigation.",{"heading":56,"items":271},[272,275,278,281,284,287],{"question":273,"answer":274},"Can I use Seats.io to sell trade show booths?","You can model booths as bookable objects in a seating chart, and some organizers do. It handles the booking itself well. What's missing for expos is everything around the booth: exhibitor profiles, a searchable directory, wayfinding, kiosks and sponsorship tools, which ExpoFP provides on the same map.",{"question":276,"answer":277},"Is Seats.io good for trade show floor plans?","Seats.io is a strong tool for reserved seating in ticketing, and its designer can draw many kinds of venues. For trade show floor plans, where the map also has to work as an exhibitor directory and navigation tool, a purpose-built expo platform like ExpoFP is usually a better fit.",{"question":279,"answer":280},"How much does ExpoFP cost compared with Seats.io?","ExpoFP's DIY plan is {diyPrice}\u002Fmonth with booth reservation and sponsorship included; one-time plans start at {lightPrice} (Light), {standardPrice} (Standard) and {proPrice} (Pro) for up to 100 booths, with prices scaling by booth count. Seats.io uses usage-based pricing that has been reported as per booked seat and offers a free testing account; check Seats.io's pricing page for current rates.",{"question":282,"answer":283},"Can exhibitors book and pay for booths themselves in ExpoFP?","Yes. Exhibitors see live availability, then reserve or purchase booths by credit card directly on the map, and you approve and track everything in one place. Online payments are available on DIY, Standard and Pro plans.",{"question":285,"answer":286},"Do attendees need an app?","No. ExpoFP floor plans are browser-based and mobile-ready, with no app download and no sign-in. Attendees can search exhibitors, filter by category, bookmark booths and get turn-by-turn directions.",{"question":288,"answer":289},"Can I keep using Seats.io alongside ExpoFP?","Yes. Many events mix seated, ticketed sessions with an exhibition floor. Use Seats.io for reserved seating and ExpoFP for booths, exhibitors, sponsorship and wayfinding; ExpoFP also integrates with registration and ticketing systems and offers a JSON API.",{"heading":57,"items":291},[292,295,298,301,304,307],{"title":293,"linkLabel":294},"Compare ExpoFP","Browse comparisons",{"title":296,"linkLabel":297},"ExpoFP alternatives","Read the guide",{"title":299,"linkLabel":300},"Pricing","See pricing",{"title":302,"linkLabel":303},"Exhibition floor plan software","Learn more",{"title":305,"linkLabel":306},"Build vs Buy: ExpoFP vs custom development","Read the comparison",{"title":308,"linkLabel":306},"ExpoFP vs spreadsheets",{"heading":310,"paragraph":311,"buttonLabels":312},"Sell booths, not seats.","Start free with a {trialDays}-day trial, no credit card, or book a demo to see how ExpoFP handles booth sales, exhibitors and wayfinding.",[33,34,35],{"heading":314,"body":315},"Disclaimer","Information on this page is based on publicly available product materials and may change over time. Seats.io is a trademark of its respective owner. 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