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📄 Exporting & Sharing Your Seating Chart

Once your floor plan is complete, you can export a beautifully formatted file to share with your venue, caterers, coordinator, or planning team.

Written by Nina Dobrev

🖨️ How to Export

To export your floor plan, click Export in the top toolbar and choose the format that best fits your needs. You can choose from three export options: Document, Image, or Poster.

When exporting, you'll be able to choose:

  • Document — a detailed page for each table

  • Image — the whole plan in one high-resolution image

  • Poster — the whole plan tiled across printable pages

  • The meal choice to display (Starter, Main, or Dessert)

  • Format-specific settings — Document preview; Image quality; or Poster orientation, paper size, columns, and rows

💡 Important Note: Large exports may take longer to process. Increasing image quality or the number of tiles will also increase processing time and file size.

Below is a full breakdown of each export option, so you know exactly what's included before you export. Click into each to see the full details.

📌 Note: Click the arrow (>) next to an item to expand it and see the title, description

📄 Document – a detailed page for each table

Best for sharing seating and meal details with vendors, coordinators, or catering teams, or for final confirmations before the big day.

A Document export is a multi-page PDF that includes:

  • Cover page — your full floor plan layout, with the venue name and a legend summarizing meal counts and allergy totals across the whole event

  • Guest summary page — a breakdown of total seated guests, tables, and seats, plus a count of guests by age group (Adult/Child/Baby) and a full meal tally

  • Allergies, accessibility & dietary summary — a single table listing every guest with a noted allergy, dietary requirement, or accessibility need, along with their table/seat number, so vendors can spot-check at a glance

  • All tables (alphabetical order) — every guest across the whole event listed alphabetically by last name, with their table, seat, meal choice, and any other notes — handy for quickly looking up a specific guest without knowing their table number

  • Per-table pages — for each table, you'll get:

    • A table listing every guest at that table with their meal choice and notes

    • A visual seating diagram showing exactly where each guest sits, color-coded by meal choice, with a legend showing meal and allergy counts for that table

    🍽️ What the Document Export Includes

    Your export isn’t just a simple layout - it’s a fully structured, multi-page document designed for real wedding planning.

    Sample cover page, guest summary, and per-table diagram

    The first page shows your entire floorplan, with seats colour-coded based on the main meal selections. This gives your caterers and venue an instant understanding of the entire room.

    This page includes a clear breakdown of:
    • Total number of guests
    • Number of tables
    • Total number of seats
    • Meal counts
    • Highlighted allergies or dietary restrictions (including table location)

    Perfect for venues and catering teams.

    Every table has a zoomed-in version showing a colour-coded key so staff know exactly where guests with dietary needs are sitting.

    A full example export can be downloaded inside the tool.

    💡 Tip: Because each table gets both a list and a diagram, this format works well for handing directly to your catering team or venue coordinator - they can match names to seats at a glance on the day.

🖼️ Image — the whole plan in one high-resolution image

Best for a quick, all-in-one overview of your layout - ideal for sharing digitally or dropping into a presentation.

An Image export gives you the entire floor plan as a single high-resolution file, showing:

  • The full room layout, including furniture like the arch, DJ booth, and pedestal

  • All tables, positioned and labeled exactly as they appear on your canvas

  • Guest name tags at each seat, color-coded by meal choice

  • A legend summarizing meal counts and allergies across the whole event

Choose an image quality:

  • Low — smaller file, faster to create

    Sample export at Low quality — zoom in once it's downloaded to see the level of detail

  • Medium (Recommended) — balanced sharpness and file size

    Sample export at Medium quality — zoom in once it's downloaded to see the level of detail

  • High — the sharpest detail, but the largest file and longest export time

    Sample export at High quality — zoom in once it's downloaded to see the level of detail

📌 Note: Higher quality means a sharper image - and a larger file that takes longer to create.

💡 Tip: Since everything is flattened into one image, this format works best for smaller or simpler floor plans. For larger, more detailed layouts, the Poster export keeps names and details readable when zoomed in or printed.

🧩 Poster — tiled for large prints

Best for larger or more detailed floor plans where clarity matters when zooming in or printing.

Instead of exporting one large file, your floor plan is split into multiple tiles — one per page — so you can zoom in and read every detail clearly.

Your Poster export includes:

  • High-resolution sections of your floor plan

  • Clear, readable text when zoomed in

  • Numbered tiles for easy assembly when printed

Configure your poster:

  • Orientation — Portrait or Landscape

  • Paper size — e.g. A4 (210 x 297 mm)

  • Desired grid layout — set Columns and Rows to control how many tiles make up your final print; more tiles create a larger final print

As you adjust these settings, the Tile preview updates to show a blue grid over your floor plan, with numbers indicating the order tiles should be assembled in. It also shows your paper dimensions, total page count, and calculated scale.

📌 Note: When you download, you'll get a ZIP file containing each numbered tile as its own image (e.g. tile-1, tile-2...), plus a separate legend file with your meal and allergy counts. Match the tile numbers to the Tile preview to assemble them in the correct order.

This is best used when:

  • Your floor plan is large or detailed

  • You need to zoom in and read guest names clearly

  • You want to print and assemble a large-format layout

💡 Tip: More columns and rows mean more tiles and a bigger final print - but also more pages to print and assemble. Start with a smaller grid and increase it if you need more detail per section.

⚠️ Note: The tile preview is a visual reference only - it's not meant to be zoomed into on-screen to judge print quality. If you need names or details to appear larger when printed, increase the number or size of the tiles rather than zooming in on the preview.

📋 Downloading Your Guest List with Table Numbers

When you export your floor plan (as a Document), your guest list — complete with table numbers — is included automatically. There's no extra step needed; it's built into the export by default.

The Document export includes:

  • A summary page for allergies, accessibility, or dietary needs — showing which guests have specific requirements and exactly which table and seat they're sitting at (e.g. guests with needs seated at Table 1, seats 1, 3, and 4)

  • All guests in alphabetical order — as you scroll further, you'll see your full guest list listed alphabetically, along with a Table column showing which table each guest is seated at

  • A table-by-table breakdown — following the guest list, you'll see each table shown individually, listing every guest seated at that table in seat order, along with a zoomed-in image of that table's layout. This repeats for every table in your floor plan (Table 1, then Table 2, and so on)

💡 Tip: This makes the Document export especially useful if you just need a clean, ready-to-share guest list with table assignments — no manual cross-referencing between your guest list and floor plan required.

✨ Which Export Should You Use?

Format

Best for

📄 Document

A complete overview with guest names and meal info, all in one file — ideal for venues, coordinators, or catering teams

🖼️ Image

A quick, single-image overview of the whole layout

🧩 Poster

Large or detailed events where readability matters — text stays sharp whether viewed on-screen or printed and assembled

💡 Tip: If your event is large or detail-heavy, Poster is usually the better choice for readability. For a fast, all-in-one overview with guest and meal info included, go with Document.

📌 Note: Export performance also depends on your device's memory and processing power. For best results, close other applications and use a device with sufficient performance when exporting complex floor plans.


Helpful Notes for Floor Plans

How is TTO's Floor Plan & Seating Chart different from Aisle Planner?

🎨 Built for Weddings, Designed to Be Intuitive

TTO's floor plan tool uses a clean, drag-and-drop canvas with clearly labeled tools, so building a layout feels straightforward from the start.


By comparison, Aisle Planner users often report a steeper learning curve, with some layout features harder to locate. Guests also need to be manually added to a list before they can be assigned to tables.G2 TrustRadius

🖨️ Effortless Printing & Exporting

TTO offers polished, one-click exports — including floor plans, meal codes, guest names, and per-table views — ready to print or share as-is.

With Aisle Planner, many planners resort to screenshots or third-party tools to produce usable printouts, adding extra steps to the process. G2 TrustRadius

🤝 Guided Support & Learning

TTO backs its tool with live chat support and quick-start video tutorials, so you're never stuck for long.

Aisle Planner users, meanwhile, often rely on knowledge-base articles due to more limited in-app guidance.G2 TrustRadius

TTO is designed to make seating and floor plan creation simple, visual, and stress-free-so you can focus on planning, not troubleshooting.

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