Make your seating chart clickable — section by section.

Interactive Image is an interactive seating chart tool, not a seating chart generator. It does not lay out rows, calculate sightlines, count seats, or hold live ticket inventory. Produce the chart itself in your venue or ticketing software first.

What it does is the step almost everyone skips: taking that finished chart — usually a flat PNG or a PDF page — and making every section answer its own questions. Most venues already have a perfectly good chart that buyers can't interrogate.

Hover or keyboard-focus the markers. Each is a section hotspot with its own popup — exactly what the editor produces, with your chart and your copy.

1. Upload the chart. PNG or JPEG around 1600–2000px wide, cropped to the seating area itself.
2. Place a marker per section. Click inside each block or table, then drag to centre it.
3. Fill in the popups. Name and capacity as a baseline; price, view photo, and ticket link on the sections that sell.
4. Copy the embed. One iframe into your event page. Later edits propagate everywhere it appears.

A bowl or auditorium diagram tells buyers where a block sits but nothing about what they will see from it. Hotspotting each block with a stage photo and a price band removes the main hesitation before checkout, and it cuts the "what's the view like from section 214?" emails your box office answers every week.

For a seated dinner or a conference room set, the chart becomes a directory: table numbers, who is seated where, dietary flags, and AV notes per table. Numbered markers map straight onto table numbers, and because the embed is a link as well, you can share it with a planner or a caterer without giving anyone editor access. Venue-side detail lives in the hospitality use case.

Large venues have the opposite problem: too many sections to hotspot individually without clutter. Group by tier — lower bowl, club, upper — using colour-coded categories, hotspot at the block level rather than the row level, and keep popup copy to two lines. Roughly 40–50 markers is the practical readability ceiling on one image; beyond that, split the chart per tier and link them together.

A seating chart is the classic case people reach for <area> polygons for, and the classic case where it falls apart: dozens of irregular blocks in fixed pixel coordinates that drift off the chart the moment the image scales on a phone. The image map generator page covers the percentage-based alternative, and why hotspots drift on mobile explains the underlying maths.