What happened to AllSeated, and what to use instead

AllSeated launched in 2014 and became the default seating tool for a lot of independent planners: fast, cheap or free, self‑serve, and simple enough to lay out a 120‑guest reception in an hour.

In January 2024 it rebranded to Prismm and pivoted toward enterprise hospitality: 3D venue walkthroughs, virtual collaboration, sales‑team onboarding. In April 2025 Cvent acquired it. The allseated.com URL still resolves, but it points at an enterprise sales motion, not the tool you remember.

Mezze is the closest thing to what AllSeated was before the pivot: seating first, in the browser, no demo call, free to start. The difference is that it also handles the parts of a wedding that surround the chart, which is where planners actually lose their evenings.

Moving your guest list across

Your guest list transfers as a CSV. It takes a few minutes and nothing has to be retyped.

1. Open Reports in PrismmSign in, open the event you want to move, and go to the Reports section.
2. Choose the Guests reportSet Report Type to Guests. In the Fields dropdown, tick everything you want to keep: name, party size, RSVP status, meal or dietary notes, table.
3. Generate and export to CSVClick GENERATE, then export to CSV (Excel). That file is your guest list.
4. Import it into MezzeOpen Mezze, go to Guests, and choose Import. Upload the CSV or XLSX straight from your downloads folder.
5. Map the columnsMezze reads your headers and matches them automatically. Prismm lets you rename export columns, so if anything looks off you can correct it from a dropdown before confirming. You see a preview and a summary before a single guest is created.

What does not transfer: floor plans and templates. Cvent has confirmed templates do not migrate, which is true whichever tool you move to. In Mezze you rebuild the room from a room template in a couple of minutes, or upload a screenshot or PDF of your existing layout as a background and place tables on top of it to scale.

What Mezze does that old AllSeated did not

• Auto‑seating that understands people. Keep‑apart rules for divorced parents, households seated together, singles grouped, talkative anchors spread across tables rather than stacked at one.
• A shared workspace with the couple. They see the guest list and the room, leave notes on specific tables, and answer questions without a single email thread. Included on the free plan.
• Vendor handoffs. Send the caterer a guest count with dietary notes, or the transport company an arrival manifest, as a clean PDF or CSV.
• Run of show and logistics. Multi‑day weekend schedules, shuttle waves, arrival times, budget that scales with the guest count.

What it does not do: 3D venue walkthroughs. If that is what you need, Cvent Event Diagramming is the successor product.

Prices in USD. No per-guest charge, no feature tiers, no watermark on exports.

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