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title: Enable Seat Buffering
slug: enable-seat-buffering
description: Introducing Ludus Safety's Seat Buffering feature for social distancing in reserved seating. Easily enable Seat Buffering on a per-event basis, block off seats around patrons' selections, and maintain group seating while adhering to social distancing guid
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createdAt: 2023-08-16T19:47:43.517Z
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Through our Ludus Safety initiative, we have introduced a new feature called Seat Buffering. The concept is very simple: automatically mark seats for social distancing as patrons purchase reserved-seating tickets. No need to permanently alter your seating chart.

**Seat buffering is done on an event-by-event basis. To enable it for an event:**

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On the main **Events** tab, find the event for which you'd like to enable seat buffering, and next to the title, click **More** --> **Settings**. (This same screen can be accessed when you are first setting up an event and have clicked **+Add Event**)
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Scroll to the section titled **Seating Chart** and check the box for **Seat Buffering**.

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In the boxes provided, choose how many seats to the left and right, and front and behind, that you'd like to block off around a patron's selection. 

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Check the box for **Fill in corners** if you'd like to do so.

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Click **Save Settings**.
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 After the patron selects their group's seats, seat buffering will mark the seats as off. This will ensure that a group can still sit with each other

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If you need to set a capacity limit to ensure you don't oversell, you can do this by going to **More*→*** **Seating Charts** ***→*** and clicking the **Options** button next to your seating chart.

Seats blocked off for social distancing do not count toward seats sold. So, if you have a capacity limit set to 100, this means 100 people.
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