Limited Seats
Some offers only work with a small group: a coaching cohort of 10, a workshop with 12 chairs in the room, a mastermind you want to keep intimate. Limited seats lets you set a maximum number of sales for a product. TinyPages watches the counter for you and closes the order page as soon as the last seat is sold, even at midnight.
Scarcity also helps you sell. When visitors see that seats are limited, and later that only a few remain, they make up their minds faster.
Setting a seat limit
- Open Products and click the product, or create a new one.
- In the Pricing card, turn on Limited seats.
- Enter the number of seats you want to sell. Everything saves automatically.
When you turn on limited seats for a product that already has members, TinyPages suggests a number equal to the seats already taken plus 20, so the product never shows as sold out by accident. You can change it as you like.
The limit works on every kind of product: paid or free, one-time payment, subscription, installments, even bundles (several products sold together). A free workshop with 15 seats fills up just like a paid one.
What your visitors see
Everything below is automatic. There is no banner to design and nothing to update as sales come in.
- Plenty of seats left: your product card and order page show a simple "Limited seats" mention, without a number. Visitors know the offer is not unlimited, but your first customers don't see an empty room.
- 5 seats or fewer left (or 20% of the seats or less): the mention becomes "Only X seats left" with the live count.
- All seats sold: the order page is closed. Anyone landing on it sees a clear "Sold out" message, and the Product blocks on your pages show it too. A regular button that links to the order page stays as it is: visitors see the message once they click it.
Opening the order page does not reserve a seat. TinyPages checks that one is still available right before the payment goes through, so someone who left the page open can't buy a seat that was sold in the meantime.
How seats are counted
Each member of the product takes at least one seat, whether they bought it, signed up for free, or were added by you, manually or through an import.
A few details worth knowing:
- Seats are never given back. A refund or a revoked access does not reopen a seat. If you want to resell it, raise the limit by one.
- The same person can buy several seats. A customer who purchases the product twice, one seat for them and one for their spouse for example, counts for two in your counters, exactly as if two people had bought. In your members list they appear on a single line, with a small ×2 badge: hover over it to see how many seats they hold.
- Order bumps, upsells and downsells count too. If the product is sold as an order bump (an extra product offered on the order page, just before paying), an upsell (an offer shown right after the purchase) or a downsell (the offer shown when the customer declines an upsell) with another product, those sales take seats. Note that, for now, a sold-out product can still be bought this way, so keep an eye on the limit if you use it as an extra offer.
Following your sales
In your Products list, a limited product shows a compact counter, 7/10 for example, so you can see how it is filling at a glance. On the product's page, next to the Limited seats option, you get the live count of seats sold and seats remaining.