Board look & sound

The Whole board tab holds the settings that apply to the entire screen — its look, how pages rotate, how a call flashes, the screen itself, and the sound it makes when someone's called.

Start with the shortcut, because it does most of the work in one tap. At the top of the tab: “Set it up for my kind of shop” — “Fills in wording, colours and what the left column is called.”

It offers four choices, and picking one rewrites all three at once.

• The calm paper colours.
• The left column relabelled Room.
• Visitor names turned off.

• A colour scheme — Dark, Light, Paper, or My colours (your brand).
• A highlight colour — paints the title bars and the called number.
• Text size, a font (Clean, Rounded, Classic serif, Bold display), corner style, spacing, and an outline around each section.

You can also set “Language on the screen” and override the individual words — “Now serving”, “Next up”, “Waiting”, “Missed” and the words beside the QR code.

Change every other word on the screen opens the rest: Just called, Wait time lead-in, People in the queue, Preparing, Ready, Joining is paused, Line not available, No one served yet, No journey chosen, Empty notice, Empty picture or video, Minutes unit, Line closed for the day, Counter closed, Numbers out of date and Priority guest.

Under Colours & type you can choose a Heading font and a Number font separately, and the Number weight — Regular, Bold or Extra heavy — which is how heavy the big numbers are drawn. Heading and Number both start at “Same as the board”.

Under Header, footer and watermark, switch on a Header band across the top and a Footer band along the bottom. They stay on screen whatever the pages show. Each has its own text and colours. An empty header uses your shop name; an empty footer shows the time.

• Watermark — a faint picture over the whole board, such as your logo mark. Paste a link or upload one, and choose how strong it is.
• Bars round an odd-shaped screen — when the screen isn't 16:9 the board sits in the middle with bars either side. Pick the bars' colour; Default keeps black (or your brand colour on an ultrawide).
• Odd-shaped screens that still fill — a screen within a few percent of 16:9 (or 9:16 for a tall board) is filled edge to edge, with the panels stretching a little, instead of getting bars. It starts at Within 15%; Off means bars on any difference.

Pick your screen's size from the list, or type Exact size, if yours isn't listed — the diagonal in inches. The editor then tells you the most rows and columns it recommends for that screen, because more than that stops being readable from across the room.

• See it on other screens shows the same board on a small, a large and an upright screen, and how far away each one's numbers can be read — and warns when they would be too small.
• Test a busy day fills the preview with a full lobby so you can see how the board copes when it is crowded. It is only a preview; nothing is sent to the screen. Press it again to go back (“Busy day: on”).

Turn on "Rotate through pages" and set how many seconds each page shows (2–120); the panel tells you how long a full turn takes.

Under "When a number is called", pick Play a chime (a short beep, so the screen beeps rather than staying silent), Say the number, or No sound.