Design your lobby-TV board
The board is the screen in your lobby that shows who's being served. You start from a ready-made layout, then tune it on a canvas that's the real board — what you see is exactly what the TV shows.
Start from a layout
Open Displays to see a gallery of ready-made layouts — Call board, Now and next, Serving points, Waiting list, Join from your phone, a Journey board, and more.
- Two buttons at the top switch between Wide screen and Tall screen layouts, for a TV mounted the normal way round or upright.
- Pick one close to what you want and you'll have a working board in three or four taps.
Two things worth knowing on that page
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| “Fits your setup” on a card | You have more than one serving point set up, and this is the counters layout — its shape already matches your shop. No other layout ever carries it. |
| “YOUR CURRENT TV LOOK” card | Only appears if you already set a look on the older lobby-TV designer. “Start from my current TV look” turns your colours, text size and layout into a board you can change — your old look is left as it was. |
| “YOUR BOARDS” row above the gallery | Lists boards you have already saved, each labelled Wide screen or Tall screen. It only appears once you have saved one — an empty-looking gallery on day one is normal. |
A card marked "a few choices" asks a short question before it opens, so the board it builds is the right shape first time.
- “How many counters, rooms or chairs serve this queue?” (and one column or two) — starts on the number you already have set up.
- “How many different services share this screen?”
- For the video layout: “Where should the video sit, and how many queues go beside it?”
The live editor
Three panes
| Pane | What it is |
|---|---|
| Rail | The sections on the page. Each row has move-up and move-down arrows, and the rail order is the screen order. |
| Live canvas | In the middle — the real board, updating as you edit. |
| Inspector | Two tabs: This section, and Whole board. |
Your board can rotate through several pages, each shown for a few seconds.
| Along the top bar, left to right | What happens |
|---|---|
| All layouts | Goes back to the gallery. |
| Full size | Opens the board at real scale over the whole window. Press Close at the top right, or Esc, to come back. |
Also on that top bar
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| The board's own name, next to All layouts | Only you ever see it. It's how you find the board again. |
| A badge naming the layout you started from | Names the ready-made layout you started from until you change something. From then on it reads “Changed by you” — nothing is unsaved or wrong, it's just no longer the stock layout. |
| A badge reading “On {{count}} screens” (for example “On 2 screens”) | Saving repaints those TVs immediately. Hover it and it says so — “Saving repaints these screens”. |
| That same badge reading “Not on any screen yet” | The most common reason an owner thinks their board isn't working — designing a board and sending it to a screen are two different steps. |
“Set it up for my kind of shop”
Four buttons — Salon, Clinic, Workshop and Café or takeaway — fill in the wording, the colours and what the left-hand column is called, all at once.
What each shortcut actually does
| Button | Now-serving word | Column name | Colours | Names shown? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salon | “In the chair” | Chair | Dark with a warm bronze highlight | Yes — first names |
| Clinic | “Now called” | Room | Calm paper-white with a blue highlight | No |
| Workshop | (unchanged) | Bay | Dark with an orange highlight, larger text, 5 rows per panel | No |
| Café or takeaway | “Ready to collect” | Till | Dark with a teal highlight | No |
Wide, tall and very wide screens
A board is built either wide or tall, and it's told which by "Which way is the screen?" on the Whole board tab.
Every wide layout has a tall twin with “, tall” on the end of its name — Call board, tall; Waiting list, tall; Full picture, tall; Number and notice, tall; Join from your phone, tall; Ready for collection, tall; How busy are we, tall; Journey board, tall. On the Whole board tab, a board that started from a layout made for the other way round says “This board started from a layout made for the other way round, so its panels are stacked to fit.” with a button, Use the … layout.
| What the screen asks | What happens |
|---|---|
| Switch to the … layout? | “This replaces the panels on this board with that layout's panels. Your wording, colours and sound settings stay.” Press Switch layout to do it, or Keep what I have to leave the board exactly as it is. |
On a very wide screen — the long, letterbox-shaped ones, wider than an ordinary widescreen TV — the board keeps its normal shape in the middle.
The two strips left over at the sides are filled with your brand colour and your logo (or your business name, if you haven't uploaded one) instead of being left black.
There's nothing to switch on — it happens on the real screen only, so the editor's preview still shows the plain board.
Save & send to a screen
Press Save board and you're prompted to send it to a screen from Devices.