HOSPITALITY & WELCOME BOARDS
Greet guests with the warm, analog charm of a flip board that still updates in real time. From hotel lobbies to coworking spaces and event venues, flaps.tv displays welcome messages, schedules, and venue notes on any screen you already own, customized from a template in minutes.
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A hotel lobby display that welcomes guests with the property name, live local weather, and the current time in a classic split-flap style. Beneath "the grand hotel" headline, a weather widget shows Miami conditions and a clock keeps lobby time, with check-in hours and the concierge extension in muted footer lines. It reads like the arrivals board of a grand rail terminal.
A cafe daily specials board with today's date, a rotating coffee lineup, and a pastry ticker for the screen behind the counter. Out of the box it flips through pour overs, oat lattes, and cold brew on one line and almond croissants, banana bread, and lemon tart on another, with your guest Wi-Fi in the footer. The date widget updates itself every morning.
A restaurant menu display board that lists dishes with prices and a rotating specials ticker on a split-flap TV. The default menu shows a smash burger at $18, salmon bowl at $24, and mushroom risotto at $19, with specials like truffle fries and market fish flipping through below and an allergy note in the footer. Diners at the counter read it like a classic arrivals board.
A museum visitor information board showing the next guided tour, the next gallery talk, and rotating notices on a split-flap lobby screen. Tour times cycle through 10:00 to 16:00 while talks count down on their own line, and a ticker flips through notes like "east wing open" and the shop's closing time, with last admission in the footer. Visitors plan their route the moment they walk in.
A coworking space welcome board with today's date, local weather, the member Wi-Fi network, and a rotating community announcements ticker. Defaults greet members over Austin weather and flip through notes like the founder lunch at noon and Friday's demo night. Put it at the entrance so members catch events they would otherwise miss in a buried Slack channel.
A spa availability board that shows the next open appointment slot, local weather, and a rotating list of today's treatments on a lobby screen. A next-opening widget cycles through slots like 10:15 and 14:30, Palm Springs weather sits alongside, and a quiet ticker flips through deep tissue, facials, and sauna hours. Walk-ins see exactly when they can be seen.
A bar TV board with a live countdown to happy hour and a rotating ticker of drink specials in split-flap style. The countdown flips down to the 5pm start while specials like $9 spritzes, $6 drafts, and $4 tacos cycle underneath, with a 21+ reminder in the footer. The ticking flaps give regulars a reason to stay for one more round.
A hotel event schedule board that lists today's functions by room with a live next-event countdown for lobby and conference-floor TVs. The layout names the grand ballroom, sky terrace, and garden room, cycles bookings like the breakfast buffet, sales summit, and wedding reception, and counts down to the next start time. Guests find their event without stopping at the desk.
Lobby boards that feel like part of the property
Treat the board as furniture first. Pick colors from the interior palette — the editor exposes flap and text colors on any forked template — and size the grid to the sight line from the entrance: a welcome board reads best at four to six generous rows, one per guest or group, with a column wide enough for long names. Behind the front desk, a slimmer board listing today's functions with time, room, and event name does the quiet work a printed easel used to.
Let the systems do the updating. Point a live data widget at the JSON or API feed from your property-management or event system and arrivals, room assignments, and function timings flip into place as bookings change — the board stays right through a late itinerary shuffle without anyone leaving the desk. Live data sources ride on the Business plan, which also lifts the display limit for properties running screens in the lobby, spa, and conference wing. Manual edits from a phone still land on screen in real time.
Rotate the day through scenes. A working loop: guest welcomes for 30 seconds, today's meetings and ballroom schedule for 20, dining and spa hours for 15 — durations set per scene, cycling unattended from breakfast to turndown. Each space can run its own forked board with content suited to the room, yet one dashboard manages them all, so a room change made once corrects the lobby, the elevator screen, and the conference-wing board in the same second.
- 01Personalized guest welcome messages
- 02Daily events and function schedule
- 03Restaurant specials and waitlist board
- 04Coworking room and desk availability
- 05Check-in, checkout, and amenity hours
- 06Conference agenda and session timings
Can the lobby board update as guests arrive throughout the day?
Yes. Feed it from your booking or event system via JSON, and names and schedules flip into place in real time without staff touching the screen.
Do we need special signage hardware for the front desk?
No. Any TV or display with a browser works, so most venues simply cast to an existing screen and start the board.
Can one venue run different boards in different rooms?
Each room can run its own forked board with distinct messages, colors, and data, all managed from the same account.
How much does a lobby board cost to run?
Designing a board is free, so you can match it to the property before committing. Going live starts at $8/mo for one screen; Pro at $29/mo covers five, and Business at $79/mo adds unlimited displays plus booking-system data feeds.
Can the lobby screen rotate between welcome messages, events, and dining hours?
Yes. Each block becomes its own scene with a set duration, so the board cycles from the day's welcomes to the function schedule to restaurant hours automatically — one screen carrying the whole front-of-house story without staff intervention.