SPLIT-FLAP DISPLAYS FOR CLINICS & HEALTHCARE
Calm the waiting room with a board that flips now-serving numbers, queue positions, and front-desk notices in quiet split-flap type. Clinics and healthcare lobbies run flaps.tv in a browser on existing TVs — fork a queue template, customize it, and update wait times and notices in real time.
A clinic waiting room board that shows the current estimated wait, how many patients are in the queue, and rotating check-in reminders. Defaults display an 18-minute wait in orange, 6 patients queued, and a ticker flipping through prompts like "check in at desk" and "insurance cards ready". Patients stop asking the front desk how much longer.
A calm ambient scene that drifts weather-styled particles across a 12x44 split-flap grid in a cool palette at gentle intensity. It suits hotel lobbies, spa relaxation rooms, and waiting areas that want quiet motion rather than messaging. Style, palette, density, speed, and intensity are adjustable, and it pairs well between informational scenes.
A rideshare pickup board that rotates zone status — zone A open, zone B overflow, taxis lane 3 — beside a green six-minute wait counter and a fixed "meet drivers at the blue awning" instruction line. Hotels, arenas, and campuses hang it at the curb or exit doors so guests find their ride without a staffer repeating directions all night.
A dental office queue board that shows when the next chair opens, how far appointments are running behind, and rotating front-desk notes. A next-chair widget counts down through morning slots like 09:00 and 09:45, a counter shows the practice running 4 minutes late, and a ticker cycles reminders about forms, the kids' prize box, and rescheduling by text.
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 call center wallboard that puts queue depth, average wait, service level, and agents ready on one split-flap TV display. The default layout shows 12 callers in queue, a 02:14 average wait, a 91% service-level progress bar, and 24 agents available — the four numbers every floor supervisor watches. Color coding turns the queue orange so pressure is visible across the room.
Waiting-room boards that lower the temperature
Most waiting-room tension is uncertainty, and the board's job is to remove it. Give now-serving numbers the largest cells on the grid with a second column pointing to the room or counter, one row per department in a shared lobby. Use ticket numbers or initials — every field is editable on your fork, so the layout satisfies privacy expectations before it faces patients. Fork a healthcare template and check it reads from the farthest chair, not the front desk.
Accuracy is what earns patient trust, so connect the queue system if it exposes JSON or an API. A live data widget reads the feed and the now-serving number turns over on the lobby screen within a second of the system advancing, with estimated waits recalculating alongside. That integration sits on the Business plan at $79/mo. Practices on paper systems run the same board manually — reception edits from the dashboard and the change reaches the screen immediately.
Keep secondary messages on a short second scene — flu-shot reminders, pharmacy-pickup calls, closing hours — that rotates in for fifteen seconds and returns, so the queue is never off screen long enough to send anyone to the desk. The board runs in the browser on the waiting-room TV you already own; nothing new is mounted or installed. Multi-site practices run every lobby from one dashboard, and a holiday-hours edit reaches all of them in real time.
- 01Now-serving and next-up queue numbers
- 02Estimated wait time by department
- 03Check-in and registration reminders
- 04Pharmacy ready-for-pickup board
- 05Clinic hours and closure notices
- 06Quiet-room and floor directions
Can we show queue positions without displaying patient names?
Yes — flip ticket or check-in numbers instead of names, so the board keeps the lobby informed while staying privacy-conscious.
Will the wait-time board connect to our patient queue system?
If your system exposes JSON or an API, flaps.tv reads it and flips the now-serving number and estimated wait live; otherwise the front desk can update it directly.
Is it hard to put this on the lobby TV we already have?
No. It runs in a browser on any smart TV, Chromecast, or Fire TV, so your existing waiting-room screen becomes a queue board with no new equipment.
What does a waiting-room board cost a practice?
Free to design, so the layout can be reviewed for privacy and tone before anything is spent. A live lobby screen is $8/mo on Starter; live queue-system integration comes with Business at $79/mo, while a front-desk-updated board runs on any paid plan.
Can a multi-site practice manage every lobby from one place?
Yes. All displays connect to one dashboard — Pro covers five at $29/mo, Business unlimited — so shared notices like holiday hours update everywhere at once while each location's queue scene stays wired to its own system.
START FROM A TEMPLATE
Pick a board, customize the copy and data, and open it in a supported Chrome or Edge player.