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SPLIT-FLAP DISPLAYS FOR HOTELS & HOSPITALITY

Greet arrivals with a lobby board that flips guest names, today's events, and venue updates the way a grand terminal once did. Hotels, resorts, and coworking spaces run flaps.tv in a browser on existing TVs — fork a welcome template, customize the type and colors, and push changes the moment plans shift.

23 TEMPLATES
Ambient Rainbow Sweep Board

A full-screen ambient scene that sweeps a rainbow wave diagonally across a 12x44 grid of split flaps, rendered at 60 FPS in the browser. It gives lobbies, parties, and studios a kinetic visual break between information boards, or a standalone mood display. Direction, density, speed, and loop behavior are all adjustable after forking.

Real Estate Open House Board

A split-flap open house board that flips the property address, a bedroom count, the next showing time from today's schedule, and selling points like "new roof" and "offers due monday." Agents set it on a TV or large monitor inside the entry, where it reads as memorable signage instead of a paper flyer. Sized 10x40 for landscape screens.

Public Library Events Board

A public library events board that flips the next program time from today's schedule, pulls upcoming public holidays from a live API feed, and cycles hours and visitor reminders in a ticker. Sized at 11x42 for a lobby TV near the front desk, it covers programs, closures, and holds pickup in one glance.

School Dismissal Board

A school dismissal board that counts down to the next pickup wave — 2:45, 2:55, 3:05, and 3:15 — while a blue ticker tracks bus A loading, bus C waiting, and the car line, above a "keep pickup cards visible" reminder. Front offices aim it out a lobby window or at the parent loop so families know exactly when their wave is called.

Hotel Lobby Display

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.

Cafe Daily Specials Board

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.

Restaurant Menu Display Board

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.

Office Lobby Welcome Board

An office lobby welcome board that greets visitors with your company name, today's date, live local weather, and the current time on a reception TV. Muted lines beneath the split-flap headline hold the guest Wi-Fi network and check-in instructions, so front-desk questions answer themselves. Built at 11 rows by 40 columns for the wide screens common behind reception desks.

Ambient Weather Particles Board

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.

Emergency Alert Board

A high-contrast alert board that flips status messages like "all clear" or "shelter in place" in red, alongside live local weather and instruction lines such as "use stairwells" and "meet at north lot." Facilities teams keep it as a standby scene for office, school, and venue TVs. Every status and instruction is editable after forking.

Church Service Board

A church service board that flips the next service time from the day's schedule, cycles group meetups like youth and choir, and scrolls announcements welcoming guests. It fits a narthex or fellowship hall TV where members pause on the way in. Fork it and enter your own service times, groups, and welcome messages.

Prayer Times Board

A prayer times board that flips the next upcoming prayer from the day's five scheduled times, plus separate jumu'ah times for Friday. Built for mosque lobbies, community rooms, and homes, it includes a quiet reminder line to silence phones. Fork it and enter your community's own timetable in the two schedule widgets.

Wedding Countdown Board

A wedding countdown board that flips the time remaining until the ceremony above a green planning progress bar and a ticker of open tasks like vows, flowers, and the playlist. Couples run it at home while planning, then venues reuse it for rehearsal dinners and engagement parties. Every date, label, and task line is editable after forking.

Campus Events Board

A campus events board that counts down to the next event, cycles today's lineup — career fair, film club, guest lecture, open lab — and flips announcements like late library hours and finals-week coffee. Student centers, libraries, and department lobbies run it as always-on signage that student workers can update in a browser without a designer or a print run.

Parking Garage Availability Board

A parking availability board showing 128 open spaces and per-level fill bars — level 2 at 78%, level 3 at 42% — above a rotating entry ticker with gate-tap, EV-spot, and height-limit notes. Drivers at the ramp get an instant read on where to park before they commit. Facilities teams at venues, hospitals, and offices run it on any TV at the garage entrance.

Rideshare Pickup Board

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.

Bus Stop Live Arrivals Board

A bus arrivals board that cycles routes 12 downtown, 19 crosstown, and 42 express, counts down to the next bus, and shows live Seattle weather above an orange service-alerts ticker. Built for transit lobbies, campus shuttle stops, and apartment buildings near a stop. Alerts like "use rear doors" and "detour on pine" flip through on their own dedicated row.

Yoga Studio Board

A yoga studio board that shows the next flow, the room temperature, and soft rotating studio notes on an entryway screen. A next-class widget counts down through the 7am, 9:30, 12:15, and 6pm sessions, an 82°F room-temp counter warns hot-flow arrivals, and a ticker flips through mat rentals and post-class tea, above a shoes-off reminder.

Museum Today 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.

Coworking Welcome Board

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.

Spa Availability Board

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.

Bar Happy Hour Countdown

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.

Hotel Event Schedule Board

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.

Front-of-house boards for hotels, resorts, and venues

A split-flap board earns lobby space the way good millwork does: it looks intentional and it stays correct. Fork a welcome template, match the flap and text colors to your interior finishes, and size the grid to the sight line from the entrance — four to six generous rows, one per arriving guest or group, with a name column wide enough for long names. When a VIP lands early, the front desk types the change from a phone and the flaps turn in real time.

Connect the systems your team already maintains. Point a live data widget at your property-management or event system's JSON feed and arrivals, function timings, and room assignments flip into place as bookings shift — no easel cards to reprint when the ballroom schedule moves. Live feeds ride on the Business plan at $79/mo, which also lifts the display limit for properties running boards in the lobby, elevator landings, and conference wing, all from one dashboard.

Let scenes run the day's rotation: guest welcomes, then today's meetings, then dining and spa hours, each with its own duration, cycling without staff attention. Every space can hold its own forked board — the conference wing lists sessions while the lobby greets — yet one edit to a room change corrects every screen in the same second. There is no signage hardware to purchase or maintain; the TVs already mounted in your spaces open a URL and become the boards.

WHAT YOU CAN BUILD
  • 01Welcome boards flipping guest and group names
  • 02Today's meetings and ballroom schedule
  • 03Spa and dining hours at a glance
  • 04Shuttle and checkout countdown
  • 05Event venue and room-change notices
  • 06Local weather and concierge picks
WHAT TO KNOW
Can we show different boards in the lobby, spa, and conference wing?

Yes — fork the template once per location and customize each screen's content, while all of them run from a browser on the TVs already mounted in those spaces.

How do we update a welcome board for a VIP arrival on short notice?

Type the name from your phone and the flaps flip it onto the lobby screen in real time, so a late itinerary change never leaves the board wrong.

Can event schedules sync from our property management or booking system?

If that system offers a JSON feed or API, flaps.tv reads it and flips room assignments and timings live — no double entry by the front desk.

What does a lobby board cost for a property?

Designing the board is free, so you can match it to the interior before committing. Going live starts at $8/mo for one screen; Pro at $29/mo covers five displays across lobby, spa, and conference wing, and Business adds booking-system feeds.

Can one lobby screen carry welcomes, events, and dining hours?

Yes. Each block becomes its own scene with a set duration — welcomes for 30 seconds, today's functions for 20, restaurant hours for 15 — and the board cycles unattended from breakfast through turndown.

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