WAIT TIME & QUEUE BOARDS
Show live wait times and queue positions on a split-flap board your visitors can read at a glance. Clinics, support desks, and service counters connect current data and let estimated minutes flip down as the line moves, all on any TV without special hardware.
A sports bar scoreboard that flips three game rows at once — scores like NYK 104, BOS 99, clock states like Q4 2:14, and upcoming matchups — above a promo ticker running $8 wings and $16 pitchers. Bars hang it beside the broadcast screens so guests track every game without waiting for the TV ticker. All four rows are message lists you edit between games.
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.
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 ferry terminal board that counts down to the next sailing, rotates dock assignments, and pulls live wind speed from the Open-Meteo API so passengers see conditions before boarding. Sailings at 07:40, 08:20, 09:05, and 10:00 cycle through the next-sailing widget while a notices row flips boarding rules like "bikes board first." Suited to terminal waiting rooms, harbor offices, and waterfront restaurants.
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.
A customer support wallboard that shows open tickets, SLA health, CSAT, and rotating handoff notes on a TV above the support team. Defaults display 37 open tickets, an 86% SLA progress bar, 94% CSAT, and a ticker with escalation reminders like "watch enterprise queue". Agents see queue pressure at a glance instead of digging through the help desk.
Queue boards that keep the line calm
Build around the number people came to check. Now-serving deserves the biggest cells on the board, with a second column pointing to the counter or room; visitors should confirm their position from any seat in one glance. A multi-service lobby fits one row per counter or department, each flipping its own now-serving number and estimated wait. Fork a wait-time template and use ticket numbers or initials rather than names — the fields are plain text, so the board meets privacy expectations before it meets the public.
Accuracy is the whole product, so connect the queue system if you can. A live data widget pointed at your ticketing or scheduling tool's JSON feed flips the now-serving number within a second of the system advancing — no front-desk relay, no stale whiteboard promise. Live integrations sit on the Business plan. Counters without an API keep the identical board and update it from the dashboard, which still pushes to the lobby screen instantly; a repeater renders one row per counter so each line moves independently.
Use a second scene for everything that is not the queue. The queue scene holds the screen for most of the loop; a fifteen-second notices scene — check-in reminders, pickup announcements, closing hours — rotates in and out on its own duration, so the wait number is never gone long enough to cause a line at the desk. Multi-site operations run every lobby from one dashboard: shared notices change everywhere at once while each branch's queue scene stays tied to its own feed.
- 01Estimated wait times per service
- 02Now-serving ticket numbers
- 03Queue length and position
- 04Multi-counter status boards
- 05Auto-updating minute counters
Can the wait time update from our queue system?
Yes. Connect your ticketing or queue API as live data and the board flips estimated minutes and now-serving numbers in real time.
Can it show several counters or rooms at once?
It can. Repeater connectors list each counter as a row, flipping its status independently as the line changes.
Is any install needed at the front desk?
None. Open the board in a TV browser on the hardware you already have and it runs as an always-on wait-time display.
What does a queue board cost to run?
Designing the board is free, so a clinic or counter can review the layout first. Going live starts at $8/mo for one lobby display; live queue-system integration is a Business-plan feature at $79/mo, while manually updated boards run on any paid plan.
Can we run queue boards at more than one site?
Yes. All displays connect to one dashboard, so a multi-branch operation manages every lobby board from the same place. Pro covers five displays at $29/mo and Business is unlimited; shared notices update everywhere at once while each site's queue 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.