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NowBoard for hotels
The lobby TV that tells guests what’s on today.
Welcomes, events, meeting rooms, breakfast times and the spa on the TVs your hotel already has. Changed from your phone in seconds.
- 14 ready-made hotel screens, called Boards, in your brand
- A wedding moves rooms? Every screen knows in seconds
- Free forever on one TV. From £10 a TV a month after that
Welcome to the Riverside
What makes NowBoard different
Five reasons NowBoard is different.
Screens that make you money
Local businesses pay to advertise on your screens. You approve every advert and keep most of what they pay.
Run it from your phone
Change any screen in seconds from a phone or tablet, from the front desk or the car park.
Works on the TVs you have
Android TV, Raspberry Pi, or any Windows PC, Mac or Chromebook in a web browser.
Ready-made for hotels
Boards for the lobby, meeting rooms, dining and the spa. Change a room or a price without a designer.
AI and your own designs
Describe a Board and AI designs it, or lay out your own. No graphic designer needed.
Ad Space share: you keep 70% on Free, 80% on Starter, 87% on Professional and 92% on Enterprise, before card fees. Prices exclude VAT.
Why NowBoard
Made for the whole hotel. Run by the front desk.
A hotel has three other ways to put information on a screen. Here’s how they compare.
| Built for hotels |
Guest room TV systemsThe TV system in the bedrooms | Other screen appsMade for shops, offices and cafés | Easels, posters and printoutsWhat many hotels use today | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covers the public areas | ✓Lobby, rooms, dining, spaEvery screen guests walk past |
~Mainly the bedrooms | ✓If you build it yourself | ~Wherever an easel fits |
| Ready for a hotel on day one | ✓14 hotel BoardsWelcome, meeting rooms, menus, spa, directions |
~Varies | ✗You build hotel screens yourself | ~Whatever someone prints |
| Changed in seconds, by anyone on shift | ✓From a phoneFront desk, events team, kitchen, spa |
~Varies | ~Usually built on a computer | ✗Reprint and carry it over |
| Looks like your hotel | ✓Your logo and coloursOn every Board, on every TV |
~Their look, with your name | ✓If you design it | ~Printed sheets |
| Fire and emergency alerts on every screen | ✓Built inOne tap, every TV, on Professional |
~Varies | ~Varies by plan | ✗ |
| What it costs | ✓Free on one TVThen £10–£20 a TV a month. No contract |
~Priced per room, usually on a contract | ~Priced per screen, often in US dollars | ~Printing, and your staff’s time |
A general comparison of types of product. Check with each supplier for their latest features and prices. NowBoard prices exclude VAT.
What’s on the wall now
Your hotel is busy. Guests keep asking.
Where is my meeting? What time is breakfast? Is the spa open? The answers live on easels and printouts. Sound familiar?
The easel in the lobby
Printed this morning. By lunchtime the wedding has moved to the Garden Room.
Lost delegates
Conference guests wander the corridors looking for the Thames Suite.
The same questions
Breakfast times, Wi-Fi, check-out. The front desk answers them all day.
The lobby TV
It shows the news, or nothing. It could be selling afternoon tea.
Your TVs, each with a job
One screen per room. Each one says what that room needs.
Pick a Board, type in your details, and it’s on the TV. Every Board is ready to use, and you can change any of them.
Welcome, guests
- Welcome and events
- Weather and taxis
- Hotel directory
Sales conference
- Meeting rooms
- Conference day
- Room availability
Today’s specials
- Breakfast times
- Menus and specials
- Offers
Spa treatments
- Treatment menu
- Pool and gym hours
- Offers
The screens shown are examples. Bookings and events are typed in. NowBoard does not connect to hotel booking systems.
Scheduling
Plan the day once. The lobby TV follows it.
Choose when each Board shows, and the lobby TV changes through the day by itself. Tap a time to see it.
Changing through the day comes with Professional and Enterprise.
Update from anywhere
Wedding moved? Change it from your phone.
Today’s events
No laptop, no printer, no easel. The front desk, events team or kitchen change their own Boards from a phone. Try it: change the details and press Update the TV.
Made for your hotel
It looks like your hotel, not like ours.
- Your logo and coloursAdd them once and every Board on every TV uses them.
- Easy to read across the lobbyLarge type and strong contrast, read from the front door.
- Today’s weather, built inLocal weather for the hotel, updated on its own.
- For every guestEnglish, Welsh, French and Spanish.
Fire and emergency alerts
When it matters, every screen at once.
One tap puts the same message on every TV in the hotel. One more tap puts everything back as it was.
Ready-made alerts for a fire, a fire drill, an urgent notice, building work and a missing person, plus your own messages. They come with Professional and Enterprise.
For guests, delegates and visitors
Guests find their way. Delegates find their room.
Welcome, Acme sales team
Wed: Jazz in the bar
Sat: Wedding fair
Sun: Carvery lunch
Book at reception
Open until 21:00
For hotel groups
One login. Every hotel.
Wedding fair
The Riverside
Adds its own events and menus
Happy hour
The Old Mill
Adds its own events and menus
Spa day
Harbour House
Adds its own events and menus
Getting it on the TV
It works on the TVs you already have.
Any TV with an HDMI socket will do. Each TV needs an internet connection, over Wi-Fi or a cable.
The NowBoard app
Runs on compatible Android TVs and TV sticks, a Windows PC, or in a web browser.
Player Pro
A small box that plugs into the TV’s HDMI socket, starts itself and just plays. Optional.
We can fit it for you
Our installer comes to your hotel. UK only.
All prices exclude VAT. If we supply a TV, you pay what it costs us. Guest room TVs stay as they are.
Optional · Ad Space
Your screens can make you money.
Ad Space is off unless you turn it on. You choose which screens show adverts, and you approve every one.
Who might advertise? Businesses your guests will use: restaurants, tours and attractions, taxi firms, shops, local events. You decide what fits your hotel.
An example, not a promise of income: what you earn depends on what you sell. NowBoard takes a share of each advert (Starter 20%, Professional 13%, Enterprise 8%; 30% on Free). Card payment fees come off before you are paid. Prices exclude VAT.
Pricing
Pay per TV. Start free.
Pay monthly with no contract, or pay yearly and get 2 months free. Paid plans have as many Boards as you like and no NowBoard logo.
Free
- One TV
- Up to 5 Boards
- Hotel Boards
- Your logo and colours
- Shows the NowBoard logo
Starter
- As many TVs as you need
- As many Boards as you like
- Something different on each TV
- Every Board design and style
- Design your own Boards
Professional
- Everything in Starter
- Boards that change through the day
- Fire and emergency alerts
- Describe a Board and AI designs it
Enterprise
- Everything in Professional
- For hotel groups
- Help setting up every hotel
- A team who knows your group
- Lower prices for large groups
All prices exclude VAT. For example, 8 TVs: the lobby, four meeting rooms, the restaurant, the bar and the spa. Groups: add the number of hotels.
Next steps
Start with the lobby TV this week.
Let’s get your lobby TV going.
We can set it up with you on a call, or come and fit it.
- Start free
- app.nowboard.tv/register
- hello@nowboard.tv
- Website
- nowboard.tv