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NowBoard for pubs and bars
Between the matches, the screen is yours.
Your food menu, what’s on this week and drinks offers on the TVs you already have. Changed from your phone in seconds.
- Ready-made pub screens, called Boards, with your pub’s name and colours
- Local businesses can pay to advertise on it
- Free forever on one TV. From £10 a TV a month after that
What’s on this week
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, even behind the bar.
Works on the TVs you have
Android TV, Raspberry Pi, or any Windows PC, Mac or Chromebook in a web browser.
Ready-made for pubs
Boards for menus, specials, offers and what’s on. Change a price or an event 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 pubs. Run from behind the bar.
A pub has three other ways to put its news on a screen. Here’s how they compare.
| Built for pubs and bars |
Screens from the breweryPosters and promo screens they supply | Other screen appsMade for any kind of business | The chalkboard and FacebookWhat most pubs use today | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shows your pub, not a brand | ✓Your menu, your eventsYour name and colours on every TV |
✗Shows the brewery’s promotions | ✓If you build it yourself | ✓Your own words |
| Keeps the match on | ✓Runs on another input or TVSport stays on; ours runs between games |
~Varies | ~Varies | ✓Nothing to switch |
| Change a price in seconds | ✓From a phoneThe landlord, the manager, the kitchen |
✗Not yours to change | ~Usually on a computer | ~Chalk, if someone has time |
| Right every time | ✓One change, every TVMenu, offers and events in one place |
~Varies | ✓If kept up to date | ✗Often out of date |
| Makes you money | ✓Ad SpaceLocal businesses pay to advertise; you keep most |
✗ | ~Varies | ✗ |
| What it costs | ✓Free on one TVThen £10–£20 a TV a month. No contract |
~Free, but it’s their screen | ~Priced per screen, often in US dollars | ~Chalk, and your 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
Plenty going on. The chalkboard can’t keep up.
The roast price, the quiz, the band on Saturday. It ends up on a chalkboard, a poster and a Facebook post. Sound familiar?
The chalkboard
Who wrote this week’s, and is the pie still on? Half of it is out of date by Thursday.
The TV between games
It shows adverts for someone else’s channel, or nothing at all.
The brewery posters
They sell the brewery’s drinks. Your food and events don’t get a look in.
The landlord
Menus, posters and posts take evenings you would rather spend running the bar.
Your TVs, each with a job
One screen per room. Each one sells something.
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.
Happy hour
- Drinks offers
- What’s on tonight
- Local adverts
Food menu
- Food menu
- Specials
- Sunday roast
Your party here
- Room hire
- Christmas menu
- Private events
Quiz Tuesday
- What’s on this week
- Opening times
- Events
The screens shown are examples. Sport and events are typed in by the pub; NowBoard does not pull in fixtures or connect to your till.
Scheduling
Lunch to last orders. The TV follows the day.
Choose when each Board shows, and the bar 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
Roast sold out? Change it from your phone.
Sunday roast
No chalk, no posters, no laptop. The landlord, the manager or the kitchen can change the Boards from a phone, a tablet or a computer. Try it: change the details and press Update the TV.
Made for your pub
It looks like your pub, not like ours.
- Your name and coloursAdd them once and every Board on every TV uses them.
- Easy to read across the barLarge type and strong contrast, so people can read it from their table.
- One thing at a timeThe special, the offer or the event. Not all three squeezed on one screen.
- Four languagesEnglish, Welsh, French and Spanish on every plan.
Takeover and emergency alerts
One message, every screen at once.
One tap puts the same message on every TV in the pub. One more tap puts everything back as it was.
Emergency and takeover alerts come with Professional and Enterprise. Ready-made alerts include a fire, a drill and an urgent notice, plus your own messages.
For regulars and new faces
Regulars know what’s on. New faces come back.
This week at the pub
Mon to Thu 12 – 11
Fri and Sat 12 – late
Ask at the bar
or scan the QR code
For pub groups
One login. Every pub.
Quiz night
The Red Lion
Adds its own events
Sunday roast
The Crown
Adds its own events
Live music
The Plough
Adds its own events
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 pub. UK only.
All prices exclude VAT. If we supply a TV, you pay what it costs us. To keep sport on the same TV, NowBoard needs a spare HDMI socket to switch to.
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 regulars use: a taxi firm, a takeaway, a gym, a barber, a local event. You decide what fits your pub.
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
- Menu, offers and events 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 pub groups
- Help setting up every pub
- A team who knows your group
- Lower prices for large groups
All prices exclude VAT. For example, 2 TVs: the bar and the dining room. Groups: add the number of pubs.
Next steps
Start with the dining room TV this week.
Let’s get your pub on screen.
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