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NowBoard for restaurants and cafés
The menu board that is never out of date.
Menus, specials, offers and opening times on the TVs you already have. Change a price from your phone in seconds.
- Ready-made menu screens, called Boards, in your colours
- Change a price once and every TV follows
- Free forever on one TV. From £10 a TV a month after that
Today’s specials
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 mid-service.
Works on the TVs you have
Android TV, Raspberry Pi, or any Windows PC, Mac or Chromebook in a web browser.
Ready-made for food
Boards for menus, specials, offers and opening times. Change 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 menus. Changed in seconds.
A café or restaurant has three other ways to put a menu on a screen. Here’s how they compare.
| Built for menus and specials |
Screens from your till supplierMenu screens sold with the till | Other screen appsMade for any kind of business | A USB stick or a PowerPoint loopWhat many venues use today | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ready for a café on day one | ✓Menu and specials BoardsMenus, offers, opening times, reviews |
✓Built for menus | ~Generic templates to adapt | ✗You design every slide |
| Works with the till you already have | ✓Works on its ownKeep your till as it is |
✗Only with their own till | ✓Works on its own | ✓Works on its own |
| Change a price in seconds | ✓From a phoneThe owner, the manager, the kitchen |
~Varies | ~Usually on a computer | ✗Edit, save, copy to the stick, plug in |
| Looks like your place | ✓Your logo and coloursOn every Board, on every TV |
~Their look, with your menu | ✓If you design it | ~Depends who made it |
| 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 |
~Part of your till contract | ~Priced per screen, often in US dollars | ~Your time, every price change |
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
Prices change. The menu on the wall doesn’t.
Milk goes up, the soup changes, the offer ends. The board behind the counter still says last month. Sound familiar?
The printed menu
A price goes up 10p. Now every menu, sign and sticker needs redoing.
The TV on the wall
It plays a slideshow someone made last year. Nobody knows how to change it.
The specials board
Chalk runs out, handwriting varies, and it says “soup” after the soup has gone.
The owner
Evenings spent on menus and posters are evenings not spent on the business.
Your TVs, each with a job
One screen per spot. 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.
Hot drinks
- Full menu
- Hot and cold drinks
- Allergy note
Today’s specials
- Daily specials
- Meal deals
- Events
Open now
- Opening times
- Offers
- Sunday lunch
Enjoyed it?
- Reviews QR code
- Loyalty
- What’s on
The screens shown are examples. Prices are typed in on the Board; NowBoard does not connect to your till.
Scheduling
Breakfast, lunch, dinner. The menu changes itself.
Choose when each Board shows, and the counter 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
Soup sold out? Change it from your phone.
Today’s specials
No laptop, no designer, no USB stick. The owner, 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 place
It looks like your café, not like ours.
- Your logo and coloursAdd them once and every Board on every TV uses them.
- Easy to read from the queueLarge type and strong contrast, so people choose before they reach the till.
- One thing at a timeA special, an offer or the menu. 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 venue. 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 customers
Customers see what’s good. And come back for it.
This week at the café
Mon to Sat 7:30 – 16:00
Sun 9:00 – 15:00
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For café and restaurant groups
One login. Every venue.
Flat white
High Street
Adds its own specials
Meal deal
Station
Adds its own specials
Sunday roast
Riverside
Adds its own specials
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 venue. UK only.
All prices exclude VAT. If we supply a TV, you pay what it costs us.
Optional · Ad Space
Your screen 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 near you that want your customers: a gym, a hairdresser, a taxi firm, a local event. You decide what fits your place.
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 and specials 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 café and restaurant groups
- Help setting up every venue
- A team who knows your group
- Lower prices for large groups
All prices exclude VAT. For example, 2 TVs: behind the counter and on the wall. Groups: add the number of venues.
Next steps
Start with the counter TV this week.
Let’s get your menu 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