Which wall screens can I show?

The twelve wall-screen types by the job they do — for your team, for people waiting, your menu, screens that bring people in, and event nights.

Part of How do I set up wall screens?. This part covers the screens you can show: screens for your team, for people waiting, showing your menu, bringing people in, and for event nights.

The screens you can show

There are twelve wall-screen types, grouped below by the job they do, plus the Orders (kitchen and bar) card, which sits beside the staff board under For your team and opens your Orders screen in its Wall layout (see How do I run the Orders screen?). Each one is its own choice — a device shows one screen at a time, or a display link can show several of the selling screens in turn.

Screens for your team

• Staff board — the live service board for your team: Arriving soon and Seated columns (plus Waiting when your plan includes the waitlist) with full names, deposits, and allergy, dietary and occasion notes. A Needs you strip across the top names who needs what right now — a table that's ready, a late arrival, a table over its time — beside tonight's events and their check-in counts; along the foot, covers today, tables occupied and the next hour's arrivals in four small bars. A Live mark turns amber Not updating if the connection drops. For a screen only staff can see. Runs signed in — there's no display link for it.
• Orders (kitchen and bar) — not a separate screen type any more: it is your Orders screen in its Wall layout — the three columns Come in, Being made and Ready as a no-touch TV screen that turns its own pages, with the venue's header and clock. Open on this device on the Wall screens page sets this device to the Wall layout and opens Orders; the screen's own footer picker This screen is moves it between Counter, Pass and Wall and between Everything, Kitchen and Bar. Everything about how it behaves — ticking items off, grouping, how a full column turns its pages, its background — lives in the Screens section of Settings → Order & Pay (the gear on the Counter and Pass layouts opens it). It runs signed in (there is no display link for it) and, unlike the Counter and Pass layouts, it never signs itself out — it cannot act, so there is nothing a stale session could do. Full detail in How do I run the Orders screen?. Needs Order & Pay.

Screens for people waiting

• Guest board — the same board made safe for a room: who's arriving and who's waiting, with no seated tables, alerts, stats or check-in counts. A party still waiting is a number and a party size, never a name; a first name and initial appear only when their table is ready, called across the top. When nobody's expected for a while it welcomes the room instead, with a code to book.
• Guest waitlist screen — a queue screen for waiting guests: positions, party sizes and estimated waits, with no names shown until a table is ready, and the Walk-in wait right now. Needs the Complete waitlist, switched on.
• Self-service kiosk — a touch screen where guests join the waitlist themselves, one guest at a time. Needs the Complete waitlist, switched on.

While the waitlist is switched off (Turn on the waitlist, Settings → Bookings → How people book), every wall screen leaves it out: the staff board has no Waitlist column and no waiting figure, the guest board shows no waiting parties and no invitation to join, a Guest waitlist screen shows the guest board instead, the Self-service kiosk shows its plain welcome, and the Book with us screen drops the walk-in wait. The Guest waitlist screen and Self-service kiosk cards leave the Wall screens page, the new display link choices and the TV's Who is this screen for? too (on a plan without the waitlist they're never offered). Switch it back on and they all return.

Screens showing your menu

• Menu board — your menu on the wall: sections, dishes and prices, always in step with what you've set up in Menu. The sections flow down three columns and, when there's more than fits, turn whole pages together ("Page 1 of 2"); a section that carries over is headed "Mains, continued", and a section with nothing in it stays off the board. Dishes with dietary ticks show small V, VG, GF or DF marks beside their names; a section with serving times shows them beside its name, on the same clock as the board's own time ("Served Mon–Fri 12:00–15:00", or "12:00pm–3:00pm" on the 12-hour clock); allergen details stay on the guest's phone and your printed information, never on the wall. A dish you've marked sold out stays on the board, crossed out with a "Sold out" mark ("not tonight" rather than "we stopped doing it"); a dish you've hidden from your menu doesn't appear at all. A dish that's one of today's specials is marked in place, with its old price struck through beside today's. A dish you've marked as new carries a "New" tag for its four weeks, a dish set to "Market price" or "Ask the team" shows those words in the price's place, and if your menu shows whole pounds ("£12" — Settings → Menu and stock → How your menu looks), so does the board. When you have an event on today, an event banner (name and time — never check-in counts) shows here too. Needs menus (Pro and above, or the Order & Pay or Your website product).
• Today's specials — just the dishes you've switched Today's special on for, a card a dish, big enough to read across a room, with today's price, the old price struck through beside it, and your one-line note. Dishes appear under their own section name, and the screen clears itself when the last special of the day ends — nobody has to go and switch anything off. When nothing is on special it says so plainly — or, with When there are no specials, show the menu board switched on, it shows your menu board until there are specials again. See How do I run specials, sold-out dishes and stock counts? for how to put a dish on special. Needs menus (Pro and above, or the Order & Pay or Your website product).

Screens that bring people in

• Book with us screen — an invitation screen for passing guests: your branding, a short message and a QR code they scan to book a table from their phone, with today's opening hours — and, once you've closed, when you open next ("We're closed just now — open again tomorrow, Friday, from 12:00"). A venue with the waitlist can also show the walk-in wait right now — how long a new party of 2 would wait. Today's events show as a banner here as well. It can also list the next three times a table for 2 is free today ("Free tonight for 2:" and the times) — switch on tonight's next free times in the screen's settings (off by default). The times come from the same checks your booking page runs — your hours, blackout dates, tables and the bookings already made — so a time on the screen is one a guest can book, and when nothing is free the line simply isn't shown.
• What's on screen — your upcoming events and any live offers, rolling one after another, for a window or a waiting area. Events show the date, time, what it costs from, and a sold-out mark when there are no tickets left; your own What's-on listings show their repeat wording ("Every Thursday") instead of one date. An event that's nearly sold out says so ("Only 4 left", from 5 left down). Offers show what they're worth ("20% off", "A free glass of fizz") and the day they run until, and one that's only for loyalty members says so rather than dangling something a passer-by can't have. It shows the events in the next month unless you change how far ahead it looks (2 weeks to 3 months), and an offer whose giveaway has already run out never appears — the screen never advertises something your team would then have to refuse. Promo codes are deliberately not shown. Different from the event door screen, which is one event at the door on the night. Needs events or offers — either one on its own is enough.
• Gift cards screen — a screen that sells gift cards: your own gift card drawn big (your card design's colours and picture), a short message you can write yourself, what a card costs (your own suggested amounts, or your range), how long one stays valid, any bonus or discount you're running, and a QR code guests scan to buy on their phone. If you're not selling gift cards online it says "Ask a member of the team to buy one." instead of showing a code that leads nowhere. Needs gift cards and wall screens — Pro and above (the Gift cards product brings no wall screens of its own).
• Your adverts — adverts you make yourself: a poster you've designed, a photo and a few words, or words on your own colour, each with a QR code to your booking page, menu, an event, gift cards, your loyalty scheme, your page, or the social and review links you've saved in Settings. One advert at a time, each with its own days and times. Every venue with wall screens has it, with no extra charge — up to 10 adverts on Pro and 20 on Complete. Full detail in Your adverts on your wall screens.
• Ad loop — moving adverts made for you from your own details (your logo, colours, dishes, next event, offers, booking page and loyalty card), each scene only when you have it and always up to date; you choose the scenes, their order and length. Included on Pro and Complete (the plans with wall screens), where Make my ads also records it as videos for Reels, Stories and feed posts — the full film and a 20-second highlights cut. Full detail in The Ad loop.
• Loyalty sign-up screen — an invitation screen with a QR code guests scan to join from their own phone, plus your scheme's own earning line. Typing details on the screen is off unless you switch it on; with it on, guests can enter a name and email at the screen itself on its own keyboard (with @gmail.com-style shortcuts), and it clears after each person so nobody sees the last guest's details. If your scheme is paused the screen says to ask a member of the team rather than inviting people into something that isn't running. Needs loyalty and wall screens — Pro and above (the Loyalty product brings no wall screens of its own).

Screens for event nights

• Event door screen — for event nights: the event name, when it starts and ends, and check-in numbers right at the door, with a reminder to have tickets ready to scan — never guest names. Needs events (Pro and above, or the paid Events product).

Related: How do I set up wall screens? · How do I put a wall screen up on a TV? · Your adverts on your wall screens · The Ad loop · How do I run the Orders screen?