A TV mounted in your lobby or sales counter pulling live content from SalesThumb makes the shop feel modern AND does real work. Here's the setup.
What you can put on screen
SalesThumb's signage is a playlist of slides — you pick which slide types to include and in what order, rather than choosing one fixed "surface." Slide types available today:
- Image — PNG/JPG upload or URL
- Video — MP4 URL, autoplays muted
- Web page — embed any URL, fullscreen
- Promo card — headline + price
- Reviews feed — your featured reviews, auto-rotating (the closest thing to a "shoutout wall")
- Jobs queue — a now-serving / up-next board
- Weather — current temp
- Booking QR — a scan-to-book code
- Before / after — recent job photos (your gallery/photo-wall slide)
- Warranty trust — a live count of active warranties
- Upsell bar — three services you want to push
There's no dedicated "daily revenue dashboard" or "tip leaderboard" slide today — if you want a shop-floor revenue motivator, that's not something signage can show yet.
Hardware
- TV: any display with a web browser works. 43-55" is the sweet spot for lobbies.
- Player: a Fire TV Stick, Roku, Raspberry Pi, or mini-PC running a browser all work — anything that can open a URL and stay on it.
- Network: WiFi works; Ethernet better if your shop has it.
Step 1 — Register the display
Settings → Lobby & Sales TVs → Add display. Give it a name ("Lobby TV" or "Bay 2 Monitor") and pick a type — Lobby (auto-rotating waiting-room display) or Sales (sales-counter screen, which can also mirror a rep's tablet). This issues a fresh 6-digit pair code.
Step 2 — Pair the TV
On the TV's browser, open /signage/pair on your SalesThumb domain and type in the 6-digit code from Step 1 using the on-screen keypad. The TV redirects to its player page and stays there — no login required, and no session to expire. The player URL itself is the display's identity, so a WiFi drop or a TV reboot just means it reloads the same page and picks back up; you never have to re-enter the pair code unless you're setting up a new TV.
Step 3 — Build a playlist and assign it
Still in Settings → Lobby & Sales TVs, create a playlist, add slides from the list above in the order you want, and set how long each stays on screen (a playlist-wide default, overridable per slide). Then assign that playlist to the display you registered in Step 1. If you're on SalesThumb HQ, an org-level playlist can be pushed across every location's displays; each shop opts a given display into it.
Common patterns
- Lobby TV: jobs queue + before/after photos + reviews feed on rotation. Customer sees their job move along AND sees great work.
- Sales counter: promo cards + upsell bar, with the option to cast a sales rep's tablet to the big screen during a pitch.
- Waiting area: weather + booking QR + reviews feed — low-effort, useful, non-distracting.
Don't do this
- Don't put full customer names on a lobby-facing jobs-queue slide if you'd rather anonymize (there's no built-in name-masking toggle — keep the underlying job labels generic if that matters to you).
- Don't put a Warranty Trust or Upsell Bar slide where customers will read it as a hard sell — better suited to sales-counter displays than the lobby.