Shop signage — TV displays and lobby boards

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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.

TV displays are part of the Growth plan and up.

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
Price board — one of your posted price boards from Settings → Pricing Screens. Pick which board, or leave it on the first one. Prices come from your services, so they update on the TV automatically.
Daily specials — the special running right now, with its end date (and a countdown on its last day). It's skipped when no special is running, so the TV never shows a blank slide.

Price boards and specials are built in Settings → Pricing Screens — see Posting your prices on the lobby TV and a price page.

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), then click Create + pair a TV.

Step 2 — Pair the TV

On the TV's browser, open /signage/pair on your SalesThumb domain. The TV shows an 8-character code. Type that code into the Pair a TV box in Settings (it opens right after Step 1, or click the link icon next to any display later) and click Pair. Within a few seconds the TV switches to its player page and stays there — no login on the TV, 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 only pair again when you set up a new TV. Codes last 10 minutes, and the TV shows a new one on its own if nobody enters it in time.

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 (in the playlist, Add slide adds the kind you pick to the end), 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. A Price board slide in an HQ playlist with no board picked shows each location its own first board, with its own prices.

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.
Posted prices: a price board plus a daily specials slide, so customers see your prices and today's deal while they wait.

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.

Frequently asked questions

Q: Which plan do I need for TV displays?

A: Lobby and sales TVs are part of the Growth plan and up.

Q: Can I show my prices on the lobby TV?

A: Yes. Build a board in Settings → Pricing Screens, then add a Price board slide to your playlist and pick that board. Prices come from your services, so the TV updates when you change a price.

Q: Why does my Daily specials slide never appear?

A: It only shows while a special is running and has Show on lobby TV turned on. When nothing is running, the slide is skipped.

Q: Do I need to re-pair the TV after a WiFi drop or reboot?

A: No. The TV reloads the same player page and picks back up. You only pair again when you set up a new TV.