People looking at a screen may need today’s soup price or the room for their next class. These digital signage examples put that answer where they can see it, without a brand film getting in the way.
Keep the equipment bill in view too. Screenly says its players are sold separately. A subscription price alone does not buy the whole setup. The scenes below are illustrations, not Kinosign customer installations.
Put one offer beside the products
Start with an item you actually have, its price and where to find it. A shop window might say: “Ceramic mugs, €18. Made in Zagreb. Inside on the left.” This is sample copy. Replace it with your real stock and terms.
Avoid putting five unrelated discounts on the same screen. Decide which offer deserves the space today. Remove it when the stock or offer ends, rather than leaving yesterday’s promise visible.
Read the shop window screen guide before placing an ordinary indoor TV behind sunny glass. A readable design still needs suitable display hardware.
Keep the café menu visible while people order
Give the menu screen to the menu. Show item names and prices under clear category headings. Put a long story about the coffee farm somewhere customers can read after ordering.
Give coffee and pastries separate sections. Make a lunch version when service changes rather than shrinking both menus into one picture.
The menu-board templates provide editable starting points. If you already have a Canva menu, export a PDF or image and review the TV version separately. A print layout can have more small text than someone can read from a queue.
Show the next classes at gym reception
List the class with its start time and room. Add the date so a member can tell whether they are looking at today’s timetable.
Sample content could read: “Tuesday 17 November. 17:30 Pilates, Studio 1. 18:15 Strength, Studio 2.” Those times are an illustration. Keep bookings and current capacity in the system that actually holds them.
Show the next few classes at reception. Put the full week on a separate page or printed sheet.
Answer the first hotel arrival questions
Put breakfast time and location together. Include how to reach reception. If there is an event today, give it a place as well as a time.
A sample welcome might say: “Breakfast, 07:00 to 10:00, ground floor. Reception, dial 0 from your room phone.” Check both details against the property. A nicely drawn phone icon will not rescue a wrong extension.
Keep the room version separate from the public lobby version. Information suitable for a private guest room may not belong on a screen visible from the street. The hotel information channel guide covers the room-TV checks too.
Put office updates where people pause
Use the kitchen TV for information that fits the room: today’s lunch, a visitor reminder or a workshop with a clear signup route. Write notices that make sense with the sound off.
Give a notice a named owner and an end date in your working content list. For example: “First-aid refresher, Thursday at 14:00, meeting room 2. Ask Sam to join.” That is illustrative copy, not an event announcement.
Avoid confidential dashboards on a screen that cleaners, visitors or delivery drivers can see. A separate, approved notice image lets you review exactly what visitors will see.
Tell waiting-room visitors what happens next
An arrival instruction earns its place before a promotion. Tell visitors where to check in and whom to ask if they need help.
For a clinic, clinical wording needs the team’s approval. For a salon, explain the waiting arrangement and show service information with current prices. In both rooms, keep essential instructions visible long enough to read.
Use calm images you own or can license. Avoid a loop that depends on audio, flashes to attract attention or assumes everyone wants to watch the same entertainment. Visitors can read the instructions without the screen competing for attention.
Give holiday guests a short welcome
Show the guest Wi-Fi network, checkout time and a contact route that works. Use a general greeting, then link to a longer house guide if you have one.
Try the information with a phone that is not already connected to your network. Then try switching the TV input and returning to the welcome screen. Content and room controls need separate checks.
Reuse a design after checking it in the room
| Screen job | Keep on the screen | Put elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| Counter menu | Available items and prices | Full brand story |
| Shop offer | Product, price, location and terms | Whole catalogue |
| Gym schedule | Date, next classes and rooms | Member records |
| Hotel welcome | Breakfast, Wi-Fi and checkout details | Guest names and booking details |
| Office notice | Action, time and contact | Private internal data |
| Waiting room | Check-in instruction | Clinical records |
For text contrast, W3C’s web guidance uses the threshold:
at least 4.5:1
That reference applies to ordinary web text; it does not establish that a TV is readable across your room. Stand at the actual viewing spot, under normal lighting, and check the smallest line people need to read.
Kinosign makes a competing product, so weigh our view with that in mind. Its screen service is pre-launch. Screenly includes dayparting and flexible scheduling. Keep it if those controls and its players already suit you.
For menus, the free menu maker can read a PDF in your browser and redraw its checked items. Kinosign’s planned app adds uploads and time-of-day schedules.
Choose one of these jobs, open a matching template, and replace every sample detail with today’s information before putting it on the TV.
Sources
Vendor prices and plans were checked against each linked page in November 2026. They change often, so open the page before you buy.
