Turn any TV into an information board for your guests
The wifi and a QR code that joins them to it, the time, what's outside, when the cake is. Warm on the TV in the room, set up from your phone in a couple of minutes.
A board is what your TV shows. Widgets are what's on it.
Pick the ones that suit the evening, drag them where you like, send it to the TV. Change your mind from the sofa.
All 23 widgets
Under the same headings as the picker you build a board with. The ones marked Pro are part of Pro and the Event Pass.
The essentials
- Wifi and QR Network, password, a code to scan
- Clock Time and date, any city
- Weather Now, the next hours and the week ahead
- Countdown To a moment tonight or a date
- Text Notices, still, scrolling or taking turns
- Image A logo or poster
- QR code A code for any link
- Video A muted YouTube video or playlist
From your guests
- Messages Guests post from their phones
- PhotosPro A slideshow guests add to
- PollPro A question guests vote on from their phones
- Find your seatPro Every guest's table, and a code to find their own
Good to know
- House notes Check-out, trash night, parking
- Schedule The plan, with what's on now
- Menu Food and drinks, with dietary tags
- Welcome Your guest by name, and check-out
- CelebrationsPro Birthdays, work anniversaries and welcomes
- Numbers Big numbers, typed in or from a Google Sheet From a Google Sheet on Pro and the Event Pass
- Something to read A quote, on this day, or a kind word
- Local picks Your favorite places nearby
Feeds
- CalendarPro What's coming up, from your calendar
- HeadlinesPro News or blog posts from a feed
- SlidesPro A Google Slides deck or a Canva design
Set up from your phone, in the room, while people arrive.
Open plazascreen.com/tv on the TV, type the code into your phone, and the board is up. Wifi, hours, a look for the evening: each one is a single screen and a single tap.
- 1A code on the TV, typed into your phone
- 2The wifi, so nobody asks
- 3Hours, so the screen goes dark when the house does
Free for a home. $9 a month when you want more.
One board is free for as long as you like. Pro adds Photos, Poll, Find your seat, Celebrations, Calendar, Headlines, Slides and Numbers from a Google Sheet, a background picture, your own look and more screens. An Event Pass puts every premium widget and a background picture on one board for a night, with nothing to cancel — and it comes off the price of Pro if you decide to stay.
- One live board and a paired TV
- 16 widgets, like Wifi and QR, Weather, Countdown, Schedule, Menu and House notes
- Guest messages, with you waving them through
- Display hours and an event window
- Everything in Free
- 7 more widgets: Photos, Poll, Find your seat, Celebrations, Calendar, Headlines and Slides
- Numbers from a Google Sheet
- Up to 4 pages that take turns on one TV
- A background picture behind the board
- A rental board that follows your Airbnb or VRBO calendar, guest by guest
- 2 live boards and 3 seats, then $2 each a month
- Your own logo and color, and no "Powered by"
- Photos and messages kept 90 days instead of 7
- 2 GB for pictures, instead of 25 MB
- Every premium widget and everything Free has, for one board
- Up to 4 pages that take turns on one TV
- A background picture behind the board
- 7 days around your event, then it sleeps
- No subscription, nothing to cancel
- Photos and messages kept 30 days afterward
- Move to Pro within 30 days and the $6 comes off
Prices in US dollars, and tax is added where we have to. Paid plans are for customers in the United States at the moment — the free board works anywhere. Cancel Pro any time and it runs to the end of the month you paid for. Payments are handled by Stripe — we never see your card.
Questions people ask before they start
What do I need to put a board on my TV?
A TV that can open a web page, or any streaming stick or spare laptop that can. There is nothing to install: open the board's link, or pair the TV once with a short code and it comes back to the same board every time it wakes up.
Do my guests need to install anything?
No. The wifi widget shows a QR code their phone camera already reads, and it joins them to the network without anyone typing a password. Sending a message or a photo to the board is a link that opens in their browser.
Is the free plan really free?
Yes, and it stays free. You get 1 live board, 1 seat and 16 of the 23 widgets, with no card. Pro is $9 a month and adds 2 live boards, 3 seats, your own logo and color, a background picture, up to 4 pages that take turns on one board, and Photos, Poll, Find your seat, Celebrations, Calendar, Headlines, Slides and Numbers from a Google Sheet.
What is the Event Pass?
$6 once, for a single event, lasting 7 days, with every premium widget on the board. It is not a subscription and there is nothing to cancel. If you move to Pro within 30 days of buying one, the $6 comes off your first month — so starting with a pass never costs you extra.
Can it show my Google or Outlook calendar?
Yes, on Pro and the Event Pass. Paste the private link your calendar already gives you (Google Calendar's secret address, or a published Outlook or iCloud calendar) and the board shows what is coming up, with up to 3 calendars on one tile. There is no account to connect.
Can it follow my Airbnb bookings?
On Pro, yes. Paste your listing's calendar link once (Airbnb and VRBO both export one, and other booking sites and property managers often do too) and the wifi and the welcome come on before each check-in and go off after each check-out, with nobody touching it.
Does it work on a screen turned on its side?
Yes. Pick Portrait when you make a board and it starts with a layout built for a tall screen, read top to bottom. You can turn a board you already have too: its tiles are carried across and rearranged to fit, and nothing is deleted.
What happens to the guests' photos and messages afterward?
They stay for 7 days on the free plan, 30 days after an Event Pass and 90 days on Pro, then they are deleted. Until then, the board's After the party page downloads every photo in one go and prints the messages as a guestbook.
Is it safe to show the wifi password on a screen?
The board lives at an unguessable link that is never listed or indexed, you can put a viewer password on it, and you can set an event window so the wifi and anything else private comes off the screen by itself when the party ends.
Will leaving it on damage my TV?
The whole board drifts a fraction of a percent every few minutes so no pixel holds one color all evening, and you can set the hours it shows so it sleeps overnight. Both are on by default.
Can other people help me run a board?
Yes. Invite them by email and give them as much as you want: run everything, edit one board, or just look. Read-only viewers are free and never count toward your seats.