Two paths, both real
How it works
There are two ways to end up with a working board. One of them takes an afternoon of your time and costs more up front. The other takes a weekend of your time and costs less. Neither is a trap.
Two ways to buy this
Done for you, or do it yourself
Path one
Do it for me
Send us a photo of your current menu — a printout, a PDF, a napkin. We build the board, set up the breakfast/lunch switch with you, drive over, hang the screens and turn it on. You get a working board and a phone number, not a login and a tutorial.
- We lay out every item and price for you
- We set the day and time rules so the board changes itself
- A player per screen, pre-flashed, in the box ready to go
- On-site install anywhere in Monroe County
- You still change anything you like, from your phone, any time
$1,127 year one · $480/yr after
Pro, 2 screens. Both numbers, up front, before you ask.
Path two
I’ll do it myself
Pick a template, type your items in, and run it on a screen and a stick you already own. Same renderer, same offline behaviour, same time-of-day switching. You just do the hanging and the typing.
- Start from a template built for your kind of business
- Type your own items and prices, change them whenever
- Set your own day and time rules
- Runs on hardware you already have
- Email support if you get stuck
$589 year one · $240/yr after
Starter, 2 screens. You install it yourself and mount your own screens.
Path one, in detail
What happens when we do it for you
Start to finish this is usually about a week, and most of that is us waiting on nothing — the build itself is two business days.
- 01
Send us your menu
Photograph what is on your wall, or email a PDF, or hand us a printout. It does not need to be typed and it does not need to be tidy.
- 02
We build the board
Every item, price and section laid out and sized to be read from across the room. You see it and tell us what is wrong before anything ships.
- 03
We install it
We bring a player per screen, already flashed and set to boot to your board. We hang the screens, run the power, and sit down with you to set the day and time rules.
- 04
You take it from there
Change a price at the counter from your phone. Sold out of the special? Take it off and the board is right in seconds.
Board build
2 business days
From the day we have your menu.
What it costs
$349 + $149/screen
Design once per account, deploy per screen, both in year one only.
Where we install
Monroe County, New York
Outside it, Starter is the honest answer.
Path two, in detail
What happens when you do it yourself
Same renderer, same offline behaviour, same time-of-day switching. The difference is who does the typing and who climbs the ladder.
- 01
Pick a template
Start from a board built for your kind of business rather than a blank canvas. Nine of them, by trade.
- 02
Type your items in
Names, prices, descriptions. The board sizes the type for you — you are not fighting a layout tool.
- 03
Set your own rules
Breakfast until eleven, a different list on Tuesdays, a class schedule that changes at four. Same engine we would use.
- 04
Put it on your own screen
Point a device you already own at your board URL and mount it. No player to buy from us and no visit to schedule.
Under the hood, in plain words
The two things that make it different from a TV with a slideshow on it
Your board lives on the device
A small computer sits behind the screen holding a full copy of your menu and your schedule. It draws the board itself rather than streaming a picture of one from somewhere else. That is why it survives an outage, and it is also why it is crisp — you are looking at text, not a compressed video of text.
When you change something, the change is pushed to the device and it redraws. If the network is down when you make the change, it lands the moment the network is back.
The schedule is on the device too
Items and whole sections carry their own day-and-time rules, and the device reads its own clock. Breakfast comes off at eleven whether or not anything can reach the internet. Nobody has to be there and nobody has to remember.
If a board has more items than fit one screenful, it pages through them on a timer you set rather than shrinking the type until nobody can read it.
Straight answers
The questions people actually ask
Is there a free trial?
Yes — thirty days, and we set it up for you. It is not a signup form: send us your menu, we build your actual board and stand it up on your screen, and the thirty days start from the day it is working. A card is required to start the trial. If it is not right at the end of it, you have lost nothing and neither have we — and if it is, you keep the board you have already been running.
What happens if my internet goes out?
Nothing. The board holds its own copy of the menu on the device behind the screen, and it holds the schedule too — so it keeps rendering, and it still switches from breakfast to lunch at eleven. If the power goes out it comes back on its own to the right menu for that hour. What you lose while the internet is down is the ability to push a change from your phone; the change lands as soon as you are back.
What does it cost, all in?
Pro at two screens is $1,127 in year one and $480 a year after that. Year one is bigger because it carries the things you only buy once: $349 to design your board (once per account, not per screen) and $149 a screen to deploy it, which includes the player. Starter, where you install it yourself, is $589 in year one and $240 after.
Can I just do it myself?
Yes, and we publish that path rather than hiding it. Starter gives you the templates, the editor and the same offline behaviour, and you mount your own screens on hardware you already own. You skip the deploy fee entirely. You do the hanging and the typing.
Do I have to buy hardware from you?
On Pro and Signature the player is included in the deploy fee — one per screen, pre-flashed and set to boot straight to your board. If you already have a device you would rather use, Starter is the tier for that and there is nothing to buy.
Am I locked in?
There is no contract. The licence is annual and it simply ends if you do not renew. To be exact about what that means: every screen on your plan stays current, and a screen beyond your plan stops receiving updates — it does not get switched off from here.
What if I am not in Monroe County, New York?
Then we cannot install it, and we are not going to pretend the drive is free. Starter is the honest tier outside Monroe County — you get the board designed and the software, and you put the screen up. If you are just over the line, email hello@resteasyboards.com and ask; sometimes the answer is yes.
Send us your menu and we will show you your own board
Then run it for thirty days. We do the building and the install; the trial starts the day it is working.