Functions and events
Hand them a night they will still be talking about on Monday.
Engagements, 40ths, the work Christmas party. Guests scan the QR code on the table, take a photo, and it is on the big screen before they have sat back down. The room turns around and looks. That is the moment - and it happens again every few minutes, all night.
Someone choosing where to hold their 30th is looking at four rooms that all look much the same. One of them puts their friends up on the big screen. That is why this is a revenue argument and not a nice feature.
It runs on the screen the room already has. Nothing to hire, nothing to wheel in, nothing to set up on the night.
Illustrative - the photos on this site are AI generated, not photographs of real customers.
The run sheet
How a function actually runs.
One screen, one evening, nobody standing over it. This is a Saturday night engagement party in a function room, start to finish.
Before anyone arrives
Their names are already on the screen, next to your logo. The room is set, the bar is stocked, and the first thing the family sees when they walk in is that somebody thought about them.
Arrivals - the slideshow
The photos they sent through run as a slideshow while people find the bar and work out where they are sitting. Same screen. No laptop on a chair, no cable dangling off the end of the bar.
The wall opens
QR cards on the tables. Somebody's aunt scans one to see what happens, and about three seconds later she is on the big screen. From then on it does not stop.
Host mode
Whoever is running the night has the controls on their own phone. Skip straight to the song her dad asked for, at the moment he asks for it, without going looking for a staff member first.
Speeches
The music stops cleanly at the end of a song, so the toast lands in a quiet room instead of over the top of a fade somebody pulled down halfway through a chorus.
Last drinks
Typed at the bar in about eight seconds, designed by the time the phone is back in a pocket, up for half an hour, then gone on its own. Nobody has to remember to take it down.
The night is still there
Every photo that went up is kept, in both shapes, with your logo on it. The room is already being reset for a christening and the whole night is still sitting there.
Give people that experience and they book again - and they tell their friends.
In hospitality it is the little things that turn a one-off booking into a regular. This is one of the little things, and it happens over and over across a night, in front of a room full of people who all have something of their own coming up.
For the owner
Why this wins you the booking.
Four rooms, same carpet, same package, same bain-marie. The one that puts their friends up on the big screen is the one they remember, and the one they tell people about.
The host feels in control, because they have the controls. The guests get something they have not seen at the last four places they went. And the person who booked it spends the next fortnight showing people photos with your logo in the corner of them.
It makes you an easy yes. Not a discount and not a bigger platter - a reason to pick your room that the place down the road cannot match by dropping their price.
Worth knowing
+48.2%
More in sales at venues playing music, compared with venues without it.
OneMusic Hospitality - Presto Report
That figure is about the music, not the screen - we quote it because a function room is doing both jobs on the same night. Everything else on this page is a description of what the software does, not a claim about your takings.
Host mode
Give the host the keys, just for the night.
The person actually running the evening - the events coordinator, the best mate with the speeches, the brother who has appointed himself DJ - gets their own admin access for that night. Not your manager's login, and not a staff member trailing them around the room all evening.
- Skip straight to the right song. The one her dad asked for, when he asks for it, without anyone having to go and find somebody behind the bar.
- Cue what is coming next. Line the first dance up while the speeches are still going, so there is no gap and nobody is scrolling a phone in front of a hundred people.
- Stop the music cleanly. At the end of a song, not halfway through one. The toast lands in a quiet room instead of over an awkward fade.
- Theirs for the night, not forever. The access is handed over for the evening. The host feels in control, and your system stays yours.
The song controls come with the eJukebox music system - the screen and the music are separate things that work as one. The music side lives at ejukebox.com.au.
An illustration of the host's phone, not a screenshot.
Illustrative - AI generated, not photographs of real customers.
Before the doors open
The slideshow that runs before anyone walks in.
Upload the guest-of-honour photos the week before - the baby ones, the Bali ones, the ones the mother of the bride insisted on - and the screen runs them as people arrive and find the bar. When the room is full it hands over to the live wall and the night takes it from there.
Same screen, same player, nothing plugged in on the night. No laptop on a chair, no cable across a walkway, nobody's screensaver appearing at ten past eight.
Branded both ways
Branded for them, and for you.
Their names on the welcome slide. Your logo on every photo that goes up. And because each photo is kept in more than one shape, the widescreen TV on the wall and the portrait screen by the door each get the version that fills them properly - no stretched faces, no postage stamp between two black bars.
One photo, three crops. Illustrative - AI generated, not a photograph of real customers.
Every guest who posts is posting your room
The photos come back as Instagram-ready crops with your logo already sitting on them. A room full of people at a 40th, a good share of them posting something from the night, and the name of your venue rides along on every one of those posts. That is advertising that walks itself home.
The honest bit
A public screen at a party, with a bar tab.
It is the first question every functions coordinator asks, and it should be. Here is the straight answer, with nothing dressed up.
Every photo goes through this before it can reach the wall. The photos shown here are illustrative - AI generated, not photographs of real customers.
- AI screens every photo before it can reach the wall. Nudity, offensive gestures, anything tasteless. Held back, not displayed - it never gets as far as the screen for somebody to have to take it down in front of a room.
- You still have the final say. The manager app approves or hides photos one at a time, or clears a batch in bulk when a table gets carried away.
- Anything can come down on the spot. A guest who changes their mind tells a staff member and it is off the wall in a tap - one photo, or a whole table's worth in bulk.
- Push notifications when it needs a person. A glance at the phone, one tap, and it is dealt with from the other side of the room.
- You can stop the whole show from anywhere. Start it, stop it or change what is on it from a phone, from the car park.
- The TV itself is locked. Press Escape at the screen and you get a PIN pad - not a desktop, not a file manager, not somebody's browser tabs.
Roll the tape
A function, from the welcome slide to last drinks.
A photo wall is hard to describe and obvious to watch. We are putting a film together of a full night - the wall filling up, the room noticing, the music stopping cleanly under the speeches - so you can see the whole thing run end to end.
A full night, end to end - the wall filling up, a slide going up from the bar, the room noticing.
--:--You do not have to wait for the film. We will run a live screen with your logo on it and you can watch the whole thing happen in about fifteen minutes.
See it on your screen
Got a big one booked? Let's have it running before then.
Tell us the date and what the room looks like. If it is far enough out we can have the screen set up, branded and tested well before anyone walks in - so you can put it in front of the next enquiry as a reason to book you.
A person reads every enquiry - normally back the same day.