Functions and events
Hand them a night they will still be talking about on Monday.
Weddings, engagements, 40ths, the work Christmas party. A live photo wall on the screen your function room already has: guests scan the card on the table, take a photo, and it is on the big screen before they have sat back down - and the room turns around and looks. The host runs the music from their own phone and stops it cleanly for the speeches. Every photo is kept for them the morning after. Your staff do nothing on the 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 thing people say
Anyone can plug a phone in and play Spotify. True. That is the easy bit.
We hear it from venues, and we agree with it. The music was never the hard part of a function. Here is everything a phone in the aux cannot do - and it is the part the room remembers.
A phone in the aux
- Plays the host's playlist
- Puts nothing on the screens
- Has to stay plugged in, so the host cannot leave the room
- Gets a text mid-speech, or a call, or dies at 10:40
- Somebody runs to the aux to stop it for the toast, halfway through a chorus
- Nothing is kept the next day
- A personal account is not licensed for a venue - that is in Spotify's own terms
eJukebox on the night
- Plays the host's music too - from their own phone, with nothing plugged into anything
- Guests' photos on the big screen seconds after they take them, your logo on every one
- Stops for the speeches at the end of a song, from anywhere in the room
- Voice dedications between the songs
- A slideshow running before the first guest arrives
- Every photo and dedication on a private page the morning after
- Licensed for the venue, every night
- Your staff touch nothing
The phone in the aux is the music. This is the night.
How hard is it, honestly
Nobody downloads anything. Nobody is trained. Your staff touch nothing on the night.
Three people are involved in a function. Here is the whole of what each one does.
Taps a link
They get a link the day before and tap it. That is their remote for the night - skip, cue the next one, stop for the speeches - on the phone already in their pocket. It stops working when the night ends.
Scan the card on the table
Take a photo. It is on the wall in about three seconds. No app, no sign-up, no account. Somebody's aunt will do it first to see what happens, and from then on it does not stop.
Nothing
The welcome slide goes up on its own. The slideshow starts itself before the doors open. The wall runs itself all night. If anything ever needs a person, a manager deals with it from their own phone, from the other side of the room.
Setting it up for a booking is one short conversation with us the week before: their names for the welcome slide, and the photos for the arrivals slideshow. Done.
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.
A wedding reception runs the same way
Swap the engagement slide for their names and the date and the shape of the night does not change - the arrival slideshow while people find their seats, the wall open through dinner, the music stopping cleanly for the speeches, and every photo still sitting there on the Sunday. Weddings, 21sts, christenings, the work Christmas party: same room, same screen, same run sheet.
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.
It costs your staff nothing on the night, and it earns you the next four bookings in the room.
- Costs your staff nothing on the night. No laptop on a chair, no cable across a walkway, nobody standing at the aux.
- A reason to book you that a discount cannot match. Four rooms, same carpet, same bain-marie. One of them puts their friends on the big screen.
- A room full of the next bookings. Everyone at a 40th has a wedding, a 21st or a Christmas party of their own coming up, and they are watching it work.
- Your logo on every photo they post. The night gets shared around for a fortnight with your name in the corner of it.
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.
- And the morning after, it is theirs to keep. The host gets a private page with every photo and voice dedication from the night, the morning after. Theirs to send round; your logo on every frame.
The song controls come with the eJukebox music system - and so do the screens. One box, one app, the music and every TV in the room. 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 eJukebox box, 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.
- Every photo is checked 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.