From chalkboard chaos to the digital branch — with existing screens too

It is Monday, 6:30 am. You are standing in your café in Schwabing, coffee in one hand, the list of today’s specials in the other. You wipe the chalkboard behind the counter clean and write it all out again. Then you drive to Haidhausen. Same routine. Then to Bogenhausen. An hour later you have updated three boards — and one of them still shows Sunday’s offer, because you forgot to cross out the croissant.

Sound familiar? Then you are not alone.

The problem with “somehow homemade”

Many businesses handle their signage with chalkboards, printed A4 pages in plastic sleeves or — at best — an old television with a USB stick full of PowerPoint slides. Does it work? Yes. Does it look professional? Rarely. Can it be controlled centrally when you have several sites? Practically never.

That is exactly where lumafy comes in.

What lumafy does

We offer you two routes to bring your signage up to a professional level:

1. Professional displays for continuous operation. Robust screens built for 16+ hours a day, with high brightness even in direct sunlight, a long service life and built-in players. Mount, switch on, done.

2. The lumafy CMS. Our control software, which lets you manage every screen — at every site — from a laptop, tablet or phone. Adjusting daily specials, scheduling promotions, adding new sites: all in a few clicks.

And now comes the part that many existing customers find particularly interesting.

Already have screens? Then a stick is enough.

If there are already screens in your café, your practice, your salon or your dealership — whether a television, a waiting room monitor or a shop-window display — you do not have to buy new hardware.

All you need is the Amazon Signage Stick. You plug it into the HDMI port of the existing screen. Our lumafy CMS runs on the stick. From that moment your existing screen is a fully capable digital signage device that can be controlled centrally along with all the others.

In concrete terms:

• No new displays
• No building work or rewiring
• Setup in under 15 minutes per screen
• Cost: just the stick and the software

Back to the café example

With lumafy, Monday morning would look like this: you sit at the kitchen table at home, open the CMS on your tablet, enter today’s offers — a few fields, one click. The menus update in all three branches at the same time.

In Schwabing new lumafy displays have been on the wall since last week. In Haidhausen the CMS runs through a Signage Stick on the old television that used to show football on Saturdays. In Bogenhausen the existing wall monitor will not be upgraded until next month — that works too; lumafy runs with every combination in parallel.

One solution, three branches, three different hardware setups. One control tool.

Who this pays off for

Anywhere information needs to be visible and changes regularly:

• Hospitality: daily menus, specials, promotions
• Hair and beauty salons: treatments, prices, promotions
• Practices and pharmacies: waiting room information, opening hours, examination notes
• Car dealerships: vehicle offers, finance promotions, service notices
• Hotels: lobby and event information, restaurant menus, wayfinding
• Retail: promotions, new arrivals, seasonal campaigns
• Gyms: class timetables, membership offers, studio news

What happens next?

If you would like to know what lumafy can do for your business in concrete terms — which solution suits your rooms, whether new displays or a Signage Stick on existing hardware makes more sense, what it costs and how quickly we can start — get in touch.

We will take 20 minutes, look at your situation and tell you honestly whether lumafy is right for you. No sales pressure, no canned presentation.

Get free advice now: sales@lumafy.de