Digital Signage, Managed For You
Update any screen from any browser, wherever you are
Schedule content by day, time, screen or group
Branded templates, so it always looks like you
Pull live information in automatically
Why Choose Fruitcake for Digital Signage
Manage a single reception display or a network across several sites from one place.
Set the menu, the welcome and the event countdown once and it runs itself.
Screens pull from a calendar, a spreadsheet, a database or your website and change when the data does.
Change a screen from your phone, wherever you happen to be.
We specify and supply screens and players, or work with what you already have.
Set up properly by us, then looked after by the same team.
What We Offer
Cloud management for every screen you run, grouped by site, room or purpose and controlled from one login.
Menus, welcomes, notices and offers timed to the hour, day or week and then left to run.
Countdowns, calendars, social feeds and data from your own systems, updated automatically.
What you get
Cloud management for every screen you run
Screens managed individually or in groups
Scheduling by day, time, screen and group
Branded templates built to your identity
Images, video, text and live data
Integration with databases and your own website
Multiple locations from one login
Remote updates and remote troubleshooting
Help from real people when a screen misbehaves
What people put on them
Welcome and visitor information
What is on this week
Announcements and internal news
Menus and daily specials
Promotions and offers
Achievements and recognition
Safety and safeguarding notices
Live data, feeds and countdowns
Wayfinding and room information
I cannot fault Fruitcake Media. Being a sole trader, having a website was daunting and seemed out of reach. David made the whole process seamless and easy
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Very friendly company did a great job on my new website, which also was a special offer thanks David for all your help specially as most of our contact was outside your business working hrs much appreciated.
Set up properly, then left working
Fruitcake Media is a small design and technology team at Glasshouse, Alderley Park in Cheshire, working with businesses, schools and venues across the UK. We set the screens up, build the templates around your brand and show your team how to drive it.
Then we stay on the end of the phone, because screens are always in the one place nobody can reach.
Digital signage that does not become somebody else’s job
A screen in a reception is easy to buy. What goes wrong is three months later, when it is still showing last term’s dates or a promotion that ended, because updating it is awkward and nobody owns it.
Fruitcake Media sets up digital signage that is genuinely easy to keep current: managed in a browser, scheduled in advance, built on templates in your own brand, and wherever possible fed automatically from information you already maintain.
One screen or a hundred
Everything runs from one login. Manage a screen on its own, group screens so a whole site or department changes at once, or split it so the centre pushes shared content while each location keeps control of its own. It works the same way for a single reception as it does for a multi-site organisation.
Scheduled, so nobody has to remember
Content can be set to run by day, time, date range or screen group. Menus at eleven, an event countdown for a fortnight, a different loop at the weekend, a safety notice that appears every morning. Set it once and it looks after itself.
Live content beats slides
The screens people actually keep using are the ones fed from real information: a calendar, a database, a spreadsheet or your own website. When the data changes, the screen changes. That is the difference between digital signage and a slideshow on a television.
Where it fits with everything else
Signage works best when it draws on something that already exists. If we also build your school website or your business site, the screens can share its content rather than duplicating it, and a change in one place shows up in both.
Where a screen needs to show something a standard signage system cannot, such as live data from your own systems or a booking board driven by a database, that is app development territory and the same team handles it.
Questions about screens
Do you supply the screens as well?
We can advise on screens and players and work with what suits the space, and we are equally happy working with screens you already own. The part we look after is the system that drives them and the content that appears.
How many screens can we run?
One, or a network across several sites. Screens can be managed individually, grouped so a whole site or department updates at once, or set so head office pushes some content while each location controls the rest.
Can the screens show live information automatically?
Yes, and this is usually what makes signage worth doing. Screens can pull from a database, a calendar, a spreadsheet or your own website, so the display changes when the underlying information changes rather than when somebody remembers.
What happens if a screen goes blank?
You ring us. Most problems are solved remotely because the system is cloud managed, and we can see what a screen should be showing and what it is actually doing.
Is this suitable for a school?
Yes, and it is one of the most common uses. Achievements, what is on, lunch menus, parent information and safeguarding messages, run from the office. It fits alongside our school website work.
Thinking about screens?
Book a call and tell us where the screens would go and who would keep them updated. That second answer matters more than the first, and it is the thing most signage projects get wrong.
About Us
Fruitcake Media is a family-run web design and digital marketing agency. Our monthly subscription website model enables small businesses across the UK to get online from just £39 a month.
Contact Us
Glasshouse, Alderley Park, Congleton Road, Nether Alderley, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 4TG
enquiries@fruitcakemedia.co.uk
01625724284