For agents and developers
A property goes under offer on Tuesday and stays in the window until somebody reprints the card at the weekend. Window displays are the most looked-at thing an agency owns and the slowest thing it can change.
No card · no box to buy · pairs in about two minutes
What goes on the screen
Photos, price, key facts, in portrait, rotating through the properties you want out front this week. Changed from a phone rather than reprinted.
Mark it on the board when it happens, so the window stops advertising something that has gone.
A new scheme, scheduled to appear on launch day and run for its campaign, with the ordinary rotation resuming afterwards.
What a viewing involves, the fee structure, the areas you cover. Different channel, same account, same hardware.
How it is different
Every one of these is a mechanism rather than a promise, so you can confirm each of them on a free screen before you pay for anything.
A paired screen holds a connection and derives what it shows from the schedule in real time. Change the board and the screens follow in seconds. There is no publish step, no playlist to re-download and no interval to tune.
Not a playlist. A channel is a named feed with a daily and weekly plan plus date-scoped overrides, so a board can hold Tuesday afternoons, a campaign can own one fortnight, and a screen tuned in follows its own clock all year without anyone touching it.
Below a laptop width the whole editor swaps chrome rather than shrinking: a bottom tool bar, a selection bar that navigates as a menu stack, and the deck one tap from the slide counter. Fixing a wrong price from the shop floor is the normal way to use it.
Describe the board in a sentence, or hand over the PDF you already print from, and the assistant drafts a real editable show. It stays available to reword, restyle or rebuild a slide by chat, and the same assistant answers product questions in the app.
Android TV, Google TV, webOS, Fire TV, a Chromebox or a laptop in kiosk mode, paired by scanning a code with your phone. There is a native Android TV app too, downloaded as an APK from our own site rather than from Google Play. No media player box, no per-device licence, nothing to sideload.
Nothing to install, in the normal case: open the player URL in the screen's own browser and scan the code with your phone. If you would rather install an app, the native Android TV app is a free download from our own site rather than from Google Play, and a screen running it is on exactly the same plan as a screen running the browser.
When to buy something else
ChannelOS does not integrate with a CRM or a property feed. There is no connection to Reapit, Alto, Street, Rightmove or Zoopla, so a listing board is built from details somebody enters rather than generated from your stock, and a property that changes status in the CRM will not change on the screen by itself. An agency with hundreds of live properties that wants the window generated from the feed should buy property-specific window display software. ChannelOS fits the agency whose window is a curated handful and whose problem is that changing it takes days.
Questions
More of these on Answers, which covers cost, hardware and what happens when the wifi drops.
A screen that is already playing keeps playing if the wifi drops, but it needs the connection back to come up again after a power cut, because nothing is cached on the television itself. If a screen has to survive a long outage entirely on its own, buy a player from a company that sells one and ask them about local storage. That is a real reason to pay for hardware. Ours is not one of them.
Keep reading
Listing and project-launch boards, remixable into your own workspace.
Hanging a screen sideways for a window, and designing for the shape.
What size reads from the pavement, and why a window needs more nits.
A campaign with a start and an end date that takes itself down.
Boards you can remix: real estate templates , each one opening in your own workspace in a single click.
Pair a screen, put a board on it, and see whether the mechanism above holds before you pay for anything. The first screen is free forever.
Pricing shows what a second screen costs and what the free one leaves out.
Free screens show a ChannelOS banner, and about every 2 minutes it opens into a full ChannelOS slide; any paid plan removes both.
Sell it instead of buying it. The ChannelOS partner program pays 20% of what each business you refer pays us for their first 12 months, then 10% for as long as they stay. Free to join, nothing to stock.
See the partner program →