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Digital building directory software, a digital office directory and electronic building directory for multi-tenant buildings

A digital building directory is a lobby screen that lists every tenant with suite and floor, and that the property team updates from a browser instead of reprinting letter strips. Displayer runs that directory on a commercial display or TV you already own, puts building notices, elevator work and emergency messages on the same screen, and manages every building in a portfolio from one panel. It costs from 9 USD per active screen per month on the yearly rate, and on Professional it keeps timestamped screenshots, so you can show a tenant exactly what the lobby displayed.

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Lay out a lobby screen before you buy anything

The builder below is the same player a paired lobby display runs. Type the building name and three lines, try portrait and landscape, and watch the loop play with its live clock. It needs no account and no hardware.

Venue

Orientation

Layout

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Weekly schedule
  • Venue: restaurant, retail store, clinic, gym, office, school, plant floor, church, senior living or real estate office
  • Orientation: landscape 16:9 or portrait 9:16
  • Layout: full bleed, main plus sidebar, or a menu board in three columns
  • Content: your business name and three short lines, prefilled for the venue you picked

The schedule strip underneath shows the same playlist placed on a weekly grid, which is exactly what the schedule view does inside the product.

What a lobby directory screen actually carries

A directory screen that only lists tenants is read once by each visitor and then ignored by everybody who works in the building. The screens that earn their wall space carry the list and the things people in the lobby need today.

  • The tenant list. Company name, suite and floor, sorted the way visitors look for it. Alphabetical for most offices, by floor for a building where people already know which floor they want.
  • Building notices. Elevator maintenance on Thursday, the garage closing early for resurfacing, a water shutdown on floors 6 to 9.
  • Emergency and safety messages. Fire drill times, severe weather instructions, an evacuation notice that replaces everything else on every screen at once.
  • Amenity and tenant news. The fitness center hours, a food truck on Friday, a tenant event in the conference center.
  • A QR code to a searchable list. For the rare visitor who needs to search, a code on the screen opens the directory on their phone, which costs nothing compared with a touch kiosk.

The usual layout is a portrait screen with the directory filling most of it and a smaller zone for the notice of the day, or a landscape screen split into a list and a rotating message panel.

Update the tenant list in minutes, not with a service ticket

Tenant changes are the recurring cost nobody quotes. Some directory vendors charge 50 to 150 USD for each managed update, and letter board directories mean ordering new strips every time a suite turns over.

Displayer gives you two ways to keep the list current. The simplest is a directory notice in a portrait layout, edited in the panel: add the new tenant, remove the old one, publish, and every screen in that lobby changes within a minute. The second suits portfolio teams that already keep a roster: a web page item shows a published page or sheet on the screen and refreshes it, so the tenant list on the wall is the list your leasing team maintains rather than a copy someone retypes. Either way the change is made by whoever holds the right role, and roles stop a building engineer from editing another property's lobby.

Screens keep playing from local storage if the building internet drops, so the directory does not go blank on the afternoon the circuit is down.

One panel for every building in the portfolio

Most directory products are sold building by building, and a property manager with six buildings from three installers ends up with three logins and three ways of doing the same tenant change.

In Displayer every screen is tagged by building, floor and position: main lobby, elevator lobby, garage entrance, amenity floor. A portfolio notice about holiday hours goes to every tagged lobby in one step. A tenant change in 200 Main Street stays in 200 Main Street. The whole portfolio runs from one cloud digital signage panel, and everyone on the property team is included on every plan, because property managers, engineers and leasing staff all need access and none of them should cost a seat.

Proof of what the lobby displayed

Some leases and tenant agreements promise lobby directory placement or a slot on the lobby screens, and some anchor tenants negotiate how their logo appears. When a tenant says their listing was missing for a week, or that a notice about their suite never went up, a schedule is weak evidence. It shows what was planned, not what the screen showed.

On the Professional plan Displayer stores the play record for each screen together with periodic, timestamped screenshots of the rendered screen. You can export the record as CSV and attach the pictures to the email that settles the question. The same record answers an insurer or a fire marshal who asks whether the drill notice was displayed. The proof of play page shows what the record contains.

Emergency messages on every lobby screen at once

An override takes every screen in one building, one region or the whole portfolio and holds a single message until you lift it: a fire alarm test, a shelter in place instruction, a power outage notice. When the override lifts, the screens go back to the directory on their own. The override goes into the play record with the time it was shown, which is exactly the entry you want on file after an incident.

Touch kiosk or wall screen, and where we are honest about the boundary

Displayer drives non-touch wall and portrait screens. It does not build interactive touch kiosks with tenant search and turn by turn wayfinding maps. If you run a hospital campus, a large mixed-use complex or a building with several hundred tenants across wings, a dedicated directory product such as Navigo, or an integrator kiosk, is the right purchase and it is worth its price there.

For the typical multi-tenant office building with 20 to 80 tenants, a clear list with suite and floor numbers is read in the time it takes to walk to the elevator. A wall screen costs roughly a third of a touch kiosk installed, and it avoids the reach range rules that apply to touch controls under the ADA standards. On accessibility, the 2010 ADA Standards exempt building directories and occupant names from the section 216 sign requirements, but good practice still applies: high contrast, a sans serif face and characters large enough to read from the lobby floor.

Digital building directory software compared

Published prices read at each vendor's pricing page in September 2026, per screen, for the entry plan that can show a directory.

Navigo by ITS Rise Vision ScreenCloud Displayer
Entry price per screen 11 USD monthly, billed annually (Starter) 12 USD monthly, business rate 20 USD monthly, annual rate (Core) 9 USD monthly, yearly rate
Directory approach Dedicated directory software Directory templates, interactive is an add-on Building directory app Directory notice or your own roster page
Touch and wayfinding Yes, its core product Add-on at 1,200 USD per display per year Not its core focus No, non-touch screens
Notices and emergency override Directory focused Yes, alerts on Advanced Yes Yes, every plan
Screenshot record of the lobby Not published No, uptime and status No, playback logs from Pro Yes, from Professional

Reading the table

Navigo is the choice when touch and wayfinding matter most. Rise Vision is cheaper per screen and strong on emergency alerts. ScreenCloud has a ready building directory app. Displayer is the pick when one property team runs lobbies across several buildings on displays they choose themselves and needs to show a tenant what was on the screen. The full cost picture, including hardware and installation per lobby, is in our digital building directory cost guide.

What a portfolio of lobbies pays

Billed per active screen. A building with a main lobby directory, an elevator lobby screen and a garage entrance screen counts as three, which is also the account minimum.

Portfolio Screens Essential, yearly rate Professional, yearly rate
One building 3 324 USD a year 504 USD a year
Four buildings 8 864 USD a year 1,344 USD a year
Ten buildings 20 2,160 USD a year 3,360 USD a year

Essential covers the directory, notices, schedules and overrides. Professional adds building and floor tags with scheduling against them, dated campaigns, approvals before publish and the screenshot record. Every plan and the monthly rates are on the pricing page.

Hardware you already own, or one screen you choose

There is nothing to buy from us. A commercial display with a built-in browser pairs by opening the player URL and typing a six digit code. A panel without a usable browser takes a small Android or Chrome device behind it, and a building that already manages Windows PCs can use a mini PC in kiosk mode, covered on the Windows player page.

Two notes before anything is mounted. A lobby with a glass frontage needs a high brightness commercial display, because a consumer TV behind glass is unreadable at noon and is rarely warrantied for all day use. And a portrait mount needs a display rated for portrait operation, which not every consumer set is.

What is the best digital building directory software?

For a portfolio of office buildings with non-touch lobby screens, a general signage platform is the better buy because it carries notices and emergency messages too. Displayer suits property teams that need one panel and a screenshot record. For touch kiosks with wayfinding maps on a large campus, a dedicated product such as Navigo fits better.

How do you update a digital building directory?

From a web dashboard. In Displayer you edit the directory notice, or update the roster page it displays, and publish. The screens in that lobby change within about a minute. There is no service ticket and no per change fee, and roles decide who can publish in which building.

How much does digital building directory software cost?

Signage platforms charge 8 to 20 USD per screen per month and dedicated directory software from about 11 USD up to 100 USD for interactive packages. Displayer is 9 USD per screen monthly on the yearly rate, or 19 USD month to month, with accounts starting at three screens.

Can a digital directory show building announcements too?

Yes, and that is the main reason to run it on a signage platform. The same screen shows the tenant list, elevator maintenance, garage closures and amenity news, and an emergency override replaces everything on every screen until it is lifted.

Can I manage directories in several buildings from one account?

Yes. Tag each screen by building, floor and position, and schedule against the tag. A portfolio notice reaches every lobby at once, while a tenant change stays in its own building. Everyone on the property team is included at no extra cost.

Does a digital building directory need to be ADA compliant?

The 2010 ADA Standards exempt building directories and occupant names from the section 216 sign requirements. Touch kiosks still have to keep operable parts within reach range. Good practice for any directory screen is high contrast, a plain sans serif face and characters readable from the lobby floor.

Do digital building directories work without internet?

Displayer does. Each screen caches its schedule and media and keeps playing from local storage when the connection drops, then picks up changes when it reconnects. Ask any vendor this question before buying, because a directory that renders live goes blank when the building circuit fails.

What size screen do I need for a lobby directory?

Most office lobbies use a 43 to 55 inch commercial display in portrait, which fits about 40 to 60 tenant lines at a readable size. Larger buildings use a 65 inch panel or split the list across two screens by floor range.

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Put one lobby on the new directory first

Pair the lobby display you already have, lay out the tenant list and one building notice, and run it for two weeks before rolling it across the portfolio.

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