Church digital signage software for lobby, hallway and multi-campus screens
Church digital signage puts service times, announcements, next steps and the kids ministry check-in notice on the TVs already hanging in your lobby and hallways, and changes them on a schedule so nobody has to swap slides before every service. Displayer runs in the browser of the screens you already own, lets every staff member and volunteer edit with no per-seat charge, and runs every campus from one panel. It costs from 9 USD per screen a month on the yearly rate, so a church with four screens pays 432 USD a year.
Build a lobby screen before Sunday
The builder below is the same player a paired church screen runs. Type your church name and three announcements, switch between portrait and landscape, and watch the loop play with its live clock. It needs no account and no hardware, and it opens on a church welcome screen.
- 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 churches actually put on the screens
Digital signage for churches works when each screen has one job and the content changes with the week. The screens that get read are the ones that answer what the person standing in front of them needs right now.
- The lobby welcome screen. Service times, where to find coffee, the guest welcome desk and a QR code for the connection card. This is the screen a first-time visitor reads, so it should be calm and short.
- Next steps and events. Small groups starting this month, the membership class, a baptism Sunday, the men's breakfast. Each item is dated, so it appears when signups open and disappears when they close.
- Kids ministry check-in. Room assignments by age, the check-in station location and the pickup policy, on the screen beside the check-in desk.
- Hallway and fellowship hall screens. The week's calendar, volunteer needs, mission trip updates and the food pantry drive.
- Giving and outreach. A QR code to the giving page and a short update on what the last offering for a mission partner funded. People respond to a specific result, not to a generic appeal.
The sermon slides, lyrics and live stream stay with your presentation software in the sanctuary. Church digital signage covers every other screen in the building, the ones that run all week without an operator.
Schedule by service, not by hand
Most churches start with one person updating a slideshow on a USB stick or a smart TV app every Saturday night. It works until that person is on vacation.
In Displayer you build a playlist once and attach it to times. The pre-service loop with service times and the welcome runs from 8 a.m. on Sunday. Wednesday night shows the youth and small group content. A dated campaign for the fall retreat appears on the day registration opens and comes down after the deadline, on every screen that carries it. Dayparts and dated campaigns are on the Professional plan; the weekly schedule grid is on every plan. If the building internet drops during a service, every screen keeps playing from local storage and catches up when the connection returns.
Every staff member and volunteer can edit, and nobody pays for a seat
Church communication is run by a small staff and a larger group of volunteers: the communications director, the children's director, the youth pastor, the person who runs the mission committee. Platforms that charge per user turn each of them into a cost.
Displayer bills per active screen and includes unlimited team members on every plan. On Professional, roles and approvals let a volunteer draft the kids ministry slide while the communications director approves it before it goes live, so a typo or an old date does not reach the lobby. Each role can be limited to the screens it should touch, so the youth team edits the student wing and nothing else.
One panel for every campus
A multi-site church has the same problem a retail chain has: a churchwide announcement has to reach every campus at once, while each campus still posts its own events.
Tag each screen by campus and by place (lobby, kids wing, student center, café) and schedule against the tag. The churchwide message about Christmas Eve service times goes to every lobby screen in one step. The north campus potluck stays at the north campus. Campus staff run their own screens, while central communications keeps the brand and the big announcements consistent. The whole network runs from one cloud digital signage panel.
Severe weather and safety messages on every screen at once
An override takes every screen in one building, one campus or the whole church and holds a single message until you lift it: a severe weather warning during Sunday school, a parking lot closure, a shelter in place instruction. When it lifts, the screens return to their schedule on their own. The override is written into the play record with the time it was shown, which is the entry your safety team wants on file afterwards.
Use the TVs you already have
Most churches already own the screens. Any smart TV or commercial display with a web browser pairs with Displayer by opening a URL, and older TVs take a small Android stick, a Chrome device or a Windows PC as the player. There is no proprietary player to buy for each screen.
For a new install, a 50 to 55 inch commercial display suits a lobby, and portrait screens work well beside the kids check-in desk. Outdoor LED marquee signs on the street are a different product, sold and installed by sign companies; Displayer runs the indoor screens.
Church digital signage software compared
Published rates per screen, read at each vendor's pricing page in September 2026. Nonprofit and church discounts vary by vendor and are not included.
| Yodeck | Rise Vision | ScreenCloud | Displayer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price per screen | Basic, 8 USD monthly | Basic, 11 USD monthly or 119 USD a year | Core, 20 USD yearly | Essential, 19 USD monthly or 9 USD yearly |
| Free tier | One screen | None for business, lower rates for nonprofits | Trial only | None, a paid plan from three screens |
| Player model | Yodeck player with a paid annual plan | Any hardware | Device on annual plans, or a discount instead | Browser, use the TVs you own |
| Team members | By plan | By plan | By plan | Unlimited on every plan |
| What proof of play shows | Playback log from Premium | Uptime and status | Logs from Pro | Play record plus screenshots from Professional |
Honest notes: Yodeck is the lowest entry price and its free screen suits a church with one TV. Rise Vision gives nonprofits lower rates and is strong on emergency alerts. Displayer is the better fit for a church with several screens or several campuses, many volunteers who need access, and a communications lead who wants approvals and a record of what ran.
What a church pays
Billed per active screen, so a church with two lobby screens, one kids wing screen and one café screen counts as four. Everyone on staff and every volunteer is included.
| Plan | Per screen monthly | Per screen yearly | What a church gets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | 19 USD | 9 USD | One campus, weekly schedule, templates, offline playback, unlimited editors |
| Professional | 29 USD | 14 USD | Campus tags, dayparts, dated campaigns, roles, approvals, proof of play |
| Network | 49 USD | 24 USD | Single sign-on and the full audit log for large multi-site churches |
Four screens on Essential yearly is 432 USD for the year. A three campus church with 12 screens on Professional yearly is 2,016 USD. The pricing page lists every feature per plan, and what a screen network costs covers displays, mounts and installation.
How much does church digital signage cost?
Software for indoor church screens runs from about 8 to 30 USD per screen a month across the main platforms. Displayer is 19 USD monthly or 9 USD on the yearly rate, so four screens cost 432 USD a year. A commercial display adds 500 to 2,500 USD per screen if you need new ones; an outdoor LED church sign is a separate 10,000 USD plus purchase.
What should a church put on its digital signage?
Service times and a welcome for guests in the lobby, next steps such as small groups and membership classes, kids ministry check-in information, the week's events, volunteer needs and a giving QR code. Keep each slide to one message and change it with the week, so regular attenders keep reading.
Can volunteers update the church screens?
Yes. Displayer includes unlimited team members on every plan, so volunteers edit from a browser with no seat cost. On Professional, roles limit each volunteer to their own screens and approvals let the communications director check a slide before it goes live.
Can we use the TVs we already have in the lobby?
Yes. Any smart TV with a web browser pairs by opening a URL, and an older TV takes a small Android stick, a Chrome device or a Windows PC as the player. Content is cached on the player, so screens keep playing if the church internet drops.
How does church digital signage work for a multi-site church?
Each screen is tagged by campus and location. A churchwide announcement is scheduled once to every campus, while each campus team posts its own events to its own screens. Central communications keeps approval rights, and one panel shows every screen's status.
Is there free digital signage software for churches?
Some platforms have a free tier for one screen, usually with limits or branding. Displayer has no free plan; it starts at 9 USD per screen a month on the yearly rate with three screens, and you can try the screen builder on this page without an account.
Do we need a separate player for every church screen?
No. Displayer runs in the screen's own browser, so a smart TV needs nothing extra. A TV without a usable browser needs one small device, an Android stick or Chrome device, typically 30 to 100 USD, rather than a proprietary signage player.
Can church digital signage show a severe weather alert?
Yes. An override replaces the content on every screen in a building, a campus or the whole church with one message until you lift it, and the screens then return to their schedule. The time the alert was shown is kept in the play record.
Start with the lobby screen
Put service times, a welcome and one next step on the lobby screen for a month. If people mention it at the welcome desk, add the kids wing and the hallway. If they do not, you have spent one screen finding out.