Chrestos Signage
A digital sign for your church hall or foyer, with the display unit, the slide templates and the software all included. No setup fee, and no minimum contract.
All prices exclusive of VAT.
Who Signage is for
Chrestos Signage is for a church with a screen, or a wall where one could go. A television or monitor in the hall, the foyer or the porch becomes a friendly noticeboard showing service times, events, news and photographs of church life, and it never needs another drawing pin.
It suits a church where the paper noticeboard is always a little out of date, and where somebody would happily keep a screen fresh from their phone if it were simple enough. It works just as well in a circuit office or a district meeting room.
You do not need a Chrestos website to have it. Signage is leased on its own, alongside any of our packages or none at all. If your website is with us it gets better still, because your service times, news and events can find their own way onto the screen.
Support works the same way on every Chrestos package: unmetered help, unmetered content updates and unlimited security updates, with no extra bills. There is more on our Support page.
What’s included
| Feature | What you get |
|---|---|
| Any TV or monitor | Any television or computer monitor with an HDMI socket becomes your sign. You provide the screen, we do the rest |
| The display unit | A small box, 95mm x 65mm x 30mm, with its power supply, included in the monthly price. It connects by WiFi or ethernet and is built to run all day, every day |
| Slide templates designed for you | Our designers build a set of templates that match your website and your branding, so your very first slide looks right with no design work from you |
| Made from your phone or your computer | Write, change and remove slides in the Chrestos Cloud or the Chrestos app, wherever you happen to be |
| Scheduled in advance | Give each slide a start and finish date and time, and choose how long it holds the screen before moving on. Put Christmas together in November |
| Fed by what you already have | Service times from Planmaker, news from your website and posts from Loudhailer can appear on screen by themselves, with nothing to retype |
| %IAB Unlimited slides and changes | There is no slide count to watch and no charge for changing your mind |
| Unlimited UK support | Real people in Chester, on the phone and on email, for as long as you need them |
| No setup fee | The monthly price covers the unit, the software and the templates. There is no minimum contract |
Adding more screens
Your first screen is £25 a month. Every screen after that is £15 a month, and each one can show something different, so the hall and the foyer need not say the same thing. Screens can hang in portrait or landscape, and each can have its own slides, timings and transitions.
How it works
We post you the display unit. Plug it into the screen with an HDMI lead, give it power and put it on your WiFi, and it starts collecting your slides from our servers in Full HD. Sourcing and mounting the television is up to you, and a screen bought for the purpose or a spare television from the vestry both work perfectly well. Slides can carry video as well as words and photographs, as long as it is saved at the right size.
There is more about the control panel, the app and the slides themselves on the Signage tool page.
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Every church is different. Tell us what you need and we will recommend the package that fits, and help you move up when you are ready.
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