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Guides and resources for planning a kiosk or display project

Start with a guide if you are still working out what you need, use the FAQs for quick answers, and use the finder and comparison tools when you are ready to narrow the options.

Planning guides

Written for business owners and operations managers rather than engineers. Each guide ends with the questions worth asking before you commit.

  • How to choose a self-service kiosk

    Start from the task and the location, then work through screen size, mounting, touch, peripherals, software, rollout and support. Includes a checklist to take to a supplier conversation.

    7 minute read

  • Indoor displays, window displays and outdoor displays

    Where a screen will live decides its brightness, enclosure, cooling and mounting. This guide compares indoor, window-facing and outdoor displays and explains why high brightness is not the same as weatherproofing.

    6 minute read

  • Countertop, wall-mounted or freestanding kiosks

    The three kiosk forms can carry the same options and run the same software. What differs is the space they use, how they are fixed and how customers reach them. A comparison, the trade-offs and a site survey checklist.

    6 minute read

  • Planning a restaurant ordering system

    A restaurant ordering system is a chain from order to collection, and kiosks are only the first link. How to plan the workflow, choose between a kitchen screen and a printer, prepare menu data and brief a supplier.

    6 minute read

  • What to consider before a digital signage rollout

    A signage rollout has four strands: the places, the hardware, the content and the people who keep it running. What to decide before you order, how content reaches a screen, and a checklist for your supplier conversation.

    6 minute read

  • Questions to ask before commissioning bespoke kiosk software

    Bespoke kiosk software is commissioned, not bought off a shelf, so the result depends on the questions asked before development starts. The questions to ask about the task, hardware, integrations, payments, data, AI features, ownership and support.

    6 minute read

Quick answers and planning tools

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