I was wondering if anyone knows of a good application or way I can update price information of my menu on monitors in my store? I have PCs hooked up in the back and the monitors mounted on a wall in front. Right now I use a power point presentation to display pricing in Full Screen mode.
Is there a good utility or app I can use to update my prices for example at home and they immediately update at my store? The PCs at the store are always connected to the Internet so if I am at home I would like to change pricing if all of a sudden for example chicken prices go way up etc.
Maybe use Google slides (or whatever that's called) and let all monitors display that one presentation in a webbrowser. If you make it full screen you won't notice it's in a browser.
This way you'd only have to update your slides once and all monitors change. You could also do from anywhere since its online.
I'm not 100% sure it'll work, but it's free so you can definitely try it out :)
Let me know how it works out. In case it doesn't work, here's another way of achieving it:
In stead of using slides on those monitors, create a simple web page to do so. You could then store your prices in a google spreadsheets document. Finally you can use javascript on that web page to access the google document and update the price on a fixed interval.
I can see from your post history that you're trying to learn some JS, so this might be a nice project to try out.
Yeah I am and you bet. I will for sure. Thank you so much! Perhaps if I need some help I can ask you? I bet you got JS down and can teach me a thing or two.