SmarterSign

• Multi-location restaurant brands and food service operators

  Enterprise plans cover 20 to 5,000 screens with custom integrations and a dedicated customer success manager (the vendor states a 99.9% SLA).

• Small restaurants and cafes with one to 20 screens

  A small-business plan starts at $30 per screen per month with a 14-day trial and no IT team needed.

• Drive-thru restaurants

  Offers digital drive-thru menu boards, order confirmation displays, and time-based promotions.

• Drag-and-drop menu manager with templates

  Build menus from hundreds of templates and publish to any screen in minutes.

• Real-time menu updates across locations

  Updates are pushed instantly across an enterprise from a cloud platform.

• Day-part scheduling

  Schedules menu content and promotions by meal time.

• Video and animation on menus

  Menu boards can show video and animations as well as static items.

• Enterprise sharing and brand control

  Corporate teams share and publish content while keeping brand standards across locations.

• POS price and inventory sync (Square)

  Prices in the Square POS are sent to menus automatically, and out-of-stock items can be shown or hidden based on inventory.

• Digital drive-thru displays

  Outdoor menu displays with digital order confirmation, upsell and cross-sell offers and time-specific promotions.

• Proof-of-playback reporting

  Reporting that shows content actually played; listed as an advanced feature.

• MFA and SSO

  Multi-factor authentication and single sign-on for enterprise accounts.

• Managed services and content design

  Optional managed services, content design and strategy consulting.

Starting price

From USD 30 per screen per month

Pricing model

Subscription per screen

Minimum contract

None; cancel at any time with 30 days' notice

Free plan

No

Free trial

Yes

Small Business (1 to 20 screens) starts at $30 per screen per month with a 14-day full-feature trial and no credit card. Enterprise and multi-location (20 to 5,000 screens) is volume pricing by quote. Total cost depends on features and services; additional locations may need extra licences.

Compared with the 5 products in Digital Menu Boards & Signage that have a profile on this site. These figures describe the category. They are not a recommendation.

• Names 3 integrations. The median in this category is 3.
• Does not have a free plan. 0 of the 1 products in this category that say whether they have a free plan do.
• Has a free trial. All 2 products in this category that say whether they have a free trial do.
• Lists Web only. Among the 5 products in this category that state their platforms, 0 list an iOS app and 1 lists an Android app.
• The category's 10 most-named integration partners are Square, Toast, 7shifts, NCR Aloha, Amazon Signage Stick, BrightSign, Canva, Clover, DS Menu, Heartland POS. Of these, this product's listing names Square, Clover, Heartland POS.

Point of sale

Square POSClover POSHeartland POS

Enterprise plans also offer custom integrations (POS, SSO, APIs).

Customers in

United States, Canada

Platforms

Web

Hardware

Runs on customer screens; the vendor publishes a screen buyers guide. Specific player hardware is not stated on the vendor's site.

The vendor states no list of countries. Inferred from customer examples in Boise, Idaho and Austin, Texas, and Chilliwack, BC, Canada; support is described as US-based.

Founded

2006 (the vendor says it has provided signage since 2006)

Customers named by the vendor

Boise Pie Company, Hofstede's Country Barn, Wally's Burgers, A&W

Security and compliance

MFA and SSO; the vendor states a 99.9% SLA on enterprise plans

Support

US-based toll-free live support and email support; enterprise customers get a dedicated customer success manager.

Headquarters

United States

Built for

Restaurants, Cafés, Bars

Focus

Food-specific

Status

Active

Website

smartersign.com

• Menuboard Manager

  Menuboard Manager is cloud software for running digital menu boards and drive-thru screens on commercial TVs.

  Starts at USD 89 per screen per month, against USD 30 per screen per month for SmarterSign.

• Raydiant

  Displai, the product formerly sold as Raydiant (now at displai.ai), is a cloud platform for digital signage, self-service kiosks, employee engagement and visitor analytics in physical locations.

  Names 13 integrations, against 3 for SmarterSign.

• Nento Signage

  Nento is cloud digital signage software that turns an ordinary TV or streaming stick into a menu board or information display.

  Runs on Web and Android, against Web for SmarterSign.

• CrownTV

  CrownTV is a New York digital signage company that supplies the commercial displays, media players, cloud content software (CrownTV Dashboard), installation, content design and managed support as one package.

  Names 1 integration, against 3 for SmarterSign.

Side-by-side tables built from the same profile data.

• SmarterSign vs Menuboard Manager
• SmarterSign vs CrownTV
• SmarterSign vs Nento Signage
• SmarterSign vs Raydiant
• SmarterSign vs CrownTV vs Menuboard Manager
• SmarterSign vs CrownTV vs Menuboard Manager vs Nento Signage

These points were not confirmed when this page was written.

• Legal entity, headquarters, team size, funding
• Player hardware requirements
• Interface languages
• Details of the Clover and Heartland integrations
• Security certifications

Facts on this page come from the pages below, checked on 29 September 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you buy.

1. Home: integrations, industrieshttps://smartersign.com
2. Plans, price, contracthttps://smartersign.com/pricing
3. Menu board featureshttps://smartersign.com/digital-menu-boards-for-food-service-management
4. Drive-thru featureshttps://smartersign.com/drive-thru-digital-menu-boards
5. Square integration, customers, supporthttps://smartersign.com/square
6. Company since 2006https://smartersign.com/about-us/