FlippityBoard · Rentals
The Welcome BoardGuests Actually Read
Wifi, checkout time, trash night, and where the good coffee is — flipping on a screen by the door instead of buried on page three of a binder.
It is 11:40pm. Your guest has been driving for four hours, they are standing in the entryway with a suitcase in one hand and a phone at 6% in the other, and the wifi password is on page three of a laminated binder on the kitchen counter. They will not find it. What they will look at is the thing on the wall that is moving.
A split-flap board by the door can carry the entire arrival: the welcome, the network name, the password, checkout time, and where to get coffee in the morning. One scene at a time, flipping to the next, running all night on a tablet you stopped using two years ago.
That is the real FlippityBoard engine running the Hotel preset, cycling the four scenes a rental board would actually run. The text is a sample. The board, the flap timing, and the transition are what the editor produces.
Why a board beats a binder
A binder is a document. It asks to be picked up, opened, and searched. A board is an event — it shows one thing, holds it, and replaces it with the next thing. That difference is the whole reason this works on arrival:
The four scenes worth putting on it
You do not need ten scenes. Four covers almost every question a guest asks in the first ten minutes and the last ten minutes.
1. Arrival
The house name and the two times that matter. Check-in and checkout on the board means they are never in a message thread looking for them.
2. Wifi
Network on one row, password on another, in flap lettering that is legible from across the room. This is the single most photographed thing in a rental and the single most common message a host gets.
3. Before you go
Dishwasher, trash, keys. Put it on the board and it stops being a request you made in a welcome message that nobody re-read on the last morning.
4. Around here
Coffee, dinner, the beach, the trailhead. Three or four lines of local knowledge is what separates a rental people remember from one they do not.
"The board is not decoration. It is the answer to every question a guest was about to text you."
Same board, three presets
The content stays the same. The look is a preset, and it should match the room rather than the airport. These are three from the preset browser, all running the same two scenes:
Hotel is warm brass and reads like a lobby. Gallery is ivory and quiet, for a room where a black board would be loud. Noir is dark and mono, closer to a city apartment. Every one of them is a saved starting point — you pick it once and your text drops into it.
How to build one
Sequencing is the part that turns four separate boards into one board that runs itself. It is on the paid plans — see below.
What it runs on
Anything with a browser. The board is a web page, so the hardware question is really just "what screen is already near the door?"
Leave it in fullscreen and the board holds each scene, flips to the next, and loops. There is no app to install and nothing to update between guests.
What it costs, plainly
Free accounts can build, customize, save, and export boards. What a rental board specifically needs is sequencing, which rotates your scenes on a timer, and that starts on the paid plans.
Full breakdown on the plans page.
Two things not to put on the board
This part matters more than the rest of the post.
Door and lockbox codes. A board is a screen, and a screen near a window is readable from outside it. Keep entry codes in the message thread where only your guest can see them.
Anything you would forget to change. A board that says the wrong checkout time is worse than no board. If a line changes per guest, either keep it on a scene you update as part of turnover or leave it off entirely.
The wifi password is the honest edge case. It is already visible to everyone standing in your living room, so a board does not really change its exposure — but if the screen faces a street-level window, put wifi on a scene you can drop from the sequence and share it another way.
Where else this shape works
The arrival board is one instance of a pattern: a few short scenes, on a loop, on a screen people are already looking at. The same build runs a cafe specials board, a studio class schedule, or an office reception board. If you want more of them, read 10 creative ways to use a digital flip board display, or why a coffee shop puts one behind the counter.