Try LobbyFlight Without an Account: What the Demo Screen Shows

Try LobbyFlight Without an Account: What the Demo Screen Shows

The public demo lets you look at a LobbyFlight display before you register or pay anything. This article explains what the demo actually puts on screen, which parts of it are sample data rather than the real thing, and what changes once you run a display on your own account. Read it before you judge LobbyFlight by the demo, because a few things in the demo are deliberately different from a paid display.

Opening the demo

The demo lives at https://lobbyflight.com/display/demo. There is no sign-up, no payment and no time limit — open the address on a laptop, a tablet or the screen you are considering for your lobby. The shorter address https://lobbyflight.com/demo sends you to the same place with a permanent redirect, so either one works. If a button labelled "Demo" elsewhere on the website does not open anything, type one of these two addresses directly.

Nothing you do in the demo is saved, and nothing you do there affects a later account.

What the demo puts on screen

The demo is a hotel that does not exist. It is called Demo Hotel Vienna, it is tied to Vienna Airport (VIE), and it uses the default colour theme.

The flights are samples, not live data. The demo answers with a fixed set of fifteen prepared flights instead of calling the flight API, which is deliberate: it keeps the demo from consuming the API quota that paying accounts rely on. The flight numbers are real airline numbers — OS 501 to Frankfurt, LH 1234 to Munich, LX 456 to Zurich and so on — but the times are generated relative to the moment you open the page, and the statuses, delays and gates are written into the sample set. The fifteen-minute delay on LH 1234 will be there tomorrow too. Judge the layout, the readability and the information hierarchy from the demo; do not judge data freshness from it.

Departures and arrivals are on two tabs. The demo runs in the Website Widget display mode, and in that mode the board does not rotate between the two views on its own. You switch with the tabs, and the search box is available so you can look for a flight number or a destination.

The board refreshes every five minutes. That is a fixed interval for the demo — the demo has no subscription tier, so the tier-based refresh rates do not apply to it. Because the flights are static, a refresh will not visibly change anything.

The interface language changes every 30 seconds. The demo cycles through English, German, Spanish, French and Italian so you can watch the whole interface translate, including the flight statuses.

The weather is real. The widget in the header shows current conditions, the temperature and a three-day forecast for Vienna, fetched live from OpenWeatherMap. This is the one part of the demo that is not a sample.

The demo does not play info slides. In the Website Widget mode the slide carousel is switched off, so the shuttle, restaurant and spa slides that a hotel would normally rotate between flight views are not part of what you see. To judge how slides look, use the preview in your own account after you sign up.

One difference is worth knowing before you show the demo to anyone: Website Widget is the responsive mode, and on a paid account it is a Premium feature. A display running on Basic or Pro uses the TV Display or Touch Screen mode instead, where the board auto-rotates between departures and arrivals, long lists scroll by themselves, and info slides join the cycle. The demo shows the product's look, not the exact behaviour of every plan.

What the demo cannot show

The demo has no account behind it, so everything that belongs to an account is missing: your own logo and colours, your choice of airports, your own info slides, the portal itself, and any kind of saved state. The demo also reports nothing back — it sends no heartbeats and produces no analytics, because those are tied to a display ID that only a registered display has. If you leave the demo running on a screen for an hour to test stability, that is a fine thing to do, but you will not find a record of it anywhere later.

The demo does not work offline either. If the network drops, the screen shows an offline badge from the browser's own connection events and the flight list stops updating; there is no cached copy of the data behind the display page.

Demo compared with a live display

Moving from the demo to your own display

Pick a plan. Basic is €69 per month, Pro is €149 and Premium is €199. Paying yearly costs ten months instead of twelve, so €690, €1,490 and €1,990 respectively. Each plan includes one airport; Pro and Premium can add more at €99 per month per airport, while Basic cannot add airports at all. The Concierge features are sold separately in three package sizes. See Subscription Plans and Feature Limits for the details behind each line.

Register. The sign-up page is language-specific: /en/register in English, /de/registrieren, /es/registrarse and /fr/inscription. Checkout starts a seven-day free trial, so the first charge is a week after you subscribe.

Set up your display. Airports are managed under Airports in the portal and your logo files under Logos. Everything else about a screen lives in the display editor: open Displays, click the display, and work through the tabs General, Appearance, Behavior, Content, White-Label and Preview & URL. Billing, analytics and API access sit in the avatar menu rather than the sidebar. The Display Editor Tour walks through the tabs one by one.

Take your own address. The URL that replaces the demo address has the form https://lobbyflight.com/display/<hotel-id>?display=<display-id>, and you will find it on the Preview & URL tab together with a QR code you can download and scan from the screen device. This is the address you open on the display hardware, not the demo one.

If several people will work on the account, note that access comes in three roles — Owner, Manager and Concierge — and that a group of hotels can be run as one organisation with shared branding and content. What a colleague sees after logging in depends on their role, which is worth settling before you invite anyone. See Roles and Access.

Questions people ask about the demo

How long can I use it? As long as you like. There is no expiry and no session counter. It is meant for evaluation, though, not for a lobby that guests actually read.

Are the flights real? No. They are a fixed sample set, and they will look the same next week.

Can I switch the demo to my airport? No. The demo is fixed to Vienna. Other airports such as Munich, Frankfurt and Zurich appear only as the other end of a sample flight.

Can I customise the demo? No. Colours, logo, languages and slides all come from the account you do not have yet.

Does it work offline? No. The display page keeps no offline copy of the flight data.

If you have questions before you buy

Write to info@lobbyflight.com or call +43 650 753 1811, Monday to Friday, 09:00–17:00 CET. Telling us which screen and which airport you have in mind usually saves a round of email.

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