Attract Screen
Show a full-screen welcome before the landing page, with your message, a live slideshow of guest designs, or a video. Guests just tap anywhere to start.
Attract Screen explained: show a full-screen welcome before the landing page with your message, a live slideshow of guest designs or a video, and let guests tap anywhere to start. Covers the designer, blocks, portrait and landscape layouts, and every screen setting.
What the Attract Screen is
The Attract Screen is a purely visual screen that appears before the landing page. It is made for kiosks and tablets that wait for the next guest: it catches the eye with your branding, a video or a live slideshow of the latest designs, and guests tap anywhere to go on. You build it in the Attract Screen Designer from the same kind of blocks as the Event Gallery. It is available on the Pro plan and above.
Look only, tap to start
Nothing on the screen can be pressed except the screen itself.
Live content
Show the newest designs, the most loved ones or a design of the hour. New designs appear by themselves.
Fits every screen
The design shrinks to fit when it is taller than the screen, and landscape screens can use their own layout in columns.
Works offline
It also runs in the apps and without a connection, using the designs saved on the device.
What guests see
The Attract Screen fills the whole screen as soon as the event link opens.
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Attract screen
Your design shows full screen, with its background, text, pictures, slideshows or video.
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Tap anywhere
A tap anywhere on the screen closes it.
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Landing page
The normal landing page follows and the guest carries on as usual. On a pre-event link the pre-event steps follow.
Turning it on
The Attract Screen is a setting of each event.
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Open the event
Go to the Events page and open the event.
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Open the Pages tab
Find the Attract Screen section, marked Pro.
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Design the screen
Click Open the Attract Screen Designer and build your screen, then press Apply.
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Switch it on
Turn on Show the attract screen. Guests only see it when it is on and has at least one visible block.
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Save the event
After you apply a design, save the event to publish your changes.
The Attract Screen needs the Pro plan or above. On other plans the section is visible but locked. See Billing & Credits for the plans.
The Attract Screen Designer
The designer opens full screen and shows a live preview of the screen next to the list of blocks and the settings.
Start from a template
Pick Welcome message (big event name and a pulsing "Tap anywhere to start"), Design slideshow (event name, the latest designs rolling by and a tap prompt) or Guest favourites (the most loved designs, a design of the hour banner and a tap prompt).
Add and arrange blocks
Drag a block into the preview, or click it to add it. Move blocks up and down, hide, duplicate or delete them, and click a block to edit its settings.
Check every screen size
Use the device buttons (landscape, portrait and phone) and Rotate to see the screen on each device, and zoom the preview in and out.
Apply or reset
Apply keeps your design (then save the event), Cancel closes without changes, and Reset returns to the default design.
Blocks you can use
Only blocks that show something are available:
Title and Text
Headings and paragraphs, with tokens such as {event_name}. Add a gentle pulse animation to a "Tap to start" message to draw the eye.
Picture and Video
A logo or banner, and a video that plays by itself.
Slideshow and Design grid
The latest designs, or the most loved ones, rolling by or shown as a grid.
Heart blocks
Design of the hour / day, Heart milestone, Most loved leaderboard and Crowd favourite spotlight show the favourites of your guests, as in the Event Gallery.
QR code
Guests scan it to open the gallery, or a link you choose, on their own phone.
Custom code
Your own HTML and JavaScript widget. See Custom Widgets.
Spacer and Divider
Empty space and a line to organise the screen.
Buttons, search, sort, share and every other block that needs a tap are not available here, because guests can only tap the screen to go on. Links and click actions inside the blocks you add are switched off automatically.
Portrait and landscape
A screen can be taller than wide (a phone or an upright tablet) or wider than tall (a TV or kiosk). Rotate the preview to design each one, and choose what landscape screens show:
Automatic: blocks sit in columns
Pictures go on one side and the message on the other, so the width is used. You can switch the two sides.
My own landscape layout
Design separate blocks for landscape screens, in one or two columns, and set the column widths.
Same as portrait
Landscape screens show the portrait design as it is.
Fit everything on screen
On by default. When your blocks are taller than the screen, the whole design shrinks automatically so every block stays visible, and the designer shows the percentage.
Fewer blocks stay bigger and are easier to read from a distance.
Screen settings
When no block is selected, the designer shows the Screen settings for the whole screen:
Background
A background colour, an optional second colour for a gradient, a background picture and a background video (without sound by default). Choose how the picture fits: Fill, Contain, Stretch, Repeat or Original size.
Overlay
Darken a background picture or video with an overlay colour and an opacity from 0 to 100%.
Colours
The default text colour and the accent colour of the blocks.
Position and size
Content position (Top, Middle or Bottom), content width, space around the page and space between blocks. Landscape screens have their own content width.
Designs shown
Which order statuses appear (Completed, Pending, Processing) and whether to show the Preview image or the Print file.
Live updates
Look for new designs every 15 seconds, every 30 seconds or every minute, or switch it off. Designs only load when a block shows them.
Celebrations
Full-screen confetti and a fanfare sound for the heart blocks.
Custom CSS
Fine-tune the look with your own CSS.
Where it appears
The Attract Screen shows before the landing page on the normal event link and on the pre-event link. It is not shown on the alternative landing page or on pre-event surveys. It works in the web app, the native apps and offline: for downloaded events the background and picture blocks are saved on the device, and the designs come from the order history on the device when there is no connection.
Related guides
The blocks work like those of the Event Gallery. The landing page that follows is set in Pages, and its colours in Event Branding and Colors.