Venue operations for entertainment centres
Run your whole venue from one app.
Lanyard brings your staff rota, training, onboarding and team chat together with live control of the music, lighting, projection and laser tag scoring on site, from any phone or desktop.
See it in action
Screens from the live demo - a made-up venue, so every name in them is invented.
Built for venues like yours
- Laser tag arenas
- Family entertainment centres
- Soft play centres
- Trampoline parks
- Bowling alleys
- Escape rooms
- Arcades
Laser tag scoring and the arena controls are for laser tag venues. The rota, training, onboarding, chat and dashboards work for any venue with a team to run.
Everything the venue runs on
One place for the people side of the business and the hardware side of the building.
Rotas and clock-in
Build and publish the rota, let staff swap and pick up open shifts, and clock in on a shared tablet with a PIN.
Training and compliance
Write courses with quizzes, assign them by location, track completion and send reminders when they're due.
Onboarding and documents
Welcome new starters automatically and keep certificates and right-to-work checks with expiry reminders.
Team chat
Direct messages, group chats and team channels, with pinned posts and shift swap cards.
Music
Playlists and a song library played through the venue's speakers, controlled from any phone.
DMX lighting
A lighting desk in the browser with fixtures, scenes and BPM-synced chases.
Projection and scoreboards
Run scoreboards, live camera feeds and media on the venue's screens, with live laser tag scores.
Automation
"When a game starts, switch the lights and change the playlist" - rules that run the venue for you.
Dashboards
Build home screens from widgets: who's on today, training progress, announcements and more.
How it fits together
A web app for your team
Managers and staff sign in from a desktop or their phone, and can install it like an app. Each company gets its own branding, locations and roles, and sees only its own data.
A kiosk app for the venue
A small Windows app on the venue's PCs plays the music, drives the DMX lights, runs the screens and reads the laser tag system, taking commands from Lanyard in real time.
Questions venues ask
The things people usually want to know before getting in touch.
What do we need at the venue?
For the staff side - the rota, training, onboarding and chat - nothing: it runs in a web browser on a phone or computer. For the music, lighting, screens and laser tag scoring you'll need a Windows PC running the Lanyard venue app, which keeps itself up to date. Lighting control uses an ENTTEC Open DMX USB interface.
Does it work on phones?
Yes. Staff can use it in their phone's browser or install it like an app, and get notifications for rota changes, shift reminders and messages.
Do we have to use every part of it?
No. Shift management, training, chat, onboarding and announcements can each be switched on or off for your company.
Where is our data kept?
Lanyard is hosted in West Europe, so your data stays in the UK and EU. Each company only ever sees its own data.
How is it kept secure?
Sign-in can be protected with two-factor authentication using an authenticator app or an email code, accounts lock after repeated wrong passwords, and an admin can erase a person's data when they ask (GDPR).
Which laser tag systems does it work with?
The venue app reads the scores and game status your laser tag system sends over the venue's network. Get in touch and we'll check it works with yours.
How much does it cost?
It depends on your venue - get in touch and we'll talk it through.
Can we try it first?
Yes - the live demo on this page lets you sign in as an admin, a manager or a member of staff at a made-up venue, no sign-up needed.
Try the live demo
Explore a made-up venue full of sample staff, rotas, courses and dashboards. Pick who you'd like to be, no sign-up needed.
Admin
Everything: company settings, users and roles, the rota, training, and the venue controls.
Manager
Run the rota, approve time off, assign training and manage the team at a location.
Staff member
See your shifts, do your training, request time off and chat with the team.
The demo is shared by everyone trying it, and resets to fresh sample data every night at 4am UK time. Emails aren't sent from it, and there's no kiosk hardware attached, so music and lighting controls won't play anything. Please don't enter real personal details.
How to get started
Three steps from here to your team using Lanyard.
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Get in touch
Tell us about your venue: how many sites you run, how big the team is, and which parts of Lanyard you'd use.
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We set up your company
Your company, sites and branding are set up for you. Your team get an email inviting them to sign in, on their phone or a computer.
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Install the venue app
If you'll use the music, lighting, screens or laser tag scoring, put the Lanyard venue app on the PCs that run them. It keeps itself up to date.
Get in touch
Interested in Lanyard for your venue, want to see more, or have a question? Send a message and Ben will get back to you, or email directly.