Your rates go on every screen in the office, the window and the counter included, and on your website, from one table you change on your phone. They follow the official reference rates with your own margin, or stay exactly as you type them. Two screens cost 314€, once.
The advantages
Up to 60 currencies
Buy and sell rates with flags, names and the unit, so the yen reads as 100 JPY rather than a row of zeros.
Rates that update themselves
They follow the official reference rates with your own margin, or stay locked at what you type.
Gold and silver too
Gold at 24, 22, 18 and 14 carat and silver 999, per gram, on the same board as the currencies.
In your customers’ language
Labels in 14 languages, with a second language that takes turns every six seconds for tourists.
On your website as well
Switch on “On your website” for a link and a short code. The window and the website never disagree.
No monthly bill per branch
Licences are paid once, so a second branch or a third screen does not add a subscription.
Five boards, one rates table
Change a rate once and every board follows. Each puts We buy before We sell, with your logo, the date of the rates and a footer for your commission or licence number. See them all on the exchange rate board templates page.
Window board
Portrait, big rows, strong contrast, readable at three metres. In daylight, use a high-brightness screen.
Counter board
Twenty, thirty or forty currencies in two columns on a landscape screen, plus gold and silver.
Reception rates
Six or eight currencies in large type, for hotels, travel agencies and post offices.
Spotlight
One currency at a time, filling the screen. It catches the eye in a window.
Ticker
One scrolling line of rates, for an LED strip above the door or a thin band under another screen.
Each board shows all your currencies or a selection, so the window can carry eight and the counter forty.
Labels come in 14 languages, from Arabic and Chinese to Turkish and Ukrainian, and the currency names follow.
How the rates are worked out
Each working day the European Central Bank and other central banks publish reference rates, and easyCMS checks for them every hour. For each Automatic currency, Studio takes your buy margin off for We buy and adds your sell margin for We sell, rounding buy down and sell up. For a euro office with a 2% margin each way:
| US dollar | Rate |
|---|---|
| Reference rate, 9 October 2026 (1 EUR = 1.1206 USD) | 0.8924 EUR |
| We buy: 2% less, rounded down | 0.8745 EUR |
| We sell: 2% more, rounded up | 0.9103 EUR |
A Locked currency keeps the rates you type; one button locks them all at today’s values, for offices that price once in the morning. You do this on the Exchange rates page in Studio, on your phone, and screens update within a few minutes. Try your own margins first with the free exchange rate margin calculator.
The rules your board has to follow
The board is often part of your licence. Studio puts buy first, leaves room for a commission line and warns you if you type “0% commission”.
Buy and sell side by side
Both rates for each currency, with equal prominence.
Show the commission
The commission and how it is worked out, visible as customers come in.
No “0% commission”
Not when your margin is built into the rate.
Spain
A permanent notice board with set information. Spain guide.
France
Rates and fees at the entrance, and sometimes outside. France guide.
United Kingdom
The matching sell rate next to every buy rate. UK guide.
More countries and the sources are in our guide to exchange rate display rules by country.
In the US, or changing money on the side
- In the United States, stores price in dollars, often in English and Spanish, under FinCEN and state rules rather than a rate-board law: see exchange rate board software for US currency exchange stores.
- Changing money or buying gold on the side? See exchange rates at hotel reception, gold price screens for jewellers and gold buyers and exchange rate screens for travel agencies.
What it costs
One office, with a portrait screen in the window and a landscape screen at the counter:
| Line | Cost |
|---|---|
| easyCMS account, up to 5 displays, includes 1 licence | 49 EUR one-time |
| 1 × extra licence at 66 EUR, bought in the same order | 66 EUR one-time |
| Currency exchange add-on: rate tables and boards, for the whole account | 199 EUR one-time |
| Software total, paid once | 314 EUR |
The add-on covers everything on this page, gold, silver, the ticker and the website table included, for every screen and branch of the account; licences added later are 99€. Three branches with nine screens: a PRO account at 299€, eight licences at 66€ and the add-on, 1,026€ once. For players, an easyCMS Android player is 499€ with its licence, Windows software is free, and LG webOS and Samsung Tizen screens have one built in. See the pricing page.
Currency apps are usually sold per screen per month. On the vendors’ pricing pages in October 2026, Pickcel’s currency board was 13.50 to 15 USD per screen per month, ScreenCloud’s plans 20 to 30 USD, and ForexBoard 19.99 to 99.99 USD a month. For the two-screen office, the first year costs about the same either way; after that, easyCMS costs nothing more:
| easyCMS | 14 USD per screen per month | |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 314 EUR | 336 USD |
| Five years | 314 EUR | 1,680 USD |
What easyCMS will not do
- Live rates during the day. The automatic rates are daily reference rates. If you reprice through the day, lock your rates and type them; a live feed is planned as a paid option.
- Connect to your till. No import from Biz4x, CurrencyXchanger or similar yet.
- Drive an LED number board with fixed digits. Those need their own controller.
- Give legal advice. Check the rules for your licence with your regulator.
Questions exchange offices ask
Can I set my own rates instead of the automatic ones?
Yes. Lock any currency and type its buy and sell rate; it never changes until you do. You can lock every currency at today’s values, and put them all back on automatic later.
What happens if the internet goes down?
The screens keep showing the last rates they received, and pick up new ones when the connection comes back.
Where do the automatic rates come from?
From the European Central Bank’s daily reference rates and, for the currencies, gold and silver it does not publish, other central banks through the open-source Frankfurter service. Your margins go on top.
Is there a monthly fee?
No, unless you choose Enterprise at 1,290€ a year. The account, the PRO account, every extra licence and the Currency exchange add-on are paid once.
