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News that removes itself

Publish notices, banners and popups for closures, launches and festive changes, with start and end times. The message appears when it should and leaves when it is done.

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Scheduled notices

1 live

Kitchen closed Mon 4 Aug for a deep clean. Bar open as usual from 4pm.

Live now · ends automatically Tue 5 Aug, 00:00

Festive hours notice · scheduled 27 Dec to 2 Jan

Waiting · publishes and expires on its own

What it does

The notice board with a self-destruct timer

Every venue has carried an outdated notice: the Easter hours in May, the long-finished refurb apology. The failure is never publishing the message; it is remembering to take it down. This widget makes removal a property of the message itself.

  • Inline notices, site-wide banners, or a dismissible popup
  • Start and end times, so festive notices end themselves
  • Tones for information, warning and celebration
  • An optional link through to the details
  • Dismissible by guests, and it stays dismissed
  • Popups are frequency-capped, never nagging on every page view
  • Paste once in the site template; it appears site-wide
  • Same two-line embed as every other Foldout widget
A hand-written notice board outside a venue
Built for venues

An announcement widget made for hospitality, with core data hosted in the EU

EU data hosting

Core application and enquiry data is stored in Supabase's Ireland region, with subprocessors disclosed in our DPA.

GDPR-first by design

Built for UK hospitality from day one. Consent, retention and data rights handled properly.

Encrypted end to end

Encrypted in transit and at rest. The widget adds no tracking pixels to your site, and we never sell your data.

Works with any builder

WordPress, Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, Elementor, Shopify, GoDaddy or custom HTML.

FAQ

Announcement banner questions

How do I add an announcement banner to my website?

Paste Foldout's two-line embed into your site's global template, header or footer area, once. Every message you publish from the dashboard then appears site-wide, styled as an inline notice, a banner or a popup, whichever you chose for it.

Can I schedule a notice in advance?

Yes, and that is the point. Give the message a start and an end: the Hogmanay hours notice begins on the 27th and is gone on the 2nd without anyone remembering to remove it. Unscheduled notices run until you take them down.

What kinds of messages is it for?

Kitchen closures, festive hours, a new menu launch, a refurb week, last tables before Christmas. Anything a guest should see before they travel or book, published without touching the website.

Are the popups intrusive?

Deliberately not. One message at a time, always dismissible, frequency-capped so a guest is not nagged on every page, and respectful of reduced-motion settings. It is a notice, not a marketing trap.

What happens when there is nothing to announce?

Nothing renders. An empty or expired announcement leaves no gap, no border and no placeholder on the page, so the embed can live in the template permanently.

The rest of the set

Other venue widgets and the guides behind them

Restaurant menu widgetA structured, accessible web menu read from the file you already have.PDF menu widgetTurn the menu file you already have into a web menu.Live opening hours widgetKitchen and bar hours, closures and bank holidays.Venue info widgetContact, directions, amenities and accessibility, held once.Every Foldout widget, in one listUpdating a pub website's opening times without a developer

Publish it once, forget it safely

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