Flyer Prompt Hierarchy: Prices and Hours That Stay Sharp

Most flyer prompts fail the same way: the model paints a pretty café and then smears "$12" into a smudge. You leave with a mood board, not a handout. I've done that dump when I was tired. This page is the hierarchy fix for prices and hours (plus a footer CTA). Name four bands (title, price or offer row, hours or schedule stack, footer contact), quote every string, and lock 3:4 or 4:3. Soft render when the copy's ready: https://promptmake.net/ai-flyer-generator. The full title / mid / footer recipe for posters and flyers lives at https://promptmake.net/blog/readable-text-hierarchy-ai-image-prompts if you want the shared skeleton first.

Who this is for

You run a studio, café, clinic, gym, tutoring shop, or open house. You need a door flyer or table tent this week, not a brand system. Canva's fine when you want drag boxes for a month. A one-shot AI render's faster when the copy's already locked and you just need a sharp PNG for Instagram Stories or a print shop proof.

I wrote this after three launches where the client kept asking "can you make the $18 bigger" on mushy raster type. The answer was always the same: rewrite the prompt so prices and hours are named bands, not vibe adjectives. You'll do that below. You'll also see a weak prompt next to a tight one for a yoga schedule and a café special. I keep both on a sticky note because I forget how "creative" the weak one looks until I zoom.

The four-band flyer skeleton

Posters often live on three bands. Flyers pack denser mid rows, so I split the mid into price and hours. Keep each band short. Long paragraphs invite melted glyphs, and I'm not joking about that. Write the brief top to bottom the way a stranger would scan a handout on a door. Don't start with mood adjectives. I've watched those kill more flyers than bad photos.

1. Title band: one primary line, maybe a thin subtitle. Quote the exact words. Say weight and placement ("bold sans title at top, high contrast").
2. Price or offer row: dollar amounts, "from $X", promo codes, or "Kids free". One to three short lines. Quote every number.
3. Hours or schedule stack: days and times as separate rows. "Mon-Fri 07:00-19:00" beats "open most weekdays".
4. Footer CTA: phone, URL, address, or "Scan for menu". Small type, calm color, clear of the photo.

Add aspect early. Handouts and door hangers usually want 3:4. Table tents and half-sheets often want 4:3. Stories want 9:16 with fewer mid rows. Widescreen 16:9 spreads hierarchy thin; skip it for flyers unless you're cropping a digital billboard.

Copy rules for prices

• Quote the money string: title reading "LUNCH SPECIAL", row reading "$12 bowl / $9 soup". Without quotes, models invent "affordable pricing" mush.
• Prefer digits over words. "$18" survives better than "eighteen dollars".
• Keep currency symbols. Models sometimes drop them when you bury the number in a sentence.
• One promo per flyer. Two competing discounts fight for the mid band and both go soft.

Copy rules for hours

• Stack days as separate lines when the schedule differs. "Sat 09:00-14:00" on its own row.
• Use 24-hour or consistent AM/PM. Mixing styles in one prompt confuses lettering.
• Name closed days if that's the point: "Closed Tue". Don't hope the model guesses.
• Keep holiday exceptions out of round one. Add them after the base schedule reads clean.

Weak prompt vs tight prompt

Same café. Same menu special. Only the hierarchy changes. I keep this pair around because the weak version still looks "creative" until you zoom on a phone.

Weak (vibe dump)

"Beautiful AI flyer for a cozy café lunch special, warm lighting, delicious food photography, elegant typography, professional design, inviting atmosphere"

What usually happens: nice soup photo, fake script logo, price missing or illegible, hours nowhere. Looks fine as a mood pin. Useless on a door. Don't start here.

Tight (title / price / hours / footer)

"Vertical flyer, 3:4. Bold sans title at top reading \"LUNCH SPECIAL\". Price row under title reading \"$12 bowl · $9 soup\". Hours stack: \"Mon-Fri 11:00-15:00\", \"Sat 11:00-14:00\", \"Closed Sun\". Quiet footer reading \"Harbor Bowl · 14 Pier St\". High-contrast cream type on charcoal field, small noodle icon clear of letters, generous margins, flat graphic style."

What you want: four readable bands, exact strings, quiet decoration. Swap the quoted lines for your real offer. Keep the band structure. Don't "improve" it with five mood words. You've already done the hard part.

Yoga schedule variant

Title reading "SPRING FLOW". Mid price row "Drop-in $22 · 10-class $180". Hours as class rows: "Mon 07:00 Vinyasa", "Wed 18:30 Yin", "Sat 09:00 Open". Footer with studio phone. Soft render when the stack is locked: https://promptmake.net/ai-flyer-generator.

Open house variant

Title reading "OPEN HOUSE". Price band can be "Offers welcome" or list price if you must. Hours: "Sat Oct 18 · 12:00-15:00". Address and agent phone in the footer. Keep the photo of the facade in the lower third so type stays clear above.

Step-by-step: copy lock then render

Lock the words before you burn a credit. Raster lettering's painful to edit after the fact. Spend five minutes in a notes app. Then move to the generator. I won't pretend the AI will rescue sloppy copy. It won't.

Step 1: Write the four strings

Title, price lines, hour lines, footer. No adjectives yet. If a line wraps past ~32 characters on a phone mock, shorten it now. I cut slogans harder than I cut prices. Prices are the job. You'll thank yourself when the render lands clean.

Step 2: Paste the skeleton

Use the tight café prompt above as a template. Replace only the quoted strings and the optional icon hint. Keep "Vertical flyer, 3:4" and the contrast clause. Soft page: https://promptmake.net/ai-flyer-generator. Don't "improve" it with five mood words. You've already done the hard part.

Step 3: Optional reference

If you've got a prior print or a venue photo, attach it as a reference and say "photo in lower half, type clear above". Image to Prompt can pull layout language from a mock first: https://promptmake.net/image. Then hit render with the reference attached when you're ready. I skip the reference when the brief is pure type. Less fighting that way.

Step 4: Proof at phone width

Shrink the PNG. Read every dollar amount and every hour. Fix one band per retry. Don't rewrite the whole prompt because the noodle icon looked weird. You've burned enough credits that way. I've too. I'm still mad about one lunch special week.

Browse the flyer page and load example prompts without paying. Renders spend image credits. Packs start at 20 images; Pro+ adds a monthly allotment. Credits from packs don't expire. Pricing: https://promptmake.net/pricing.

Common failure modes

Everything in one clause. "Title and prices and hours somewhere" lets the model pick a random corner for each. Split your bands. You've been warned.

Unquoted money. Without quotes, "$12" becomes "great deals". Quote the lines you need to survive. It's not optional if you care about the number.

Photo covering the type. A full-bleed latte under translucent text fails contrast. Reserve a clear field. Don't hope the model figures it out.

Too many mid rows. Eight class times will crush. Cap at four to six, or split into two flyers by weekday. I learned that on a yoga client who wanted the whole month on one sheet. We split. It shipped.

Treating the PNG as final print. Raster lettering's fine for social and drafts. Print shops still want editable type for last-mile fixes. Don't fight that. I don't.

Chasing "free flyer generator" SERPs. Guests can browse landings and examples. Renders cost credits. That's honest. Don't pitch PromptMake as a free flyer factory; the product page FAQ already covers access.

Worked kits you can steal

Three more briefs with the same four bands. Copy them into a notes app, swap the quotes, then paste. I keep these next to the café pair because clients send the same three jobs on loop.

Dental cleaning promo

"Vertical flyer, 3:4. Bold sans title at top reading \"FALL CLEANING\". Price row reading \"$99 exam + cleaning\". Hours stack: \"Mon-Thu 08:00-17:00\", \"Fri 08:00-14:00\". Footer reading \"Bright Side Dental · (555) 014-2200\". Soft teal field, cream type, small tooth icon clear of letters, flat clinic style."

Watch the phone number. Models love inventing digits. Quote your real line. If the render invents a different number, regenerate with the footer alone emphasized: "footer must read exactly...". Annoying. Necessary.

Saturday market hours

"Vertical flyer, 3:4. Title reading \"RIVER MARKET\". Price row reading \"Free entry\". Hours stack: \"Sat 08:00-14:00\", \"Sun 09:00-13:00\", \"Rain or shine\". Footer reading \"river.market/map\". Warm paper texture, charcoal type, produce illustration in lower third only."

"Free entry" is still a price band. It answers the money question before someone squints for a fee that's not there. Put it on purpose.

Tutoring rates card

"Flyer, 4:3. Title reading \"MATH TUTORING\". Price rows: \"$45 / hour\", \"5-pack $200\". Hours: \"Weekdays after 16:00\", \"Sat mornings\". Footer reading \"text Maya · (555) 019-4411\". Clean white ground, navy type, no photo, worksheet-grid decoration faint in background."

4:3 helps when the flyer sits in a plastic stand on a counter. Name that ratio in sentence one so you don't inherit a tall story crop by accident.

Print vs social cutdowns

Print shops want bleed and often hate soft raster lettering at large sizes. Use the AI flyer as a proof or a social cut. If you need a 11×17 that holds under a fluorescent lobby light, rebuild critical type in a layout tool on top of the render, or treat the PNG as a locked concept for approval only. I tell clients that on call one so nobody's surprised at the printer. You'll look prepared instead of apologetic.

For Instagram, crop the title and price bands into 4:5. Leave the full hour stack on the printed sheet. Feed posts punish dense schedules. Social layout notes: https://promptmake.net/blog/ai-social-media-post-layout-to-render. I've linked that because I keep answering the same crop question in Slack.

Stories (9:16) can carry title + one price + one hour line + footer. That's enough for a flash promo. Don't paste the entire weekly grid into a Story and hope. Hope isn't a band. I've watched people try. The glyphs cry.

When to use PromptMake vs a layout editor

Use PromptMake when the copy's fixed and you need a sharp still tonight. Use Canva or InDesign when you'll tweak prices daily for three months or need layered PDF export. Same hierarchy habits help in both tools. The difference is editability after the fact. I pick based on how often the dollar amount will change this month.

If your job is a big event one-sheet with sparse type, the poster path may fit better: https://promptmake.net/ai-poster-generator. Infographic boards with numbered tips live on https://promptmake.net/ai-infographic-generator. Mixed examples sit on https://promptmake.net/ai-image-generator. I bounce between those when a client can't decide what object they even need.

I still open Midjourney for mood when a café wants "film still energy". I finish prices on PromptMake. Split workflows are normal. Brand-bash posts aren't. Readable-text Midjourney alternative angle if you need that framing: https://promptmake.net/blog/midjourney-alternative-readable-text-posters.

FAQ

How do I keep dollar amounts readable in an AI flyer prompt?

Quote each price as its own short row. Prefer "$18" over "eighteen dollars". Name contrast so the number sits on a clear field. Proof at phone width and regenerate only the price band if a glyph softens. That's the whole trick. I've never needed a fifth adjective for money.

Should hours be one line or a stack?

Stack when days differ. One line's fine for "Daily 10:00-18:00". Mixing both styles in one prompt usually muddies mid rows. Pick stack or single line and stick to it for that flyer. I default to stacks because local shops change Saturday hours constantly.

Can I put a QR code in the prompt?

You can ask for a QR-shaped block as decoration. Don't trust AI QR codes to scan. Add a real code in a design tool after the render, or print a sticker. I learned that the expensive way once. You don't need to.

Is PromptMake a free AI flyer generator?

No. You can browse the flyer landing and examples free. Image renders cost credits (packs or Pro+). Prompt tools on the site have separate free daily caps. The product FAQ on https://promptmake.net/ai-flyer-generator states that plainly. I'm not going to dress credits up as "free forever".

What ratio should I pick for a door hanger?

Start with 3:4. If your printer wants a specific trim, crop after. Don't open with 16:9 and hope margins rescue you. They won't. I've tried. The type looked lonely.

Where is the shared hierarchy guide?

https://promptmake.net/blog/readable-text-hierarchy-ai-image-prompts covers title / mid / footer for posters and flyers (infographics too). This article extends that mid band for prices and hours specifically. I link it every time because I don't want to rewrite the shared skeleton here.

Can I reuse one flyer hierarchy across a campaign?

Yes. Lock title weight, row count, footer style, and palette. Swap only the quoted strings. That's how your lunch special and your Saturday brunch stay in the same house look without a saved character object. I've run six café weeks on one skeleton. Boring. Effective. You'll like boring when the register line is long.