Service-area & hybrid businesses

When you list your service area, it lets customers know where you'll go to visit or deliver to them. Service area can be used by:

• Service-area business: A business that visits or delivers to customers directly, but doesn't serve customers at its business address. For example, a plumber or cleaning service. Service-area businesses may create only one profile for the metropolitan area that they serve.
• Hybrid business: A business that serves customers at its business address, and also directly visits or delivers to customers. For example, a restaurant that also delivers food. Hybrid businesses can show their storefront address, set their hours for when they're staffed at that address, and designate a service area. If your business doesn’t have permanent on-site signage, it's not eligible as a storefront and should be listed as a service-area business.

How it works

You can set your service area based on the cities, postal codes, or other areas that you serve. You can have up to 20 service areas. However, the boundaries of your overall area shouldn’t extend farther than about 2 hours of driving time from where your business is based.

Create and verify a service-area business

Important: If you don't serve customers at your business address, do not enter an address under the "Info" tab in Google My Business. The "business location" field should stay blank. 

1. On your computer, sign in to Google My Business and navigate to the “Manage locations” tab.
   • Make sure you're signed in with the account you used to sign up for Google My Business.
2. Click Add locationAdd single location.
3. Enter your business name.
4. If you don’t find your business, enter your business information.
5. You’ll be prompted to indicate whether you allow customers at your location:
   • If you have a service-area business: Select No.
   • If you have a hybrid business: Select Yes.
6. Select your service areas or enter your own.
7. Enter your phone number and website and select Finish.
8. Enter your business mailing address to trigger verification, or select Verify later.
   • This address doesn’t appear externally to your customers and is only used for verification.
9. If you selected "Verify later,” you must return to your account and complete the verification.

Edit a service area

1. On your computer, sign in to Google My Business.
   • Make sure you're signed in with the account you used to sign up for Google My Business.
2. If you have multiple locations, open the location you'd like to manage.
3. From the menu, click Info.
4. In the service area section, click Edit .
5. Enter your service area information. You can set your service area based on the cities, postal codes, or other areas that you serve (up to 20 areas).
   • We recommend that a service area be no larger than 2 hours driving time from where the business is based.
6. Click Apply.

Remove a service area

1. On your computer, sign in to Google My Business.
   • Make sure you're signed in with the account you used to sign up for Google My Business.
2. If you have multiple locations, open the location you'd like to manage.
3. From the menu, click Info.
4. In the service area section, click Edit .
5. Next to each service area you want to remove, click Remove . To remove all service areas at once, click Clear service areas.
6. Click Apply.

Reach more customers for your service-area business

Looking to find more customers for your service-area business? Try running an ad with Local Services to advertise your business on Google and receive leads directly from your potential customers. Local Services leads come in as phone calls and messages in response to your ad. Learn more about Local Services ads.

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