Check and edit your business information
If your business is affected by COVID-19, update your Business Profile to provide the most accurate information to your customers. You can provide updates about your business to customers such as:
- Your adjusted hours of operation, for instance if you close early.
- Add 'More hours' that describe other business operations such as delivery, takeaway and drive-through.
- Select an attribute to show that you offer online services such as classes, appointments or estimates.
- Delays on specific business services.
- Extra services that you're providing for the community.
- If your business is ‘Temporarily closed’.
The updates will show on your Business Profile on Google Search and Maps.
Important: We may review your changes for quality before we publish them.
Grow with Google provides resources, tips and online training to help you manage your business, connect with customers and work from anywhere during COVID-19.
To make sure that your customers have the latest information:
1. Update your opening hoursFor businesses with changed hours: If your opening hours have changed, update the times when you’ll be open or closed. Your opening hours show when a customer visits your Business Profile, and they’ll know exactly when they can visit your location. If your business is open and offers onsite services, use primary hours to refer to the hours you offer onsite services. Learn how to change your hours.
For temporarily closed businesses: If your business is not permanently closed, but has temporarily stopped providing all services, mark your business 'Temporarily closed'. When your business fully or partly resumes operations, you can reopen your business.
For businesses with special hours: If your business is open but has adjusted opening hours for specific days, set special hours (rather than mark your business 'Temporarily closed'). Learn how to set special hours.
- Online tutoring, virtual classes and live video or phone consultations qualify if they take place in real time.
- Services that involve contactless delivery or require you to visit a client’s location do not qualify, even if the service is booked online.
- The option for customers to book online for in-person appointments does not qualify.
When you indicate that an online service is provided, your Business Profile will prominently show online classes, appointments, or estimates as supported with a ”✓.”
Tip: Online attributes don’t show when a business is marked 'Temporarily closed'.
To set the online service attribute and add a link to schedule online classes, appointments or estimates:
- Go to your Business Profile. Learn how to find your profile.
- Click Edit profile
Business information.
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Tip: On your desktop, with Google Search, select Edit profile.
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- At the top, select More tab.
- Under 'Service options', you can edit your attributes.
- Tip: You can find different options based on your business category.
- Click Save.
To update the URL that consumers use to schedule online services, go back to the 'Stay connected during COVID-19' dashboard card or edit the Appointment URL on the info page. You can also edit the attribute from the Info page on your Business Profile.
Tip: Site managers may set the online service attributes, but do not have permissions to set an online services URL. Only profile owners and managers can set an online services URL.
You can also edit additional detailed attributes such as:
- Patient restrictions
- Appointment required
- Prescription required
- Additional testing information
For your business to show up as a COVID-19 testing site, you must include whether or not an appointment is required or there are other restrictions.
If you no longer want to show up as a testing facility, untick the 'COVID-19 testing site' attribute.
Turn on messaging in your Business Profile as a way to help your customers reach you. If you aren’t reachable by phone or it’s after your opening hours, messaging can help customers get the support that they need. Learn how to turn on messaging.
Tip: Draft an automatic welcome message to let customers know your business status.
Important: Posts that include a phone number may be rejected.
Use your business description to share information about your business such as:
- If your business is only available for takeaway or delivery
- Extra services that you provide to the community
- If your business services are delayed
- If your business has any health or safety precautions
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If you have additional COVID-19 requirements, such as masks or temperature checks
At this time, businesses may find a disclaimer on their profile to let customers know that their business info may not be up to date.
- Find emerging topics and top questions people are asking by location with Google Trends.
- Learn how other thought leaders are handling similar business challenges on Think With Google.
- Collaborate with your staff using shared documents, video meetings, email lists or chat rooms.
Temporary closures
You can now mark your business 'Temporarily closed' on Google. Google also relies on authoritative data sources, where available, to mark certain types of places as 'Temporarily closed' on Google Search and Google Maps.
Tip: If a business is marked 'Temporarily closed', attributes for both dining and retail establishments won’t surface on Google Search and Maps. If your business still operates through take-away or delivery, you should not mark it as 'Temporarily closed'.
Marking a business as temporarily closed helps ensure that when customers search for a business by name, they'll find it and understand that it's only closed temporarily. This may prevent cases where people visit a business in person and are disappointed to discover that it's closed.
Businesses that are temporarily closed may rank after open businesses for broad queries. This ranking doesn’t happen for more specific queries, including queries for a specific business, or for queries when many matching businesses are temporarily closed.
We rely on authorities to tell us when there are closures in their region. We use data from many types of authoritative data sources, which include national, state/provincial and local governments, non-profit organisations, educational institutions and businesses.
Any categories of places that authoritative sources say are temporarily closed. For example, schools are a common example of a type of place that may be listed as 'Temporarily closed'. Other possible types of places an authoritative data source can mark as 'Temporarily closed' may include museums, gyms and shops.
A business owner with a Business Profile can directly update their 'Temporarily closed' status to reopen and that change will be effective immediately.
Temporary closures can be removed in a variety of ways. GMB account holders can reopen their business listings via GMB, with the change effective immediately. Additionally, anyone can report a place as reopened via the 'Suggest an edit' flow, with reports being monitored and reviewed before a reopen is applied. Additionally, Google is using authoritative information from governments to remove listing temporary closures en masse where state authorities have mandated reopenings. Learn more about how you can reopen your business.
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