How to set your venue's opening hours
Declare your hours per day of the week. Whatever you set always wins over any other source.
For: owner, manager
Why your hours beat any other source
The hours shown on your listing can come from several sources: what you declare in the panel, community proposals that reached consensus, OpenStreetMap data, or data from the initial catalogue ingestion. There's a fixed priority order and the venue owner always wins: as soon as you declare hours, they show above any other source, for good (until you change them).
If you've never declared anything, the system shows the best data it has: first whatever the community confirmed by consensus, then OpenStreetMap, then whatever the initial catalogue brought in, and as a last resort an estimate based on sport and country (labelled as an estimate, never shown as confirmed data).
How to declare it
- In your panel's hours section, edit each day of the week separately: opening time, closing time, or "closed" if you don't open that day.
- You can leave a day unset — that does NOT mean "closed", it means "we don't know", and the system keeps showing the best available source for that specific day until you fill it in.
- Changes show up on your public listing as soon as you save them.
The difference between "closed" and "no data"
Marking a day as closed is a statement from you ("we don't open on Mondays") and is shown as such, struck through or labelled closed. Leaving it blank is different: it's admitting you haven't declared it, and the system looks for the best source it has (community, OpenStreetMap, estimate).
Common questions
- Can the community change my hours? No: once you declare them, your data always wins. Community proposals are only used when the venue has no owner-declared hours.
- Does it update automatically for holidays? No; today hours are per day of the week, not per specific date. If you close on a one-off day, announce it through another channel (your notifications panel, social media) until an exceptions calendar exists.
- Why does my listing show "estimated"? Because nobody — neither you nor the community — has declared hours yet, and the system falls back to an estimate by sport and country so the listing isn't left blank. As soon as you fill it in, that label disappears.