Put your opening hours on your link in bio

The most-asked question a local business gets is not what do you sell. It is are you open right now.

People check on a phone, usually while walking somewhere, and usually after 6pm on a day they are not sure about. If the answer is not on the page they landed on, they do not email to ask. They go to the next result.

Linkhiver has an Opening hours block for exactly that. It is free on every plan, and it is one row on your page.

What it is

Seven rows, one per day of the week. Each day is either a closing time and an opening time, or it is marked Closed. That is the whole thing.

It is deliberately not a repeating list you add rows to, the way the FAQ and testimonial blocks work. A week is a week — it always has exactly seven days, and the page refuses to save anything that does not. You cannot end up with a Tuesday you forgot to fill in, because Tuesday is always there waiting for either a time or a Closed.

Why it is a section and not seven buttons

On your public page the block renders as a section people tap to open, not as a button that goes somewhere.

That matters more than it sounds. Your links are a scarce resource — the free plan gives you ten rows, and every one you spend on something that is not a destination is one you do not spend on your shop, your booking page or your WhatsApp. Seven separate "Monday 9–5" buttons would eat most of a free page and look like a wall.

As a section, a full week costs you one row. Someone who wants your hours taps once and reads all seven days; everyone else scrolls past it to the thing they came for.

Day names in the visitor's language

The weekday labels are not text you type. They come from the visitor's own locale, so a page read in Portuguese says Segunda-feira and the same page read in Turkish says Pazartesi — without you maintaining three copies of the week.

This is the same reasoning behind the rest of the public page: your content is yours and stays in the language you wrote it, but the furniture around it should speak to whoever is reading.

Setting one up

1. Open your Links page.
2. Add a link and choose Opening hours as the type.
3. Give it a title — "Opening hours", "When we're open", the name of your shop, whatever fits your page.
4. Fill in the week. For each day, either set an opening and a closing time, or flip it to Closed.
5. Save.

Times are entered on a 24-hour clock, so 18:30 rather than 6:30pm. What visitors see follows the format the block renders in.

What it does not do

Worth being straight about two things, because both are reasonable to assume.

It does not say "open now". The block shows your week; it does not compute whether you happen to be open at the moment someone looks. That is a genuinely harder problem than it appears — it needs to know which timezone the hours are written in and which one the visitor is in, and getting that wrong tells someone you are open when you are closed, which is worse than not answering.

It does not convert timezones. The times you type are the times that show. For a physical shop that is exactly right — your hours are local to your street, and someone reading from another country is almost certainly not about to walk in. If you are running something remote where the timezone matters, put it in the block's title: "Support hours (CET)" answers it in three characters.

Split shifts and irregular weeks

Each day holds one opening and one closing time. If you close for lunch, the honest options are to state the longer span and mention the break in a text block, or to use the title to carry the nuance.

If your week is genuinely irregular — different every week, seasonal, by appointment — this block is the wrong shape for it, and a text block or a booking link will serve your visitors better than a week that is wrong four days out of seven.

Frequently asked questions

Does the opening hours block count against my link limit?

Yes, as one link. Every block on your Links page counts as one row, whether it is a button, an FAQ or a full week of hours. That is the trade the section format buys you: seven days for one row instead of seven.

Is it a Pro feature?

No. It is free on every plan, with no cap beyond the normal link limit.

Can I have more than one?

Nothing stops you adding a second block — a workshop with different hours from the shopfront, for example. Give them distinct titles so a visitor can tell which is which.

Will visitors see my hours in their own language?

The day names, yes — those come from the visitor's locale. The title you write is yours and shows as written, in the language you typed it.