How to Set Telegram Business Location and Hours: Geo-Map Pins, Timezone Schedules & Open/Closed Indicators
A business profile can carry an address with a map, and a schedule showing whether you are open right now in the viewer's own time zone.
Both are promises rather than decorations, and both are published to everybody who opens your profile.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Put a location and hours on your profile.
- check_circle Handle time zones without thinking about them.
- check_circle Decide whether to publish an address at all.
- check_circle Keep the hours honest once they are up.
The profile shows the map and whether the business is open at the moment the viewer looks.
schedule Open now, in their time
The hours are not a table somebody has to read and convert. The profile says whether you are open at the moment they are looking, adjusted to where they are, which removes the two most common reasons a customer gives up: working out the difference and not being sure.
That is also what makes wrong hours expensive. A profile confidently saying "open" while the door is locked is worse than no hours at all, because the customer travelled on the strength of it. Holidays, a late start, an early close — each of those needs a hand on the setting.
The address deserves a separate decision. For a shop it is straightforwardly useful. For anybody working from home it is publishing where they live to every person who has ever had their number, and that cannot be taken back once it has been seen.
Four kinds of business
Only the first wants both settings switched on.
place A shop, a studio, a clinic
shield Hours yes, address no
directions_car A service that travels
event_repeat The maintenance nobody plans for
Hours are a promise; a location is permanent. Publish the first carefully and the second only if customers come to you.
settings Setting them
- Open the business settings Location and hours are separate entries.
- Set hours conservatively They show as open or closed in the viewer's time.
- Add the location only if customers visit Otherwise name the area in words.
- Check the pin is on the entrance Not the middle of the building.
- Put access details in the description The map cannot say "round the back".
- Update before holidays A wrong "open" is worse than no hours.
This page publishes an address and a schedule. The curriculum step is the rest of what a profile gives away: your number, when you are online, what strangers can see, and which of those you can close.
Location and hours at a glance
Hours shown in the viewer's own time, why a wrong "open" costs more than no hours, and when an address should not be published at all, on one page. Tap to open it at full resolution.
