Business Hours Widget

Overview

The Business Hours widget is a compact 7-row table on Site Identity that lets you set your opening hours for each day of the week. AI Boost converts these hours into the correct openingHoursSpecification format in your Schema.org output, so a search engine or an AI assistant answering "Is this business open on Sundays?" has your own published answer to work from.

The hours are emitted whenever your site type is Local Business or one of the other business types.

Setting Up Business Hours

1. Go to Site Identity in AI Boost.
2. Scroll to the Business Hours section.
3. Set your hours using the 7-row weekly table.

Each row represents one day of the week: Monday through Sunday.

All Same / Individual Toggle

At the top of the Business Hours widget, there are two mode buttons:

All same — applies the same opening hours to all seven days. Enter the hours once and they apply to every day. Ideal for businesses with consistent hours throughout the week.

Individual — sets different hours for each day. Each row becomes independently editable.

Setting Hours

For each day, you can:

• Enter an opening time (e.g., 09:00)
• Enter a closing time (e.g., 18:00)
• Mark the day as Closed — tick the checkbox to exclude that day from the Schema output

Use 24-hour time format throughout.

Example Configuration

A hotel reception with extended weekend hours might be configured as:

Schema.org Output

AI Boost converts your business hours into the openingHoursSpecification format:

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday"],
      "opens": "08:00",
      "closes": "20:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": "Friday",
      "opens": "08:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    }
  ]
}

Days with the same hours are grouped automatically to keep the Schema clean and valid.

Validating Business Hours

After setting your hours, validate the output:

1. Visit any page on your site and view source — find the application/ld+json block.
2. Copy it and paste it into Google's Rich Results Test.
3. Check that openingHoursSpecification is listed without errors.

Correct business hours in Schema.org make your site eligible for the Google Business Profile-style panel in search results. Eligibility is not a guarantee — whether the panel appears is Google's decision.

Why Business Hours Matter for AI Search

When someone asks an AI assistant "Is [business name] open on Saturday?", openingHoursSpecification is where a machine-readable answer would come from. Without it, an assistant has nothing authoritative from you and may fall back on whatever a third-party listing says. Publishing your hours gives it your own version to find; it does not oblige any assistant to use it.