Opening hours and prices
Your opening hours and admission prices are kept in one place in your Company details. Your website shows them wherever your design has room for them, for example on the contact page and at the bottom of every page, and adds whether you are open right now. Google gets them too.
Where do you find them?
Go to Settings → Company details and scroll to the Opening hours and Prices cards. After making changes, click Save at the top; your website is updated automatically.
Your weekly schedule
- Under Weekly schedule, click Add time slot. The first time slot is already set to Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00.
- Click the day buttons (Mo to Su) to switch days on or off. A dark blue button is included.
- Fill in the two times, for example 09:00 and 17:30. You can also type 9 or 930; the CMS turns that into 09:00 and 09:30. Or click the clock and choose the hour and minutes.
- Different hours on Saturday? Click Add time slot again; that slot automatically gets the first day that has no hours yet.
On the right you immediately see How it appears on your website: the hours for each day, or Closed.
- Lunch break: make two time slots for the same days, for example 09:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 17:30. Your website then shows 09:00 – 12:00 and 13:00 – 17:30.
- Closed: a day without a time slot is closed. You don't need to fill in anything for it.
- Past midnight, for example 20:00 to 02:00: simply enter 02:00 under Until. Until midnight = 24:00.
Public holidays
You don't need to look up dates for public holidays. Choose the holiday from the list and the date is calculated automatically every year. Easter, Ascension Day and Whitsun, which fall on a different date every year, are then always right too. So you fill in your public holidays once and never have to look at them again.
- Under Special days, click Add special day.
- Under Day, choose the public holiday, for example Easter Sunday. Instead of the date fields you now see Next time, for example Sunday 28 March 2027. That way you can check straight away that it's the right day.
- The Description is filled in with the name of the holiday automatically. This is what your website shows; you may change it, for example to Easter.
- Closed? Keep Closed. Open, but shorter? Choose Other hours and fill in the hours, for example 12:00 to 17:00.
- Repeat this for each public holiday: one line per holiday. Then click Save at the top.
You can choose from these public holidays:
| Public holiday | When |
|---|---|
| New Year's Day | 1 January |
| Carnival (Sunday to Tuesday) | three days, seven weeks before Easter; moves every year |
| Good Friday | the Friday before Easter; moves every year |
| Easter Sunday and Easter Monday | March or April; moves every year |
| King's Day | 27 April, or Saturday 26 April when 27 April falls on a Sunday |
| Liberation Day | 5 May |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, 39 days after Easter; moves every year |
| Whit Sunday and Whit Monday | seven weeks after Easter; moves every year |
| Christmas Eve | 24 December |
| Christmas Day and Boxing Day | 25 and 26 December |
| New Year's Eve | 31 December |
Example
Say you are closed on Christmas Day, New Year's Day and King's Day, and on Boxing Day, at Easter, at Whitsun and on Ascension Day you open from 12:00. Then you add these nine lines:
| Day | Opening hours |
|---|---|
| Christmas Day | Closed |
| New Year's Day | Closed |
| King's Day | Closed |
| Boxing Day | Other hours: 12:00 until your usual closing time |
| Easter Sunday | Other hours: 12:00 until your usual closing time |
| Easter Monday | Other hours: 12:00 until your usual closing time |
| Ascension Day | Other hours: 12:00 until your usual closing time |
| Whit Sunday | Other hours: 12:00 until your usual closing time |
| Whit Monday | Other hours: 12:00 until your usual closing time |
Your website then always shows the upcoming public holidays with the right date. Open now is right on those days too: at 10:00 on Easter Monday, for example, it says Closed now · opens today at 12:00.
Does a public holiday fall on a day you are closed anyway, for example Easter Sunday when you are always closed on Sundays? Just keep the line. Nothing changes on your website, and if your schedule changes later, it will automatically be right.
Holidays and other special days
For anything that isn't a public holiday, such as a summer closure, a renovation or an open day, you fill in the date yourself.
- Click Add special day and keep Own date under Day.
- Fill in the Date. Is it a period? Then also fill in Until.
- Give it a Description, for example Summer holiday. This is shown on your website.
- Choose Closed or Other hours.
- A new special day is set to Every year by default: only the day and month count, and it comes back every year on the same dates. Is it a one-off, such as a renovation or an open day? Untick it.
A special day without Every year disappears from your website automatically once it has passed; in the CMS it is then marked Past. You can remove it, but you don't have to.
If your website has more languages, the languages of the description are listed right below each other (NL, EN, …). If you leave another language empty, it is translated automatically when you click Save; with Translate now (next to Save) you see the translation before saving. Anything you write yourself in another language stays as it is.
Season or winter closure
The weekly schedule applies all year round. Are you only open from April to October, for example? Then add a special day with Own date from 1 November to 31 March, keep Closed and keep Every year ticked. Your website will then never say Open now in winter, in the years after either. Crossing the turn of the year is no problem.
What applies when days overlap?
If two special days fall on the same day, the most specific one applies:
- a special day with its own date that happens only once (without Every year);
- then a public holiday;
- then a period with Every year, such as a winter closure.
Are you closed all winter, for example, but open from 12:00 on Boxing Day? Add the winter closure and, as well, the public holiday Boxing Day with Other hours. On Boxing Day the hours of the holiday apply; the rest of the winter you are closed.
Details
Under Details you add something that applies to every day, for example Last admission at 16:30 or Evenings by appointment.
What do you see on your website?
- An overview from Monday to Sunday, with today in bold.
- Where your design has it: Open now until 17:00, or Closed now · opens tomorrow at 09:00. This is also correct on an exceptional day, such as Christmas.
- The upcoming exceptional days, with their description.
Exactly where it appears and what it looks like depends on your design. Have you filled in your opening hours but they are not on your website yet? Ask us to put them in the right place in your design.
Prices
For a museum, attraction, swimming pool or sports club, for example: the admission prices. (Do you sell products? You add those under Products.)
- Under Prices, click Add group and give the group a name, for example Admission or Packages.
- In the group, click Add price. Fill in the Description (Adults) and the price including VAT, for example 9.50.
- Is it free? Then tick Free; your website then shows Free instead of an amount.
- Under Details you add a short note below the description, for example up to age 3 or with Museum Card.
- Use the arrows to put groups and prices in the order you want; the bin removes them.
Does your website have more languages? Then the languages for the group name, the description and the details are listed right below each other. If you leave a language empty, your website shows the text in the first language there.
Entering new prices in advance
Are your prices going up on 1 January? Click the calendar button next to the current price and fill in Valid until 31 December. Add the new price and fill in Valid from 1 January there (also via the calendar button). Your website switches over automatically on the right day.
No Opening hours or Prices in your Company details?
Every website has Opening hours. Prices is only switched on for websites that show admission prices. If you can't see one of them, that part is switched off for your website. Ask us to switch it on.