Mastering OpenHours: Displaying Business Hours, Holidays, and Timezones on Your Wix Site
- Aug 5
- 4 min read
Updated: Aug 7
Getting Started with OpenHours Complete Guide
OpenHours is a Wix native app that lets you display your business hours on any page of your site, managed from a single dashboard. This guide covers everything you need to get up and running, from installation to holidays, timezones, and display modes.
Contents
Installing OpenHours
Adding the Widget to Your Site
Setting Your Weekly Schedule
Adding a Lunch or Mid day Break
Setting a Business Timezone
Adding a Schedule Message
Adding Holidays and Special Closures
Choosing a Display Mode
Starting Your Free Trial
Troubleshooting Common Issues
1. Installing OpenHours
Follow these steps to install OpenHours on your Wix site:
Go to the Wix App Market and search for OpenHours
Click Add to Site and select your Wix site
Click Agree & Add to accept the permissions
Once installed, OpenHours appears in your dashboard under Apps
Click Open to launch the OpenHours dashboard
OpenHours works on any Wix site and does not require Wix Stores or any other business solution.
2. Adding the Widget to Your Site
Installing the app adds it to your dashboard, but the Hours Widget itself needs to be placed on a page before it appears live on your site.
From the OpenHours dashboard, click Open Editor under the Setup & Help section, or open your site's Editor directly
In the Editor, go to Add Elements → App Widgets (or find OpenHours under Manage Apps)
Drag the Hours Widget onto any page as your header, footer, contact page, and homepage are common choices
Publish your site once the widget is placed
You only need to do this once per site. After that, any changes you make in the OpenHours dashboard are reflected in the widget without needing to touch the Editor again.
3. Setting Your Weekly Schedule
Open the OpenHours dashboard → the Weekly Schedule card
For each day, use the toggle to mark it Open or Closed
For open days, set an Open and Close time
Click Save once you're done
Every day is configured independently, so your schedule can be different for each day of the week including different hours on weekends or a day marked closed entirely.
4. Adding a Lunch or Mid-Day Break
On any open day, click Add break
A second Open/Close time pair appears below the day's main hours
Set the start and end time of the break for example, a lunch closure from 13:00 to 14:00
Remove a break at any time using the delete icon next to it
A day can have at most one break window in addition to its main open and close time.
5. Setting a Business Timezone
In the Weekly Schedule card, find the Business Timezone field
Leave it on Automatic if you want hours evaluated in each visitor's own local time
Or select a fixed timezone (for example, Eastern Time or Central European Time) so your hours are always evaluated against your business's actual location, regardless of where a visitor is browsing from
Choosing a fixed timezone is recommended for physical storefronts, restaurants, and service businesses with one clear location. Automatic is better suited to online businesses without a single home base.
6. Adding a Schedule Message
In the Weekly Schedule card, find the Schedule Message field
Enter a short note to appear beneath your weekly hours in the widget for example, "We are closed on public holidays" or "Hours may vary on weekends"
This message is optional and applies to the weekly schedule as a whole, separate from any per holiday messages.
7. Adding Holidays and Special Closures
Open the Holidays & Special Closures card
Click Add Holiday
Enter a Holiday Name, a Date, and optionally an End Date to make the entry span a range of days (useful for multi-day closures like a seasonal break)
Toggle Closed all day, or switch it off to set special Open and Close times for that date instead
Add an optional Message, such as "Wishing you a Merry Christmas!"
Click Save
Upcoming holidays are intended to appear in the widget as their dates approach, overriding the regular weekly schedule for the dates you've set.
8. Choosing a Display Mode
OpenHours supports three display modes for the widget, set from the widget's settings panel in the Editor:
Card view shows each day as a tab, with today highlighted
List view shows all days as rows in a single vertical list
Compact view shows only today's hours, suited to headers and footers where space is limited
You can change the display mode at any time without affecting your saved hours or holidays.
9. Starting Your Free Trial
OpenHours includes a 14-day free trial. Until a trial is started or the app is upgraded, the dashboard displays example data so you can see how everything works, but editing and saving are disabled.
Open the OpenHours dashboard
Under Your Plan, click Start Your Free Trial or Upgrade to Pro
Once your trial is active, all fields unlock and your saved hours, holidays, and settings take effect
Your widget continues showing your most recently saved hours even if a trial ends, so your site never shows blank or broken content editing simply pauses until you upgrade.
10. Troubleshooting Common Issues
The widget is not showing on my live site
Confirm you've opened the Editor at least once and added the Hours Widget to a page installing the app alone does not place the widget for you
Make sure your site has been published after adding the widget
Clear your browser cache and reload the page
I can't edit my hours in the dashboard
Check the Your Plan card fields are shown but disabled until your free trial is started or the app is upgraded
If you believe your trial or plan should be active, refresh the dashboard page
A holiday isn't appearing on the expected date
Double check the Date and, if used, the End Date fields are set correctly
Confirm the change was saved by reopening the Holidays card
If you've set a fixed business timezone, remember the holiday date is evaluated against that timezone, not the visitor's local time
The app is not appearing in my dashboard
Go to your Wix site dashboard → Apps → Manage Apps
Check that OpenHours is listed and not paused or disabled
If it does not appear, reinstall from the Wix App Market
Still need help?
Contact our support team at support@kalvegalabs.com and we will get back to you within 24 hours.
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