Not Able to Re-Open Location??

[sarmcl]

HI All

We have seen this in various locations where they were Temp Closed and we want to re-open but the option isnt there. What the heck!?

 

[chadkimball]

what business category is this

 

[sarmcl]

what business category is this

We have seen it for everything from Bank to Optician to Furniture Store. All different clients. Separate GMB dashboards

 

[sarmcl]

We found this article Reopen a location - Computer - Google My Business Help

You cant re-open it from the locations Info page! You have to re-open from the home page of dashboard. This is crazy

 

[Chris Lister]

I was having the same issue. Thank you for posting the answer!

 

[Peter Hill]

Looks like a bug. Re-opening it from the dashboard didn't work for me, but permanently closing then re-opening worked for me.

This might be risky from a ranking perspective though?

 

[JoyHawkins]

There are lots of people reporting that they don't have the option to reopen the listing on the info tab. I updated our article a couple days ago with 3 different ways to re-open the listing. The 2nd and 3rd should work if the first does not.

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