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Opening Hours let you keep the Captive Portal available only during the hours your venue is open. Outside those hours, guests reaching the portal see an “outside opening hours” message instead of a sign-in form. Open Portal Configuration → Opening Hours from the Context admin.

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When to use Opening Hours

  • Venues with fixed hours — offices, shops, conference centres. Guests arriving after close shouldn’t see a working sign-in form.
  • Events with time-bound access — pair with the Event Access module to run a portal only during the event window.
  • Shared spaces with quiet hours — co-working and co-living venues that don’t want to serve guest WiFi overnight.
If your venue runs 24/7, you can leave Opening Hours disabled — the portal is always available by default.

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How Opening Hours interact with sessions

Opening Hours restrict the sign-in flow, not existing sessions:
  • A guest who signed in inside opening hours keeps access until their session expires according to the applicable Access Policy — even if that expiry falls outside opening hours.
  • A guest reaching the portal outside opening hours cannot start a new sign-in flow.
  • Per-module timeouts and end-date policies are unaffected by Opening Hours.

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Configuring a schedule

Define a schedule per weekday. Typical patterns:
  • Same hours every day — set one time range and apply it across all weekdays.
  • Weekdays vs weekends — one schedule Mon–Fri, another Sat–Sun.
  • Closed on certain days — leave a day’s schedule empty to close the portal entirely on that day.
Opening Hours use the Organization’s configured timezone. If your venues span multiple timezones, consider separate Sign-In Contexts per venue.

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What guests see outside opening hours

The portal shows a branded “outside opening hours” page with no sign-in methods available. The page inherits the same Look & Feel as the regular portal and the message is localized to the guest’s browser language.

Access Policies

Control per-session durations — separate from Opening Hours.

Event Access

Pair with Opening Hours for time-bound event portals.