Garden centers and nurseries

Tell gardeners on Google Maps what your garden center sells this month and where to park

A garden center is chosen by someone who wants to walk the rows and pick the plant by hand: the first warm weekend, a bare patch in a bed, a hedge that must go in before the ground hardens. The trip only makes sense in season, so the listing has to say which season it is in: what the grounds are selling this month, how to check one plant before the drive, and where a big order is loaded. A dedicated manager keeps your Google Business Profile in step with the calendar and writes down who at the center confirmed each change. What stands on the tables today is yours to answer, and the listing never says how a plant will do once it leaves.

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The season, the tables, the way in, then the boundary of what is sold

The four steps run in the order a buyer with a season to catch reads the listing. Each one ends on a fact the center has confirmed, and nothing on the listing changes before that.

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The range of the season, described as lines and refreshed when the season turns

A garden center carries several ranges in a year: bedding plants and vegetable seedlings in spring, perennials and shrubs in summer, hedge plants and trees in fall, cut trees near winter. The lines carried now go into the products or services, each confirmed by the center and dated to come down. The listing never says that a given variety is on the table today. When the season turns, old lines come off and new ones go up on the center's word that the stock has arrived.
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Then the choosing on the grounds, and the one way to check a plant

The trip is worth making because the buyer picks by hand. The listing says so, names the sales area visitors walk and its hours, and gives the one route the center has agreed for checking a plant before the drive: a number answered by somebody who can walk to the tables, or a message line. The profile itself keeps no count of what is left, so the description says the final choice is made on the grounds.
3

Then the arrival: the entrance, the loading spot and pickup of large orders

A tree with a root ball, a flat of seedlings and a load of pots each need a place where the car can stand. The center says where a car waits, where a large order is brought out, who helps and with what, and whether a van or a trailer fits. The address detail names the entrance of the sales area, and the loading spot gets its own sentence and a photo of the approach taken from the car window.
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Then the retail boundary: plants sold, work offered only when it exists

A garden center sells plants and planting stock. Planting a garden bed, designing a garden or laying a lawn is a different business, so any such service comes off the listing, categories included, unless the center names it as something it does; then it becomes an entry of its own in the center's words. Where the center only sells, the description says so plainly, and a caller who wants a crew is answered at the counter.

Send the season calendar and the entrance

Start with what only the center knows: the lines on the tables now and the date each one ends, the hours this season, where a car is left and a big order loaded, and whether any planting service is offered. The manager lays the live listing over it and proposes a package.

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Searching from a season: perennials, a hedge, a fruit tree

The search starts from a season or a kind of plant: perennials, a fruit tree, a hedge. A listing that names that word and shows the way in is one a buyer can plan a trip around.

The need arrives as a plant type or a job: perennials near me, fruit trees, a beech hedge, vegetable seedlings, potting soil in a big bag. The reader picks the listing whose categories, products and photographs match that word. A listing with only a title and a phone number says nothing about what grows there.
The first thing a reader wants from the gallery is one answer: is this a nursery with stock in rows, a garden center with greenhouses and a sales floor, or a store with a few shelves of pots? Somebody after one tree and somebody after a whole garden bed want different things from the same pictures.
The date of a photograph gets read as closely as its sharpness. A frame full of tulips in a November search reads as a promise about the wrong month, and a reader who has once driven out to a bare table stops trusting the gallery.
Choosing in person is the point of the trip, so the reader looks for a sign that they can walk the grounds: the sales area hours, the entrance, carts, and whether the greenhouses are open to visitors.
A large purchase turns the listing into a logistics question. Where does the car or truck go, does somebody help with loading, will a tree with a root ball go onto a tailgate, does an order have to be arranged before arriving?
A buyer with one specific plant in mind looks for a way to ask: a number answered by somebody who can walk to the tables, or a message line. With no route, the reader guesses, and a wrong guess costs a whole drive.

Last season stays on the listing long after the tables have changed

A garden center changes with the calendar: what stands on the tables, when the gates open, which corner is in use. The listing learns of this only from a person, so a listing left alone keeps describing last season.

Spring photographs are still the first thing a reader sees in fall. The tables in them held bedding plants that were sold weeks ago, and the visitor arrives expecting them.
The range in the description names a season that has ended: seedlings after the planting window has closed, bare-root stock after it has been potted or sold, a cut-tree lot weeks after the lot has closed.
The website link opens a catalog page written for another season and naming varieties the center no longer carries. The visitor who drove out for one of them aims the review at the listing.
The hours keep the long summer evenings after the grounds have started closing at dusk, so somebody reaches a locked gate. Or the winter break is not shown at all and the map says open.
A planting or landscaping service sits among the listed services because Google suggested it, and the phone fills with people who want a crew the center does not employ.
Delivery or pickup attributes are set on the listing without the center having said so, and a buyer of a tree turns up expecting a drop-off that the center does not run.

Where a season fits on a garden center profile

A season, a growing area and a loading spot each ride on a field meant for another job, so the manager sets them by hand and checks them against what the center has confirmed.

The primary category from Google's list, chosen by what the center lives on. Extra categories go on only for a department the grounds really have, and a landscaping category stays off unless the center does that work.
Products, where the product editor suits the center: the lines of the current season (perennials, shrubs, fruit trees, vegetable seedlings, bulbs, potting mixes, pots), with no price and no line that implies a named variety is on the table today. The set changes when the season does.
The services list, holding only what the center runs itself: help carrying and loading, pickup of an order, and a planting or design service only when the center names it, as an entry of its own and never as part of the retail description.
The hours field for the sales area, special hours for short breaks and holidays, and the mark temporarily closed, which Google's guidance asks for when a closure runs longer than a week or covers the off-season.
Attributes the center has confirmed and no others: an accessible entrance and accessible parking. Some are filled in by Google from visitor reports, so each pass rereads them instead of assuming.
The description, where a sentence can explain how a buyer checks one plant before driving out, that the center sells plants and garden goods, and what to expect at loading. It says nothing about how a plant will do in a garden.

Each month starts from the season calendar

Every month begins with the center's season calendar: which lines are on the tables and until what date, the hours for this part of the year, the entrance, the loading spot and the services it runs. The manager lays the live listing over the calendar and proposes only the lines that have passed their date.

The season calendar lives in the dashboard: each range line with the date it goes up and the date it comes down, the hours for each part of the year, the entrance and the loading spot, with the name of the person at the center who gave the dates.
The range is read first every month, because the season turns before anything else does. Lines for a finished season come down, and lines for the next one go up on the center's word that the stock is on the grounds.
The gallery is set against the tables. A frame of last season's stock is proposed for replacement whenever the center can supply a current one, and a plant photographed in bloom is named in the description or in a post as a picture of that season.
The hours for the next change of season are set as soon as the center gives the date. The off-season break is marked as soon as the center gives its dates, and short breaks go in as special hours.
Posts and offers are checked for their end dates. A sale on a stock line carries the date it ends and comes down on it, so it is not still standing in the updates when the plants are gone.
Services, categories and attributes are read for additions by Google or by visitors: a planting service, a landscaping category, a delivery option. Each one goes to the center as a plain question, does this exist, and stays only if the answer is yes.

Settings that follow the season, each with Google's own page

A garden listing has a calendar built into it. These are the settings where the calendar shows, each one backed by a Google page.

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Mark the winter break as temporarily closed, then mark the reopening

Google asks for the temporarily closed status when a closure runs longer than a week, covers the off-season or has no end date, and says a closed profile can be reopened. The break goes in on the day the center names it. When the gates open again the profile is marked reopened, so a spring buyer does not meet a closed sign on the day the first tables go out.

Google's help on this: Mark your business as closed
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Give every arrival and every sale a start and an end date

In the post editor an offer needs a title and dates, and an event needs start and end dates; Google also says posts without a date range are archived as they age. Use those for what is time-bound on the grounds: the bare-root week, the cut-tree lot, an open weekend. An arrival post names the kind of plant and carries its end date too, so the post leaves with the stock.

Google's help on this: Create & manage posts on your Business Profile
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Choose the most specific category, and add only departments the grounds really have

Google's category page asks for the most specific category the list offers and says a category cannot be invented. Extra categories are for special departments, not for each kind of plant, so a greenhouse of houseplants can earn one where the list has it, and a row of roses cannot. A landscaping category stays off unless the center does that work.

Google's help on this: Manage your business category
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Retire last season's photos from the gallery

Google's photo page asks that photos represent reality and shows that an owner can delete a photo of their own, with the newest media listed first. A photo of bedding plants that sold out in spring is a picture of something the center no longer has, so the manager proposes that each photo of a finished season goes, and a current frame of the same table takes its place.

Google's help on this: Manage your Business Profile photos & videos - Computer
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Put plant lines into the product editor with this season's photo

A nursery's own plants have no manufacturer barcode and no live stock count, the cases Google lists for the product editor. Add each line with a photograph taken on the grounds this season, and edit or delete the product when the line ends. A line stays a line: no price, and no variety named as standing on the tables today.

Google's help on this: About product editor

Reviews about a plant that did not last, a bare table and a car that would not fit

Garden reviews come one purchase at a time: a shrub that dropped its leaves, a variety that was not out yet, a tree that would not go into the car. The reply says what the center can look into and promises nothing about the plant, inside the package's monthly limit.

A review saying a plant died is answered without a verdict on the cause, since weather, planting depth, watering and the plant itself are all unknown to the reply. It thanks the reviewer, says the center wants the details and takes the particulars off the public page.
A review complaining that the plant on the photograph was not on the table gets a reply that explains, without argument, how the center confirms one plant before a trip, and points to that route for next time.
Thanks for help at the tables get an answer naming the part of the grounds and the question it settled, and never the buyer's garden, address or spend.
If a reviewer asks who can plant what they bought, the reply says what the center would say at the checkout. The center sells the plants, and a planting service is mentioned only if the center runs one, in the words agreed.
Repeated complaints are pulled together over the month (an entrance that is hard to find, a sold-out corner at closing time, a long wait for a large order) and handed to whoever can change the grounds, not answered one at a time.

Where a human has to step in

A review that claims somebody was hurt on the grounds, that a plant or a treatment harmed a person or a pet, or that demands money goes to you first, and the words that go public are yours.
No reply promises that a plant will live, grow or flower, that a replacement will be given or that a refund will be paid. Terms of that kind are the center's own and appear only in words you have approved.

Plant complaints answered without anyone guessing at the cause

The manager drafts replies that thank the buyer, describe how the center can look into a purchase and leave out the garden, the address and the spend. Replies about a plant that did not last wait for your approval.

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Posts that carry their own end date

What deserves a post is the grounds as a visitor will meet them this month: what has arrived, which corner is open, what is about to end. Every post has a date after which it comes down.

One section of the tables at a time, photographed in the week it is published: the herb table, the row of fruit trees, the shade plants under the canopy, with the row signs visible, so a reader can find the same spot on arrival.
A new arrival, published once the center confirms the stock is on the grounds: the first bedding plants, the bare-root hedge plants, the cut trees. The post names the kind of plant, gets an end date and never says how long the stock will last.
The way in and the way out with a load: the entrance from the road, the spot where a car waits while an order is brought out, the place where staff help strap a tree down, all shot from where the driver sits.
Events on the grounds, posted as events with a start and an end: a planting demonstration, an open weekend, a seed swap. Advice given at such an event belongs to the center, and the post does not turn it into a promise about results.
No claim to the biggest range, the lowest price or plants that never fail. That a department exists is a fact; what is standing in it this afternoon, or how a plant will do in a given garden, cannot be pinned down in a post.

One set of grounds, or several sites with seasons of their own

One location

A garden center is a calendar before it is a place: when bedding plants go out, when hedge stock comes in, when the tables are cleared for the cut-tree lot, when the grounds close. The manager keeps that calendar as a dated list and rereads the listing against the date, not against memory.

A network

Grounds in different places open their seasons on different days, so each site gets its own listing and its own calendar: one site can start bedding season weeks before another. A nursery and a retail center on the same property become separate listings only if Google's rules treat them as separate public places. Reply tone and the photo standard are set once for the group, and each site sits on its own package and invoice.

Who knows what happens on the grounds, and when

What the manager does

Puts each range line on the listing for its own dates, once the center confirms the stock is on the grounds, and takes it down when the season is over.
Marks the winter break as temporarily closed from the dates the center gives, keeps the entrance, loading spot and sales-area hours accurate, and marks the center reopened when it reopens.
Removes planting, landscaping or design work wherever it has appeared on the listing without the center offering it.

What you confirm

What stands on the grounds now, what is due, and the dates on which each part of the season begins and ends.
Where a car or truck is loaded, who helps and with what, and when the sales area, the greenhouses and the checkout are open in each season.
How a buyer confirms one plant before driving out, and what the center is willing to say in public when a plant did not do well.

A first month at a garden center, from last season's photos to this season's lines

an example of the process, not a client result

Week 1

The manager writes the season down: the lines now on the tables and those due next, the hours, the entrance, the loading spot and the services the center runs. You read the calendar before any field is touched.
Week 2

Corrections you approve. The primary category settles on what the center lives on, planting or landscaping services it does not run come off, the season's range becomes product lines with end dates and no prices, and the hours match the season now running.
Week 3

The way in and the gallery. The entrance to the sales area goes into the address lines, the loading spot gets a sentence and a photograph of the approach, frames from another season are replaced, and open reviews are answered.
Week 4

The report lists what moved with the calendar: lines taken down, lines put up with their end dates, photos swapped, hours changed, each beside the name of whoever approved it, and the dates when the next change of season is due.

Take this as an example of one possible first month for a garden center, not a result; it forecasts nothing about visits or sales. The list is longer or shorter according to the package and to how many lines have passed their date.

Walk to the gate and compare it with the listing this week

Open the first five photographs on your listing and note the season each one shows. If the tables in them hold plants that are gone, a reader arrives expecting something you no longer have.
Read your services and categories for planting, landscaping or garden design. If the center does not do that work, take it off, since every call it brings ends with the counter saying no.
Follow the website link and look for a variety you know is not available this season. If the page still offers it, that is the page a disappointed review will quote.
Stand where the road meets the entrance and read what the listing tells a driver: which gate, where to leave a car, where a big order is loaded. If any of the three is missing, the driver has to guess.
Search for your center by name and hold the name on the map against the sign at the gate, word for word. Plant names or sale words added to it can lead to a suspension.

Compare the gate and the tables with your listing, or send it to us

Photos from another season, a planting service you do not offer and a variety already sold out are the usual finds. The manager runs these checks, fixes the listing and asks you only what is on the grounds now.

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What the listing leaves unsaid: stock, survival and work the center does not do

The listing does not say that a plant is on the tables today, due on a date or priced at anything. The stock is in the center's hands; the profile carries the season's lines and a way to check one plant.
No page or post claims how a plant will do once it leaves: that it will live, flower or fruit. That depends on a garden the center never sees, and any terms the center offers are its own, in its own words.
Planting, design, landscaping, delivery and pickup are listed only once the center confirms them, and come off when it says they have stopped; a service Google suggested is not yet a service.

Google's own help for this kind of business

Each link opens an article of Google Business Profile Help, in this page's language where Google offers one. The line under it says why it matters here.

Mark your business as closed
A winter break and a spring reopening are both status changes, and this page says when to use temporarily closed and how to reopen.
How to set Special hours
A short break or a holiday is a special-hours entry, and this page shows how to set it so the regular hours stay untouched.
Create & manage posts on your Business Profile
Arrivals, sales and open weekends are posts with dates, and this page says what each post type needs and how Google reviews it.
About product editor
Plants without barcodes can go into the product editor, and this page says who it suits and how to edit or remove a product.
Manage your business category
This page explains how to choose the most specific category from Google's list and when an extra one is for a department.
Manage your Business Profile photos & videos - Computer
Last season's photos have to make way for this season's, and this page covers the photo rules and how to delete one.
About photo updates from customers
Visitors post photo updates of bare tables and full ones, and this page says where to find them and how to reply.
Manage your business attributes
An accessible entrance and other details are attributes, and this page says some of them are filled in from what visitors report.

What is the same for every industry

The industry page above is about what changes from one business to the next. The part below is the same for a restaurant and a dental practice alike: the packages, the split of duties and the rules Google sets. It applies to the Google Business Profile, the listing many still call Google My Business.

How the packages work here

Each location we service is on one of three packages. The package sets how many posts and review replies a month are included, how the profile details are updated, and whether the monthly optimization, the catalog of goods and services and the advertising are included. Prices are on the pricing page. See the prices Everything the team handles

Start

Profile upkeep

€75 per Google location per month · without VAT

4 posts or offers a month
Up to 50 review replies a month
3 requests to update the profile details
Photo updates
Review QR code
Basic monthly report
Manager's first reply: up to 2 business days

Business

Profile development

€149 per Google location per month · without VAT

24 posts or offers a month
Up to 200 review replies a month
Regular updates to the profile details
Monthly optimization and SEO of the profile
Goods and services added gradually
Content plan and competitor analysis
Extended monthly report
Quarterly consultation
Manager's first reply: up to 1 business day

Pro

Profile development and advertising

€249 per Google location per month · without VAT

Everything in Business
24 posts or offers and up to 200 review replies a month
Initial setup and launch of Google Ads
Ad copy and images prepared
Advertising in one language
Campaigns run and optimized every month
Extended report with the advertising work and plan
Manager's first reply: up to 1 business day

The manager proposes, you approve

The manager drafts every change, post and reply from your materials. Nothing is published, restored or billed without your yes; a flagged edit or a package switch waits for you.

Who does what, in every industry

What the manager does

Checks the profile regularly and keeps a written record of the agreed data.
Prepares the updates to the profile details, the posts and the offers from your materials and the agreed plan.
Replies to reviews within the monthly limit, in the tone you set once at the start, and hands anything sensitive back to you the same day.
Writes the monthly report and puts recommendations into the dashboard chat instead of acting on them alone.

What you confirm

The facts only you know: current hours, prices, services, photos, who is on the team this month.
The tone of replies, set once at the start, and the wording of anything escalated to you.
The yes before a value someone else changed is restored and before a location moves between packages; nothing is charged without it.

What works the same way in every industry

Ownership and access: the profile stays the property of the business. The manager works from the business's own account with manager rights, and the first step of the first month is confirming who owns the profile and who else still has access.
Suspension: if Google suspends a profile, the manager looks for the likely cause, corrects the data to match the paperwork the business holds and files the request to reinstate. This is part of every package. Timing and the decision stay with Google.
Duplicates: a second profile at the same address, or an old one left after a move, is reported to Google with the evidence. What stays and what merges is agreed with you before anything is sent.
Measuring: when you agree to it, the website link in the profile gets tagging, so visits that start on the profile show up separately in your analytics. Calls and direction requests are counted in Google's own profile statistics, and only you know which of them became a customer.
Recurring customer questions: the answers are written into the profile's own fields and updates, worded as you confirmed. Google turned off the questions and answers API for Business Profiles on 3 November 2025 while it reworks the feature, so this part of the work does not rely on that section.

Google's rules that apply to every profile

Local ranking is Google's own weighing of relevance, distance and prominence. No service can buy a position or promise a place in the results.
Verification, eligibility and which categories exist are Google's rules and differ by country.
Photos and reviews left by other people cannot be deleted by us. Where they break Google's rules they can be reported, and Google decides.
Booking, ordering or delivery features are connected only when you already run them with a provider Google supports in your country.
The number of posts and review replies per month is fixed by the package, and what is unused in a month does not carry over. On Start the profile details are updated on agreed requests, on Business and Pro regularly, as the business changes.

Reviews: the same policy everywhere

We do not ask only happy customers for reviews, do not offer anything in exchange for one and do not remove reviews: Google takes down a review that breaks its rules, and the author can delete their own.
We do not promise a rating, a position in the results or more customers. We promise the agreed process, every month.

Sources for Google's rules

We last checked the Google rules on this page against Google's Help pages in September 2026.

What the team handles for this industry

Profile data Your Google Maps listing details are right, and we keep them that way Content A Google Maps listing that looks alive: posts and offers go out on a plan Reviews Reviews answered by a person who knows your business

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The rest of the local SEO work

This page is about the profile: what a manager keeps correct on the map every month. Local search also depends on the website itself, on citations and on the pages a customer lands on after the map. Those we handle separately, and the express review points to which of them is actually holding you back.

The season changes, the profile keeps up

A manager sets up the entrance, loading and opening details and keeps the listing in step with the season calendar you send. You confirm what stands on the grounds and what is due.

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Frequently asked questions

How do we show the seasonal range without promising stock of a specific plant? +

By describing lines instead of varieties, and by saying how a buyer checks one plant. The listing names what the center carries this season (perennials, shrubs, fruit trees, vegetable seedlings, potting mixes), each line with the date it comes down. The description says plainly that the final choice is made on the grounds and names the route for confirming a plant: a call answered by somebody who can walk to the tables, or a message line. Because plants sell out between visits, no sentence about availability is written.

How do we separate selling plants from a landscaping service we do not offer? +

Check where the idea comes from: a planting or landscaping service taken from Google's list of suggested services, or a landscaper category on the profile. Both are removed, and the description states plainly that the center sells plants and garden goods. If the center does run such a service, it becomes an entry of its own in the center's words, apart from the retail description. The manager never adds it from a phone call or a review, and the listing recommends no one.

We close for the winter. What do we set on the listing? +

The center gives the dates, and the manager marks the listing temporarily closed, which Google's guidance asks for when a closure runs longer than a week or covers the off-season. A shorter break goes in as special hours. Google notes that for broad searches a temporarily closed place can rank after open ones, so the dates are entered carefully. When the center reopens, the mark comes off and the new season's lines go up.

We take orders in winter for spring stock that has not arrived. Can the listing say so? +

The listing can carry the way to place such an order: in the description and, where the center already runs a page or form for it, as an ordering link that Google supports in your country. It says that this is an order and not a plant standing on the table, and who confirms it. Arrival dates and prices stay off the profile.

A visitor's photo update shows our tables bare in late summer. Can it come down? +

Not on that ground alone. Google says an owner cannot stop customers from posting photo updates and can report only those that break its content policies; a bare table does not. The center can reply in the Google Maps app, where such updates are found, and put its own dated photos into the gallery so that the freshest frames show the season now running. Google also notes that visitors' photo updates can show new products or seasonal changes.

Our growing fields are closed to visitors and only the yard is open. How do we show that? +

The description and the hours say which part of the site is open to the public and when, and how a trade buyer arranges a visit to anything else. The address detail names the entrance to the yard, not the field road. A listing has one pin for one address, so the split is written in words.

We deliver big trees with our own truck. How do we show it without promising dates? +

Delivery goes in as an entry of its own, and the delivery attribute is set only once the center confirms it. Google fills in some attributes from what visitors report, so the attribute is read again on every pass, and Google's page notes that some attributes are not available in every category or country. The description says who delivers and how to ask, and never a date or a fee, which stay with the center.

Can our posts say which plants suit shade or will survive the winter? +

Posts can say what the center carries. They make no claim about how a plant will do in a particular garden, because the center cannot see the garden, and a sentence that reads as a promise becomes the quote in a complaint. Anything a pot label says stays on the label, and advice on shade or winter hardiness is given by the staff at the tables.

A neighboring industry, and what is different there

Hardware and building supply stores Somebody halfway through a job needs one thing before closing: which department has it, which counter mixes or cuts it, where a van loads, and whether the yard is still open when they pull in. Florists Holiday hours, the same-day cutoff, the delivery area and current bouquet photos on your Google profile, kept correct every month, with calm replies to complaints.

Put this month's grounds on the listing

Send the address of your listing. A reply from a dedicated manager arrives inside one business day, opens with the corrections that matter first and names a package per location, each on its own billing. The center answers for the tables; the listing only says how to ask.

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We work on Business Profiles under Google's rules for agencies. What to expect from an agency, Google explains in Tips for working with third parties to manage your Business Profile.