Guide

Add your business to the directory

A basic listing is free. Add your business, logo and opening hours, and enquiries reach you directly from community members.

A basic listing is free, and stays free. No card, no trial that expires.

What you get for nothing

  • A full page for your business in Arabic and English
  • Logo, cover image and a photo gallery
  • Opening hours, plus closing days for Eid and holidays
  • A list of your services, with prices if you want to show them
  • Enquiries delivered to an inbox inside the platform
  • Statistics: how often you appeared in search results, and how often your page was opened

How to add your business

  1. Create an account with your phone number and confirm the code we text you.
  2. From your dashboard choose "Add a business" and fill in the name, description, category and contact details.
  3. Submit it for review. You will usually hear back within a day or two.
  4. Once you are live, finish the page: photos, opening hours, services.

Make the page work for you

  • Upload real photos. A page with clear pictures gets opened far more than one showing a single letter where the logo should be. Order them however you like — the first one leads.
  • Fill in your hours. The first question anybody asks is whether you are open right now.
  • Add closing days ahead of time. An Eid closure shows on your page, so nobody drives over to a locked door.
  • List the languages you speak. On this platform that is a main reason people pick one business over another.
  • Reply to reviews. A calm reply to a complaint is read by dozens of people who never write anything themselves.

For example: a restaurant uploaded six photos of its dishes, filled in its hours and added its Eid closure. It began appearing in searches for "restaurant" several times more often than before, and started taking booking enquiries straight from the page.

Being seen versus being opened

Your statistics show two numbers: how often your listing appeared in a result list, and how often the page was opened. High appearances with low opens does not mean people cannot find you — it means your card in the list is not worth clicking, usually a missing logo or a flat description.

Beyond the page

Once your business is live you can also post a job opening, create a members-only offer or coupon, and see the requests from people looking for work that ordinary members never see.

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