# Maintain or retire a location > PositiveForm guide · Locations · LOC-002 > Canonical page: https://positiveform.com/guides/locations/maintain-location/ > This Markdown: https://positiveform.com/guides/locations/maintain-location.md **Summary:** Update location details and hours or retire a location safely. Profile, hours, staff assignments, and any retirement replacement are saved without stranding… **Who can do this:** Organization owners, Managers **Required access:** `locations.manage` **Where in PositiveForm:** `/settings/locations/:publicId` **Status:** Verified on 2026-07-29 against PositiveForm build `9096f81`. ## Who this is for This guide is for an **organization owner** or a **manager** keeping a site's details current, and for an **organization owner** closing a site down. You need the `locations.manage` permission to edit a location. Retiring and reopening a location are owner-only, so the **Close this location** card appears only for an organization owner. Retiring also asks you to re-enter your password or sign-in code before it runs, because it moves live records. ## Before you begin - Know which location you are changing. One organization can run several, and each has its own address, hours, and staff. - To retire a location, first know where its active work should continue. PositiveForm asks you to name a replacement location for the members, households, staff assignments, and future programs that live there. - An organization must keep at least one active location. The last one cannot be retired. ## Steps ### Open the location 1. Click **Settings** in the left navigation, then click **Locations**. 2. Click the location you want to change. Its page opens with a **Settings › Locations** breadcrumb and the location name as the heading. The organization's default location is marked **Default**. A location that still needs details shows **Setup · 0 of 3 complete** near the top, listing what is missing: **Business address**, **Phone number**, and **Contact email**. ### Update the profile 3. In the **Profile** card, edit **Name**, **Address**, **Address line 2**, **City**, **State**, **ZIP**, **Phone**, and **Contact email**. 4. Set **Scheduling time zone**. Leave it on **Use organization time zone** when this site runs on the same clock as the rest of the business, or pick a specific zone when it does not. Program schedules at this location follow this setting. 5. Click **Save profile**. ### Set the hours families see 6. In **Hours of operation**, type each day's hours in plain language, for example `4:00 PM - 8:30 PM`, or `Closed` for a day you are shut. 7. Click **Save hours**. ### Check who works here 8. Read the **Staff working here** card. Each person is listed as either **Home location** or **Additional work location**, and **Open profile** takes you to their staff record. 9. To change who works here, go to **Settings › Staff** and edit the person there. A work location says where someone normally teaches; it does not grant or restrict their role. ### Retire a location you are closing 10. Scroll to **Close this location** and click **Retire location**. If the button is greyed out with **An organization needs at least one active location**, this is your only active site and cannot be retired. 11. Read the **Retire** dialog. It first shows what is still active here, for example the number of members, households, staff assignments, and future programs. If nothing needs to move it says so. 12. If a replacement is required, click **Continue**, then choose a **Replacement location**. Active members and households are rehomed there, staff assignments move, and future programs, testing, and open leads continue there. 13. Click **Retire location** in the dialog and complete the sign-in check PositiveForm asks for. ### Reopen a location you closed 14. Open the retired location from **Settings › Locations**. Its card now reads **Archived location**. 15. Click **Reopen location**. ## Expected outcome Saving the profile confirms with **Location updated**, and saving hours confirms with **Hours updated**. Both persist: reload the page and the new values are still there, and the setup checklist at the top drops the items you completed. The location's address and hours are what families and staff see for that site. Retiring confirms with ** retired**. The location disappears from location pickers and page filters and stops being offered on new forms, and the records you moved now sit at the replacement location. Nothing historical is rewritten: past attendance, promotions, and invoices stay attached to the location where they happened. Reopening confirms with ** reopened** and makes the site selectable again. ## Screenshots ![A retired location, showing Profile, Hours of operation, Staff working here, and the Archived location card with Reopen location](https://positiveform.com/guides/media/LOC-002/20260729T015000Z/001-location-profile.webp) ![An active location, with the same cards and Close this location offering Retire location](https://positiveform.com/guides/media/LOC-002/20260729T015000Z/002-active-location-retire.webp) ## Recovery If saving the profile fails, PositiveForm shows **Couldn't save. Check the fields and try again.** Your typing is still on screen. Correct the fields and click **Save profile** again. Saving hours fails with **Couldn't save hours.** and behaves the same way. If the fields are greyed out, your role does not carry `locations.manage`. Ask an organization owner to make the change. If retiring fails, PositiveForm shows **That location could not be retired.** with the reason, and the location stays active. The most common reason is that active work still needs a replacement location; reopen the dialog and choose one. If you cancel the sign-in check, nothing is retired. Start again from **Retire location** when you are ready. Retiring the wrong location is recoverable: open it again and click **Reopen location**. Records that were rehomed to the replacement location do not move back on their own, so check the members and staff that were affected. ## Related guides - [Create a location](https://positiveform.com/guides/locations/create-location/) — add a new site before retiring an old one, so there is somewhere for its active work to continue. - [Switch operating locations](https://positiveform.com/guides/workspace/switch-location/) — switch the console to another location after retiring the one you were working in. --- Source: PositiveForm customer guides, https://positiveform.com/guides/. Every guide as one file for AI assistants: https://positiveform.com/llms-full.txt. Guide index: https://positiveform.com/llms.txt.