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# Business Hours for iOS

If you've set up business hours in Salesforce, use the `retrieveBusinessHours` method to check for business hours and handle things accordingly. For instance, you can hide the chat button outside of business hours. When using the UI SDK, customers see a banner in the chat window when it's outside of business hours.

To configure business hours for your deployment, see [Set Business Hours in Enhanced Chat](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=service.miaw_business_hours.htm).


**important:** This feature requires version 1.3.0 or later of the Enhanced In-App Chat SDK.


This article applies to the following implementations:

| UI SDK | Core SDK |
| :----: | :------: |
|   ✅   |    ✅    |


Retrieve the business hours from the core client object using the `retrieveBusinessHours` method, and then determine how to proceed based on that information. This method returns the business hours over the next 24 hours. You can use the helper method `isWithinBusinessHours` to determine whether a time is within business hours; specify `nil` for the `comparisonTime` to use the current time.

**note:** This sample requires the configuration object that you created when setting up the UI SDK or the Core SDK. See [Build a UI SDK App](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/service/messaging-in-app/guide/ios-ui-sdk.md) or [Build a Core SDK App](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/service/messaging-in-app/guide/ios-core-sdk.md) for more information.

```swift
// Create a core client from a config
let coreClient = CoreFactory.create(withConfig: config)

// Get business hours info
coreClient.retrieveBusinessHours { (businessHoursInfo, error) in

    // Determine whether we're currently within business hours
    if businessHoursInfo?.isWithinBusinessHours(comparisonTime: nil) ?? true {
        // TO DO: Handle when we're within business hours
    } else {
        // TO DO: Handle when we're outside of business hours
    }

    // Alternatively, you can inspect the business hours info.
    // For instance, get specific business hours time periods
    // using the businessHoursInfo.businessHours list.
}
```