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# Skip Closed Places: filter out closed businesses in the Google Maps Leads Scraper

> Skip Closed Places drops any business Google Maps marks as temporarily or permanently closed, so your Google Maps Leads Scraper results only contain places that are still operating.

When you're building an outreach or lead list, businesses that have shut down are dead weight — wasted emails and calls, and stale rows in your CRM. **Skip Closed Places** drops any business that Google Maps marks as closed, so your results only contain places that are still operating.

## What it does

Skip Closed Places removes every business flagged on Google Maps as **temporarily closed** or **permanently closed**. Both statuses are skipped; open businesses (and listings with no closed status) are kept. No other state — such as "moved" — is handled.

## Where to find it

Skip Closed Places is an on/off toggle in your Squid's **Advanced Settings**, alongside the other filters. It is **off by default**.

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## What it costs

While the filter is on, it **adds 0.2 credits to each row you keep** — on top of the base 1 credit per row. Closed businesses that get skipped cost **nothing**.

<Note>
  The surcharge is charged per **kept** row, not per row dropped. So turning this on adds 0.2 credits to every *open* business you keep, not to the closed ones it removes.
</Note>

## Use cases

* **Clean cold-email and cold-call lists** — don't waste sends on businesses that no longer exist.
* **CRM imports** — keep dead listings out of your pipeline from the start.

## Common mistakes

* **Google's closed flag can be stale.** "Temporarily closed" is sometimes left on during holidays, renovations, or seasonal breaks — so a business that's actually trading can be dropped. If that's a concern, leave the filter off.
* **You still pay for the survivors.** Because billing is per kept row, a run with this filter on costs 0.2 more for every open business in your results.

Learn more: [How filtering works](/guides/google-maps/filtering) · [Credits](/core-concepts/credits).