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Booking and loyalty apps for Riyadh women's salons and their clients.

Codeeo handles beauty salon app development in Riyadh for women's salons, multi-branch beauty chains and licensed home service operators. We build the client app for booking, deposits, packages and loyalty, a staff app for stylists and therapists, and an admin dashboard for owners. Everything is Arabic first and paid through mada and Apple Pay. Part of our team is based in Riyadh, so the app reflects how your branches actually run in a city where a client weighs the drive before she commits to a slot.

Riyadh clients compare salons on their phones before they compare them on the street. An app that shows real availability, honours a prepaid package and remembers a client's colour formula gives her a reason to stay with your branches rather than the next listing on a marketplace.

Built for
Women's beauty salons, nail and spa studios, multi-branch chains and licensed home service teams across Riyadh.
Typical timeline
Agreed during discovery sessions in Riyadh, with the first release scope and dates written down before design begins.
What you own
Source code, App Store and Google Play listings, the admin system and every client record, held in accounts you control.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

What we build for Riyadh salons

Features shaped around how Riyadh clients book.

A salon in Riyadh rarely serves one neighbourhood. A branch in Al Olaya may draw office workers on weekday evenings, while a branch further north in Al Malqa fills with family appointments at the weekend and ahead of weddings. Clients decide where to go based on distance, the stylist they trust and whether a slot is genuinely free. The features below are the ones Riyadh owners ask for most, ordered by how many calls they remove from your reception desk. We also respect the rules women's salons work under: the app shows nothing that breaches the privacy clients expect, staff photos are optional, and home visits only switch on when your municipal licence covers them. Every flow is written in Arabic first, with English for the many expatriate residents who book in the capital.

Explain your project
  • Branch and stylist booking

    Clients choose a branch, a service and a named stylist, then see only the slots that person truly has free. Service durations, cleaning time between clients and chair or room limits are built into the calendar, so two bookings never land on one station. Owners set different menus and opening hours per branch, which matters when an Olaya branch and a northern branch keep different rhythms.

    Reception stops juggling paper diaries and phone calls for each branch.

  • Deposits through mada and Apple Pay

    A deposit at booking cuts the no-shows that hurt most on busy weekend evenings. Clients pay with mada, Apple Pay or a credit card through a Saudi payment gateway, and the balance settles at the counter or in the app. Cancellation windows are yours to set, with automatic refunds or salon credit when a client cancels in time.

    Peak slots go to clients who intend to arrive.

  • Packages and memberships

    Prepaid bundles such as a set of blow dries, a monthly nail plan or a course of hair treatments sit in the client's wallet, and each visit deducts automatically. Memberships renew on a schedule with clear notice before each charge. Owners see unused package balances as an obligation still to be served, not just revenue, which keeps the books honest.

    Repeat visits are paid in advance and tracked without spreadsheets.

  • Client profiles and formula notes

    Stylists record colour formulas, allergy notes, patch test dates and preferences against each client. The notes travel with her when she books at a different branch, so a stylist she has never met still knows what was used last time. Access is limited by role, and clients can view and correct what is held about them.

    Consistent results across branches and fewer repeat consultations.

  • Licensed home visit dispatch

    Many Riyadh households prefer a stylist at home before an occasion. If your salon holds the specific licence for services outside the salon, issued through Balady, the app takes home bookings by district, assigns a stylist, adds travel buffers between appointments and shares live arrival status. Without that licence, the module simply stays switched off.

    Home visits run only where you are licensed, with travel time planned in.

  • Occasion and group bookings

    Weddings, graduations and Eid bring groups who want hair and make-up at the same time. A group booking lets one person reserve several services across several stylists, collect each guest's choices and pay one deposit. The calendar blocks the right stations and staff in a single step instead of a string of separate reservations.

    Large occasion bookings no longer tie up the phone for an hour.

  • Staff app and commissions

    Stylists and therapists see their day, log breaks, mark services complete and add retail sales from their own phone. Commission and target rules are calculated from completed services, so pay conversations start from the same numbers on both sides. Managers approve shift swaps inside the app instead of through group chats.

    Staff know their schedule and earnings without asking the manager.

  • Loyalty and referrals

    Points or stamps per visit, rewards for introducing a friend, and birthday offers that arrive in the right week. The owner sets the rules, and they can differ by branch or service. The aim is simple: a reason to rebook with you rather than with whichever salon a marketplace suggests next.

    Clients have a reason to come back to your branches directly.

  • Owner dashboard and e-invoices

    Owners see bookings, utilisation by chair and stylist, package balances and revenue by branch on one screen. Every payment produces a tax invoice in the format ZATCA requires under Fatoora e-invoicing, generated by the app or passed to your accounting system. Month end exports are ready for your accountant.

    One view of every branch, with invoices that meet Saudi e-invoicing rules.

Who this is for

Four Riyadh salon owners we build for.

The beauty trade in Riyadh spans single studios run by their founder, family owned salons with two or three branches, franchised international names and home service teams that never see a client at a counter. Each needs a different first release. As beauty salon app developers in Riyadh, these are the four starting points we meet most often in the capital, and what we would build first for each. We would rather ship a small app your receptionists use every day than a large one that sits unused after launch week.

01

A founder led studio in the north of the city

You built your client list through Instagram and WhatsApp, and now messages arrive at midnight asking for tomorrow's slots. A focused first version gives clients live availability, deposits and reminders under your own brand, while you keep the personal tone that won them. We link your social profiles so a client who finds you on Instagram books in two taps, and we import the client list you already hold so nobody registers from scratch. Packages and loyalty follow once the booking habit is settled.

Start with booking; add the rest once clients use it.

02

A family salon growing to several branches

Opening a second or third branch in another part of Riyadh exposes every gap in a manual system. Stylists move between branches, clients expect their package to work anywhere, and the owner needs to know which location is busy. We build shared client records, branch level menus and pricing control, transfer of stylists between calendars and reporting that compares branches fairly. Receptionists get one screen for all locations, so a client who calls the wrong branch is still booked without being passed around.

One client record, many branches.

03

A licensed home service operator

Your business is the visit, not the salon chair. You need district based service zones, travel time between bookings, a kit checklist per service and safety steps for stylists working in clients' homes. We design the dispatch logic around your home service licence and the districts you really cover, from the east of the city to the newer northern neighbourhoods. Clients see an arrival window, the name of the assigned stylist and a way to reach your office, never the stylist's personal number.

Licensing first, then features.

04

A franchise of an international beauty brand

Franchise partners in Riyadh often inherit a global booking tool that ignores Arabic, mada and local invoicing. We build a local app or companion layer that respects the brand's visual rules and service menu while handling Saudi payments, Arabic first screens, ZATCA invoices and client data held under Saudi law. Where the franchisor needs regular reports, we send them in the agreed format without exposing client records that should stay in the Kingdom.

Brand rules from abroad, operations built for Riyadh.

How a Riyadh salon app goes from first meeting to the App Store.

  1. 01Discovery at your branchWe spend time at reception and on the salon floor in Riyadh, watching how bookings, walk-ins, packages and payments are handled today, then write the first release scope with you.
  2. 02Service menu and rulesEvery service, duration, buffer, stylist skill, deposit rule and cancellation window is mapped into a structured menu, because the calendar logic depends on these details before any screen is drawn.
  3. 03Arabic first designScreens are designed right to left from the start, with English layouts alongside and short booking steps, then tested on the phones your clients actually carry.
  4. 04Build and integrationsClient app, staff app and admin dashboard are built together and connected to your payment gateway, SMS or WhatsApp messaging provider, accounting system and any point of sale already in your branches.
  5. 05Testing with real staffReceptionists and stylists use a test version for genuine bookings before launch, so problems surface on the salon floor rather than in App Store reviews.
  6. 06Launch and next releasesWe handle App Store and Google Play submission, train your team, then plan the next release from booking data and staff feedback gathered in the first weeks.

Technology

What we build this with.

We usually build salon apps in Flutter or React Native so one codebase serves iPhone and Android, with a Laravel or Node.js backend and a web dashboard in React. The final choice depends on your existing systems and who will maintain the app after launch. In salon appointment app development for Riyadh, calendar accuracy matters more than any framework.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Questions Riyadh salon owners ask before building an app.

A client booking app, a staff app and an owner dashboard.

The client app covers service browsing, stylist choice, live availability, deposits, packages and reminders. The staff app shows each stylist's day, client notes and commission. The dashboard lets owners manage branches, menus, pricing, staff and reports. For a first release in Riyadh we usually focus on booking and payment, because that is where reception time and no-shows cost the most, then add loyalty and home visits once clients use the app every week.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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PROVEN RESULTS

4.7 / 5from 23 Google reviews