Services · Mobile app development · Boat rental apps
Codeeo handles boat rental app development in Jeddah for yacht charter firms, fishing boat owners, jet ski operators and day trip companies working the Red Sea coast. Guests pick a boat, a departure slot and a dock, pay inside the app and receive the boarding details on their phone. Your captains see the manifest before they leave the creek, and the office sees every boat, every slot and every payment on one screen instead of a dozen WhatsApp threads.
Most Jeddah trips start from the marinas along Obhur Creek in the north of the city, and most guests decide late: a sunset ride tonight, an island trip this Friday. The app is built for that pattern, with live availability and fast checkout rather than enquiry forms that wait for a callback.
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What a Jeddah boat app can include
A guest in Jeddah usually wants three answers fast: which boats are free, where to meet the crew and what the trip includes. An operator wants to fill the late afternoon slots, keep captains briefed and stop double bookings between the phone line and the walk up desk. The features below come from that split. We rarely build all of them in the first release; we start with the ones that remove the most manual work for your team and add the rest once real guests are using the app. Everything is designed Arabic first, with an English layout for residents and visitors who prefer it, and every screen is tested on the mid range Android phones many guests carry as well as on iPhones.
Each yacht, speedboat and jet ski has its own calendar with hourly, half day and full day slots. Sunset departures, Friday mornings and holiday weekends can carry their own rules, minimum durations and buffer time for cleaning and refuelling between trips, so the dock never has two groups waiting for one boat.
No more double bookings between the desk, the phone and the app.
Guests get the exact marina, dock number and a map pin for the departure point in Obhur, plus parking notes and the time to arrive. The same message goes out again a few hours before departure, which matters on a creek where several marinas sit close together.
Guests arrive at the right dock, on time.
Day trips to nearby islands and reef spots can be sold as packages with snorkelling kit, drinks, food and towels as optional extras. Each package shows what is included, the trip length and the capacity, so guests compare like with like instead of messaging to ask.
Higher value trips sold without a phone call.
Captains see their trips for the day, the guest count, special requests and the safety briefing checklist. They mark guests as boarded, log departure and return times and report fuel or maintenance issues straight to the office, which keeps a record for every outing.
Every trip has a manifest and a return log.
Jet ski riders and self drive renters sign a digital waiver and add their ID details before the slot is confirmed. The admin panel stores these against the booking with clear access rules, so the desk is not photocopying documents on a busy afternoon.
Paperwork done before the guest reaches the dock.
When wind or sea conditions close the water, the office can hold a whole block of slots in one action. Affected guests are notified, offered the next free slot or a refund under your policy, and the change is recorded so nobody argues about it later.
Bad weather days handled in minutes, not hours.
Checkout supports mada cards, Apple Pay and international cards for visitors, with deposits or full payment as you choose. Each booking produces a ZATCA compliant tax invoice, and refunds flow back through the same gateway with a full trail.
Cash at the dock becomes the exception.
Jeddah draws visitors from across the Kingdom and abroad, including many who add a day by the sea before or after Umrah. Guest checkout, clear English and Arabic content and simple WhatsApp handoff for questions let them book without creating a complicated account first.
Visitors book in a few taps, not a long sign up.
Owners see bookings by boat, slot, channel and captain, plus cancellations, refunds and utilisation by day of the week. The dashboard shows which boats sit idle in the morning and which sell out every evening, so pricing and crew rosters follow real demand.
Fleet decisions made from data rather than memory.
Who this is for
Boat rental in Jeddah is not one business. A licensed charter firm moving guests on a large yacht has different needs from a jet ski desk on the creek or a family that owns two fishing boats. We start by working out which of these you are, because the answer changes the booking rules, the payment flow and the paperwork the app has to carry. The four situations below cover most of the operators who contact us from the city.
Larger yachts are chartered by the hour or the day, often for families, birthdays and company outings. These firms need quote requests for bigger groups, deposit handling, catering add ons and crew assignment. Charter on the Red Sea now sits under the licensing regime of the Saudi Red Sea Authority, so the admin side should keep licence details, vessel documents and expiry dates where the office can see them and renew in time.
Licence and vessel documents tracked inside the admin panel.
Operators running island trips and reef snorkelling from Obhur sell seats or whole boats, often in fixed departures. They need capacity control per trip, package extras, a captain manifest and fast rebooking when conditions change. The app gives them a public booking page that works in a browser as well as the store apps, so a link shared on social media converts straight into a paid seat.
Fixed departures sold by the seat or by the boat.
Hourly rentals live and die on turnover. The desk needs a queue, timed sessions, waivers, ID capture and a clear view of which machines are out and when they are due back. We build a tablet view for the desk and a guest booking flow that holds a slot for a short time while the rider walks over, so walk ups and online bookings share one calendar.
A desk tablet and a guest app sharing one queue.
Many Jeddah boats belong to individual owners or small family businesses who rent them out through word of mouth. For them we build a lighter version: a branded booking page, a simple calendar, payment collection and invoices, with an admin panel one person can run from a phone. It can grow into a full fleet system later without rebuilding.
Start light, extend when the fleet grows.
How we work together
Choosing a boat rental app development company Jeddah charter owners can rely on through a long season matters more than the first launch. Most operators start with a fixed scope first version covering the guest booking flow, the captain view and the admin panel. Once the season shows what guests actually use, many keep a monthly retainer so the app keeps up with new packages, new boats and changes from the payment gateway or the app stores. Larger charter groups planning several marinas can take a dedicated team from our 80+ people across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, with the Riyadh team in your time zone to run video workshops that bring captains, desk staff and owners onto one call.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We choose the stack around your fleet size, your team and the systems you already pay for. Usually that means a cross platform mobile app, a web booking page, a cloud backend hosted to meet Saudi data rules and an admin panel your staff can run without us. As boat rental app developers Jeddah operators can brief through our Riyadh team, we also document every decision so your own staff can follow it.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
A guest booking app, a captain view and an admin panel, connected to payments.
The guest side lists your boats and packages, shows live slots, takes payment and sends the dock details. Captains get the daily manifest and a way to log departures and returns. The office gets a dashboard for bookings, refunds, waivers and reports. On top of that we connect your payment gateway, ZATCA invoicing and WhatsApp or SMS messages. Some Jeddah operators also want an agent portal for hotels and tour desks that resell trips.
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