Services · Ecommerce development · Boat rental booking sites
Codeeo offers boat rental booking website development in Jeddah for yacht charter firms, snorkelling and dolphin trip operators, and boat owners working from Obhur and the corniche. Guests choose a private charter or a seat on a shared trip, pay online, and receive boarding details for the right marina. Your captains get a passenger list before they leave the berth, and your office sees every booking, deposit and refund in one admin instead of across phones and notebooks.
Jeddah's customers are a mix of residents, Saudi weekend visitors and international travellers who land at the airport with a free day. The booking site is built so each of them can pay without a phone call first.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the booking site covers
Boat rental in Jeddah splits into two very different sales. A private yacht is booked by the hour or the day, often by a family or company, with a deposit and a balance. A reef or dolphin trip sells individual seats on a fixed departure, often to visitors booking the night before. A boat rental online booking system development project in Jeddah has to handle both on one calendar, because the same boat may run a shared morning trip and a private sunset charter on the same day. Add licensing under the Saudi Red Sea Authority and customers paying from several countries, and the checkout carries more weight than a brochure ever did. These are the parts we build.
Customers choose a yacht, a duration and a start time, see the price with VAT, and pay a deposit to secure it. The balance is collected automatically before boarding, and add-ons such as catering, a photographer or extra hours are priced into the same order.
Charters confirmed with money in the account, not a verbal promise.
Snorkelling, diving support and dolphin watching departures sell by the seat, with child and adult prices and a hard capacity per boat. When a departure fills, the next one is offered automatically, and minimum numbers can trigger a cancellation with a full refund.
Shared trips run full, and undersold ones are handled fairly.
Birthdays, engagement gatherings and company evenings on the water are sold as packages with a base charter, a guest count, decoration or catering options and a deadline for final numbers. The customer pays a deposit to lock the date, then adjusts the guest list online until the cut-off, and the balance updates itself.
Event charters planned online instead of over a week of messages.
Each trip is tied to its departure point, whether a berth in Obhur or a marina on the corniche, with a map pin, gate instructions and arrival time. Guests staying in central Jeddah see how far they need to travel before they pay.
Guests reach the right marina without calling the captain.
For trips that need it, the checkout collects each passenger's name and identity or passport details, stored securely and shown only to the captain and operations staff. Manifests can be exported in the format your sailing permit process requires.
The paperwork is ready before the guests arrive at the dock.
International guests see prices in riyals with an indicative conversion, pay by Visa, Mastercard or Apple Pay, and read the full flow in English. Saudi customers get an Arabic first experience with mada as the default payment option.
A tourist with one free day can book from the hotel room.
Hotel concierges and tour desks get their own logins to book for guests, either on account or by sending a payment link. Commission is calculated per partner and shown on a monthly statement, so there is no argument at the end of the month.
Partners sell your trips without phoning to check availability.
The admin keeps your Red Sea Authority licence details, vessel registrations, insurance and crew qualifications with expiry dates. A yacht whose documents lapse is taken off sale until the renewal is uploaded.
Nothing sold that should not be at sea.
Full day yacht hire and event charters can be split with Tabby or Tamara, with the provider approving the customer and paying you upfront. Smaller trips stay on mada, Apple Pay and cards to keep checkout short.
Bigger bookings without your team taking on credit risk.
When sea conditions or an authority instruction cancel a departure, every guest gets a rebooking link or a refund to their original payment method. Each refund produces a credit note through your ZATCA connected invoicing, so accounts stay clean.
Cancelled days end with records your accountant accepts.
Who this is for
Jeddah has the most developed boat rental market on the Saudi Red Sea coast, from licensed charter firms with crewed yachts to small operators running one boat out of Obhur. What each needs from a booking site depends on who buys their trips and how. Some sell mostly to residents on weekends; others depend on visitors who decide the night before. These four starting points cover most of the operators we speak to.
You sell crewed yachts by the hour or day to families, companies and visitors. The site must show only compliant vessels, quote clearly with VAT, take a deposit and collect the balance on time. We also give your sales team a way to hold a date for a customer who needs a day to decide, with an automatic release if they do not pay. Reports by yacht, weekday and season then show which boats earn their berth and which need a different price.
Holds with expiry stop good dates being blocked for nothing.
Your margin comes from full boats. Seat based sales, child prices, minimum numbers and fast mobile checkout matter more than long descriptions. We add a simple waiver and health question step for snorkelling trips, recorded against each guest, and show what to bring and what is provided. Morning and afternoon departures can carry different prices, so quieter slots can be priced to fill.
You do not need a large platform. A clean site with your boats, live availability, a deposit and WhatsApp confirmations can replace most of the back and forth that fills your evenings. It can grow later into partner sales or more boats without being rebuilt. The admin is simple enough to run from a phone at the berth between trips.
Hotels and resorts along the coast that run or resell boat trips need bookings under their own brand, room guests charged correctly, and reports that their finance team can reconcile. We build the booking pages to match the hotel's site while the operator keeps control of the boats and crew. Room guests can pay by card at booking or have the trip settled through the hotel, depending on how the two businesses agree to split revenue.
Brand and operations can sit with different companies.
How we work together
Jeddah operators usually start with a fixed scope project covering the booking engine, checkout, admin and invoicing for their current fleet. Afterwards, a monthly retainer handles new trips, seasonal pricing, partner changes and gateway updates. Discovery and reviews for Jeddah run by video call, with your team testing each stage on their own phones; in person sessions are possible at our Riyadh office. Our 80+ people across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US.
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
A fast bilingual front end with good image handling for yacht galleries, a booking engine that controls every seat and slot, a SAMA licensed gateway, Tabby or Tamara where needed, and invoicing connected to Fatoora. Hosting sits with a provider that suits your data needs. Documented and handed over in your accounts.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
Cost follows scope, and we price against a written scope after discovery.
The main drivers are the number of trip types, whether you sell private charters and shared seats together, partner and commission features, instalment providers, manifest and identity collection, the depth of accounting integration and any migration of old bookings. An owner with two boats and fixed prices sits at the simpler end. A charter firm with several yachts, hotel partners and event packages sits at the other. You see which features drive the price so you can phase them. Ongoing costs such as hosting, gateway fees and messaging are listed separately, so you can see what the site costs to run each month as well as to build.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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