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Booking websites that sell boat trips on both Saudi coasts and settle the payment.

Codeeo handles boat rental booking website development in Saudi Arabia for charter firms, marina operators and watersport businesses that want customers to choose a vessel, pick a slot and pay online. We build the booking engine, the checkout, the refund rules and the admin behind it, set up for mada, VAT invoices cleared through ZATCA, Arabic first content and the licensing that now applies to marine tourism, so one platform can sell trips on the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf.

This page is about the website that takes bookings and money. It is not a brochure and not a mobile app. The aim is simple: fewer bookings agreed in chat, fewer unpaid holds, and a clear record of every riyal received and returned.

Built for
Licensed charter firms, marinas, watersport operators and booking platforms selling boat trips anywhere in the Kingdom.
Typical timeline
Timing is set in discovery once fleet size, locations, payment providers and invoicing are known, then written into the plan before design begins.
What you own
The source code, the domain, the booking data, the gateway and invoicing accounts and the admin, all held in your company's name.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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What the platform handles

A booking and payment engine built around Saudi rules.

Selling a boat trip online in the Kingdom is more than a calendar with a pay button. The vessel has to be licensed and fit to sail, the payment has to run through a gateway licensed by SAMA, the invoice has to meet ZATCA's Fatoora requirements, and the customer's data falls under the Personal Data Protection Law overseen by SDAIA. Many operators also run boats on two coastlines with different seasons and different authorities. A boat rental online booking system development project in Saudi Arabia therefore starts with the rules, not the colours. We design the platform so these rules sit inside the booking flow rather than in a spreadsheet beside it. The features below are the ones national operators ask for most; a smaller firm with a handful of boats would take a subset and add more as it grows.

Explain your project
  • Availability per vessel and berth

    Each boat has its own calendar, capacity, minimum hire and turnaround time between trips. Slots close the moment a deposit clears, so two customers cannot pay for the same boat at the same hour, even when the office is still taking calls and walk-ins.

    No double bookings across the website, phone and front desk.

  • Deposits, balances and holds

    You choose the rule per product: full payment for an hourly jet ski, a deposit for a day charter, a balance collected automatically before departure. Unpaid holds expire on a timer you set, so a slot is never blocked by a customer who drifted away.

    Cash flow that matches how each trip is actually sold.

  • Saudi payment methods

    mada debit cards, Apple Pay, international cards and STC Bank, formerly STC Pay, through a SAMA licensed gateway. For larger charters, Tabby or Tamara can split the cost into instalments, with the provider carrying the credit decision rather than your team.

    Customers pay the way they already pay everywhere else.

  • ZATCA compliant invoicing

    Every paid booking produces a VAT tax invoice, and every refund a credit note, generated through your accounting system or an e-invoicing provider already integrated with Fatoora. Partner and corporate bookings carry the buyer's VAT number where it applies.

    Finance closes the month without rebuilding invoices by hand.

  • Licence aware listings

    The admin stores licence numbers, vessel registration, insurance and skipper qualifications with expiry dates. A boat whose records lapse is pulled from sale automatically until someone uploads the renewal, which keeps marketing ahead of compliance rather than in front of it.

    Only boats cleared to sail can be booked.

  • Cancellation and weather rules

    Customer cancellations follow the terms shown before payment. Operator cancellations for wind, sea state or a Border Guard instruction trigger a choice of rebooking or refund, sent to the customer with one link, and the refund posts back to the original payment method.

    Bad weather days cost an hour of admin, not a day.

  • Booking website design for phones

    Good boat rental booking website design in Saudi Arabia starts on a phone held in one hand at a marina car park. We keep the path to payment to a few screens: choose a trip type, see real availability, add extras such as fishing gear or catering, confirm the passenger count and pay. Photos of each boat, its capacity and its departure point sit beside the slot, not three pages away.

    More customers finish the booking they started.

  • Arabic first booking flow

    The site is designed right to left first, with English as a full second language for residents and visitors. Dates, prices with VAT, meeting points and safety notes read naturally in both, and the Hijri calendar can appear alongside Gregorian dates.

    A checkout that feels local to Saudi customers and clear to visitors.

  • Multi location operations

    One admin can run marinas on the Red Sea and the Gulf, each with its own season, departure points, staff rota and reporting. Head office sees revenue and occupancy by location; dock managers see only their own boats and manifests.

    Growth into a new city without a second system.

  • Data protection by design

    Identity details and passenger lists are collected only where a trip needs them, stored with access controls and retention periods, and covered by a clear privacy notice in Arabic and English. Hosting and security controls are planned against the NCA's Essential Cybersecurity Controls where your contracts require them.

    Personal data handled the way the PDPL expects.

Who this is for

Four kinds of Saudi operator we build booking sites for.

Boat rental in the Kingdom ranges from a single fishing boat in the Eastern Province to licensed yacht charter agents on the Red Sea and investment backed marinas along both coasts. The booking platform should match the business, not the other way round. These are the starting points we see most often, and each leads to a different first release.

01

Yacht charter agents licensed on the Red Sea

Charter agents working under the Saudi Red Sea Authority's licensing need listings that show only compliant yachts, quote by day or by itinerary, take a deposit and collect the balance before boarding. We also build the broker view, so partner agents can hold a date while the client decides, without seeing another partner's prices or customers.

Compliance records sit next to the calendar, not in a separate file.

02

Marinas selling trips for several boat owners

A marina that lets private owners rent out their boats needs owner onboarding, document checks, commission rules and payout statements. The site sells every boat under one brand while each owner sees only their own bookings and earnings. Owner payouts are reconciled against the gateway's settlement reports, so the marina's finance team can explain every deduction.

03

Watersport and jet ski operators

High volume, short slots and walk-up customers make this a different problem. The site sells fifteen minute to two hour blocks, collects a signed safety acknowledgement before the slot starts, and lets the beach desk sell the same inventory on a tablet so online and walk-up sales never collide. End of day reports show slots sold, no-shows and refunds by staff member, so the owner can check the cash and card totals against the gateway before the beach closes.

Speed at checkout matters more than long product pages here.

04

Operators expanding to a second coast

A firm proven in Jeddah that wants to sell in Al Khobar, or the reverse, needs a platform that handles two seasons, two sets of departure points and possibly different authorities. We plan the data model for several locations from day one, so the second coast is a configuration exercise rather than a rebuild. Arabic and English content, prices and safety notes can then be localised for each city's customers without touching the shared engine.

How a national booking platform comes together.

  1. 01Discovery and rules mappingWe list every product, pricing rule, deposit policy, location and licence you work under, and agree which payment and invoicing providers the platform will use.
  2. 02Booking flow designArabic and English wireframes for the shortest path from choosing a boat to a confirmed, paid booking, tested on mid range phones before visual design starts.
  3. 03Engine and admin buildAvailability, holds, deposits, refunds and compliance records built first, so the hardest logic is proven before the public site is dressed.
  4. 04Payments and invoicingGateway, wallet and instalment providers connected, then invoices and credit notes tested end of month with your accountant against real booking scenarios.
  5. 05Launch on one coastWe usually go live at one location first, watch real bookings and refunds for a season, and fix friction before the second coast switches on.
  6. 06Rollout and supportNew locations, boats and packages are added through the admin, with our team on a retainer for gateway changes, regulatory updates and new features.

Technology

What we build this with.

The stack follows your volume: a fast, server rendered front end in Arabic and English, a booking engine that is the single source of truth for availability, a SAMA licensed gateway, and an e-invoicing connection to Fatoora. Everything is documented and held in your accounts.

01Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • WordPress

02Commerce

  • Shopify Plus
  • WooCommerce
  • BigCommerce
  • Headless storefronts

03Data and cloud

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

04Marketing and tracking

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

Questions Saudi operators ask before they commission a booking site.

Payments, invoices, refunds, licences and data protection, all tied to the booking.

The calendar is the visible part. Behind it sit deposit and balance rules, a SAMA licensed gateway taking mada and Apple Pay, VAT invoices and credit notes that meet ZATCA's Fatoora requirements, cancellation terms shown before payment, licence and vessel records that control what can be sold, and personal data handled in line with the PDPL. We scope all of these in discovery so none of them becomes an expensive surprise after launch.

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

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