Services · Mobile app development · Car rental apps
Codeeo handles car rental app development Jeddah operators can run their whole counter from: booking, licence checks, digital contracts, payments, vehicle handover and returns in one Arabic and English app with a fleet dashboard behind it. Jeddah renters are a mixed crowd. A visitor landing at King Abdulaziz International Airport, a family heading up the coast to Obhur and an expat who needs a car for three months all want different things, and the app has to serve each of them without a phone call to your branch.
The goal is simple: fewer queues at the airport desk, fewer disputes over scratches and fuel, and a fleet that earns more days on the road. Our team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi plans the product with you, tests it with your counter staff before launch and stays on it afterwards.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the app can include
Rental demand in Jeddah does not sit in one place. A large share starts at the airport, where Terminal 1 also links straight to the Haramain High Speed Railway, so a renter may arrive by plane or by train and still expect a car waiting. Another share comes from residents across the north and south of the city who want a car delivered rather than collected. A third comes from weekend and holiday drivers heading for the Corniche, Al Balad and the beaches beyond Obhur. We build the features below around those three patterns, and we decide with you which ones belong in the first release and which can follow once real booking data shows where renters drop off. That way the budget goes first to the features Jeddah renters use most.
Renters add a flight number or a Haramain arrival time when they book. Your airport team sees delays as they happen, holds the car rather than releasing it as a no show, and sends the renter exact directions from arrivals to the bay where the car is parked.
Airport handovers that follow the renter's real arrival, not the time they guessed.
Customers drop a pin at a home, hotel or office anywhere in Jeddah and choose a delivery window. Drivers get a route, a checklist and a photo step at handover, and the same flow runs in reverse when the car is collected at the end of the rental.
Branch visits become optional for residents and hotel guests.
Saudi and resident renters upload their licence and ID; visitors add a passport, visa and a home or international licence. The app reminds staff that a visitor's foreign licence only covers a limited period from entry and flags any document that needs a manual check before keys change hands.
Fewer rejected bookings at the counter and no guesswork on eligibility.
A guided walk around the car records each panel, the fuel level, the odometer and the interior with time stamped photos. The renter signs the inspection in the app, and the return inspection is compared side by side with the first one. Your team can also add notes for marks that were already there.
Damage conversations settled with evidence instead of argument.
Renters pay by mada, credit card or Apple Pay through a licensed payment gateway, with a security hold on the card where your policy needs one. Extra days, fuel top ups and traffic fines are added to the same record, and deposit releases are tracked so finance can see what is still held.
Every riyal tied to a booking, a vehicle and a reason.
Many Jeddah customers are expat professionals and families who rent by the month while they settle in. The app handles renewals, mileage allowances, scheduled servicing and vehicle swaps without a new contract being typed up each time. Renters see the next payment date and can switch car class at renewal if their needs change.
Longer rentals renew themselves and stay on your fleet.
Umrah peaks, school holidays and major events on the Jeddah Corniche push demand sharply in short windows. Admins can set minimum rental lengths, adjust availability per branch and close categories that are already committed, all without a developer. Rules can be scheduled weeks in advance and switch on automatically on the right date.
Busy weeks fill with the bookings you actually want.
Jeddah renters often drive well beyond the city, up the coast road or into the mountains towards Taif. The app shares live location with your roadside team when a renter asks for help, shows the mileage allowance left on the booking, and lets you set rules for which vehicle classes may leave the region.
Breakdowns outside the city are handled from a known location, not a vague phone description.
One view of every vehicle: where it is, who has it, when it is due back, when its service and insurance renew, and which branch or airport bay it belongs to. Managers can move cars between locations as demand shifts across the week. Alerts flag cars overdue for return or close to a service.
Fewer idle cars sitting at a branch nobody is renting from.
In app messaging tied to each booking, written in Arabic and English with right to left layouts done properly, so renters can report a flat tyre, ask about an extension or share an accident report without hunting for a branch phone number. Staff can reply from the admin panel or the staff app.
Support requests arrive with the booking and the car already attached.
Who this is for
The right app for a Jeddah operator depends on where its cars earn money. An airport desk lives on speed and accurate arrival times. A neighbourhood branch network lives on delivery and repeat customers. A leasing business lives on renewals and servicing. Below are the four starting points we see most often, and what changes in the build for each one. In each case the customer app looks familiar, but the staff tools and admin rules behind it are quite different.
Your problem is the queue. Renters land tired, sometimes late at night, and wait while staff copy details from passports into a contract. We move document capture, payment and the inspection checklist into the app before the renter lands, so the desk only confirms identity and hands over keys. Linking bookings to flight numbers lets your team plan staffing around the arrivals board instead of guessing. Night arrivals can be handled by a smaller team because most of the paperwork is already done when the renter walks up, and the desk can see which bookings still need a manual document check.
The first release usually focuses on airport pickup alone.
If you run several branches in the city, the hard part is balance: one branch is sold out while another has cars parked for days. We build shared availability across branches, delivery from whichever location is closest, and transfer requests between branch managers. Customers see one booking flow, while your team sees which locations need more cars this week. Pricing can differ by branch where local demand justifies it, and every manager sees the same up to date fleet calendar instead of calling round each morning to ask which cars are free.
Companies in Jeddah's industrial and port areas often rent cars for staff on rolling monthly terms. They need company accounts with several authorised drivers, consolidated invoices, service reminders and quick replacement cars. We set these up as a separate area of the app with its own approval steps, so a fleet coordinator can manage twenty cars from one login. Coordinators can also download statements per cost centre, which helps finance teams in larger firms allocate rental spend to the right department each month.
Corporate billing follows ZATCA e-invoicing rules from the first invoice.
Some operators start with a website form and a WhatsApp number, which works until bookings double and nobody can tell which cars are free. We replace that with a proper car rental booking app development project: a customer app, a simple staff app and an admin panel, sized for a smaller fleet but designed to grow. Your existing WhatsApp line can stay as a support channel, but bookings, payments and documents move into the app, where every car's status is visible to the whole team.
How we work together
Most rental companies begin with a fixed scope first release covering booking, payment and handover, then move to a monthly retainer for improvements and support. Larger operators with several cities in their plans sometimes take a dedicated team from our Riyadh office who stay on the product. Whichever route you take, the scope, the people and the release plan are written down before work starts, and you can change course between releases. Support after launch covers app store updates, operating system changes and fixes, so the app keeps working when Apple or Google change their rules.
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
Cross platform or native apps, a web admin panel and cloud hosting chosen with your team, with data location and security settings agreed against Saudi data protection rules before the build. Where your cars carry telematics units, we read their location and odometer data through the supplier's interface rather than asking staff to type it in.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
The number of user types, integrations and locations matters more than screen count.
A customer app with booking and payment for one airport desk is a smaller project than a multi branch network with delivery drivers, corporate accounts and a fleet dashboard. Integrations add the most effort: payment gateways, accounting, the electronic rental contract and any telematics hardware in your cars. We price after discovery, once these are clear, and we show you which features could wait for a later release to bring the first one down. Timeline follows the same logic: fewer integrations and one pilot location mean an earlier launch, while a full branch rollout takes longer because every location needs training.
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