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Service marketplaces that let Dammam buyers hire, approve and pay contractors online.

Codeeo provides construction services marketplace website development Dammam businesses can monetise from day one. The Eastern Province buys construction services in two very different ways: plant operators and industrial contractors buying scaffolding, insulation, coatings, equipment hire and shutdown crews against purchase orders, and households in Dammam and Al Khobar buying renovation and repair work by card. We build web platforms that handle either, or both, with vetting, quotes, approvals, payment, payouts and your commission built in, in Arabic first and English.

Our team works from Riyadh, Dubai and Karachi, and Dammam projects run by video call. Workshops, prototype reviews and acceptance testing all happen on screen, with your procurement, finance and operations people joining the sessions that matter to them.

Built for
Founders, industrial service groups and property companies building a commission based construction services marketplace for Dammam, Al Khobar, Dhahran and Jubail.
Typical timeline
Release scope, buyer types and payment methods are fixed during discovery calls, and dates are written into the agreement once they are, never before.
What you own
All code, the admin and buyer consoles, payment and payout accounts, every buyer, provider and transaction record, and the domain, in your company's name.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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Marketplace building blocks

Built for buyers who approve by purchase order as well as buyers who pay by card.

A marketplace in the Eastern Province has to respect how industry buys. A maintenance superintendent in the Second Industrial City does not pay a scaffolding firm by Apple Pay; he raises a request, gets approval, issues a purchase order and pays on invoice after the work is certified. A family in Al Khobar does the opposite and wants to pay online the moment they trust the contractor. Construction services marketplace website design Dammam buyers accept has to make both routes feel natural without confusing either. The building blocks below cover corporate accounts, rate cards, equipment hire, crew requests, certification and payment on terms, alongside the consumer features most marketplaces start with. We help you pick the ones your first buyers need and leave the rest in a clear backlog.

Explain your project
  • Corporate buyer accounts

    Industrial and facility buyers get company accounts with requesters, approvers and finance users. Requests above a threshold you set route to an approver before providers are invited, and every award carries the buyer's purchase order number for their own accounts payable team. Spending reports per site and cost centre come straight from the platform.

    Corporate buyers can use the marketplace without breaking their internal controls.

  • Rate cards and framework terms

    Regular buyers can agree rate cards with selected providers for recurring services such as scaffolding erection per cubic metre, insulation per linear metre or painting per square metre. Call-offs against the rate card skip the bidding stage and go straight to scheduling. Rate changes are versioned, so older call-offs keep the price that applied when they were placed.

    Repeat work moves faster and stays on the platform.

  • Equipment hire with operators

    Cranes, manlifts, forklifts and compressors are listed with availability, location, inspection certificates and operator qualifications. Buyers book by day or week, and the platform blocks a booking if a required certificate has expired. Delivery and collection are scheduled with the hire, and damage reports are logged with photos at return.

    Hire revenue sits beside services revenue, with paperwork checked automatically.

  • Shutdown crew requests

    Buyers post crew requirements for planned turnarounds: trades, headcount, dates, site and required certificates. Providers respond with available crews and rates, and the buyer confirms allocations well before mobilisation. Late changes to headcount or dates notify every committed supplier at once.

    Peak season labour is sourced from vetted firms instead of last minute calls.

  • Provider qualification and HSE files

    Providers upload commercial registration, Saudi Contractors Authority membership, insurance, safety statistics they choose to share and staff certificates. Buyers can require extra documents for their own sites, matching the vendor rules many Eastern Province clients already apply. Expiring certificates trigger reminders to the provider well before a buyer would notice.

    Buyers see only providers who meet their own entry bar.

  • Work certification

    When a job or a section of it is finished, the provider submits a completion record with photos and timesheets. The buyer's nominated engineer certifies it in the platform, which triggers invoicing or payment release depending on the buyer type. Rejected certifications return to the provider with comments, so disagreements are resolved on the record.

    Payment follows certified work, which is how industrial buyers already think.

  • Payment on terms and online checkout

    Corporate buyers pay certified invoices by bank transfer or SADAD on agreed terms. Households pay by mada, Apple Pay, STC Pay or card through a SAMA licensed provider. Both routes land in the same ledger, so commission and payouts are calculated the same way.

    Two buyer types, one set of books.

  • Commission, payouts and e-invoicing

    Commission can be charged to providers, buyers or both, at rates that vary by category. Payouts follow receipt of buyer funds, and your company's tax invoices are issued in a format that meets ZATCA's Fatoora requirements.

    Finance always knows what is owed, received and paid out.

  • Home services lane for Al Khobar and Dammam

    A consumer front end for villa and apartment owners: renovation, waterproofing, AC, plumbing and electrical work, with guided requests, comparable quotes, staged online payments and reviews from completed jobs only. It shares providers with the industrial side where their trades overlap. Customers can save addresses, including compound gate details, for future bookings.

    Residential demand fills providers' quieter weeks between industrial jobs.

  • Marketplace analytics

    Your operators see request volume by trade and area, average time to award, provider response rates, certificates nearing expiry, outstanding corporate invoices and commission earned. Data exports feed Power BI or your accounting system. Alerts flag categories where requests go unanswered in Dammam or Al Khobar.

    You can see which categories pay for the platform.

Typical clients

Four Eastern Province marketplace models we design for.

Dammam sits at the centre of a metropolitan area that runs to Al Khobar and Dhahran, with Jubail's industrial city to the north and King Abdulaziz Port bringing in equipment and materials. A construction contractor marketplace platform development Dammam brief usually belongs to one of the models below. Each has a different buyer, a different payment habit and a different reason to trust a platform. We usually advise starting with the buyer you can reach most easily, then adding the second model once providers are earning steadily.

01

Industrial maintenance service marketplaces

For founders connecting plant operators with scaffolding, insulation, coating, cleaning and mechanical service providers. Buyers want vetted firms, documents in order and payment on certified work; providers want steadier demand and faster payment than chasing invoices alone. Corporate accounts, rate cards and certification are the heart of the first release. Requests can be restricted to providers already approved by a buyer, so the marketplace adds speed without asking anyone to lower their standards.

Win a few anchor buyers before recruiting widely.

02

Equipment and operator hire platforms

For hire companies and brokers pooling cranes, access equipment and compressors across the Eastern Province. The platform shows availability by location, checks inspection and operator certificates before booking, and charges hire plus delivery in one order. Commission applies to each booking, and repeat buyers can hold accounts with credit limits approved by your finance team.

Certificate checks are what buyers value most.

03

Shutdown and turnaround labour exchanges

For manpower suppliers and contractors filling crew requests during planned shutdowns in Jubail and the industrial areas around Dammam. Buyers post requirements months ahead; suppliers commit crews and certifications; the platform tracks mobilisation and timesheets for invoicing. Worker data is handled under PDPL, with access limited by role and purpose.

Plan for demand that arrives in sharp peaks.

04

Residential renovation marketplaces

For founders serving households in Al Khobar, Dhahran and Dammam, including the many families living in residential compounds. The marketplace offers guided requests, priced bids, staged online payment and reviews, in Arabic and English. Compound managers can hold accounts that let residents book approved providers who already have site access.

Compound partnerships bring a ready customer base.

Six steps from first call to a live Dammam marketplace.

  1. 01Remote discoveryVideo workshops with founders, procurement advisers and operations staff to define buyer types, provider categories, commission, approval rules and which part of the Eastern Province opens first.
  2. 02Commercial and payment rulesWe document payment on terms, online checkout, credit limits, payout timing and invoicing, and confirm the money flow with your SAMA licensed provider and legal advisers.
  3. 03Design for two audiencesCorporate consoles and consumer screens are designed in Arabic and English, then tested remotely with buyers and providers who would actually use them in Dammam.
  4. 04Staged engineeringProvider qualification and corporate accounts first, then requests, certification and invoicing, then the consumer lane and equipment hire. Each stage is demonstrated on staging.
  5. 05Anchor buyers and seedingYour team brings on the first buyers and the providers they already trust, running real jobs through the platform before any public launch.
  6. 06Open launchSearch pages for trades and equipment go live, analytics are switched on, and we work through the backlog your first buyers create.

Technology

What we build this with.

Builds typically use Laravel or Next.js with PostgreSQL, hosting chosen to suit PDPL and your buyers' data expectations, a SAMA licensed gateway, SADAD and bank transfer reconciliation, and accounting integration. Security is planned against NCA controls from the start, because industrial buyers will ask. Buyer single sign-on can follow where a large client requests it.

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 Dammam clients ask about marketplace builds

Yes, corporate buyers can award work against their own PO numbers.

Corporate accounts carry requesters, approvers and finance contacts. Awards record the buyer's purchase order, completion is certified by the buyer's engineer, and invoices are issued on the agreed terms. The marketplace never asks an industrial buyer to pay by card if that is not how their company works, and their accounts payable team receives invoices in the format it expects. Credit limits per buyer are set by your finance team, and the platform stops new awards when a buyer is over its limit or overdue.

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

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