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Codeeo handles construction services marketplace website development Riyadh founders, developers and building services groups can open to paying customers. We build the web platform where homeowners, tenants and facility managers post work, compare priced bids from vetted contractors and pay against agreed stages, while your company earns a commission on every job. Arabic first, right to left, with English alongside, and with payments, payouts and tax invoices wired into the same system from the first release.
Part of our team works from Riyadh, so discovery happens in person: at your office, in front of the contractors you plan to recruit, and on the phones and laptops your first customers already use. Design and engineering are shared with colleagues in Dubai and Karachi.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the marketplace runs on
Good construction services marketplace website design Riyadh customers trust starts with the money, not the homepage. Riyadh has no shortage of contractor listings. What owners lack is a place where a fit-out quote, a villa extension or a maintenance contract can be compared fairly, awarded with confidence and paid without cash changing hands on site. A marketplace earns its commission by solving exactly that. The platform below is built around the order a real job follows in the capital: request, visit, priced bid, award, stage payments, handover and review. Each part can be switched on in the first release or held for later, depending on how many contractors you sign before launch and which customers you chase first. Everything is written for Arabic readers before English ones, with layouts mirrored properly rather than flipped as an afterthought.
Applicants submit their commercial registration, Saudi Contractors Authority membership, insurance and trade evidence. Your operations team checks them in a review queue, records expiry dates and blocks listings when a document lapses. Membership can be confirmed against the authority's public contractor search during review, so customers see a badge that means something.
Only contractors you have actually checked appear to paying customers.
Customers describe a job through guided forms per trade: kitchen and bathroom renovation, gypsum and ceilings, roof waterproofing, MEP upgrades, villa extensions or office fit-out. Photos, drawings, district and access notes are captured once, so every bidder prices the same scope.
Bids arrive comparable instead of vague.
Contractors propose survey slots, the customer confirms one, and reminders go out in Arabic or English. You can charge a refundable visit fee if your model needs it, credited against the job when the customer awards it.
Fewer wasted trips across a city where one visit can take half a day.
Bids sit side by side with line items, exclusions, programme and payment stages. The customer can ask questions on the record, request a revision and award the job in one step, which locks the agreed scope for everything that follows. Later variations, such as an extra room or hidden damage found behind tiles, are priced and approved as new stages against that same award.
The award becomes the contract reference for payments and disputes.
Customers pay a mobilisation stage and later stages by mada, Apple Pay, STC Pay or card through a SAMA licensed payment provider. Where your provider supports holding funds, each stage releases to the contractor only after the customer approves completion or the review period ends.
Customers pay online with confidence and contractors get paid on proof of work.
The platform splits each payment into contractor share and your commission, schedules payouts and issues the tax invoices your company must produce under ZATCA e-invoicing. Commission rules can differ by trade, job size or contractor tier.
Finance closes the month from platform records, not spreadsheets.
Questions, site photos, drawings and approvals live in a thread attached to the job, visible to the customer, the awarded contractor and your support staff. Contact details stay hidden until award, and notifications reach people by email, SMS or WhatsApp templates you approve, so nobody has to check the platform all day to keep a job moving.
Every decision on a job can be found again when it matters.
Either side can raise a dispute that freezes the next release while your team reviews messages, photos and approvals. Reviews open only after a paid job closes, so ratings come from real customers rather than friends of the contractor.
Trust in the marketplace grows with every completed job.
Your team sees open requests by district and trade, contractors near their document expiry, payments waiting for approval and disputes by age. Exports feed accounting and any Power BI reporting you run.
A small operations team can run a busy marketplace.
Contractors manage their trades, service districts, team members, documents and bank details from one dashboard. They see open requests that match their categories, submit bids from a phone browser on site, track which stages are waiting for customer approval and download payout statements for their own accountants.
Contractors can run their marketplace work without calling your team.
Who it is for
Every construction contractor marketplace platform development Riyadh founders bring us starts with one question: who pays first? The capital mixes very different construction buyers within a short drive: villa owners in the northern districts, corporate tenants in towers along King Fahd Road and in KAFD, compound operators, and main contractors who need specialist packages filled quickly. Each wants a different marketplace. We help you choose one starting audience, then design the platform so the others can be added without rebuilding the payment and payout logic.
Families in districts such as Al Malqa, Hittin and Al Narjis renovate kitchens, add rooms, waterproof roofs and refresh majlis spaces. They want several priced options and protection if a contractor walks away. We build a consumer facing marketplace with clear trade categories, visit booking, staged payments and reviews tied to completed jobs, presented first in Arabic. Saved favourites and repeat booking let a family return to a contractor they trusted for the next job.
Start with the five trades homeowners request most.
Tenants moving into Riyadh office towers need fit-out, MEP and joinery packages priced against the landlord's fit-out guide. A portal for property managers or developers lets approved fit-out firms bid against one brief, with tenant approvals, stage certificates and payments recorded in one place. Landlord sign-off on drawings can be a required step before any bid is awarded, so no tenant starts work the building has not approved.
Works well when a developer owns several towers.
Main contractors on large Riyadh programmes need scaffolding, formwork, insulation or finishing crews at short notice. An exchange lets them post packages to pre-approved specialists, compare rates and pay on certified progress, with commission charged to one side or both. Certified progress can carry the main contractor's approver name and date, matching the paperwork their own client in Riyadh expects.
Vetting depth matters more here than consumer polish.
Residential compounds and building owners need a steady pool of plumbers, AC technicians and painters with agreed rates. A maintenance marketplace takes requests from residents or managers, routes them to the right provider, and invoices the owner monthly while paying providers per job. Response times per provider are tracked, and slow responders drop down the routing order automatically.
Recurring work gives the marketplace predictable income.
How the engagement works
Marketplaces change once real customers arrive, so we price and plan the first release tightly and keep the backlog open. Cost depends on how many user types you serve, how deep contractor vetting goes, whether funds are held between stages, how many payment methods and payout schedules you need, and how much reporting finance wants. After launch, most clients keep a small team on retainer for new trades, pricing rules and conversion work, with our Riyadh colleagues available for in-person reviews. We agree service levels for hosting, monitoring and support in writing, so the marketplace stays available when contractors are waiting on payouts.
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 usually build on Next.js or Laravel with a PostgreSQL database, hosted in a region your advisers approve under PDPL, and connect to a SAMA licensed gateway, your accounting system and messaging. Security controls are planned against NCA guidance from the first sprint.
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02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on the first release scope, which we fix during discovery.
A marketplace with onboarding, job requests, bids and stage payments for a few trades moves faster than one that also handles held funds, variations, disputes and several payout schedules. We write the dates into the scope once the payment model and trades are agreed, then deliver in short releases so you can start seeding contractors while later features are still being built. Riyadh founders often want to launch before a season of villa renovations or a large tower handover, and we can plan the release order around that date if it is known early.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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