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Subscription sites that sell attendance software to employers across the Kingdom.

Employee attendance subscription website development Saudi Arabia vendors can trust starts with billing that holds up under Saudi tax, payment and data rules. We build the public site, plan pages, sign up flow, recurring billing and customer account area for companies that sell attendance and time tracking software to Saudi employers. Invoices come out in a form ZATCA accepts, card and mada payments run through SAMA licensed providers, and customer records are handled under the Personal Data Protection Law.

This work covers the commerce layer only: how an employer finds your plans, subscribes, pays, adds employees and renews. The attendance product itself, with its clock in rules and payroll exports, stays a separate system that we connect to rather than rebuild.

Built for
Saudi and regional software companies selling attendance, shift and time tracking subscriptions to employers in several Saudi regions.
Typical timeline
Billing rules, tax handling and integrations are settled in discovery, then a written schedule is agreed before design and revisited at every review.
What you own
Site code, billing configuration, gateway merchant accounts, invoice archive and customer data, all registered to your own company.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer

Modon
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HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

What the platform covers

Commerce shaped around how Saudi employers buy software.

Buyers of attendance software in the Kingdom range from a bakery owner with a few cashiers to a contractor with crews spread over several provinces, plus ministries and semi government bodies that buy through formal procurement. One site has to serve the owner who pays by mada card in five minutes and the finance department that wants a quotation, a purchase order reference and a VAT invoice in Arabic. It also has to keep working when a customer adds forty staff in Ramadan or opens a branch in another city. The pieces below are the ones we plan, design and build, and each is wired to your attendance product so seat counts, plan limits and account status never drift apart from what the customer is actually using.

Explain your project
  • ZATCA e-invoicing built in

    Every renewal, upgrade and credit note is produced as a structured electronic invoice with the cryptographic stamp and QR code that Fatoora requires. Standard tax invoices to business buyers go through clearance before they reach the customer; simplified invoices are reported. We capture the buyer VAT number and commercial registration at checkout so the invoice is valid first time.

    No manual invoice reissue when finance teams reject a document.

  • Arabic first plan pages

    Plan comparison, feature tables and sign up written in Arabic first with a right to left layout, and an English version that mirrors it rather than being an afterthought. Arabic typography is set for long numbers, plan names and legal text, so seat counts and tax lines stay readable on a phone.

    HR managers and owners compare plans in the language they think in.

  • Saudi payment methods

    mada, Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay and STC Pay through a SAMA licensed gateway, with cards tokenised so monthly or annual renewals charge without a new checkout. SADAD bill payment and bank transfer sit alongside for buyers whose finance policy will not allow a card on file, and each payment is matched to its invoice automatically.

    Every common way Saudi companies pay is accepted and reconciled.

  • Seat counts tied to real usage

    Your attendance product reports active employees, sites or devices, and the billing engine reads that figure on the agreed date. Mid cycle growth is prorated or held for a true up at renewal, whichever your pricing policy says, and customers see the count before they are charged for it.

    Bills match the headcount the customer can see in the product.

  • Procurement and quotation path

    Larger buyers request a formal quotation from the plan page, receive it as a branded PDF with VAT shown separately, and convert it to an account once a purchase order arrives. Government tenders themselves run on Etimad, so the site supplies the documents your sales team uploads there rather than pretending to replace it.

    Enterprise and public sector deals move without leaving the system.

  • Pilot accounts for large buyers

    Big employers rarely subscribe before testing attendance rules on one branch. If you choose to offer pilots, the platform creates a time limited account with a seat cap, converts it to a paid plan without losing the pilot data, and alerts your sales team before it ends. Smaller buyers can go straight to a paid plan with no pilot step at all.

    Pilots convert into contracts instead of quietly expiring.

  • Grace periods that protect payroll

    When a renewal fails, reminders go out in Arabic and English by email and SMS, retries follow a schedule you set, and the customer keeps clocking staff in during the grace period. Only after that does the account move to read only, so a declined card never wipes out a month of attendance records the employer needs for wages.

    Revenue is recovered without punishing the employees on the clock.

  • In Kingdom hosting and NCA controls

    Billing and customer data can be hosted in Saudi cloud regions, with access, logging and backup set against the NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls. Vendors pursuing government accounts often need the Cloud Cybersecurity Controls as well, and we design the platform so that assessment is a review rather than a rebuild.

    Security questionnaires from large buyers get straight answers.

  • PDPL consent and data requests

    Privacy notices, consent records for marketing, and a route for customers to request access, correction or deletion of their personal data, aligned with the PDPL and SDAIA guidance. Contact data for billing is kept apart from the employee attendance data your product processes on the customer's behalf.

    Your obligations as seller and as processor stay clearly separated.

  • Group and multi entity accounts

    Holding companies often run several commercial registrations under one HR function. One master account can hold many billing entities, each with its own VAT number, invoice address and payment method, while the group HR lead sees combined usage across all of them.

    Each entity is invoiced correctly and the group still buys once.

Who this is for

Four kinds of attendance software seller we build for.

The subscription site looks different depending on who is selling and to whom. A vendor whose buyers are small shops needs a fast self serve checkout. A vendor courting ministries needs quotations, data residency answers and patience. Most sit somewhere between. Some come to us for employee attendance SaaS website development Saudi Arabia buyers will find in Arabic search; others need employee attendance billing integration services Saudi Arabia finance teams can audit. These are the starting points we see most often across the Kingdom, and the decisions each one forces early in the project.

01

A Saudi attendance product still billed by hand

Sales closes deals, finance raises invoices in a spreadsheet and renewals depend on someone remembering. We move that into self serve plans, automated renewals and Fatoora compliant invoices, while keeping a manual path for the larger accounts your team still negotiates. The first release usually covers sign up, payment and invoicing; account changes follow once the numbers reconcile.

Start with the invoices finance is already issuing.

02

An international vendor entering the Saudi market

A global time tracking product rarely arrives ready for Saudi buyers. It needs a local billing entity, Arabic plan pages, mada acceptance, ZATCA integration and answers on where data lives. We build a Saudi storefront and billing layer that talks to your global product, so local customers get local invoices without forking the codebase.

Confirm your VAT registration and local entity before checkout design.

03

An HR suite selling attendance as an add on

When attendance is one module among payroll, leave and performance, billing gets layered: base subscriptions, add ons, bundles and different renewal dates per module. We model those rules so a customer can add attendance mid term, see the prorated charge and receive one invoice that lists each line clearly. Downgrades are handled with the same care, so removing a module at renewal never deletes the attendance history a customer still needs for past payroll periods.

04

A vendor selling terminals with a monthly licence

Fingerprint and face recognition terminals are physical goods with delivery, installation and warranty, while the software is recurring. We combine both in one order: hardware shipped to sites in different cities, licences that start on activation rather than payment, and replacement units handled without touching the subscription. Hardware lines carry their own VAT treatment and serial numbers on the invoice, which keeps warranty claims and asset registers simple for the buyer.

Six stages from billing rules to a live subscription site.

  1. 01Pricing and tax mappingWe document every plan, unit of charge, discount rule and invoice type, and map each one to ZATCA invoice categories and VAT treatment before a screen is drawn.
  2. 02Arabic first designPlan pages, checkout and account screens are designed right to left first, then mirrored into English, and tested with real Arabic plan names and long company names.
  3. 03Gateway onboardingWe help you open merchant accounts with a SAMA licensed provider, confirm mada tokenisation for renewals, and set up SADAD or bank transfer matching where needed.
  4. 04Fatoora integration and testingInvoices are tested in the ZATCA developer environment, including credit notes and failed clearance, before the device is onboarded for production.
  5. 05Phased launchNew customers go live first. Existing customers are migrated in batches with their renewal dates, seat counts and payment methods checked one by one.
  6. 06Revenue reporting and refinementRecurring revenue, churn, failed payments and upgrade paths are reported monthly, and plan pages are adjusted where buyers hesitate or drop out.

Technology

What we build this with.

We pick the billing engine by whether it supports your Saudi gateway, mada tokenisation and Fatoora integration, not by brand. The front end is usually Next.js or Laravel, with Arabic fonts, server rendered plan pages that search engines can read, and an API link to your attendance product so plan limits are enforced in one place.

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 attendance software vendors ask before building.

Plan pages, sign up, recurring billing, Fatoora invoicing and a customer account area.

The public site explains your plans in Arabic and English and lets an employer subscribe. Behind it sit the billing engine, the payment gateway, ZATCA e-invoicing and the link that reads seat counts from your attendance product. Customers get an account area to change plans, add sites, update payment details and download invoices. Your team gets an admin view of subscriptions, failed payments and revenue. The attendance features themselves stay in your product.

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