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Equipment rental apps for Jeddah's port, building sites and event season.

We handle equipment rental app development Jeddah companies use to take bookings, dispatch kit and get paid without chasing customers by phone. Jeddah's rental demand is unusually mixed: forklifts and handling gear around the port and logistics zones, plant and access equipment on the city's construction projects, and generators, lighting and staging power for events along the Corniche. Codeeo builds one customer app, one field app and one office dashboard that cope with all three.

A wedding venue in Al Shati, a warehouse near the port and a contractor in the south of the city want very different things from the same fleet. The app lets each of them book in the way that suits them, while your team sees one schedule.

Built for
Rental companies in Jeddah and the western region hiring out handling, construction, power and event equipment to businesses and private customers.
Typical timeline
Timing is set after discovery, once we know which equipment categories and customer types go into the first release and which follow.
What you own
You own the code, the app store accounts, the booking and fleet data, the customer list and the admin dashboard, all registered to your company.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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

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Inside the app

What customers and your crews actually tap on.

Jeddah customers book in two rhythms. Construction and logistics customers take equipment for weeks or months and want contracts, purchase orders and monthly invoices. Event and short hire customers want a generator, a light tower or a set of chillers for a weekend, priced instantly and paid for on the spot with mada or Apple Pay. Most rental apps handle one rhythm badly. We design for both from the first workshop, then add the field tools your drivers and technicians need for a busy, humid, traffic heavy coastal city. The features below are the ones Jeddah fleets ask for most, and we order them by what removes the most phone calls from your office.

Explain your project
  • Two booking modes

    Short hire customers see a simple catalogue with dates, delivery address and instant confirmation. Account customers see their contract rates, sites and purchase orders. The same unit can serve both, with the dashboard preventing double booking across the two. Rules decide which units appear in the public catalogue and which are reserved for contract customers in Jeddah.

    Weekend hires and long contracts share one fleet without clashes.

  • Event packages

    Bundles such as a generator with distribution boards, cabling and light towers, or a cooling set for an outdoor venue, are booked as one item. Setup and collection times sit inside the package so the crew schedule builds itself. Your planners can copy a past package for a repeat venue, adjusting only the dates and the load.

    Event quotes go out quickly and nothing is forgotten on the truck.

  • Peak date management

    Jeddah's event calendar and the Ramadan and Hajj periods change demand sharply. The dashboard lets you set minimum hire lengths, deposits or blackout rules for specific dates, so your best units are not tied up on low value bookings when demand peaks. Customers booking early for those dates see availability honestly, which builds trust and spreads demand.

    High demand weeks earn what they should.

  • Instant payment and deposits

    Private and small business customers pay or leave a deposit with mada cards, credit cards or Apple Pay through a payment gateway licensed in Saudi Arabia. Refunds of deposits happen from the dashboard after the return check. Payment links can also be sent by message to customers who prefer to book by phone.

    Short hires are paid before the truck leaves the yard.

  • Warehouse and port handling kit

    Forklifts, reach trucks, pallet trucks and access platforms for logistics customers are listed with capacity, fuel or battery type and attachments. Customers can raise recurring hires and request swaps when a battery unit needs charging or service. Battery charge cycles and service hours are logged per unit, so swaps are planned before a truck stops mid shift.

    Logistics customers keep their operation running without calling the depot.

  • Delivery slots and access notes

    Customers pick a delivery window and add gate, parking and contact details. Drivers see the job with navigation, venue access notes and any time restrictions for heavy vehicles, which matters in central districts and around large events. Repeat customers keep saved addresses, so a weekly venue or warehouse takes seconds to book again.

    Fewer failed deliveries and waiting trucks.

  • Crew and technician app

    Drivers, riggers and electricians receive their jobs, checklists and customer contacts on their phones. Setup is confirmed with photos and a customer signature, and power equipment can include a recorded test before handover. If a job runs late, the crew app tells the office and the customer at once.

    Every handover is documented the moment it happens.

  • Corrosion and condition checks

    Salt air and humidity are hard on generators, compressors and steel equipment near the sea. Return inspections include condition prompts for rust, seals and electrical connections, and feed the workshop's service list for each unit. Units that spend long periods near the waterfront or the port can be given shorter service intervals automatically.

    Coastal wear is caught early instead of on the next hire.

  • Customer messaging and alerts

    Booking confirmations, driver on the way alerts, extension offers and return reminders go out as push notifications and in app messages, in Arabic or English depending on the customer's choice.

    Customers know what is happening without phoning the office.

  • Fleet and revenue dashboard

    Managers see utilisation by category, which units sit idle, which customers extend most often and how event revenue compares with contract revenue month to month. Invoices flow to your accounting and ZATCA e-invoicing setup. Branch managers see their own figures, and owners see the whole group in one view.

    Fleet purchases are based on real usage, not guesswork.

Who this is for

Jeddah rental businesses that fit this kind of build.

Jeddah sits between a major Red Sea port, a large construction pipeline and a busy events calendar, with Makkah close enough that seasonal demand reaches the city's rental yards. Rental companies here are rarely pure specialists. The four profiles below cover most of the firms we speak to, and each one changes what we put into the first version of the app. Some firms recognise themselves in two or three of these, and the dashboard is designed so mixed fleets do not need separate systems.

01

Event power and temporary infrastructure suppliers

You supply generators, lighting, cooling and cabling to venues, exhibitions, weddings and outdoor events, often at short notice and with tight setup windows. The app gives organisers instant quotes on packages, takes deposits, and puts every setup and collection on a crew calendar, so a busy weekend does not depend on one coordinator's phone. Post event inspections record fuel, damage and missing items before the deposit is released.

Speed of quoting usually decides who wins an event booking.

02

Material handling hire for logistics firms

Warehouses and logistics operators around the port and the city's industrial areas hire forklifts and handling equipment on rolling contracts. We build for recurring hires, swaps, planned maintenance visits and monthly invoicing against purchase orders, with a customer view of every unit currently on their premises and its next service. Operator familiarisation and safety briefings can be logged against each delivery for customers who ask for them.

03

Plant and access hire for construction

Jeddah's residential, hospitality and infrastructure projects keep excavators, compactors, scissor lifts and boom lifts busy. Contractors need quick extensions, off hire requests and clear records of which unit is on which site. The app gives site managers that control from their phones and gives your office one schedule across every project. Site managers can also report a breakdown with a photo and see when the replacement is due.

04

Tool and small equipment shops

Hire shops serving tradesmen and households across Jeddah's districts rent breakers, generators, pressure washers and ladders by the day. Here the app works like a well organised shop: stock by branch, reservations, ID capture and payment at collection. Custom equipment rental app development Jeddah shops need is usually lighter, and can grow later.

Branch stock visibility is often the first win.

From first workshop to a fleet booked through the app.

  1. 01Map your hire typesWe separate event, contract and walk in hires, list the equipment in each, and note where bookings, payments and returns go wrong today across your Jeddah branches.
  2. 02Plan pricing rulesDay, week and month rates, packages, deposits, delivery zones within Jeddah and peak date rules are written down so the app prices consistently without manual quotes.
  3. 03Design in Arabic and EnglishBooking flows, crew screens and the dashboard are designed right to left and left to right together, then tested with real customers and drivers before build.
  4. 04Build in short releasesCustomer app, crew app and dashboard grow in fortnightly releases, with payment, maps and accounting connections tested as each one arrives.
  5. 05Launch on one categoryEvent power or forklifts usually go first. Real bookings show which steps confuse customers before the full catalogue is added.
  6. 06Grow with the seasonEach release is planned around your busy periods, so new features land in quieter weeks rather than in the middle of a peak event month on the Corniche.

Technology

What we build this with.

We choose cross platform or native mobile frameworks, a cloud backend hosted to suit Saudi data rules, Saudi licensed payment gateways and mapping that handles Jeddah addresses and the National Address format. Personal data is handled in line with the Saudi PDPL.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

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

03Marketing and tracking

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

Questions Jeddah rental companies ask before they build.

It depends on how many hire types and integrations the first release includes.

A first release covering one category, such as event power, with booking, payment and a crew app is far quicker than a full platform with contracts, telematics and ERP links. We agree the scope in discovery, then commit to dates in writing. Many Jeddah firms prefer to launch before their busiest season, so we plan backwards from that point and keep the first version focused enough to meet it. Features that miss the first launch are listed in a written backlog, so nothing agreed in discovery is lost.

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

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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