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A national booking and payment platform for Saudi equipment hire fleets.

Equipment rental booking website development Saudi Arabia fleets need goes beyond a single depot's calendar. Codeeo builds booking and payment platforms for hire companies working across the Central, Western and Eastern regions, where customers reserve plant, access, lifting, power and cooling equipment online, pay through Saudi payment methods, and receive invoices that meet ZATCA rules. Every branch works from the same fleet records, the same terms and the same compliance controls.

National rules shape the platform as much as customer needs do: personal data protection under SDAIA, cybersecurity controls from the NCA, e-invoicing under ZATCA, payment licensing by SAMA and consumer rules from the Ministry of Commerce. We build them in from the first sprint.

Built for
Equipment hire groups, regional rental firms expanding nationally and contractors renting out their own fleets across Saudi Arabia.
Typical timeline
Agreed after discovery, in person at our Riyadh office or by video call, with the regional rollout order and each stage's date set out in the scope.
What you own
All source code, hosting, domains, gateway and merchant accounts, the national admin and every customer and booking record, in your group's name.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

Inside the booking platform

What a Kingdom wide rental platform has to handle.

A rental group with branches in several regions faces problems a single yard never sees. Prices drift between branches, the same customer gets different terms in different cities, and head office cannot see which equipment is idle where. Compliance adds another layer: one weak branch process can put customer data or tax records at risk for the whole group.

Our platforms solve this with a single national catalogue and calendar, branch level availability, shared customer accounts and central control over terms and payments. Regional teams keep the flexibility they need for local customers, but within rules head office sets. The features below are the ones national fleets ask for most; the order and depth depend on how your group is organised. A group with three strong branches and one new depot needs a different first release from a fleet already serving national contractors in every region, and we plan accordingly.

Explain your project
  • National catalogue, branch availability

    One catalogue describes every equipment class once, in Arabic and English, with specifications and photos. Availability is held per branch, so a customer entering a delivery address sees which branch can serve it and when. Head office edits class content once and every region updates.

    Consistent listings everywhere, with honest local availability.

  • Regional pricing under central rules

    Branches can set prices within bands head office approves, reflecting transport distances and local demand. Customer specific rates for national contractors apply in every region, so a framework customer gets the same terms in Dammam as in Jeddah.

    Local flexibility without pricing that contradicts itself.

  • Verified business and individual accounts

    Business customers register with their commercial registration and VAT number, which your team checks against official records before credit is granted. Individuals can verify through Nafath where your policy calls for it. The same account works with every branch, with its credit limit tracked nationally.

    One verified customer record across the whole group.

  • Saudi payment methods

    The checkout runs through a payment gateway licensed by SAMA and supports mada, Visa, Mastercard and Apple Pay, plus the STC Bank wallet that grew out of STC Pay. Tabby and Tamara instalments can be offered for smaller hires. Account customers can settle invoices by transfer or through SADAD where your billing setup allows.

    Customers in every region pay the way they already do.

  • Deposits, holds and refunds

    Deposit rules are set by equipment class and customer type: charged, held as a card pre-authorisation, or waived for approved accounts. Cancellations and early returns are refunded under published terms, which matters because the e-commerce law expects clear disclosure of cancellation and refund conditions before purchase.

    Refund handling is consistent from branch to branch.

  • ZATCA e-invoicing connection

    Bookings, extensions, transport and damage charges are passed to your central ERP or accounting system, which generates the Fatoora compliant invoice with its QR code. Each branch's sales are tagged so finance can report by region while invoicing stays in one compliant system.

    Group finance runs one invoicing process, not one per branch.

  • National Address and delivery zones

    Delivery addresses use the Saudi National Address format, which reduces failed drops on large or new project sites. Each branch owns delivery zones, transport charges and lead times, and long distance moves between regions are flagged for planning by the transport team.

    Delivery is quoted correctly for any address in the Kingdom.

  • Privacy, security and audit trail

    Customer and booking data is handled under the PDPL, with role based staff access, consent records, logged changes and a published privacy notice. Hosting and security controls are planned with the NCA's Essential Cybersecurity Controls in mind, which some government linked customers expect suppliers to meet.

    Compliance is designed in, not patched in after an audit.

  • Group reporting

    Head office sees bookings, utilisation, revenue, outstanding balances and cancellations by region, branch and equipment class. Reports show where a class is turning work away and where it sits idle, which guides moving units between regions before buying more.

    Fleet moves between regions are based on booking evidence.

  • Inter region transfers on the calendar

    When a branch has no free unit but another region does, staff can offer the customer a transferred unit with the extra transport time and charge shown before they confirm. The transfer blocks the unit on both calendars for the travel days, so neither branch promises it to someone else while it is on a low loader crossing the Kingdom.

    Idle units in one region win bookings in another.

Who this is for

Rental businesses with a national footprint, or national plans.

A national platform is a bigger decision than a booking site for one depot, and it is not the right first step for everyone. It suits groups that already operate in more than one region, firms with a clear plan to expand, and businesses whose largest customers work across the Kingdom. These are the four situations we meet most often, with what each usually needs first.

01

Groups whose branches run as separate businesses

Many rental groups grew by opening or buying branches that kept their own spreadsheets, prices and customer lists. A national platform brings them onto one catalogue, one customer record and one set of terms, while letting branch managers keep control of local availability and delivery. We usually start with the branch whose processes are cleanest, then bring others across in a planned order. Branch managers are involved early, because a platform they helped shape is one they will actually use.

Bring branches over one at a time, not all at once.

02

Regional firms entering a second region

A strong Riyadh or Eastern Province fleet opening a depot in another region needs its booking site to handle two calendars, two sets of delivery zones and regional pricing. Building that structure now is far easier than retrofitting it after the new branch is open and customers are already booking by phone. The new region can launch online from its first day, with its own delivery zones and local landing pages ready for search.

03

Suppliers to national contractors

If your biggest customers run projects in several regions, they want one account, one rate card and one set of invoices regardless of which branch delivers. The platform gives their procurement teams that, with sites and cost codes grouped so their finance teams can reconcile spending across the Kingdom.

04

Contractors renting out their own fleet

Construction groups with large owned fleets often hire spare capacity to others. A booking platform lets them do this with clear availability, deposits and invoicing, without the hire business disrupting internal allocation for their own projects, which always take priority in the calendar. Internal transfers and external hires sit on one calendar, so the plant manager sees both before releasing a machine.

Internal projects stay first in the queue.

Six stages to a platform every branch uses.

  1. 01Group discoveryWorkshops in person at our Riyadh office or by video call with head office and branch leads, covering current tools, customer types, compliance duties and which regions go live first.
  2. 02Data and rule modelWe design the national catalogue, branch structure, pricing bands, account types and deposit rules, and test them against real bookings from several branches.
  3. 03Compliance planningPDPL data mapping, NCA aligned security controls, hosting location, payment licensing and the ZATCA invoicing path are agreed and documented before build.
  4. 04Design and buildArabic first design, a national admin with branch roles, payment gateway connection and ERP integration, tested in a staging copy with each branch's data.
  5. 05Pilot regionOne region goes live first. We watch bookings, payments and invoices closely, fix issues and refine branch rules before the next region joins.
  6. 06Regional rolloutRemaining regions join in the agreed order, with staff training by video for each branch and redirects from any old branch websites to the national platform.

Technology

What we build this with.

National platforms with branch roles, ERP links and compliance requirements are usually custom builds in Laravel or Next.js, often with a headless approach so the website and other channels share one booking engine. Hosting in a Saudi data region is the default recommendation.

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 from rental groups planning a national platform.

Saudi tax, payment, privacy and identity rules all touch the booking flow.

Invoices must follow ZATCA's e-invoicing rules, payment gateways must be licensed by SAMA, customer data falls under the PDPL overseen by SDAIA, and online sales are covered by the e-commerce law under the Ministry of Commerce. Customers expect mada, Arabic first layouts and National Address delivery. None of this is unusual for us, but it has to be planned from the start rather than added just before launch, because each one changes how bookings, payments and records are stored.

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

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