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EV charging apps for Saudi networks rolling out city by city.

EV charging app development in Saudi Arabia for charge point operators, fuel retailers, property developers and fleet owners building charging across the Kingdom. We build Arabic first driver apps, multi region operations platforms and charger integrations that respect national rules on payments, e-invoicing and personal data, so one system can run sites in Riyadh, Jeddah, the Eastern Province and on the highways between them.

The national market is young and shaped by policy. EVIQ, the joint venture of the Public Investment Fund and Saudi Electricity Company, is building a public network, Petromin's Electromin runs its own, and developers and fleets are installing chargers too. Software that works across all of these settings is what lets a network grow.

Built for
Charge point operators, fuel and retail chains, real estate developers and fleets operating in more than one Saudi city.
Typical timeline
We agree launch regions, charger models and the first release scope in discovery, and write rollout dates down before design begins.
What you own
Source code, app store accounts, the operations platform, tariffs, charger settings and all driver data, in your company's own accounts.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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What the platform can include

What a Kingdom-wide charging platform needs.

A charging app for one site and a platform for a national network are different products. Once chargers sit in several cities and along the roads between them, the questions change: how pricing differs by region and site host, how field teams in each city receive faults, how roaming partners see your chargers, and how every paid session produces an invoice that satisfies ZATCA. National rules also apply to the whole system rather than one site. The Ministry of Energy coordinated the regulatory framework for EV charging with the Water and Electricity Regulatory Authority, the municipal ministry, SASO and Saudi Electricity Company, and the platform should hold the data those obligations depend on. The capabilities below are the ones that matter when you plan for more than one city from the start, ordered by how early a multi city operator usually needs them.

Explain your project
  • Multi region network management

    Sites are grouped by region, city and host, each with its own operators, maintenance teams and tariffs. Head office sees the whole network, while a regional manager in the Eastern Province or the Western Region sees only their sites. New cities are added as configuration rather than code, so expansion follows your rollout plan instead of a development backlog.

    The network grows city by city without a rebuild.

  • Roaming with other networks

    Drivers do not want a separate app for every operator. Through OCPI, the open roaming protocol, your platform can publish your chargers to partners and accept their customers, and your app can show partner sites wherever agreements exist. Settlement reports reconcile sessions between networks each month so neither side is left chasing numbers.

    Your drivers reach more chargers, and partners' drivers reach yours.

  • National payment options

    Payments run through a provider licensed under SAMA's rules, accepting mada, international cards, Apple Pay and local wallets. Business customers can settle invoices through SADAD where your billing provider supports it, and prepaid wallets let frequent drivers top up once and charge many times across every city you serve.

    Every common Saudi payment method works in the same app.

  • ZATCA e-invoicing

    Every taxable session needs a valid invoice. The platform issues simplified invoices for drivers and standard tax invoices for business accounts, integrated with the Fatoora requirements for the phase that applies to your business, with QR codes and archived records your finance team can retrieve quickly during an audit.

    Tax compliance is built into each session, not reconciled afterwards.

  • Verified business onboarding

    Fleet and corporate customers sign up with their commercial registration details, and authorised signatories can verify identity through Nafath where your onboarding provider supports it. That cuts manual document checks for new business accounts and gives you a clear record of who accepted your terms on behalf of the company.

    Business customers onboard faster, with fewer documents emailed back and forth.

  • Intercity route planning

    Long drives between Saudi cities are where EV owners feel most exposed. The planner calculates stops along highways using your sites, roaming partners and live charger status, adjusts for reduced range in summer heat, and warns plainly when a stretch has no coverage, so drivers plan ahead rather than gamble.

    Drivers trust the network for trips between cities, not only inside them.

  • Field service across regions

    Faults are routed to the nearest maintenance team, whether in house staff or a contractor, with charger history, photos and parts used recorded in a technician app. Response timers per region show where service is slow and help you decide where to base more technicians as the network spreads.

    Faults go to whoever is closest, and slow regions become visible.

  • Security and data protection

    Charging platforms hold personal data and send commands to equipment connected to the grid. We design for the PDPL and SDAIA guidance, host in the Kingdom where required, and align security controls with NCA requirements where they apply to your organisation, including encrypted charger connections and role based access for every console user.

    Security questions from partners and authorities have clear, documented answers.

  • Host and investor reporting

    Developers, retailers and landlords hosting chargers see their own revenue share, uptime and usage. Head office and investors see performance across the network by city, charger model and host, exportable to your BI tools, which helps decide where the next sites should go and which hardware to buy again.

    Rollout decisions rest on real usage by city.

  • Arabic first driver experience

    Driver screens are designed in Arabic with right to left layouts and English as an equal second language. Units, tone and help content follow Saudi expectations, and support content is managed centrally, so a policy or tariff change appears correctly in every city on the same day.

    One consistent experience in every Saudi city you serve.

Who this is for

Four organisations building charging across the Kingdom.

The Saudi charging market is being built by organisations from different backgrounds: energy, fuel retail, real estate and transport. Each brings existing systems, customers and sites, and each needs charging software that fits what it already runs. Vision 2030 sets the direction, but the daily questions are practical ones: which cities first, which hardware, which partners and which payment providers. These are the four kinds of organisation we expect to plan national charging programmes with most often.

01

A charge point operator planning a national network

You plan sites in several cities and along highways. You need a driver app that competes with established networks, an operations platform that handles regions and field teams, roaming with partners, and compliance with payment and invoicing rules from the first paid session. We size the architecture for your rollout plan, then release region by region.

Architecture is sized for the full rollout, not just the first city.

02

A fuel or convenience retail chain

Fuel station chains have locations on main roads and highways and loyal customers who already use their apps. Adding EV charging means fitting chargers into an existing loyalty programme, point of sale and station operations. We build charging as a module in your current app or as a sister app that shares the same customer accounts and rewards.

03

A real estate developer across several cities

Developers building communities, offices and malls in different cities want consistent charging across their portfolio, with residents and tenants on one account and visitors paying a public rate. We build a portfolio platform with property level rules and a single resident experience, linked to the community apps you already run in each development.

Property rules are configured per site, not hard coded.

04

A national fleet operator

Delivery networks, rental companies and corporate fleets with vehicles in several cities need depot charging at each base, a company account for public charging and one view of energy use per vehicle and region. We build fleet tools that connect to your telematics and finance systems and follow your operations wherever they run in the Kingdom.

Six steps to a charging platform that scales across Saudi Arabia.

  1. 01Regulatory and commercial mappingWe list the obligations your advisers confirm, from site licensing to payments, e-invoicing and data protection, beside your commercial model, so the platform records what each rule needs from the first day.
  2. 02Rollout and architecture planRegions, charger models, roaming partners and expected growth decide the architecture, hosting location and data model before any feature is designed.
  3. 03Design for drivers and operatorsArabic first driver flows and operator consoles are prototyped and tested with drivers and staff in more than one Saudi city.
  4. 04IntegrationsCharger connections over OCPP, roaming over OCPI, the payment provider, ZATCA invoicing, identity verification and your ERP or CRM, each tested before release.
  5. 05First region launchOne city or corridor goes live first, with daily review of failed sessions, payment declines and support tickets before the next region opens.
  6. 06Region by region expansionNew cities are configured, field teams onboarded and app updates released on a cycle that follows your rollout calendar and partner agreements.

Technology

What we build this with.

Native or cross platform mobile apps, a scalable cloud backend hosted in a Saudi region, an OCPP central system that handles mixed hardware and an OCPI module for roaming. EV charging app developers in Saudi Arabia should be able to explain each of these choices to your board, and we put ours in writing.

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 about building a charging platform in Saudi Arabia.

The first region can launch well before the national rollout is complete.

We split national programmes into a first release for one city or corridor and later releases for each new region. The timing of that first release depends on charger models, payment and invoicing integrations, and whether roaming is needed at launch. We agree it in discovery and fix dates in writing. Later regions move faster because they reuse the platform and mostly need configuration, field team setup and testing at new sites.

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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