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One event booking platform for organisers selling across the Kingdom.

Event management booking website development in Saudi Arabia has to satisfy more than buyers. Codeeo builds booking and payment platforms for organisers, venue groups and agencies that sell events in several Saudi cities, and each one has to fit national rules on licensing, consumer protection, e-invoicing, payments and personal data. Buyers book a pass, a seat, a stand or a package, pay with the methods they trust and get a compliant invoice, while your head office sees every city's sales in one place.

We meet clients in person at our Riyadh office and run discovery by video call for teams in Jeddah, Dammam, Makkah, Madinah and other cities. The platforms we build are Arabic first, ready for English, and designed to add new cities and venues without a rebuild.

Built for
Event companies running editions in more than one Saudi city, venue and hospitality groups with several properties, national exhibition and conference organisers, and agencies delivering programmes for government and semi government clients.
Typical timeline
Timing is agreed after discovery, starting with the first city or flagship event that must go on sale, then a written plan for adding further cities, venues and integrations in stages.
What you own
All source code, the multi city admin, your gateway and merchant accounts in your company name, every booking and customer record, and the complete payment, refund and e-invoice history.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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What the booking platform includes

Compliance and scale built in from the start.

Organisers who sell in one city can get away with a simple ticket shop. Once you run editions in Riyadh, Jeddah and the Eastern Province, sell to ministries and listed companies, and handle thousands of buyers across several venues, the gaps show. Invoices need to be reported correctly to ZATCA, refund terms have to be disclosed the way the e-commerce law expects, and each city's team wants control over its own events without seeing everyone else's data.

Our event management online booking system development in Saudi Arabia is designed around that structure. One platform holds every event, venue and city, with permissions by team and region. National rules for payments, invoicing, privacy and consumer terms are configured once, while each event keeps its own capacity, prices, deposit terms and refund policy. Head office gets consolidated reporting and the city teams keep their autonomy. Sales, refunds, outstanding deposits and attendance can be compared city by city, which helps when deciding where the next edition should run and which pass types deserve more capacity.

Explain your project
  • Multi city event catalogue

    Events are grouped by city and venue with filters, maps and Arabic and English listings. A buyer in Dammam sees what is on nearby first, while a national campaign can still promote a flagship event in Riyadh to everyone.

    One site sells every edition, in every city you operate.

  • Regional teams and permissions

    Each city or venue team manages its own events, capacity and refunds. Finance sees everything, and sponsors or partners can be given read only reports for their own events. Every change is logged with the user who made it.

    Local teams move fast without exposing other cities' data.

  • Availability, deposits and staged payments

    Seats, sessions, stands, halls and packages each carry their own capacity, holds and deposit rules. Larger purchases can be paid in instalments with automatic reminders, while simple passes clear in a single payment at checkout.

    The same platform suits a workshop seat and a sponsorship deal.

  • National payment methods

    Our event management online payment integration in Saudi Arabia covers mada, Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay and STC Pay through a gateway operating under SAMA rules, SADAD for organisations that pay bills that way, and Tabby or Tamara instalments where you are approved as a merchant.

    Individuals, companies and public bodies can all pay.

  • ZATCA e-invoicing integration

    Every payment, deposit and refund produces a tax invoice or credit note that follows ZATCA's Fatoora requirements, generated through your accounting system or an approved solution and reported as your phase of e-invoicing requires.

    Finance closes each event with invoices already reported.

  • Cancellations, transfers and refunds by policy

    Each event carries its own cancellation window, transfer rules and refund method, shown to the buyer before payment. Refunds return through the original payment route, credit notes are raised automatically for the invoice, and city teams can approve exceptions within limits that head office sets.

    Refunds are consistent from one city to the next.

  • Consumer terms and disclosures

    The Saudi e-commerce law, supervised by the Ministry of Commerce, expects clear seller details, prices including VAT, and cancellation and refund terms before payment. Checkout shows your commercial registration and the policy for each event, and the buyer accepts it before paying.

    Terms are shown, accepted and recorded for every booking.

  • Verified identity for restricted bookings

    Where an event needs confirmed identity, such as government delegations, accredited media or age restricted entry, the platform can add a Nafath verification step through an approved provider. Ordinary ticket buyers are not asked for it.

    Identity checks apply only where they are justified.

  • Data residency and security

    Personal data is handled under the PDPL and SDAIA's rules, including limits on transfers abroad. We host in a Saudi cloud region when your clients require it, and align access control, logging and backups with National Cybersecurity Authority controls.

    Answers ready when a government client asks about security.

  • Reminders and entry across venues

    Confirmations and reminders go out by email, SMS and WhatsApp in the buyer's chosen language, each with a QR code. Door staff at any venue scan with a phone app that works through weak signal and syncs when the connection returns.

    Entry runs the same way at every venue you use.

Who this is for

Four organisations that need a national platform.

The events sector in the Kingdom has grown fast under Vision 2030's quality of life ambitions, and many organisers now run the same format in several cities or manage venues spread across regions. Each city brings its own audiences: business delegates in Riyadh, families and visitors in Jeddah, industry crowds in the Eastern Province, and pilgrims and residents in Makkah and Madinah. These four profiles cover who benefits most from one shared platform. The common thread is that more than one team, city or venue sells through the same brand and answers to the same finance department.

01

Organisers touring a format across cities

You run a conference, festival or exhibition brand in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam, perhaps with a smaller edition elsewhere. Each edition has local partners and pricing but shares a brand, a database and a finance team. A single platform with city editions, shared templates and separate capacity lets you launch the next city by copying the last one instead of starting again.

New editions are configured, not rebuilt.

02

Venue and hospitality groups

Hotel groups and venue operators with properties in several cities sell banquets, gala dinners, iftars and private hire. Each property keeps its own calendar and sales team, while the group wants consistent booking terms, payment methods and reporting. We build one booking engine with property level control and group level visibility. A guest who books a gala in Jeddah and an iftar in Riyadh is recognised as the same customer.

03

Agencies serving government programmes

Agencies delivering forums, awareness campaigns and national programmes for ministries and authorities often need registration with verified identity, invitation only access, detailed attendance reporting and strict data handling. The booking platform supports paid and free registration side by side, approval steps for invitees and hosting that meets the client's security requirements.

04

Training and certification bodies

Providers running scheduled courses in several cities need a dated catalogue, seats per session, company bookings with VAT invoices and automatic joining instructions. One platform covers every location, and each branch manages its own trainers and rooms.

Corporate clients can buy seats in several cities in one order.

Six steps from first city to national rollout.

  1. 01National discoveryWe meet head office in Riyadh or by video call, then speak with each city team about what they sell, how they take payment and which systems they already depend on.
  2. 02Compliance and data designLicensing checkpoints, consumer terms, invoicing, payment providers and personal data flows are mapped against Saudi rules and signed off by your legal and finance leads.
  3. 03Platform and admin designArabic first booking screens, the multi city catalogue and role based admin are designed together, so city teams and head office each see what they need.
  4. 04First city launchThe platform goes live for one flagship event or city first, with payments, invoicing and refunds proven on real sales before anything else is added.
  5. 05Rollout by cityFurther cities, venues and editions are added in a planned order, each with its own training session, templates and reporting checks.
  6. 06Ongoing improvementBetween seasons we refine checkout, add payment methods, extend integrations and adjust rules as regulations and your business change.

Technology

What we build this with.

We choose technology that suits a multi city operation: a scalable booking engine, Arabic first front end, Saudi cloud hosting where required, a SAMA regulated gateway and clean integrations with ERP, CRM and e-invoicing systems. City teams update their own events without developer help.

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 organisers ask about selling events across Saudi Arabia.

The national rules on invoicing, consumer terms, payments and data shape the build.

A booking site in the Kingdom must issue invoices that meet ZATCA's e-invoicing rules, show seller details and refund terms as the e-commerce law expects, take mada and local wallets through a SAMA regulated gateway and handle personal data under the PDPL. Arabic is the primary language, with proper right to left layouts. Events themselves need the right licence from the appropriate authority. We design all of this into the platform rather than adding it after launch. The Ministry of Commerce also expects your commercial registration to be visible, and a Maroof or Saudi Business Center listing can add buyer confidence where it applies.

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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