Services · Ecommerce development · Food delivery marketplaces
Codeeo builds food delivery ordering websites in Riyadh for founders and operators who want a marketplace of their own: many restaurants listed under one brand, diners ordering on the web, and commission, payouts and refunds handled by the platform rather than by spreadsheet. We deliver the customer ordering site, the restaurant portal and the operator console, planned around how the capital actually eats, from rushed office lunches in Olaya and KAFD to late family orders in Al Malqa and Hittin.
This page is about a web platform that takes money from diners and splits it between restaurants, couriers and you. If you only need a brochure site for one restaurant brand, or a native app for your own riders, those are separate projects, and we will say which one fits in the first conversation.
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What the platform includes
A food marketplace has three groups of users who want different things. Diners want to find something good near them and see an honest delivery time. Restaurants want orders that arrive clearly, a fair commission and money in the bank on a predictable schedule. You, the operator, want control over who sells, what they charge and how complaints are settled.
Riyadh adds its own pressure. Lunch demand is packed into a narrow window around the business districts, evenings stretch late, and Riyadh Season or a big match at the stadium can multiply orders in a few streets for one night. The capabilities below are the ones we usually scope first for a marketplace in the city, and the order reflects how money and responsibility move through the platform. Each one is configurable by your operations team, so changing a commission rate or a delivery zone in Hittin is an admin task rather than a code release.
Each restaurant applies through a portal and uploads its commercial registration, Balady municipal licence, VAT registration and bank details. Your team reviews them in a queue, approves or returns them with comments, and the platform reminds both sides before any document expires, so no kitchen keeps selling on a lapsed licence.
Only verified restaurants appear to diners, and you can show how each one was checked.
Restaurants draw the districts they serve and set preparation times by day. The site then publishes cuisine and district pages, such as burgers in Al Yasmin or Najdi dishes near King Fahd Road, written to be found in search rather than hidden behind a location prompt.
Diners see only kitchens that can genuinely reach them, and search engines see useful pages.
One person opens a group basket, shares a link with colleagues across a tower in KAFD or Olaya, and each adds a meal before a cut off time. The order goes to one restaurant as a single ticket and can be charged to a company account with a monthly statement.
Lunch orders from offices become one clean ticket instead of twelve phone calls.
Diners pay with mada, Visa and Mastercard, Apple Pay and STC Bank, with Tabby or Tamara offered on larger catering baskets if you choose. Payments run through a payment provider licensed by SAMA, with card authentication handled on its side, which is the core of food ordering payment integration in Riyadh.
Checkout accepts what Riyadh diners already use, without card data touching your servers.
Commission rules can differ by restaurant, category or order type. When you run a promotion the platform records who funds the discount. Payouts are calculated per period, settled through the payment provider's split or payout features, and each restaurant downloads a statement that reconciles orders, refunds and fees.
Restaurants trust the numbers because every riyal in a payout traces back to an order.
The platform issues ZATCA compliant e-invoices for the commission and service fees you charge restaurants, and passes order data to restaurants that issue their own invoices to diners. We agree in discovery which party invoices what, with your accountant, before the invoicing logic is written.
Invoices match the agreed model and stand up when your accountant or ZATCA looks at them.
Orders are passed by API to delivery companies that hold the Transport General Authority licences, or to a restaurant's own licensed drivers. Courier status flows back to the diner's tracking page, and the console flags orders that wait too long for pickup during the lunch rush.
Deliveries run through licensed operators, and late pickups are visible before diners complain.
During Riyadh Season, concerts at Boulevard City or a derby night, orders pile up in a few districts at once. The console lets you cap orders per restaurant, extend quoted delivery times by area, pause a struggling kitchen for twenty minutes and switch on a set event menu, all without a developer.
Busy nights stay manageable instead of turning into a wave of refunds.
Missing items, cold food and late arrivals are logged against the order with photos. Your support team settles each case with a full, partial or credit refund, and the rules decide whether the restaurant or the platform bears the cost. Reviews can only be left on completed orders and pass through moderation.
Complaints close quickly and fairly, and ratings reflect real orders.
Who this is for
A multi restaurant platform is a bigger commitment than a single brand ordering site. It makes sense when you have a clear reason restaurants will join you rather than only the large aggregators: a niche, a location, a set of customers or a cost structure they cannot get elsewhere. These are the Riyadh situations where we see that reason most often. Food ordering platform development in Riyadh pays back when that reason is real and when you have the operations team to support restaurants after launch.
You have signed a first group of restaurants in the north of the city and want to prove demand before expanding. We build a lean first release with onboarding, ordering, payouts and support, and leave room in the data model for new districts and cuisines. Launching narrow lets you learn delivery times and refund rates in a contained area before taking on the whole city.
Start narrow, measure, then widen the map.
You run a food hall, a dining destination or a group of venues with tenant kitchens, and want one ordering site where guests can choose from every outlet. The platform lets each tenant manage its own menu and see its own payouts while you keep the brand, the diner relationship and the commission. It also gives tenants a reason to sign longer leases.
One site for many tenants, each with its own statement.
Your customers are companies, not individuals. Employees order from a curated list of restaurants, managers set budgets, and finance receives one invoice a month. We build company accounts, spending limits, delivery windows by building and consolidated billing, which suits the towers around KAFD and the offices along King Fahd Road and Olaya Street.
Built around budgets and invoices rather than coupons.
You operate a shared kitchen with several virtual brands under one roof. A marketplace site lets diners order from more than one brand in the same basket when the kitchen can prepare them together, routes each item to the right station and pays each brand owner its share. Collection by a single courier keeps delivery cost under control.
Combined baskets work when every brand cooks in the same building.
How we work together
Most Riyadh marketplace clients start with a fixed scope first release covering onboarding, ordering, payments, payouts and support. After launch, a monthly retainer covers new features, provider changes and the steady stream of requests that restaurants send once they are trading. Operators planning several cities sometimes take a dedicated team instead. Because we have an office in Riyadh, workshops, pilot reviews and launch days can happen in person. Food delivery ordering website design in Riyadh is reviewed with your team at each stage, on real phones and real menus, before anything is signed off.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
A fast server rendered web front end for diners, a modular back end for orders, payouts and invoicing, search that understands Arabic and English dish names, and hosting chosen to suit your data obligations under the PDPL and NCA controls. Everything sits in accounts your company owns, with documentation your own developers can pick up.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on scope, the payment provider and how many restaurants join the pilot.
The biggest variables are the number of sides you launch with, the payout model and how quickly the payment provider approves your account. A marketplace with simple commission and one delivery partner moves faster than one with company billing, combined baskets and several couriers. We agree the timeline in discovery, write it into the plan, and review it at each demo so there are no surprises close to launch.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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