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Paid membership platforms for gym brands operating across the Kingdom.

Q: Do we need to register the online store?

Online selling brings duties that your adviser should confirm. Registering the online store with the Ministry of Commerce, publishing your commercial registration and VAT details, and showing clear prices, cancellation and refund terms are part of selling memberships online in the Kingdom. We build the disclosure pages and checkout steps; your team or adviser handles the registration itself. Disclosures are shown on every regional version of the site, so a member joining in any city sees the same legal information.

Q: How does gym membership payment integration work across Saudi Arabia?

One gateway setup, or one per entity, with tokenised renewals. A single operator usually uses one SAMA licensed gateway for every branch, with settlement reports split by branch. Franchise models may need one merchant account per franchisee. We confirm which methods support recurring charges, as this differs between card schemes and wallets, and design renewal flows for the cases where a payment link is needed instead. Refunds and chargebacks flow back to the member record automatically, and finance receives a daily reconciliation of gateway settlements against platform sales for each branch and entity.

Q: Can member data be hosted outside the Kingdom?

Possibly, but it needs a careful legal assessment. The PDPL and its regulations set conditions for transferring personal data outside Saudi Arabia. Many operators choose hosting inside the Kingdom to keep things simple, and major cloud providers offer Saudi regions. We set out the options during discovery and your legal adviser confirms the choice. Backups, logs and analytics tools are included in that assessment, since they also hold personal data.

Q: Which security standard do you build to?

Secure development practice, aligned with NCA controls where they apply. We apply secure coding, encryption, access control, logging and regular patching on every project. Where your group must follow National Cybersecurity Authority controls, for example through government links or ownership, we map the relevant controls to the platform and document how each is met. Penetration testing before launch and after major releases can be arranged with an independent tester of your choice.

Q: How do you roll out to many cities without disrupting members?

Region by region, after a pilot. One region goes live first, its members are migrated with their plans and renewal dates, and the first billing cycle is checked before the next region moves. Members are told in advance what changes, usually only how they log in and pay, and branch staff are trained before their go live date. A rollback plan exists for each wave, though the pilot is designed to make it unnecessary. Members in regions not yet migrated keep using the old process until their turn.

Q: Can franchisees sell under our brand with their own accounts?

Yes, through multi entity support. Each franchisee can have its own payment account, e-invoicing setup and VAT number, while the brand catalogue, design and member experience stay consistent. Head office sees group reporting; franchisees see their own clubs. Royalty reporting can be built from the same data. New franchisees are onboarded from the admin, with their branches, prices and accounts set up by your team.

Q: What drives the cost of a national membership platform?

Number of entities, integrations, regions and migration volume. Multi entity billing, the number of legacy systems to migrate from, access control vendors across branches, the depth of corporate account features, separate men's and women's operations and the reporting the board expects all add work. So does the number of languages and the volume of members to migrate. We price each phase in writing after discovery, and list running costs such as hosting, gateway charges and e-invoicing services separately so the full picture is clear.

Codeeo handles gym membership website development Saudi Arabia operators need when they sell memberships in more than one city. We build the national membership website: plan catalogue, online joining, checkout on Saudi payment rails, recurring billing, ZATCA compliant invoicing, PDPL aware data handling and a member portal for freezes, upgrades and cancellations. Head office sets the rules once, and every branch from Riyadh to Jeddah to the Eastern Province sells and renews by the same rules.

Fitness in the Kingdom has grown under the Quality of Life programme of Vision 2030, with national chains, women's gym brands and studio concepts opening across regions. Once a brand has clubs in several cities, membership sales need one platform rather than a different process in every region. The platform we build gives head office that single place to sell, bill and report.

Plan a national platform Web development and eCommerce

Built for: National and regional gym chains, women's fitness brands, franchise groups and investors launching new gym concepts in Saudi Arabia.
Typical timeline: Phased by region and feature in a written roadmap agreed after discovery, with each phase dated before it starts.
What you own: The platform source code, hosting, gateway and e-invoicing accounts, and every member and payment record, registered to your company.
Rated: 4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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

What the national platform covers

Membership commerce built around Saudi rules and payment rails.

A Saudi gym brand selling online works within a set of national requirements: payment through SAMA regulated providers, electronic invoices under ZATCA's Fatoora rules, personal data under the PDPL supervised by SDAIA, consumer disclosures under the e-commerce law, and a gym and sports centre licence from the Ministry of Sport for each facility. Members expect Arabic first interfaces and the payment methods they use every day.

Gym paid membership platform development Saudi Arabia chains ask us for brings those requirements into one system. Plans, prices and terms are managed centrally with regional variations where you need them, and every sale, renewal, freeze and refund follows the same audited path whether the member joined in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Abha or Tabuk. The member experience is the same in every city, which matters for members who move or travel between regions for work.

Explain your project

National plan catalogue with regional pricing
One catalogue of tiers, durations and add ons, with price lists that can differ by city or branch type. A flagship club in the capital and a smaller club in a regional city sell the same brand of membership at their own prices, while head office keeps control of names, terms and promotions. National campaigns, such as Saudi National Day or pre Ramadan offers, are published once and appear in every region on the same date.
Consistent brand, local pricing, no duplicated setup.
Saudi payment rails
mada, Apple Pay, Visa and Mastercard through a SAMA licensed payment gateway, STC Bank payments where the gateway supports them, and Tabby or Tamara instalments on long plans. Card tokens from the gateway drive recurring charges, and card numbers never reach your systems.
Members pay with familiar methods, and card risk stays with the gateway.
Recurring billing and dunning
Monthly, quarterly and annual billing with scheduled charges, retry rules for failed payments, grace periods and reminder messages, then automatic suspension if payment is still missing. Every step is configurable by plan. This is the heart of gym subscription website development Saudi Arabia brands depend on, because renewals carry most of the revenue.
Predictable renewal revenue across all branches.
Fatoora e-invoicing at scale
Every transaction from every branch produces the right invoice type, simplified for individuals and standard tax invoices for companies, through a ZATCA compliant e-invoicing solution integrated with the platform. Invoices carry the QR code and VAT breakdown and appear in the member's account. Credit notes for refunds follow the same rules.
Thousands of invoices a month without manual work.
PDPL aware member records
Consent capture, privacy notices, data minimisation, retention schedules and role based access are built into sign up and the admin. Health declarations are stored separately from marketing data, and requests from members to access or correct their data have a defined process.
Personal data handled to the standard SDAIA expects.
Separate men's and women's operations
Brands that run men's and women's clubs, or both under one roof, can keep members, staff permissions, imagery and even pricing apart while sharing the same platform and reporting.
Privacy for women members without running two systems.
Member portal for every change
Members see plan, branch access, renewal date and invoices, request freezes for travel or Ramadan, upgrade, transfer to a branch in another city, or cancel within your terms. Each change follows the approval rules set at head office. Transfers between cities keep the member's history and remaining days.
Fewer branch staff hours spent on account changes.
Corporate accounts across regions
National employers buy memberships for staff in several cities under one contract. HR teams manage their employees, and invoices arrive in the company name with its VAT number, while employees use any branch the contract covers. Contract tiers, headcount limits and renewal dates are stored per employer, and HR teams download usage summaries without seeing members' personal details.
Large corporate deals become simple to run.
Integrations with group systems
Connections to access control at each club, the gym management software, the ERP or accounting system, the CRM and HR tools for staff. Where branches run different legacy systems during a transition, the platform becomes the single membership record. Where your business qualifies, identity checks through Nafath can be added for corporate or high value accounts.
One source of truth for members across the group.
Group reporting
Head office dashboards for active members, churn, freezes, renewals due and revenue by region, branch and plan, with exports for finance and investors. Regional managers get the same views limited to their own branches, so performance conversations start from shared figures.
Board level reporting without collecting spreadsheets from every city.

Who this is for

Four Saudi gym businesses that need a national platform.

Gym operators in Saudi Arabia range from single neighbourhood clubs to national chains with branches in dozens of cities, plus franchise groups and new concepts backed by investors. The needs of a multi city operator are different from a single club: central control, regional flexibility, consistent compliance and reporting the board can trust. These are the four situations we see most often. Each one changes how the first phase is scoped and which regions go live first.

A chain replacing a patchwork of regional systems

Chains that grew by opening or acquiring clubs often inherit different software and payment setups in each region. We plan a migration that moves one region at a time onto the new membership platform, keeps members' plans and renewal dates intact, and switches the old system off only after the first successful billing cycle. Staff in each region are trained in Arabic before their switch over, and old records stay available read only for audit.

Region by region migration limits risk for members and staff.

A women's fitness brand growing nationally

Women's gym brands expanding from one region to several need privacy by design: no member photos on public pages, tightly controlled staff access, and sign up that works when a family member pays. We build those controls into the platform and keep them consistent in every city. Regional managers see only their own region, and head office sees the whole network.

A franchise group licensing clubs to partners

Franchisors need each franchisee to sell under the brand while their own payment account receives the money and their own invoices are issued. We build multi entity support: separate gateway and e-invoicing setups per franchisee, shared brand catalogue, and reporting for both the franchisee and head office. Franchise agreements can set which prices a partner may change and which stay fixed by the brand.

An investor launching a new gym concept

A new brand opening its first clubs in two or three cities can sell founding memberships online before opening, test pricing and build a member base from day one. We build a first release that does that well and is designed to scale to many branches later without a rebuild. Waiting lists for clubs still under construction capture interest in each city, and founding members are converted to paid plans automatically on opening day.

Pre sales show demand before the fit out is finished.

Six phases for a membership platform that spans the Kingdom.

01National discoveryWorkshops with head office, finance, legal and regional managers, in person at our Riyadh office or yours, or by video call for teams elsewhere, covering membership rules, contracts and systems.
02Compliance and payment designPayment gateway, e-invoicing, data protection and consumer disclosure requirements are mapped to the platform design, then reviewed with your legal, tax and finance advisers before any build work begins.
03Platform designCatalogue, checkout, member portal, corporate portal and admin are designed Arabic first, with English layouts, and tested with members from more than one region.
04Build and integrationWe build the platform and connect gateways, e-invoicing, access control, gym software and the ERP, testing each integration with real data in staging.
05Pilot regionOne region or a few branches go live first, with real members and real payments, so issues are found before the rest of the network moves.
06National rolloutRemaining regions migrate in agreed waves, staff are trained region by region, and head office takes over daily management of plans and prices with our continued support.

How we work together

Three ways national gym brands work with us.

Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. National gym platforms usually start with a fixed scope first phase covering the catalogue, checkout, billing and member portal for a pilot region. Rollout and new features then run on a retainer. Large groups often take a dedicated team that works alongside their own IT staff for the length of the programme. Whichever model you choose, the platform and its data belong to you, with documentation updated at every release.

Fixed scope

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.

Written scope and acceptance criteria
Fixed price and delivery date
Weekly build on a URL you can open
30 days of fixes after launch

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Dedicated team

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.

Senior engineers, not a rotating bench
Your tools, your repo, your process
Monthly, cancel with 30 days notice
A lead who answers for the team

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Retainer

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.

Agreed response times
Monitoring and dependency updates
A monthly report of what changed and why
Priority access to the same team that built it

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Technology

What we build this with.

National platforms are usually custom builds on Laravel or Next.js with a headless front end, hosted where your data residency decisions require, including cloud regions inside the Kingdom. We choose the stack with your IT team. Smaller brands at an earlier stage can start on a lighter stack and move later.

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 Saudi gym groups ask about membership platforms.

What does gym membership website development in Saudi Arabia need to comply with?

Payments, e-invoicing, data protection and e-commerce rules, at least.

Payments run through SAMA regulated providers, invoices follow ZATCA's Fatoora requirements, personal data falls under the PDPL supervised by SDAIA, and online sales come under the e-commerce law overseen by the Ministry of Commerce. Each facility also needs its Ministry of Sport licence. We design the platform around these and work with your legal and tax advisers on final wording and filings. Licence numbers can be shown on each branch page, which also reassures members joining online.

Do we need to register the online store?

How does gym membership payment integration work across Saudi Arabia?

Can member data be hosted outside the Kingdom?

Which security standard do you build to?

How do you roll out to many cities without disrupting members?

Can franchisees sell under our brand with their own accounts?

What drives the cost of a national membership platform?

Services national groups usually add.

Payment integrationGateways, recurring charges and settlement reporting across entities.Microsoft Dynamics 365 and CRMGroup CRM and finance connected to your membership data.Headless commerceA fast front end for a platform that must scale across regions.

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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PROVEN RESULTS

4.7 / 5from 23 Google reviews

Paid membership platforms for gym brands operating across the Kingdom.

Membership commerce built around Saudi rules and payment rails.

National plan catalogue with regional pricing

Saudi payment rails

Recurring billing and dunning

Fatoora e-invoicing at scale

PDPL aware member records

Separate men's and women's operations

Member portal for every change

Corporate accounts across regions

Integrations with group systems

Group reporting

Four Saudi gym businesses that need a national platform.

A chain replacing a patchwork of regional systems

A women's fitness brand growing nationally

A franchise group licensing clubs to partners

An investor launching a new gym concept

Six phases for a membership platform that spans the Kingdom.

Three ways national gym brands work with us.

Fixed scope

Dedicated team

Retainer

What we build this with.

Questions Saudi gym groups ask about membership platforms.

Services national groups usually add.

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