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Subscription billing for Jeddah HR software sold to seasonal and family run employers.

Through HR management subscription website development Jeddah software vendors get a site that sells, bills and renews their product for the employers this city is full of: hotel operators whose headcount jumps for Umrah and Hajj, family trading groups with a dozen registered companies, and freight firms around the Islamic port. We build Arabic first plan pages, flexible seat billing that rises and falls with the season, group invoicing across entities, ZATCA Fatoora invoices and the self service account that lets an HR officer change plans without emailing you.

Your HR product stays where it is. We build the storefront, billing logic and account area around it, then connect them through your API. Discovery and reviews with Jeddah clients run by video call, with our Riyadh team available for the Saudi specifics.

Built for
Jeddah based HR, payroll, scheduling and workforce software companies, and vendors selling into Makkah Province.
Typical timeline
Fixed after discovery calls once your seat rules, group billing needs, gateway and Fatoora status are known, and written into the scope before any design work.
What you own
All code, the gateway and merchant accounts, subscriber records, invoice history and ZATCA credentials, registered to your company.
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

What we build into it

Billing that follows how Jeddah employers actually hire.

A flat per employee price works badly for many of the companies an HR vendor in Jeddah sells to. A hotel near the Corniche or a pilgrim services operator may double its staff for Ramadan and the Hajj months, then release most of them. A trading family might own a distribution company, a car parts business and a contracting firm, each with its own commercial registration and VAT number, yet want one contract with you. If your billing cannot express that, the sales team writes side letters, finance raises manual credit notes, and customers quietly move to whichever competitor made it simpler.

We design the subscription model before writing a line of code. Seat bands, seasonal allowances, group parents and child accounts are modelled in the billing engine, and your HR product reads one entitlement per company that says what is switched on and how many people may be active. Pages are written in Arabic first for HR officers and owners, with English for the many expatriate managers in Jeddah's private sector.

Explain your project
  • Seasonal seat allowances

    Customers commit to a base headcount for the year and buy temporary seats for peak months, billed only while those employees are active. The account area shows a forecast for the season, and your product deactivates temporary seats automatically when contracts end, so nobody pays for staff who went home after Hajj.

    Seasonal employers stay on a plan instead of churning after the peak.

  • Group parent and child accounts

    A holding company signs once, then each subsidiary gets its own workspace, legal name and VAT number on its invoices. The group can choose one consolidated statement or separate invoices per company, and the parent admin sees combined headcount across every entity without seeing each company's employee files.

    Family groups buy for every company in a single contract.

  • Arabic plan pages with clear riyal pricing

    Right to left pages that explain each plan in the words an HR officer in Al Rawdah or Al Andalus uses: employee files, leave, iqama expiry alerts, payroll and attendance. Prices show in riyals with VAT stated, and a short calculator estimates the yearly cost once the customer enters base staff and expected seasonal staff.

    Owners understand the cost before booking a call.

  • Payment methods local buyers use

    Mada, Visa, Mastercard and Apple Pay through a SAMA licensed gateway, with tokenised renewals. Small business owners sometimes ask about STC Bank (formerly STC Pay), Tabby or Tamara; we check which your gateway supports and whether they fit a business purchase. Larger groups pay annual invoices by bank transfer or SADAD.

    Each customer can pay the way their accounts team already works.

  • Fatoora invoices per legal entity

    Each invoice and credit note carries the correct seller and buyer details, the QR code and the structured data ZATCA requires, even when one group contract produces invoices to several subsidiaries. When your integration phase begins, invoices are submitted to Fatoora directly from the billing engine.

    Group billing stays compliant company by company.

  • Self service plan changes

    An HR officer can add modules, raise the base headcount, book seasonal seats, download invoices and update the billing contact from the account area. Upgrades are prorated immediately; reductions apply at the next renewal. Every change is logged with the user who made it, which matters when the owner later asks who approved the extra cost.

    Your support inbox stops filling with billing requests.

  • Active employee metering

    For shift based employers, your product reports how many employees were active in each billing period, and the billing engine charges on that figure instead of every record ever created. Customers see the count behind each invoice in their account, broken down by company and by month, and can raise a query against a specific line rather than disputing the whole bill.

    High turnover employers pay for the people they actually employ.

  • Renewal reminders and gentle dunning

    Annual customers get Arabic and English reminders before renewal, with the invoice attached. Failed card charges are retried on a schedule, and the account shows a clear notice. Access to payroll runs is kept open through a grace period so a missed payment never stops wages going out.

    Renewals arrive on time without awkward phone calls.

  • Partner and reseller referrals

    Many HR products in Jeddah reach customers through accountants, PRO service offices and consultants. Partners get referral links or codes, the platform attributes signups to them, and commission reports come from paid invoices rather than promises made in a WhatsApp group.

    Partner payouts are based on real revenue.

  • Revenue and seasonality reporting

    Monthly recurring revenue split into base and seasonal seats, group expansion, churn by sector and failed payments, connected to your accounting system. You can see in advance how much revenue the season will bring and plan onboarding staff accordingly.

    Seasonal revenue is planned, not discovered afterwards.

Who it is for

Four Jeddah vendors this approach works for.

Jeddah's economy runs on trade, hospitality, health care and the movement of pilgrims, and HR software sold here has to fit those rhythms. The right HR management SaaS website development Jeddah companies need depends less on the product and more on who pays for it and how their headcount moves through the year. Buyers here also tend to decide through the owner or a general manager rather than a procurement team, so pricing has to be plain enough to approve over a single conversation. These four profiles cover most of the vendors we hear from in the city.

01

Workforce software for hotels and pilgrim service operators

Your customers hire heavily for Ramadan and the Hajj season, often placing staff in Makkah and Madinah, then scale back. A standard per seat plan punishes them for that pattern. We build seasonal allowances, temporary seat purchases and clear forecasts, so an operator budgets for the season once and your revenue follows their workforce instead of dropping each autumn.

Seasonal pricing rules are agreed with your finance lead before build.

02

HR suites sold to family owned trading groups

Many Jeddah groups run several companies under one family office. They want a single relationship, separate invoices for each company and a combined view of headcount. The platform handles parent and child accounts, entity level VAT details and one renewal date, and lets the group's finance manager approve changes for every subsidiary.

03

Payroll and attendance tools for logistics and port service firms

Freight forwarders, clearing agents and warehouse operators near the Islamic port have shift workers, drivers and office staff on different terms. Plans can be priced by active employee rather than registered employee, and the account area shows which workers counted toward each invoice so disputes are settled with data.

04

Young HR startups near KAUST and Jeddah's founder community

You need to start charging properly without building a finance department. We set up a lean pricing page, card checkout, Fatoora invoices and a basic account area first, then add group billing or seasonal seats when customers ask. The structure is ready for a larger sales motion later, so nothing is rebuilt when you hire account managers.

How a Jeddah subscription project runs, in six stages.

  1. 01Discovery by video callSessions with your founders, finance and product leads to map plans, seasonal patterns, group structures and how customers pay today, recorded and summarised in writing.
  2. 02Plan and seat modelBase seats, seasonal seats, modules, group accounts and renewal rules written as a billing specification your finance team signs before anything is configured.
  3. 03Payments and tax setupGateway selection and merchant onboarding, recurring mada support, SADAD and transfer options, and the Fatoora invoice format for every entity type you bill.
  4. 04Arabic storefront and account areaRight to left plan pages, checkout, group admin screens and invoice downloads, reviewed with your team in shared design files and short recorded walkthroughs.
  5. 05Connection to your HR productEntitlements, seat counts and account status passed to your platform through an agreed API, with test tenants for seasonal and group scenarios.
  6. 06Migration and launchCurrent customers moved onto the new plans with their terms preserved, invoices checked against the old system, then ongoing tuning from renewal and churn data.

Technology

What we build this with.

The stack follows your plan model and the people who will own it. Seasonal and group billing often suits Chargebee or a custom engine on Laravel; simpler models run well on Stripe Billing. Storefronts are usually Next.js, with hosting chosen against your data obligations and the hosting questions your larger Jeddah customers put in their security reviews.

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 Jeddah HR vendors ask us first.

The cost follows the billing rules, not the number of pages.

A single plan with card checkout and Fatoora invoices sits at the simpler end. Seasonal seats, group parent accounts, partner commissions, SADAD, CRM sync and migration of existing customers each add design, build and testing effort. We price after discovery calls, when we know which of these you need now and which can wait for a later release, and we put the scope and the cost in writing together.

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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