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Consultation portals that sell Jeddah designers' time to homes, chalets and hotels.

We handle interior design consultation booking website development Jeddah design studios, furniture importers and designer networks use to take paid bookings online. A client in Al Rawdah, a chalet owner in Obhur or a hotel apartment investor in Makkah picks a designer, chooses a home visit or video session, pays at checkout and uploads photos of the space. The portal splits each payment between the designer and you, and keeps every booking, review and payout on record.

Jeddah clients are used to buying online and expect to see a designer's work, price and availability before they commit. A portal that answers those three questions on one screen, in Arabic and English, books more paid sessions than a gallery of photos and a phone number ever will. Designers benefit as well: they get paid bookings, fewer unpaid first meetings and a payout they can rely on.

Built for
Studios, designer collectives, furniture and lighting importers and hospitality groups in Jeddah that want to sell consultations from several designers online.
Typical timeline
Set after discovery by video call, once consultation packages, seasonal capacity, payout rules and the first group of designers are agreed in writing.
What you own
The code, domain, payment provider account, admin, designer contracts data and client records, all under your company's own accounts.
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

Inside the portal

The parts that turn a designer's spare hours into paid, scheduled work.

Jeddah has a deep pool of independent designers, many of whom work from home studios or alongside furniture showrooms across the city. What most of them lack is a dependable way to sell short consultations without chasing deposits. A portal with booking, payment and payout built in solves that for them and gives you a business in the middle.

Our interior design services platform development in Jeddah adjusts the usual marketplace pieces to the city. Remote sessions matter more because many clients live in Makkah, Madinah or Taif and only visit Jeddah occasionally. Seasonal demand matters too: bookings tend to rise before Ramadan and Eid as families refresh their homes, then shift during Hajj and the summer travel months. The capabilities below reflect that pattern.

Explain your project
  • Session types for every kind of client

    A designer can sell a video walkthrough of a single room, a home visit in Jeddah with measurements, a remote package for a property in Makkah or Taif, or a hotel apartment refresh review. Each package states what is included, the deliverable, such as a sketch or mood board, and how long the client waits for it.

    Clients compare like with like and pay for a defined result.

  • Video consultation room

    Sessions run inside the portal, so the designer can see the client's camera as they walk the room and share reference images on screen. Recordings are optional and only kept with consent, and the session link only opens for the paying client and the booked designer.

    Clients outside Jeddah book as easily as those in the city.

  • Seasonal capacity and blackout dates

    Designers mark the weeks they are fully booked, travelling or working on hotel projects for the pilgrimage season. You can set platform wide limits before Eid, add waiting lists, or open extra evening slots during Ramadan when many clients prefer to meet after iftar.

    Busy weeks fill without overbooking anyone.

  • Payments that suit Jeddah buyers

    Checkout through a SAMA licensed provider accepts mada, Apple Pay, STC Bank and international cards, which matters for clients paying from abroad for a family home in Jeddah. Tabby or Tamara can be offered on larger design packages. Funds stay with the provider until the session is confirmed as delivered.

    More completed checkouts, with refunds handled cleanly.

  • Space photos and climate notes

    Intake asks for photos, plans and a few practical facts that shape advice in a humid coastal city: whether rooms face the sea, how the air conditioning is set up, and whether the property is used year round or seasonally. Designers read this before the call.

    Advice suits the actual building, not a mood board fantasy.

  • Importer and showroom tie in

    If you import furniture or lighting through Jeddah Islamic Port, designers can link pieces from your range in their session notes. The client sees stock status and lead time, and the portal records which consultations led to orders, so you can measure the value of each designer.

    Consultations feed product sales you can track.

  • Designer vetting

    Designers apply with Nafath sign-in, commercial registration or a freelance document, portfolio images and references. Engineering services require the right Saudi Council of Engineers accreditation. Your reviewers approve applicants in stages, and profiles stay hidden until every check is complete. Expiring documents trigger reminders so registrations stay current.

    Clients only ever meet designers you have approved.

  • Split payouts and e-invoices

    Each payment is divided automatically into designer earnings and platform commission. The invoice set your accountant agrees for ZATCA e-invoicing is generated with every completed booking, and payouts run to designers' Saudi business accounts on the cycle you choose.

    No spreadsheets at month end.

  • Ratings, complaints and refunds

    Verified clients rate the session and the deliverable separately. Late cancellations, technical failures on video calls and designer no shows each follow a written refund rule, and a complaints queue brings messages, recordings and files together for your staff.

    Problems are settled by the rules both sides accepted.

  • Operations dashboard

    Your team sees bookings by district and package, designers with unanswered requests, payouts waiting for release and complaints that are close to their response deadline. Reports compare home visits with remote sessions and show which packages sell before Eid and which sell in summer, so you can plan recruitment and promotions around the calendar.

    Decisions based on what clients actually booked.

Who it suits

Where a consultation portal makes sense in Jeddah.

Jeddah's design market mixes established studios, a large number of freelance designers and importers who sell furniture to homes, chalets and hotels across the western region. A portal with commission and payouts works when you want to coordinate many designers and take payment on their behalf. If you need a single studio site that collects enquiries, a standard website build is the better fit, and we will say so early. The four situations below are the ones where a portal with designer payouts usually earns back its build.

01

Furniture and lighting importers

Importers often give free styling advice to win orders, and that advice rarely gets measured. A portal lets you sell paid sessions with independent designers who know your range, credit the fee against an order if you wish, and see which designers bring in real sales. The client gets a professional opinion, and you stop giving away hours of staff time to buyers who never return.

Paid advice, tracked to orders.

02

Designers serving the holy cities from Jeddah

Many owners of hotel apartments and family homes in Makkah and Madinah prefer to work with designers based in Jeddah. A portal with remote packages, site photo intake and structured deliverables lets those designers take that work without travelling for every first meeting. Visits can then be booked as a separate, paid step once the client commits. Investors who own several units can manage them all from one account.

03

Studios with a pool of associate designers

Studios that work with associates on a project basis can bring them under one brand, set quality rules and handle payment for them. Senior designers keep the large villa and hospitality work, while associates take consultations for apartments in districts such as Al Hamra, Al Zahra and Al Salamah that would otherwise be declined.

04

Chalet and holiday home services

Owners of seasonal properties along the north coast often want a quick refresh before a busy period and are rarely in town to meet. A portal that sells fixed scope refresh consultations, with video walkthroughs and a clear deliverable, suits that buyer well. Caretakers can be added as a second contact so access arrangements for any visit are confirmed in advance. Reminders are timed for the owner and the caretaker separately.

Built for owners who are not on site.

How a Jeddah portal goes from idea to first paid booking.

  1. 01Video discoveryCalls with your owners, operations lead and two or three designers to map packages, commission, refund rules, seasonal capacity and the order in which features should ship.
  2. 02Payments and compliance planProvider shortlist, split payment model, ZATCA invoice responsibilities, VAT on commission, and the steps for registering the online store with the Ministry of Commerce, agreed with your advisers.
  3. 03Bilingual interface designArabic right to left screens designed first, with English alongside. Booking and checkout are prototyped on phones and tested with clients from Jeddah and the holy cities.
  4. 04Platform buildBooking engine, video sessions, payment and payout logic, Nafath sign-in, e-invoicing connection and the operations admin, delivered to a staging site you review every cycle.
  5. 05Designer recruitment supportTemplates for profiles and packages, onboarding checklists and a soft launch with your first designers, so search results are full on the day clients arrive.
  6. 06Launch and seasonal reviewPublic launch, close monitoring of bookings and payouts, then a review after the first busy season to adjust capacity rules and packages.

Technology

What we build this with.

We select the stack for Arabic typography, fast loading on phones, video quality on mobile networks, payment provider support in the Kingdom and the skills of your own team, so you are never tied to us for routine changes. Data hosting is chosen with you so the setup fits the PDPL and any NCA requirements that apply to your business.

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

What Jeddah businesses ask about consultation portals.

The payment model, the number of user roles and the integrations.

A portal with one commission rate and video sessions only is simpler than one that mixes home visits, hotel packages, instalments and a linked product catalogue. Corporate accounts, multiple brands and custom reporting add more. We do not quote from a template; we price after discovery, once each of these choices is clear, and we show you which features could move to a later release to fit your budget. Ongoing costs such as hosting, video minutes and payment provider fees are listed separately so you can see the full running picture.

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

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