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Paid consultation marketplaces that connect Riyadh clients with vetted interior designers.

Codeeo delivers interior design consultation booking website development Riyadh studios, design collectives and property groups use to sell designer time online. Clients browse verified designers, pick a consultation type, book a slot, pay with mada or Apple Pay and send their floor plans before the meeting. Your platform keeps the commission, pays designers on a schedule you set and holds every booking, review and dispute in one Arabic first admin.

Riyadh is spreading north fast, and new villa owners in districts such as Al Malqa, Hittin and Al Narjis want a designer before the keys arrive. A marketplace that takes payment at the point of booking turns that demand into confirmed, paid appointments instead of unanswered WhatsApp threads.

Built for
Design studios, designer networks, furnishing groups and developers in Riyadh that want to sell paid consultations from many designers through one site.
Typical timeline
Agreed after discovery at our Riyadh office or by video call, once the consultation types, payout rules and first designer cohort are fixed in writing.
What you own
The source code, the domain, the payment provider account, the designer and client records and the admin, all held in your own accounts.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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

Modon
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HP
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Dulsco Group
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Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

What the marketplace includes

Everything a paid consultation has to pass through, from search to payout.

A consultation marketplace earns its keep only when three groups trust it at once. Clients need to know the designer is real and the fee is fair. Designers need to know they will be paid and that no shows are handled. You need commission collected correctly and a record of every decision. Our interior design services platform development in Riyadh is built around those three needs rather than around a template storefront.

The pieces below are the ones Riyadh operators ask for most. Some belong in the first release and others can wait; we decide that together in discovery, based on how many designers you will onboard first and whether you sell residential, corporate or both kinds of consultation.

Explain your project
  • Designer profiles with real filters

    Profiles show style, completed project photos, languages, districts covered and the consultation types each designer sells. Clients filter by villa, apartment, majlis, office or retail space, and by whether they want a home visit in Riyadh or a video session. Arabic and English profiles are edited separately, not machine translated.

    Clients reach a shortlist that fits their space and their district within minutes.

  • Consultation catalogue and fee rules

    Each designer lists packages such as a one hour video review, a home visit with measurements, or a concept session with mood boards. You decide which fees designers set themselves and which the platform fixes, plus the minimum notice and the visit radius across the city.

    Every package has a clear scope and a price the client sees before paying.

  • Calendars with travel buffers

    Designers connect their own calendars, and home visits add a travel buffer based on the district, because driving from Olaya to the far north at rush hour is not a ten minute hop. Prayer times and Friday availability are set per designer rather than forced on everyone.

    Fewer late arrivals and double booked afternoons.

  • Checkout with Saudi payment methods

    Payment runs through a provider licensed by SAMA, with mada cards, Apple Pay, STC Bank and international cards. Larger design packages can offer Tabby or Tamara instalments where your provider supports them. Funds are held until the consultation is marked complete, then released for payout.

    Paid bookings, with money released only when the service happens.

  • Brief and plan intake

    After paying, the client uploads floor plans, photos of the space, the developer's handover drawings and a short brief on budget band, family size and style. The designer sees everything in one place before the session.

    The first consultation starts with facts, not questions.

  • Commission, invoices and payouts

    The platform splits each payment into the designer's share and your commission, generates the invoices your accountant has agreed under ZATCA e-invoicing, and pays designers to their Saudi business accounts on a weekly or monthly cycle.

    Commission is collected automatically and every riyal is traceable.

  • Designer onboarding and verification

    Applicants sign in with Nafath, upload their commercial registration or freelance document, a portfolio and, where they offer engineering work, their Saudi Council of Engineers accreditation. Your team approves, rejects or asks for more, and each step is logged.

    Only checked designers appear in search.

  • Reviews, cancellations and disputes

    Only clients who paid and attended can review. Cancellation windows, partial refunds and designer no shows follow written rules, and a dispute queue lets your staff see the booking, messages and files before deciding.

    Fair outcomes that both sides can see were applied consistently.

  • Corporate accounts for office fit-outs

    Companies setting up in Riyadh, including those moving regional teams into the city, can open an account with several authorised staff, book workplace consultations and receive VAT invoices in the company name.

    Business clients book and pay without personal cards or manual quotes.

  • Reminders and follow up

    Booking confirmations, a reminder the day before, a nudge when the brief is still missing and a follow up after the session go out by SMS, email or WhatsApp business messaging, in the language the client chose. After a consultation the client can rebook the same designer or request a full design quote in one tap.

    Fewer no shows and more consultations that turn into projects.

Who this is for

Four Riyadh operators this marketplace suits.

A booking site with commission and payouts is a different product from a studio portfolio. It suits businesses that want to sell other designers' time as well as their own, or that already have more enquiries than one team can handle. If you only need a site that collects enquiries for a single studio, we will tell you so and suggest a simpler build. The marketplace model makes sense when there are several providers, a fee that changes hands online, and a need to settle who gets paid what after each session. In Riyadh that usually means one of the four situations below, and occasionally a mix of two.

01

A studio that has outgrown its own diary

Many established Riyadh studios turn away small consultations because senior designers are busy with full fit-outs. A marketplace lets you bring in trusted freelance and junior designers under your brand, sell short paid sessions, and pass the larger projects that grow from them to your core team. You keep quality control through onboarding and reviews, and you can see which designers convert consultations into signed projects most often.

Paid sessions filter out casual browsers.

02

A furnishing or materials showroom

Showrooms often offer free design advice that nobody values. Turning it into a booked, paid consultation with an independent designer, redeemable against an order if you choose, gives the advice a price and a schedule. The platform records which consultations led to sales so you can see whether the programme pays for itself. Designers can also pull products from your catalogue into their mood boards, which keeps the conversation close to what you stock.

03

A developer handing over villas and apartments

Developers handing over units in the north of the city can offer buyers a curated panel of designers through a branded portal. Buyers book and pay directly, the developer earns a referral share or none at all, and the handover drawings for each unit type are already on file for every designer. That removes the slowest part of a first consultation, which is usually the client hunting for drawings the developer issued months earlier.

04

A founder building a designer marketplace from scratch

If you plan to launch a consultation marketplace as a business in its own right, we help you set out the commission model, the verification rules and the launch order of designer recruitment and client marketing, so the site does not open with empty search results. Early decisions, such as whether designers set their own fees or follow platform bands, are hard to reverse later, so we settle them before any code is written.

Supply first, then demand.

Six stages from first meeting to a live Riyadh marketplace.

  1. 01Discovery in Riyadh or by videoWe meet at our Riyadh office or on a call to map consultation types, commission, payout timing, refund rules and who approves designers. The output is a written scope and a list of open decisions.
  2. 02Rules and money flowsPayment provider choice, how funds are held and split, which invoices ZATCA requires from whom, and how VAT applies to commission and fees, agreed with your accountant before design.
  3. 03Arabic first designRight to left layouts designed first, English second. Search, profiles, booking and checkout are tested on phones because most clients will book from one.
  4. 04Build and integrationsBooking engine, payment provider, Nafath sign-in for designers, calendars, e-invoicing connection and the admin, built in short cycles you can review on a staging site.
  5. 05Designer cohort onboardingWe help you load the first group of verified designers, packages and calendars before launch, so the marketplace opens with real choice across Riyadh districts.
  6. 06Launch and tuningGo live, watch the first bookings and payouts closely, fix friction, then plan the next release based on what clients and designers actually did.

Technology

What we build this with.

The stack is chosen for Arabic rendering, payment provider support in Saudi Arabia and the team who will run the platform after launch. Hosting location is agreed with you so personal data handling fits the PDPL and any NCA controls that apply to your organisation.

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 Riyadh operators ask before building a consultation marketplace.

It depends on the money flows more than the screens.

A marketplace with one commission rate, one payout cycle and a small first cohort of designers moves faster than one with corporate accounts, instalments and variable fees. Payment provider onboarding and merchant approval also sit outside our control. We agree the timing after discovery, once those decisions are written down, and we show you working parts on staging throughout so there are no surprises at the end. A realistic plan also leaves time to recruit and onboard designers, which often takes longer than the build itself.

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