Services · Mobile app development · Inventory management apps
We offer inventory management app development in Jeddah for importers, shop owners and retail groups who bring goods in through the port and sell them through showrooms, souq shops and mall outlets. The app tracks what each shop holds, what is on its way from suppliers abroad, what has sold through your tills and what needs moving to another branch before the next Umrah rush or Ramadan peak.
Jeddah stock rarely sells at an even pace. Pilgrim traffic, school holidays and summer visitors pull demand up and down, and an app that only reports last month's average will leave shelves empty in the wrong week. We plan around those swings from the start.
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What the app can include
Many Jeddah businesses are importers first and retailers second. Goods are ordered months ahead from suppliers in Asia, Europe or elsewhere in the Gulf, cleared through Jeddah Islamic Port, and then split across shops in Al Balad, along Tahlia Street, in the big malls and sometimes in Makkah and Madinah. That means the stock question is not only what is on the shelf today but what is already paid for and still at sea.
This page is about shop and branch stock rather than warehouse operations. We leave pick paths, racking and dock scheduling to a warehouse system and focus on what your sales staff, branch managers and owners need: a count they trust, a clear view of incoming shipments, quick transfers between shops and a link to the tills. The features below are a menu, not a package. We choose them with you, starting with whatever is costing you the most money today.
Each import order is logged with supplier, expected items and status, from order placed to cleared and delivered to a shop. Branch managers see what is coming and roughly when, so they stop reordering items that are already on a ship, and owners can see committed stock alongside what is physically in Jeddah.
Stock already paid for is visible before it reaches the shelf.
When a shipment clears, the owner or buyer allocates it across shops in a few taps, using recent sales per branch as a guide. Each shop then confirms what it received, and any shortfall is flagged against the supplier rather than lost in the shop's general stock figure.
Each shipment lands in the right shops in the right quantities.
Minimum levels can change by season, so a perfume or prayer goods shop near the airport route can hold more in the weeks before Ramadan and Hajj and less in quiet months. Suggestions are always reviewed by a buyer before an order is placed, because no formula knows your suppliers' lead times as well as you do.
Stock levels follow the calendar your customers actually live by.
Imported goods often arrive with foreign barcodes or none at all. The app can generate internal codes, print shelf and item labels in Arabic and English, and map supplier codes to yours, so scanning works at every till.
Every item can be scanned, whatever label it arrived with.
Sales and returns from your POS update stock in each shop. Where a small souq shop has no POS, staff can record sales on the phone app at the end of each day instead, so even the oldest branch is part of the same picture.
Modern malls and old souq shops report into one system.
Staff count one shelf or one brand at a time during quiet hours, using the phone camera to scan. Head office sees progress live, and large variances are held for a manager to approve before they change the stock figure.
Counting fits around trading hours instead of closing the shop.
Jeddah shops are staffed by people from many countries. Screens are Arabic first with English alongside, and short, icon led steps make the count and transfer flows usable by staff whose first language is neither. Further languages can be added where your team needs them.
New staff count correctly in their first week.
For groups with outlets in the holy cities, those branches appear in the same app with their own reorder rules and transfer routes from Jeddah, reflecting the very different demand they see during pilgrimage seasons.
Holy city branches are restocked before the crowds arrive.
Freight, clearance and handling charges can be added to each shipment so the app reports stock value at landed cost rather than supplier price. Owners then see real margins by item and by shop, which matters when pricing imported goods against nearby competitors.
Margins reflect what goods really cost to bring in.
Goods damaged in transit, returned by customers or rejected on arrival are logged with a photo and a reason, then routed to the supplier claim, a discount rack or a write off. Owners finally see how much stock leaves through the back door rather than the till, shop by shop and supplier by supplier.
Losses are recorded with a cause, so they can be reduced.
Who this is for
Jeddah has been the Kingdom's trading door on the Red Sea for centuries, and its business owners tend to know their stock by memory. That works with one shop. It stops working with five, or when the owner travels to meet suppliers and the branch managers need answers. These four situations are where we usually start.
You buy containers of goods and sell them through your own shops and to other traders. The trouble is knowing what is in which shop, what is still unsold from the last shipment and what is already ordered. We build a simple app that links shipments, shop stock and trade sales, so the decision on the next container is based on figures rather than a walk around each shop. Credit given to trade buyers can be tied to the stock they took, so slow payers are visible next to slow sellers.
Trade sales and retail sales can sit in the same system.
Small shops in the historic district and the older markets often work without a POS, on cash and card, with stock held in a back room. A phone based app that records daily sales and weekly counts gives the owner a reliable picture without asking staff to change how they serve customers. It also makes it easier to add a newer mall branch later.
Fashion, abaya, perfume and electronics brands with shops in the main Jeddah malls move stock between outlets constantly, chasing the sizes and colours each mall sells best. The app handles transfer requests, driver handovers and receipt confirmation, and shows which outlet keeps running short of which line. Area managers can approve requests from their phone while visiting another mall, so a waiting customer is not told to come back next week.
Businesses selling prayer goods, dates, perfumes or travel items to Umrah and Hajj visitors face sharp peaks around the airport and the holy cities. We plan reorder rules and transfers so Jeddah stock can be pushed to Makkah or Madinah branches ahead of demand, and pulled back when the season ends.
Seasonal rules are reviewed with you before each peak.
How we work together
We do not have an office in Jeddah, so discovery, design reviews and demos run by video call, with screens shared and staff testing on their own phones. Our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi. Most Jeddah clients start with a fixed scope first version, then move to a monthly retainer that covers changes before each season. Larger trading groups sometimes take a dedicated team for a longer programme that also covers trade sales and supplier portals.
Timing is often set by the season rather than by us. A Jeddah retailer who wants the app running before Ramadan needs scope agreed early enough for staff to practise in quieter weeks, and we will say plainly if a date is too tight to launch safely.
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
We build cross platform apps in Flutter or React Native so shop staff can use Android phones, with a web dashboard for owners and a cloud backend hosted in a region you approve. Label printing uses common Bluetooth and network printers.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Shop stock, incoming shipments, transfers between shops, counts and POS sync.
For most Jeddah clients the first version covers what each shop holds, what is on its way from suppliers, transfers between branches and a link to the tills. Landed cost, seasonal reorder rules and Makkah or Madinah branches are often added in the same release or the next. Warehouse operations such as picking and racking are not part of this app, though we can connect it to a warehouse system if you run one.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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