Services · Mobile app development · Inventory management apps
Codeeo handles inventory management app development in Riyadh for retail chains, café and restaurant groups, pharmacy operators and distributors whose head office sits in the capital while their shops spread across the city and beyond. We build the branch app, the buyer's dashboard and the links to your POS and accounting, so every count, reorder and transfer between branches is recorded in one place instead of in WhatsApp groups and spreadsheets.
Our Riyadh team can sit with your buyers and branch managers in person during discovery. The aim is simple: the stock figure your head office sees should match what is on the shelf in Olaya, Al Malaz or a new branch on the northern ring road.
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What the app can include
In many Riyadh businesses the buying team, finance and the owner sit in one office while stock lives in a dozen or more branches. Decisions about what to order and where to send it are made centrally, but the counts that feed those decisions come from shop floors where staff are busy serving customers. The features below close that gap.
We do not build warehouse picking, putaway or bin management on this page; those belong to a separate warehouse system. This app covers the stock that sits in your shops, cafés and pharmacies, the transfers between them, the orders you place with suppliers, and the sales your tills record. Each feature is optional and ordered by what your head office needs first, which is usually an honest stock figure per branch before anything clever is added on top.
Traffic across Riyadh also matters. A transfer that looks simple on a map can take most of an afternoon at peak hours, so the app shows when stock was requested, when it left and when it arrived, letting buyers plan around real delivery times rather than distances.
One screen showing quantity on hand for every item at every Riyadh branch, filtered by district, brand or category. Buyers see which branch is overstocked and which is about to run out, and branch managers see only their own shop unless you grant them wider access.
Head office decides from one current figure rather than phoning each branch.
A branch requests stock from another, the buyer approves or edits the quantity, the sending branch confirms dispatch and the receiving branch scans it in. Every step is time stamped, so items lost between Al Malaz and a north Riyadh branch show up as a clear discrepancy instead of a mystery.
Stock moves between branches with a named owner at every step.
Short daily counts of selected items, scheduled by head office and completed by staff with the phone camera as a barcode scanner. Counts can be blind, so staff do not see the expected figure, and variances above your threshold go to a supervisor before stock is adjusted.
Shrinkage is spotted in days, not at the year end stocktake.
Minimum and maximum levels per item per branch, suggested order quantities from recent sales, and purchase orders raised once for the whole chain and split by delivery point. Buyers adjust suggestions before anything is sent, because seasonal demand in the capital rarely follows last month.
Orders reflect real sales at each branch, approved by a person.
Sales from your till system reduce stock automatically, and returns put it back, through the POS provider's API where one exists. We review your current POS during discovery and agree how often it syncs and what happens when a branch loses its connection during a busy evening.
Stock falls as items sell, without anyone keying sales twice.
Branch staff check deliveries against the purchase order, record short or damaged items with a photo, and confirm receipt. The supplier invoice can be matched to what actually arrived before finance pays it, which keeps disputes short.
Finance pays for what arrived, not for what was promised.
For cafés, pharmacies and grocery branches, items carry batch and expiry details so the app can warn a branch before stock goes out of date and suggest moving it to a busier location first.
Less stock written off as expired.
Branch screens designed right to left in Arabic, with English available for staff and managers who prefer it. Labels, error messages and notifications are written for people working on a shop floor, not for accountants.
Staff complete counts without needing training sessions.
Cashiers, branch managers, area supervisors, buyers and finance each get their own permissions. Stock adjustments above a set value need a second approval, and every change keeps the name, time and reason, so when a figure looks wrong at month end your team can trace exactly who changed it and why.
Adjustments are explained, not argued about.
Stock value by branch, slow moving items, transfer history and variance trends, exported to Excel or fed to Power BI if your finance team already uses it.
Management meetings start from the same numbers.
Who this is for
Riyadh is where many Saudi chains keep their head office, their buying team and their finance function, even when branches extend to Qassim or the Eastern Province. That shapes what an inventory app has to do: it must let a central team trust figures sent from many locations, often entered by staff who joined last month. Demand in the capital also shifts with events such as Riyadh Season and with Ramadan evenings, so reorder rules need people to review them. These are the situations we see most often in the capital.
Riyadh's northern districts have filled with new malls and strip retail, and chains opening there often find their old stock spreadsheet cannot cope with the extra branches. We build a branch app that new stores can adopt on the day they open, with the same item codes, count routines and transfer rules as the established shops, so the buying team does not run two systems side by side.
New branches inherit the same rules on day one.
Coffee groups and restaurant brands in Riyadh move beans, milk, syrups and packaging between branches constantly, often by a driver doing rounds. The app records each handover, tracks expiry on perishable items and compares ingredient use with sales from the POS, so the operations manager sees which branch uses more than its sales explain. Waste is logged with a reason, so spoiled milk and a dropped tray are not counted the same way.
Pharmacy chains need batch and expiry control and must keep their records aligned with SFDA's drug track and trace system. We build the branch side of stock control around those rules, with clear handovers between branches, and plan any connection to the national system with your compliance team rather than guessing at it.
Regulatory integration scope is confirmed with your pharmacist in charge.
Distributors buying through Batha's wholesale traders or importing directly often sell to hundreds of small shops from vans. The app tracks stock loaded on each van, sales and returns at each shop, and what comes back at the end of the day, so van stock and the office ledger agree every evening. Drivers can also log a shop's request for next week, which feeds straight into the buyer's reorder list.
How we work together
Most Riyadh chains begin with a fixed scope first release covering branch stock, transfers and POS sync, then keep the app improving on a monthly retainer as new branches open. Groups replacing an older system across many sites sometimes take a dedicated team that works alongside their own IT staff. Because our Riyadh team is local, workshops and branch visits in the capital can happen face to face throughout the project.
Retainers suit chains with a steady opening programme, since each new branch brings small changes: a new delivery route, a different till, a manager who wants a report the others never asked for. A dedicated team suits groups merging several brands onto one stock system, where item codes, units and supplier lists from each brand must be reconciled before the app can show a single figure.
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 usually build the branch app in Flutter or React Native for Android and iOS devices, with a web dashboard for head office and a cloud backend whose hosting region you choose. The stack is picked to suit your POS, your accounting system and the team who will maintain it.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on branch count, POS integration and how clean your item data is.
A chain with a tidy item list and a POS that offers an API can reach a pilot faster than one where every branch names products differently. We fix the timing in a written plan after discovery, once we have seen your branches, your till system and the volume of items. The pilot in a few Riyadh branches is scheduled first, and rollout dates for the remaining branches follow from what the pilot shows.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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