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Codeeo offers legal consultation booking website development in Dammam for lawyer networks, marketplace founders and Eastern Province firms that want clients to book and pay for advice online. Contractors, employers, employees and families pick a verified lawyer, book a session at an office in Dammam or Khobar or by video, and pay at checkout. Lawyers are paid out after each session, and your team runs approvals, refunds and invoicing from one admin panel built for the way work moves through this region.
We run discovery and every review by video call from our offices in Riyadh and Dubai. Your lawyers in Dammam, Khobar and Jubail join from their desks, and we send written decisions after each session so the scope never drifts.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
Platform features
Legal demand around Dammam follows the region's economy. Energy and petrochemical projects in Dhahran and Jubail bring contractors, subcontractors and suppliers who argue over variations, delays and payment terms. Those same companies employ large workforces, so labour contracts, end of service and residency related questions come up constantly. Khobar adds a retail, hospitality and property market, and the King Fahd Causeway means some clients live or trade in Bahrain and cross for work.
A booking portal for this market has to serve a procurement manager who wants a quick paid opinion on a contract clause as well as a technician who wants to understand his final settlement. That means two very different checkouts on one platform, company accounts with spending rules alongside fast mada payment for individuals, and lawyers who can say in their profile which side of each matter they act for. Here is what we build.
Contracting companies open one account, add project managers and commercial staff, set booking approval limits and store their commercial registration and VAT details. Sessions can be tagged by project, so a firm with work in Jubail and Ras Tanura sees legal spend per contract. Finance teams download a single statement each month instead of collecting receipts from staff.
Companies can book advice per project without chasing approvals by email.
Businesses that need regular advice buy a bundle of consultation hours upfront and draw it down across lawyers and matters. The portal tracks balances, warns before they run out and issues one tax invoice for the purchase rather than dozens of small ones.
Repeat business clients buy once and book often.
In a region where the same contractors face each other on several projects, a lawyer may already act for the other party. Requests can wait in a short review state while the lawyer confirms there is no conflict, and payment is only captured once they accept.
No awkward refunds after a conflict appears mid session.
Short, fixed price sessions on contracts, wages, end of service and complaints, offered in Arabic, English and the other languages your lawyers speak. Guidance explains that labour disputes usually start with amicable settlement at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, so clients arrive knowing the route. Workers on site rotations can book evening video slots.
Employees get clear paid advice without a long intake form.
Applicants upload their Ministry of Justice licence and Saudi Bar Association membership, choose practice areas and offices, and wait for approval. Reviewers record each check, and expiring licences trigger reminders and an automatic pause on new bookings.
Clients only ever see lawyers who are licensed today.
Each lawyer lists the office where they meet clients, in Dammam, Khobar or Jubail, plus the video slots they offer. Clients pick the format that suits them, and travel buffers allow for a lawyer who sees a client in Dammam in the morning and another in Jubail after lunch. Reminders go by SMS and email the day before.
Fewer late starts and missed meetings across the metro area.
A SAMA licensed gateway takes mada, cards, Apple Pay and STC Bank, and splits each payment between the lawyer and the platform at settlement. Clients from Bahrain pay with their own cards. Card data never touches your servers.
Money moves correctly without your company holding client funds.
Payouts release on your schedule after sessions close, with holds for open complaints. Every charge, refund and commission line creates the right Fatoora compliant invoice or credit note, and lawyers download statements that match their deposits.
Finance closes each month from clean, matched records.
Cancellation and no show rules apply automatically. When a client complains, your team sees the full booking, messages and files, decides on a refund or a repeat session, and the outcome is logged. Only paying clients can leave reviews.
Fair, recorded decisions that keep lawyers and clients on the platform.
Bookings by practice area, city and client type; refunds and disputes per lawyer; response times; bundle balances and payouts due. Exports go straight to your accountant, and alerts flag unusual patterns before they become complaints. Dashboards can be split by city so a manager in Khobar sees only that office.
A small team can run the marketplace with confidence.
Good fits
Legal services booking platform development in Dammam goes best when the platform is designed for a defined client group and a clear way of earning. These four models cover most of the Eastern Province projects we discuss. In every case the fee model, whether commission, listing plans or a client service charge, should be reviewed against the Code of Law Practice and Saudi Bar Association rules by your own legal adviser, because the way lawyers share fees and advertise is regulated. Starting narrow also makes it easier to recruit the first lawyers, because you can tell them exactly which clients the platform will send.
A group of lawyers and advisers focused on contractor disputes, variations, delay claims and payment terms for energy and infrastructure work. Clients are companies, so we build company accounts, project tagging, conflict checks and prepaid hours. The portal sells paid opinions and contract reviews and passes larger matters into the firm's normal engagement process.
Conflict checks are not optional when the same contractors meet on many projects.
A platform where employees and small employers book short paid sessions on labour questions. Volume is high and tickets are small, so the checkout must be quick on a phone, sessions fixed in length and price, and lawyers matched by language. Reviews and response time ranking keep quality visible.
High volume, low ticket platforms live or die on checkout speed.
An established practice that wants paid first meetings instead of free calls, routed to the right associate by matter. There are no outside lawyers and no payouts, only booking, payment, invoicing and a clean handover to your engagement letter. It is often the first step before a firm decides to open its platform to others.
A paid first meeting filters out enquiries that were never going to instruct.
Some clients live in Bahrain and work in Dhahran or Khobar, or run companies on both sides of the causeway. A portal that takes foreign cards, offers video sessions and shows which lawyers handle Saudi matters for non residents serves this group well. Only lawyers licensed in the Kingdom advise on Saudi law through it.
Be clear on the site about which law the lawyers advise on.
How projects are set up
Most founders begin with a fixed scope first release, then keep a monthly retainer for features, payment changes and support once the platform is busy. Firms adding paid first consultations usually need a smaller fixed project. Operators planning a larger network across several cities sometimes take a dedicated team. The main cost drivers are the number of user types, company accounts and bundles, split settlement and payouts, conflict check logic, multilingual content and integrations with your existing systems. We are a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, with 200+ projects delivered across the UAE and the US and a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews.
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
Technology is chosen around your payment provider, your expected booking volume and the team who will maintain the portal later. Usually that means a modern web framework, a managed database hosted in a location you approve, and documented integrations for payments, video and invoicing. Full documentation comes with the handover, so any capable developer can continue the work.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
The number of user types and how money moves between them.
A portal where one firm sells its own consultations is far simpler than a marketplace that pays many lawyers, handles company bundles and runs conflict checks. Payment split settlement, ZATCA invoicing for both fees and commission, multilingual content and integrations each add work. We explain these drivers in discovery and put a fixed scope and plan in writing before design starts, so you know what the first release includes.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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