Services · Ecommerce development · Marketplace online stores
Codeeo handles marketplace ecommerce website development in Riyadh for founders, retail groups and trading families who want many sellers taking orders through one web store. We build the seller application, the shared catalogue, a basket that holds products from several vendors, the checkout, your commission and the payouts that follow. Our Riyadh team can sit with you for the planning workshops, which matters because most of the hard decisions on a marketplace are about money and rules, not screens.
This page is about the website that takes payment: storefront, checkout, seller dashboard and operator back office in a browser. Marketplace online store development in Riyadh is a separate decision from a phone app; if you need one later, it can draw on the same catalogue and order data.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the store includes
A single brand shop has one stock list, one price list and one bank account. A marketplace has dozens of each, and the website has to keep them apart while the shopper sees one tidy store. In Riyadh that shopper might be a family in Al Malaz ordering for the weekend, an office manager in Olaya buying supplies, or a student near King Saud University comparing phone accessories at midnight. Each expects Arabic first pages, familiar payment buttons and a delivery promise that makes sense for their district.
The list below is the set we usually scope for a first release in the capital. We trim or reorder it once we know your category, how many sellers you expect in the first months, and whether you sell to consumers, companies or both. Nothing here is a template feature switched on by default; each item is planned against how your team will run the platform every day.
A web form where a shop applies, uploads its commercial registration and VAT details, adds bank information and accepts your seller terms. Your team reviews each application in a queue, asks for missing documents and approves or declines with a reason the seller can read.
Only verified Riyadh businesses can list on your store.
Every approved vendor gets a branded page inside your site with its logo, story, ratings and full range, built to be indexed by search engines in Arabic and English so a seller's own customers can find them on your marketplace.
Sellers bring their audience to your domain instead of away from it.
Shoppers add items from different vendors and pay once. Behind the scenes the order splits into one sub order per seller, each with its own stock deduction, delivery method and status, while the buyer tracks everything from a single order page.
Bigger baskets without confusing the buyer.
mada cards, Apple Pay, STC Bank, credit cards and instalments through Tabby or Tamara, connected through a payment provider licensed by SAMA. Card details stay with the provider, and the store only receives the confirmation it needs to release the order.
Shoppers pay the way they already pay in Riyadh.
Commission by category, by seller or by promotion, plus listing or fulfilment fees if you charge them. Each sale records the gross amount, your share, the provider fee and the seller's balance, and payouts run on the schedule written into your seller terms.
Every riyal in the order can be traced to who earned it.
Sellers set which Riyadh districts they cover, their cut off times and whether they offer same day or next day delivery. The checkout shows only the options valid for the buyer's address, using the national address format, and passes the shipment to the seller's courier or yours.
Fewer promises the seller cannot keep across a city this wide.
Buyers open a return or complaint against the specific seller sub order, attach photos and choose a reason. Sellers respond inside a deadline you set, and your team steps in when the two sides disagree, with the full message history on file.
Complaints resolved on the record, not in private chats.
Only buyers with a delivered order can rate a product or a seller. Reviews pass through moderation for abuse and personal data before they publish, and seller scores feed into search ranking on the site.
Ratings that shoppers trust because they cannot be bought.
One screen for your team to manage sellers, listings, orders, refunds, payouts and reports. Commission invoices to sellers are produced in the ZATCA Fatoora format through your e-invoicing solution, and sellers can download their own statements.
Finance closes the month without rebuilding numbers in spreadsheets.
Vendors manage listings, stock, prices, orders, returns and payout statements from a web dashboard that works on a laptop in a shop office or a phone browser at a stall. Bulk upload by spreadsheet helps sellers with large ranges, and staff accounts let a seller give packing access without sharing the owner's login.
Sellers run their shop on your platform without calling your team.
Who this is for
A marketplace only works when there is a reason for sellers to join and a reason for buyers to come back. In Riyadh we see four common starting points. Each one changes what the first release should contain, who the first sellers are and how much of the operation your own team carries. If none of these fits exactly, the workshops are where we work out which parts apply to you.
Some clients come to us after a first attempt that stalled. A frequent story is a store that looked finished but could not pay sellers correctly, so the team spent every week reconciling. Good marketplace ecommerce website design in Riyadh starts with the ledger and the seller terms, and the visual design follows.
You already run a single brand online shop and want partner brands to sell alongside your own range. The work is mostly about adding seller accounts, splitting orders and settlement to a store that customers already know, without breaking the product pages and search rankings you have built. We plan the move so your existing catalogue keeps its addresses.
Your existing traffic becomes the reason sellers join.
Many Riyadh home businesses, perfume makers and fashion sellers take orders by message and bank transfer. A marketplace gives them a proper storefront, card payments and delivery booking, and gives you a commission. The first release has to make seller onboarding very simple, because these sellers have no web team.
Electronics accessories, furniture, sports gear or office supplies, where shoppers compare several vendors on price and delivery. Here the catalogue matters most: shared product records so ten sellers of the same item appear on one page, strong filters and a buy box rule that decides which offer shows first.
You have raised money or are about to, and you need a first version that proves sellers will join and buyers will pay. We scope a lean store, agree which manual steps your team can do by hand for now, and keep the data model ready for the features investors will ask about next.
Prove demand first, automate later.
How we work together
Clients choosing a marketplace ecommerce development company in Riyadh usually want to know who will still be around after launch. Most marketplace owners start with a fixed scope first release covering the parts in the workshop plan, then keep a monthly retainer for new seller features, payment changes and search work once orders are flowing. Groups building a larger platform sometimes take a dedicated team of developers, designers and a project lead who work on the store full time. Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, so the people in your workshop are the people building your store.
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 on WooCommerce or Magento with a marketplace extension, on a headless setup with a Next.js storefront, or fully custom when your commission rules demand it. We also tell you honestly when a Saudi hosted platform such as Salla or Zid would serve you better at your stage. Hosting, backups and security patching are agreed before launch.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on the money flow more than on the number of pages.
A store with one commission rule, one payment provider and sellers who ship themselves is far quicker than one with tiered commission, platform fulfilment and company buyers on credit. We agree the scope in the Riyadh workshops, split it into a first release and later phases, and write the dates into the plan before design begins. The biggest delays usually come from payment provider onboarding and seller content, so we start both early. Seller recruitment can run in parallel, so your first vendors are ready with photos and descriptions by the time the pilot opens.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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