Services · Mobile app development · Parking apps
Codeeo handles parking app development Riyadh operators use to run the spaces the city does not: tower basements in Olaya and KAFD, mall decks, hospital campuses, compound gates and event lots. Drivers book a bay, pay with mada or Apple Pay and drive in on a recognised plate, while your team sees occupancy, tenant permits and revenue in one dashboard. Part of our team of 80+ works from Riyadh, so we can walk your car park with you before a single screen is drawn.
Street parking on the capital's commercial roads is now run under the municipality's Riyadh Parking programme, which has its own app. Your app should not compete with it. It should serve the drivers who arrive at your gate, and make the private side of parking in Riyadh as easy to use as the public side has become.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the app can include
Almost every trip in Riyadh still ends in a car park. Office workers on King Fahd Road arrive within the same hour each morning, mall traffic peaks after sunset and late into the night, and the season of concerts, matches and festivals fills temporary lots that did not exist a month earlier. Summer heat also changes behaviour: shaded and basement bays fill first, and drivers will pay attention to an app that tells them where those are.
The features below come from those patterns. We rarely build all of them in one release. A tower landlord usually starts with tenant permits and visitor passes, a venue operator with timed entry and prepaid bookings, and a hospital with patient drop off and staff allocation. Each part connects to your barriers, cameras and payment provider through their own interfaces, so the app reflects what is actually happening at the gate rather than what a spreadsheet says.
Companies leasing floors in an Olaya or KAFD tower get an allocation of bays, then assign them to employees inside the app. Plates are registered once, permits renew monthly, and a tenant admin can swap a bay between colleagues without emailing building management.
Building management stops maintaining permit lists by hand.
A host books a guest bay for a meeting, the visitor receives a link by SMS or WhatsApp with directions to the correct entrance, and the barrier opens on the plate entered. Unused passes expire on their own, so visitor bays are not quietly turned into extra staff parking.
Guests arrive at the right gate and find a space waiting.
We connect the app to your ANPR cameras and barrier controller, so a booked or permitted vehicle drives straight in. Where readings fail in glare or dust, the attendant sees the photo and the booking side by side and confirms with one tap.
Queues at the barrier shorten during the morning rush.
For concerts, matches and season events, drivers buy a parking slot with a fixed arrival window alongside their ticket. The app assigns a lot and gate, shows the walking or shuttle route, and releases the space if the car never arrives.
Arrival traffic spreads across the evening instead of one surge.
Level by level availability from sensors or camera counts, with filters for shaded, covered, accessible and family bays. In a large mall deck the app can guide the driver to the floor with free spaces before they start circling.
Less circling, fewer complaints at the information desk.
Hourly, daily and monthly tariffs paid through mada, Apple Pay, credit cards and STC Bank, with ZATCA compliant e-invoices issued for corporate accounts. Refunds, grace periods and lost ticket rules are set by your team, not hard coded.
Revenue is collected without cash handling at exit lanes.
Guests at hotels, restaurants and clinics request their car from the table, see an estimated time and get a notice when it is at the door. Runners receive the job on a staff app with the key tag and bay number.
Guests wait inside, not in the heat at the kerb.
Where you have chargers, drivers reserve a charging bay, start a session from the app and get a reminder before an overstay charge applies. Charger status flows into the same dashboard as the rest of the car park.
Charging bays are used for charging, not storage.
Occupancy by level and hour, revenue by tariff, permit usage, overstays and barrier faults, with exports for your finance team. Managers of several Riyadh sites see each one separately and together.
Pricing and staffing decisions rest on real counts.
Attendants on foot carry a phone app that scans plates, checks permits and bookings, logs overstays with a photo and opens a barrier remotely when a reader fails. Shift handovers, incident notes and lost ticket cases are recorded against the bay and the time, so a supervisor in another building can see what happened without calling around.
Disputes are settled with a timestamped record, not memory.
Who this is for
Public street parking in the capital has a municipal owner and a municipal app. The opportunity for a private operator is everything behind a barrier: the basements, decks, surface lots and valet stands where the rules are yours to set. Most requests for parking management app development in Riyadh come from four situations, each with a different first release.
Towers along King Fahd Road, Olaya Street and inside KAFD lease parking to tenants who then argue about it. A permit app gives each tenant a fixed allocation they manage themselves, gives visitors a clean arrival, and gives the landlord a record of who parked where. It also exposes unused bays you can resell as daily or evening parking to the public. That resale income is often the argument that gets the project approved by the owner.
Most landlords start here, with permits and visitor passes.
Large malls and entertainment districts in the north of the city carry heavy evening and weekend traffic. Bay guidance, loyalty linked free hours and validated parking for shoppers who spend in store all fit one app, often alongside the mall's existing loyalty programme rather than replacing it. Family sections, prayer time peaks and late closing hours on weekends are all things the configuration has to handle.
Campuses mix staff on rotating shifts, patients who cannot walk far, visitors who arrive once, and contractors. The app allocates staff bays by shift, keeps accessible bays near the entrance free, and gives outpatients a drop off and pick up flow that works for elderly relatives driving them in. Contractor vehicles get time limited passes tied to a work order, so they stop occupying doctors' bays for days.
Clinical systems stay separate; the app only needs appointment times.
Companies running parking for festivals, matches and Riyadh's seasonal events need lots that go live for weeks, then disappear. Each event has its own map, its own gates and its own crowd, and the staff are often hired for that event alone. We build event parking as a configurable product: new venue, new gates, new tariffs, without a new app release. Valet firms working across several hotels get one staff app for all sites, with shift rosters and key handover logs that hold up when a guest disputes a scratch.
How we work together
Most operators start with a fixed scope first release covering one site, then keep a monthly retainer for new features and new locations. Groups with several Riyadh properties sometimes take a dedicated team that also maintains the gate integrations. Because our Riyadh team is local, workshops, pilot days and staff training can happen on site, which matters when the people using the operator app are attendants rather than office staff. Whichever model you choose, the code, the accounts and the data stay yours, and you can move maintenance to another team at any point.
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
Native or cross platform driver apps, a web dashboard for operators, and cloud hosting in a region you approve, chosen to suit your barrier and camera vendors and the team who will maintain the system.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends mainly on your gate hardware and how many sites go live first.
A single tower with permits and visitor passes moves faster than a mall with sensors on every level. The slowest part is often the barrier and camera vendor, because their interfaces and test access decide how quickly integration can be finished. We give you dates after the site walk and the hardware review, in writing, and we plan the pilot around quiet periods so the first live days do not fall on a peak event night.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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