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Codeeo offers school app development in Riyadh for private and international schools that want one place for the daily business of a school: the parent app, attendance, bus tracking, fee collection, report cards and staff messages. Riyadh families often cross the city twice a day on King Fahd Road or the Northern Ring Road, so a parent who knows the bus is late, or that a child was marked absent, saves a phone call and a wasted drive.
This is an operations app, not a learning platform. Lessons, homework content and tutoring stay in the tools your teachers already use. What we build is the layer that keeps parents, drivers, administrators and teachers working from the same facts every morning.
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What the app can include
A school group in Riyadh may have a boys campus in one district, a girls campus in another and a kindergarten somewhere else, each with its own principal, bus contractor and fee schedule. Parents with three children can end up with three logins and three WhatsApp groups. We start by mapping who needs what at each campus, then build one parent app and one staff portal that respect those boundaries.
The features below are the ones Riyadh schools ask for most. Few schools need all of them in the first release. We usually begin with attendance, messaging and fees, because those carry the most daily phone traffic, and add transport and report cards once office staff trust the system. Arabic is the default layout and English sits beside it, with right to left screens designed properly rather than mirrored at the end.
One parent login shows every child, even when siblings attend different campuses of the same group in Al Malqa, Hittin or east Riyadh. Each campus keeps its own staff, timetable and announcements, while the parent sees a single home screen with each child's day laid out separately.
One app per family instead of one per campus.
Teachers mark the register on a tablet or phone, and parents receive a notice within minutes when a child is absent or late. Parents can report an absence in advance with a reason and an optional medical note, which reaches the class teacher and the attendance officer together.
Unexplained absences are followed up the same morning.
Drivers or bus supervisors run a simple app that shares location during each trip. Parents see the bus approaching and get a notice when their child boards and leaves. Route changes caused by roadworks or traffic are pushed to the families affected, not to the whole school.
Fewer calls to the transport office during the school run.
Parents register who may collect each child, including family drivers, with a photo held only in the school system. At dismissal the gate team sees who is waiting and confirms each handover, and a parent is notified when their child has left with an authorised person.
A clear record of every collection at the gate.
Each family sees tuition, transport and activity charges per child, with instalment dates and receipts. Payment runs through a licensed Saudi gateway supporting mada, Apple Pay and cards, and the finance team sees settled and outstanding balances without chasing bank transfer screenshots.
Fees collected inside the app, reconciled against each account.
Report cards publish to parents as a readable screen and a downloadable PDF in Arabic and English, in the format your curriculum uses. Results can be held back for families with overdue fees if that is your policy, and teacher comments stay visible alongside each grade.
Parents read results on the day they are released.
Principals send circulars to all staff, one department or one campus, with read receipts. Gate duty, bus duty and break supervision rotas sit in the same staff app, and substitutions for absent teachers are announced there rather than in a group chat.
Staff know where they need to be before the first bell.
Parents book slots with subject teachers for open days, in person or by video. Teachers set their own availability, and the app avoids double booking siblings with different teachers at the same moment, which is a common complaint at busy Riyadh parent evenings.
Parent evenings run to time.
Schools affiliated with the Ministry of Education report pupil data and results through Noor. We have not found a public Ministry API for third party apps, so we build exports that match the templates your registrar uploads, keeping one source of truth inside the school.
Less double entry for the registrar each term.
The school nurse records clinic visits, medication given and allergies in a restricted part of the staff portal. Parents are told when their child visits the clinic and can update medical details before trips. Bus supervisors and class teachers see only the alerts they need, such as a severe allergy, never the full medical file.
Health information reaches the right adult and stays private from everyone else.
Who this is for
Riyadh has a wide mix of schools: international schools serving diplomatic and corporate families, Saudi private schools teaching the national curriculum with stronger English, and fast growing groups opening new campuses in the north of the city. Their parent bases and their admin teams differ, so the first release looks different for each. These are the four situations we meet most often. In each case the first conversation is about where parents phone the office most, because that is where the app earns its place fastest.
Groups opening new branches in districts such as Al Narjis, Al Yasmin or Hittin often find each campus picked its own tools. We bring them onto one platform with group level reporting for the owners, while each principal keeps control of their own campus. New campuses can then go live by configuration rather than a new build, which matters when an opening date is fixed months ahead.
Group reporting without taking control away from principals.
Schools in and around the Diplomatic Quarter serve families who read English first, Arabic first, or neither comfortably. We write every notice template in both languages and keep wording short enough to translate well. Parents choose their language once, and staff write a circular once, with the translated version reviewed before it goes out.
Many Saudi private schools still send attendance by text message, print report cards and take fees at the counter. We replace the most painful of these first, usually fees and absences, and design the parent app so that grandparents and drivers who collect children can use it too. Office staff get a short, practical admin portal instead of a complicated system.
Start with fees and absences; add the rest once staff are comfortable.
Schools that employ drivers and bus supervisors directly need more than a map dot. They need route planning by district, seat lists per trip, a boarding scan, and a record of which supervisor was on which bus. We build the driver app to work with gloves on and poor signal, and the transport office sees every bus on one screen.
How we work together
Most schools start with a fixed scope build timed to a term start, then keep a small monthly retainer for changes as policies, fee plans and routes shift through the year. School groups planning several campuses sometimes take a dedicated team that sits with their IT staff. Our Riyadh office means discovery meetings and launch training can happen at your campus if you prefer. After launch, the retainer usually covers the summer window, when routes, fee plans and class lists are rebuilt for the new year and the app needs updating before families return.
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 parent and staff apps in Flutter or React Native, with a web admin portal, hosting your school can approve, and integrations chosen during discovery around your finance and student information systems. Mapping for bus tracking, push notifications and SMS fallback for parents without data are selected to suit Saudi networks and your budget, and documented so your own IT team can manage them later.
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It depends on how many campuses and features go into the first release.
A single campus starting with attendance, messaging and fees moves much faster than a group launching transport, report cards and gate pickup across four sites. We agree the scope in discovery, then work back from the term start you are aiming for. If a date is too tight for everything, we say so early and suggest which features can follow in a second release a few weeks later.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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