Services · Mobile app development · Security guard management apps
Codeeo delivers security guard management app development in Saudi Arabia for private security companies licensed by the Ministry of Interior and operating in more than one city. We build the guard app, the supervisor tools, a national control dashboard and the back office links that turn verified hours into payroll and invoices. The result is one system that holds up whether your posts are in the capital, on the Red Sea coast, in the Eastern Province or in the holy cities.
Saudi guarding is regulated, Saudi staffed and increasingly audited by clients. An app that only records patrols leaves most of that work on spreadsheets. We design for licensing, workforce rules, data protection and billing together, because that is where national operators lose time. Getting those right first also makes every later city cheaper to add.
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Platform capabilities
Private guarding in the Kingdom runs under the Law of Private Security Services and its executive regulations, which the Ministry of Interior enforces through company licensing. Guard roles in these companies are reserved for Saudi nationals, and recent amendments widened the categories of establishments that must keep guards on duty around the clock, bringing schools, event halls and medical facilities firmly into scope. Industrial sites in sectors overseen by the High Commission for Industrial Security add their own demands.
For a company with branches in several regions, that means thousands of shifts, workforce records that must stay current and clients who expect proof. The capabilities below sit on top of the everyday basics of clock in, patrol checkpoints and incident reports, which every release includes.
The platform mirrors how you are organised: head office, regional branches, contracts and sites. Branch managers see and manage only their own region, while head office sees everything, and clients with sites in several cities are handled as one account.
National visibility without branches losing control of their own work.
New guards verify their identity through Nafath when they first sign in, and their national ID details, training records and contract information flow into a single profile. Supervisors stop collecting photocopies at the branch counter.
Faster onboarding and identities you can trust.
Posts carry conditions such as Saudi national, female guard for women's areas, specific training or client clearance. The roster engine checks every assignment against them and against working hour limits, and shows supervisors why a placement is blocked.
Compliant rosters even when cover is arranged in a hurry.
Company licence details, branch permits, guard certificates and client contract documents are stored with expiry dates. Reminders go to the responsible manager well before anything lapses, and expired guard records block new assignments automatically.
Renewals handled on time, not discovered at an inspection.
Verified attendance, overtime and absences from the guard app feed your payroll system, and the output lines up with what you submit through Mudad for wage protection and to GOSI for social insurance. HR stops reconciling paper timesheets with bank files.
Payroll built on the same hours the client was shown.
Hours and posts delivered per contract become draft invoices, passed to an accounting system that issues ZATCA compliant e-invoices. Clients can settle through the methods your finance team uses, including SADAD bill payments where you are registered.
Invoices that match delivered coverage line by line.
Pilgrim accommodation and transport sites in Makkah and Madinah need large temporary teams for short periods. The platform recruits, verifies, briefs and deploys seasonal guards, tracks them through the season and closes their records properly afterwards.
A peak season run from the system, not from emergency spreadsheets.
A live view across every region: unfilled posts, late clock ins, missed patrols, open incidents and lone guard alarms. Filters by city, client and severity let a duty officer in Riyadh support a branch in Jeddah or Dammam at three in the morning.
One duty desk can watch the whole Kingdom.
National clients such as banks, retail chains and hospital groups see attendance, patrols and incidents for all their sites, compare cities and download reports for their own compliance teams. Each user's access is limited to the sites they are responsible for.
Large clients see national service quality in one place.
Trends in absence, overtime, incident types and patrol completion by region, client and supervisor help you spot a weak branch, price the next tender realistically and show clients improvement over the life of a contract.
Decisions based on field data rather than impressions.
Who this is for
The guarding market in Saudi Arabia ranges from single branch firms serving one city to national companies with posts in every region. A Kingdom wide platform is most useful when the hard part of your business is coordination: across branches, across client sites in several cities, or across a calendar with sharp seasonal peaks. These are the four profiles we see most.
Firms that grew in Riyadh, Jeddah or the Eastern Province often find their methods stop working when a second branch opens. We design the platform around regions and branches from the start, so opening the next city means adding a branch and its sites, not copying spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups. Head office keeps standards consistent while local managers handle their own rosters. Client contracts that span several cities can be set up once and shared between branches, so a national retail or banking client receives a single, consistent service report.
Build the branch structure before you need the third branch.
Larger companies often run a patrol product in one region, paper in another and a payroll system that knows nothing about either. We consolidate attendance, patrols, rosters, payroll exports and invoicing into one platform, migrating historic records where they are worth keeping and retiring the rest. Supervisors are retrained once on a single tool, which is usually the biggest saving operators notice in the first months after consolidation.
Groups that manage hospitals, schools, malls or office portfolios in several cities increasingly bring guarding in house or supervise contractors tightly. The platform can track your own guards and your contractors' guards side by side, with the same evidence standards for both, which simplifies contract reviews. Procurement teams then compare suppliers on attendance, patrol completion and response times drawn from the same records, rather than on monthly summaries each contractor writes differently.
Companies serving pilgrim accommodation, major sporting events and national season programmes swing between steady and very busy. Seasonal onboarding, temporary rosters and fast offboarding keep peaks under control, while the permanent workforce stays on its normal schedule in the background. Seasonal guards still pass the same identity checks and briefings as permanent staff, which matters when the posts are pilgrim residences where the Saudi only rule applies.
Plan rosters on both the Hijri and Gregorian calendars.
How we work together
National platforms are usually delivered in phases: a fixed scope core release, then integration and rollout phases priced one at a time. Many operators keep a dedicated team afterwards, because new clients, regulation changes and seasonal programmes keep producing work. Our team in Riyadh runs workshops and training in person when your head office is in the capital; branches in other cities join by video call. Cost is driven by the number of regions and post types, the integrations with payroll, accounting and identity services, offline and GPS depth, and how much historic data we migrate. Every phase ends with a written review of what was delivered, so your board can decide on the next region with real evidence from the last one.
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
Cross platform mobile apps, a web dashboard and a secure API layer, hosted in an environment agreed with you so that personal data handling follows the PDPL and the platform can pass the vendor security reviews national clients run against NCA controls. Audit logs record every change to rosters, permissions and client data.
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02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Workforce rules, licensing records, payroll and invoicing, as well as the field app.
Patrol tags and incident forms are only the visible part. National operators also need rosters that respect Saudi only and gender rules, document registers for licences and certificates, payroll exports that match wage protection submissions, and invoices built from verified hours. Leaving those on spreadsheets means the field app shows one story and the back office tells another, which clients and auditors notice quickly. We scope all of it in discovery, then decide together which parts belong in the first release.
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