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Sports membership websites for Dammam, Khobar and Dhahran clubs and their employers.

Codeeo handles sports membership website development Dammam clubs and venues can sell through every day: individual, family and company plans bought online, paid with mada, Apple Pay or STC Bank, and renewed automatically. We build for padel and racquet venues, multi sport clubs, compound recreation committees, academies and running groups across the Eastern Province, with corporate accounts that employers can manage themselves and ZATCA compliant invoices for every payment.

Membership in this region is shaped by large employers, shift rotations and residents who move between Dammam, Khobar, Dhahran and Bahrain. A good membership site reflects that instead of copying a template made for a single city gym. It also has to read well in English, because many members here are expatriate professionals and their families.

Built for
Multi sport clubs, padel venues, compound recreation committees, academies and running or cycling groups across Dammam, Khobar and Dhahran, and the employers who fund staff memberships.
Typical timeline
Worked out over video calls once your plans, corporate agreements, payment provider and member data are reviewed, then recorded in the scope before any design work starts.
What you own
All source code, the member database, corporate account records, the payment gateway merchant account and the domain, kept in accounts your organisation controls.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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Inside an Eastern Province membership site

Company plans, rotations and three cities in one membership system.

Ask a club manager in Khobar where membership income comes from and the answer is often an employer. Companies in energy, industry, logistics and services buy memberships for staff and their families, and they expect invoices to the company, a contact who can add and remove people, and clear rules about which tiers are covered. At the same time, individual members work rotations, spend weekends across the causeway in Bahrain and expect to use more than one branch if your club has them.

The components below are those Dammam area operators ask for most. We put the corporate pieces first because they tend to shape everything else in the system: the member model, the invoices and the reporting. A small independent venue might skip them entirely and start with individual plans and renewals.

Explain your project
  • Employer accounts and staff seats

    A company buys a set number of seats on chosen tiers, a named administrator adds or removes employees and dependants, and seats are reassigned when people leave. The employer sees usage and invoices; the club sees each company's contract, renewal date and seats in use.

    Corporate deals run without spreadsheets passed back and forth.

  • Company invoicing under ZATCA rules

    Invoices issued to the company's legal name and VAT number in line with ZATCA Fatoora e-invoicing, with options for monthly, quarterly or annual billing and payment by bank transfer or card. Individual members on personal plans receive simplified invoices automatically.

    Finance teams on both sides get invoices they can process.

  • Multi branch access across the metro

    A tier can cover one branch or every branch in Dammam, Khobar and Dhahran, with clear labels on the comparison page. Members see which locations they can use in the portal, and each gate reads the same membership status.

    One membership, honoured wherever the plan says it should be.

  • Rotation and travel freezes

    Freeze rules designed for people on rotational schedules or long leave: a set number of freeze days per year, requested in the portal, with the renewal date moving automatically. You choose which tiers allow it and whether a small fee applies.

    Rotational workers pause instead of cancelling.

  • Compound and community memberships

    Recreation committees on residential compounds can sell resident plans, verify residency against a list or unit number, and offer limited external memberships for non residents. Rules stay private to the compound where required.

    Residents join online, and outsiders only join where you allow it.

  • Checkout with local and international cards

    mada, Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay and STC Bank through a SAMA licensed gateway, with Tabby or Tamara where your provider accepts sports memberships. Members who live in Bahrain or hold foreign cards can pay without a separate process.

    Payment works for the mixed membership this region has.

  • Automatic renewals and recovery

    Saved card renewals, reminders in Arabic and English before each due date, retries after a decline, and a self service link for updating an expired card. Corporate renewals trigger a reminder to the company administrator instead.

    Fewer accidental lapses on both personal and company plans.

  • Member portal

    Members see their plan, branches, family members, freeze days left, invoices and upcoming club events. Employees on company plans see what the employer covers and can buy personal add ons such as coaching or a spouse upgrade.

    Members serve themselves instead of emailing the club.

  • Members only programmes and content

    Training plans, coaching videos, league tables for internal company tournaments and event registrations, gated by tier. A free account level lets visitors see the programme before deciding to join, and company tournaments give employers a visible reason to renew.

    Membership carries value beyond the door.

  • Club and employer reporting

    Dashboards for income by plan, branch and company, renewals due, freezes in use and corporate seat utilisation, with exports for finance. Employers can receive a periodic usage summary for their own wellbeing reporting.

    Renewal conversations with companies start from real data.

Who this is for

Where membership sites help most in the Eastern Province.

The Dammam metropolitan area works as one sporting market: people live in one city, work in another and train wherever suits their shift. Clubs along the Khobar corniche, venues in Dammam's newer districts and recreation facilities near Dhahran all compete for the same members and the same corporate contracts. These four kinds of operator gain the most from moving membership sales and renewals online. The heat also matters: summer pushes activity indoors and into the evenings, so plans, opening hours and renewal campaigns often follow the weather as much as the calendar.

01

Multi sport clubs selling to employers

If a large share of your members come through company agreements, the website has to treat the employer as a customer in its own right. We build employer accounts, seat management, company invoicing and renewal reminders for the contract as a whole, while each employee still has a personal portal, and family members can be added at the employee's own cost where the contract allows. Your sales team stops rebuilding membership lists by hand every time a company sends new names.

Built around the corporate contract.

02

Padel and racquet venues across the three cities

Padel has spread quickly across Dammam and Khobar, and venues increasingly sell memberships alongside court hire. Members want priority booking, better court rates and plans that fit evening play after work. We link membership tiers to your booking system and, for venues with more than one site, let a tier cover all branches or just one, so the plan is easy to understand and to price.

Tiers that change what a player can book.

03

Compound recreation committees

Many residential compounds in Khobar and Dhahran run pools, courts and gyms with resident and external memberships. Committees often rely on a volunteer or a small office team, so the site must be simple to run. We build residency checks, family plans, guest rules and clear notices, with an admin panel a non technical committee member can manage.

Simple enough for a small committee to run.

04

Academies and endurance clubs

Football, swimming and martial arts academies sell terms to parents, while running, cycling and triathlon groups training along the corniche or toward Half Moon Bay sell annual memberships with race entries and kit. Both need a clear join flow, renewal before each season and a portal showing sessions and events. We keep these sites lean so they load quickly on a phone at the training ground.

Built for parents and athletes on the move.

How a Dammam membership site gets built and launched.

  1. 01Discovery over videoWe meet your management, sales and front desk teams by video call, review plans, corporate contracts and terms, and look at how members and companies are invoiced and renewed today.
  2. 02Member and contract modelIndividuals, families, employers, seats, branches and freeze rules are written out as one model, agreed with you, so the platform enforces the same rules your contracts promise.
  3. 03Bilingual designComparison pages, join flows, the member portal and the employer area are designed in Arabic and English, right to left first, and tested with members and a company administrator.
  4. 04Payments and compliance setupGateway onboarding, saved card renewals, company billing, ZATCA e-invoicing and registering the online store with the Ministry of Commerce are completed alongside development.
  5. 05Migration of members and companiesExisting members, dependants and corporate contracts are imported with their dates and seat counts, then invited to activate their accounts in planned waves.
  6. 06Review after the first renewalsOnce the first personal and corporate renewals have run, we review declines, freezes and support questions with you and refine the rules, messages and reports.

Technology

What we build this with.

We pick the technology around your booking and access systems, your payment provider and the staff who will run the site. Builds use established web frameworks, a secure database and hosting agreed with you, with member data kept in Saudi Arabia where your policies or corporate clients require it. Your staff manage plans, branches, notices and members only content through an admin panel with permissions, so the sales team can set up a new employer without touching payment settings.

01Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • WordPress

02Commerce

  • Shopify Plus
  • WooCommerce
  • BigCommerce
  • Headless storefronts

03Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

04Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Questions Eastern Province clubs ask about membership websites.

With the employer contract, before the public join page.

Corporate agreements decide how members are grouped, who pays, who is invoiced and when renewals happen. If the site is designed around individual sign ups first, company plans end up bolted on and handled by hand. We map your current contracts in discovery, design the employer account and seat rules, then build the public plans and join flow on top of that model. This order also tells you early which companies need bank transfer billing, which pay by card and which want dependants included, all of which change the checkout design.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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