Services · Mobile app development · Taxi booking apps
Codeeo handles taxi booking app development Jeddah operators can run as their own service: a rider app, a driver app and a dispatch console that understand King Abdulaziz International Airport, the two Haramain stations in the city and the long road to Makkah. Riders book, track and pay in Arabic or English, drivers get clean job offers, and your controllers see every car on one map instead of juggling phone calls and WhatsApp groups.
Jeddah is a mixed market. A single fleet might carry a resident from Al Rawdah to Tahlia Street at lunchtime, a pilgrim from the Hajj Terminal at dawn and a family to Obhur on a Friday evening. The software has to price, dispatch and support all three without confusion.
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What the app can include
Taxi apps fail in Jeddah when they assume every trip looks the same. An arrival at the North Terminal needs a flight number and a meeting point. A ride from Al Balad needs a pin that works in narrow lanes where cars cannot stop. A transfer to a hotel near the Haram needs the driver to know the entry rules for Makkah before accepting. We design the rider app, the driver app and the operator console together so each of these cases has its own flow.
As taxi app developers Jeddah fleets can brief directly, we also plan for the parts riders never see: how fares are calculated, how disputes get resolved, how drivers are paid and how your licensing documents are stored. Fares, zones and surcharges are always set by you as the operator; the software applies your rules consistently and shows the rider the amount before they confirm. Summer evenings, Jeddah Season events and the last ten nights of Ramadan each bend demand in a different direction, so the console lets you prepare rule sets in advance and switch them on when the city changes pace.
Riders add a flight number when booking a pickup at King Abdulaziz International Airport. The console watches for delays, holds the job, and tells the driver which terminal and which door to use, whether that is Terminal 1, the North Terminal or the Hajj Terminal during pilgrimage seasons.
Fewer drivers waiting at the wrong terminal and fewer no-show disputes.
Preset meeting points at the King Abdulaziz Airport station and Jeddah Sulaymaniyah station, with arrival windows timed to train schedules you upload. Passengers stepping off a Madinah train can book before they reach the exit, and the driver sees the exact pickup bay. Late trains get the same delay handling as flights.
Rail passengers get a car waiting rather than a queue at the rank.
A separate intercity product with its own fare table, luggage questions and a check that only drivers cleared for Makkah trips can accept. During Hajj, the app can ask for the permit details your compliance team requires before a booking into Makkah is confirmed. Return legs from Makkah can be booked at the same time.
Intercity work stays profitable and inside the entry rules.
You draw zones on the map for the Corniche, Al Balad, the airport and the northern districts, then set base fares, waiting rates and special event rules. Fares follow the tariff you file or publish, and every change is logged with who made it. Riders never see a fare you have not approved.
Pricing decisions stay with the operator and remain auditable.
A live map shows every car, its status and its next job. Controllers can assign a ride manually, reroute a driver around closures for events on the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, or batch airport jobs for the morning wave of arrivals. Unassigned jobs turn amber, then red, as pickup time approaches.
Your control room works from one screen instead of radios and spreadsheets.
Drivers log in, start a shift, accept or decline offers and navigate with their preferred maps app. Earnings, ratings, document expiry reminders and a daily summary appear in Arabic by default, with English available. Offers show pickup distance and the expected fare, so drivers can judge a job before accepting, and supervisors can message a whole shift at once.
Drivers stay longer when the app respects their time.
mada cards, Apple Pay, STC Bank and cash, wired through a payment gateway licensed to operate in Saudi Arabia. Corporate riders can be billed on account, and each paid trip produces an invoice in the format your accountant needs for ZATCA e-invoicing. Failed card payments fall back to another method gracefully.
Riders pay the way they already pay, and your books stay clean.
Logistics firms near Jeddah Islamic Port, hotels along the Corniche and Umrah agencies can book on behalf of guests and staff, set spending rules and receive a single monthly statement. Account managers can add or remove bookers themselves, and every trip carries a reference code so a hotel can match it to the right guest folio.
Recurring business accounts become a steady revenue line.
Trip sharing with family, an in-app emergency button routed to your control room, driver photo and plate shown before pickup, and a lost property flow that links the item to the trip record. Visitors can also share a written trip summary with their hotel or agency so someone knows where they are.
Riders, especially visitors, trust the service enough to book again.
For fleets ready to compete on instant rides, ride hailing app development Jeddah style means matching the nearest free car within seconds while still protecting pre-booked airport jobs. Drivers committed to a scheduled pickup are held back from street offers in the minutes before it, and riders in busy spots such as Tahlia Street or the Red Sea Mall area see honest arrival estimates.
Instant demand grows without breaking your scheduled commitments.
Who this is for
Most of the operators who contact us already run cars in Jeddah and already have customers. What they lack is software that belongs to them. A custom taxi booking app development Jeddah project makes most sense when one of the situations below matches yours. If none fit, tell us how your fleet works today and we will say honestly whether an app is the right next step. Sometimes a better dispatch tool on its own solves the real problem. We will say so.
You have licensed cars, a call centre and loyal corporate customers, but every booking passes through a person and a notebook. We digitise that operation first: the console your controllers use, then the driver app, then the rider app. Your existing phone line keeps working, because many older Jeddah residents will keep calling, and those calls are entered into the same system. Controllers keep their current routines while gaining a map and job history. Account customers get statements without extra admin work.
Phone and app bookings end up in one queue.
Your work is pre-booked: arrivals at the airport, hotel runs, business travellers heading to meetings in Al Rawdah or Al Zahra. You need scheduled bookings, meet and greet instructions, flight tracking and corporate invoicing more than you need instant hailing. We build that first and leave on-demand features for later. Pre-booked trips are where limousine margins sit, so we make sure cancellations, no-shows and waiting time are charged exactly as your terms say, with time-stamped evidence in each trip record should a client query the bill.
Scheduled trips usually come before instant hailing for this group.
Your passengers land in Jeddah and need to reach Makkah, often in groups with heavy luggage and limited Arabic. We build multilingual booking, group vehicles, agency accounts and permit checks during Hajj, and we design for the fact that a family may book from abroad days before travelling. Agencies abroad receive confirmation messages they can forward to travellers, and your coordinators see every group's cars on one screen when flights land in waves, which is when phone-based coordination usually breaks down.
Agency bookings and multilingual screens matter more here than surge logic.
You are applying for, or already hold, a TGA licence for app-based transport and want your own platform rather than a white label clone. We plan the full product with you, including driver onboarding, document checks and the reporting your licence asks for, and we confirm the current regulatory requirements with you before scoping. Expect the first release to centre on safe onboarding and fair dispatch in one service area, since Jeddah is large enough to prove the model before you think about other cities.
Licensing comes first; we build around the conditions you are given.
How we work together
Cost depends on how many apps you need on day one, whether you want instant hailing or only scheduled trips, how many integrations are involved (payments, maps, accounting, fleet telematics) and how much of the dispatch logic is unusual. A fixed scope first release suits most fleets. Some keep us on a monthly retainer for updates through Ramadan and Hajj peaks. Larger operators take a dedicated team drawn from our 80+ people across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi. Whichever route you pick, the scope, the acceptance tests and the handover checklist are written down at the start, so nobody argues later about what was promised.
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 rider and driver apps where that keeps the budget sensible, native modules for location tracking where battery and accuracy demand it, and a web console built on a stack your future developers can maintain without us. Maps, routing and payment providers are chosen for how well they cover Jeddah addresses and Saudi cards, not by habit.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on scope, and we fix the plan in writing before design starts.
A fleet that only needs scheduled airport and hotel bookings can launch much sooner than one that needs instant hailing, live surge zones, corporate billing and intercity products on day one. During discovery we split the features into a first release and later phases, and we agree delivery dates for each phase. The biggest swing factors are payment gateway onboarding, how quickly your licensing documents are ready and how much time your controllers can give to pilot testing.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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