Services · Mobile app development · Taxi booking apps
Codeeo delivers taxi booking app development Saudi Arabia operators can license, launch and scale across the Kingdom. We build the rider app, the driver app and the operations console as one platform, designed around Transport General Authority licensing, Saudi payment rails such as mada and STC Bank, Arabic first interfaces and the very different demand found in Riyadh, Jeddah, the holy cities and the Eastern Province. You own the platform outright.
A Saudi taxi platform is shaped as much by regulation and payments as by maps. Driver eligibility, licence reporting, e-invoicing and personal data rules all reach into the product, so we design them in from the first sketch rather than bolting them on before launch.
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Platform capabilities
Running taxis in one city is a dispatch problem. Running them across Saudi Arabia is an operating model problem: separate fare tables per city, driver pools that must meet national eligibility rules, seasonal surges in Makkah and Madinah that look nothing like rush hour in Riyadh, and finance teams that need every trip invoiced in a way ZATCA accepts. The capabilities below are the ones our national clients ask for most.
As taxi app developers Saudi Arabia operators can trust with regulated work, we treat compliance features as product features. Driver onboarding, document expiry, trip records and licence reports are designed with the same care as the booking screen. Fares are always the operator's decision; the platform enforces the tariffs you set for each city and service class, and it shows riders what they will pay before they confirm. Women riders and drivers are part of the market across the Kingdom too, and rider preference settings can be added where your policy supports them.
Each city gets its own service area, zones, vehicle classes, fare table and support hours, managed from one console. Launching in a new city becomes a configuration exercise followed by driver recruitment, not a new software project. Head office can lock national settings such as safety rules while leaving local managers free to adjust zones and staffing.
Expansion from your first city to the next is faster and cheaper.
Applicants register in the driver app, upload licence and vehicle documents and pass the checks your TGA licence requires. Identity can be verified through Nafath where your provider and licence permit, and every approval is logged with the reviewer's name. Rejected applicants see the reason and what to fix.
Only eligible, verified drivers ever receive a trip.
Trip logs, driver records and vehicle data are structured so the reports your operating licence asks for can be produced from the console rather than assembled by hand from spreadsheets. Exports are dated, filtered by city and period, and stored so you can show exactly what was sent and when.
Regulatory requests are answered in hours, not weeks.
mada debit cards, Apple Pay, STC Bank, international cards and cash, processed through payment providers licensed by SAMA. Corporate clients can settle monthly invoices through bank transfer or SADAD where your billing setup supports it. Refunds and partial charges for cancellations are handled in the same flow, and settlement reports reconcile against your bank statements.
Riders pay with the methods Saudi households already use.
Every paid trip and every corporate statement produces an invoice record compatible with Fatoora requirements, either generated by the platform or passed to the accounting system you already use for clearance and reporting. Credit notes for refunds and cancelled trips follow the same path, so corrections never break the audit trail.
Finance closes the month without rebuilding invoices from trip data.
Economy, family, premium and accessible vehicles, plus scheduled, instant and intercity products, each with its own matching rules. Airport queues, pre-booked jobs and on-demand offers are balanced so drivers are not pulled away from commitments. Each rule can differ by city, and changes are previewed against recent trips before they go live.
One fleet serves several products without conflicts.
Pickup zones and instructions for major airports such as King Khalid in Riyadh, King Abdulaziz in Jeddah and King Fahd in Dammam, and for rail hubs including Haramain stations and Riyadh Metro stations, each editable in the console as arrangements change. Flight numbers on airport bookings let the console hold a driver when an arrival is delayed.
Rides start smoothly at the busiest points in the network.
Rule sets for Ramadan, the Hajj period and major events in each city, prepared in advance and switched on by date. They can change permitted trips, required documents, service areas and staffing alerts in the cities they apply to. Rules can be tested in advance.
The platform adapts to the Saudi calendar without emergency releases.
Company accounts with cost centres, approval rules, employee groups and consolidated invoicing, suited to employers running staff transport in several cities. Travel managers set who may ride, when, in which vehicle class and up to which monthly limit, and they download statements by department. Access is reviewed regularly.
Business travel becomes contracted, recurring revenue.
Role based access, encryption, audit logs and data retention rules designed to the Personal Data Protection Law overseen by SDAIA, with NCA cybersecurity controls applied where your contracts or sector oblige you to meet them. Security reviews run before each launch, and findings are tracked to closure in a log your auditors can read.
Rider and driver data is defensible in an audit.
Who this is for
Custom taxi booking app development Saudi Arabia projects usually fall into one of four shapes. Each needs a different first release and a different team. We would rather tell you early that a smaller scope will serve you better than sell you a platform you will not use for two years. A short scoping call is usually enough to see which shape fits you. From there, we size the team and the first phase to match the business you are actually running, not the one in a pitch deck.
You run a successful fleet in one city and plan to open in others. We build the platform with multi-city configuration from the start, so your second and third cities reuse the same apps with their own fares, zones and driver pools. Head office sees performance city by city, while local managers run their own operations. Driver pools stay separate unless you choose to share them, and city managers can compare their results against national targets. Head office keeps final control.
The first city proves the model; the platform is ready for the rest.
You are applying for, or have received, a TGA licence for app-based passenger transport and need a platform you own rather than a rented white label. Ride hailing app development Saudi Arabia regulators will scrutinise has to handle driver eligibility, which TGA rules have reserved for Saudi nationals, plus document checks and trip records. We confirm the current conditions of your licence with you before the build is scoped. Your compliance lead signs off each rule before launch. Changes to rules are versioned.
We build to the licence; securing it remains your responsibility.
Several brands or business lines share drivers, vehicles and back office staff. We design one platform with separate rider-facing brands and products, shared dispatch and shared finance reporting, so you stop running three disconnected systems for one company. Drivers can be qualified for more than one product, so a limousine driver with a quiet afternoon can take taxi work without logging into a second app. Separate brands keep their own look. Payroll and vehicle costs are reported per business line.
Large companies, hospitals and universities with sites in several regions often run private staff transport on spreadsheets. A booking app with approval rules, shift-based scheduling and monthly reporting brings order to that, whether the cars are your own or contracted from licensed operators. Managers see who travelled, when and at what cost, broken down by site, department and region. Shift patterns can be imported from your HR system. Employees book from their own phones in seconds.
Contracted fleets can be connected through their own driver apps.
How we work together
Cost is driven by the number of products and service classes, the number of cities at launch, the depth of regulatory reporting, the payment and invoicing integrations, the languages supported and the load the platform must handle at national peaks. Most operators start with a fixed scope launch phase, then move to a retainer or a dedicated team drawn from our 80+ people across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi. With a team in Riyadh, in-person workshops can take place there; other cities are served by video call. Scope, acceptance criteria and handover terms are written down before any phase begins.
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
Cloud infrastructure in a region and provider you approve for Saudi data, cross platform mobile apps with native location modules, an event-driven dispatch service that scales city by city, and documented APIs so partners, hotels and corporate systems can book directly. Monitoring and alerting cover every city, so a fault in one region is spotted before riders notice it.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
A great deal: your licence shapes driver onboarding, records and reports.
The Transport General Authority licenses taxi and app-based passenger transport, and the conditions attached to a licence affect which drivers you may onboard, what documents you hold, what trip data you keep and what you report. We review those conditions with you at the start, then design the driver app, the console and the reporting around them. Licensing itself remains your application; we build the product that operates within it.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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