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Ticket websites that take payment for Riyadh shows, zones and matches.

Codeeo delivers ticket booking booking website development in Riyadh for promoters, arena operators, season zone tenants, heritage attractions and sports clubs that want to sell on their own domain. Buyers choose a date, a timed entry or a seat, pay with mada, Apple Pay, STC Bank or a card, and receive a QR ticket and a ZATCA compliant tax invoice in Arabic and English. Your team controls stock, prices, holds and refunds from one admin panel instead of waiting on a reseller's reports.

Riyadh audiences often buy more than one ticket for the same night out: a zone entry, a show inside it, a parking pass, a dinner slot. We design the basket and the inventory around that stacked purchase, so it reads as one order and settles as one payment.

Built for
Arena and hall operators, event promoters, season zone tenants, heritage and family attractions, and football and combat sports organisers in Riyadh.
Typical timeline
Set after a discovery workshop at our Riyadh office, shaped by seat plans, payment onboarding, licensing steps and your first on-sale date, then written into the scope.
What you own
The website code, admin panel, buyer accounts and order history, merchant accounts with your acquirer, domain and cloud hosting, all registered to your company.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

What the booking site includes

The parts that sell a Riyadh night out in one checkout.

A ticket buyer in Riyadh tends to decide late and buy on a phone, often in Arabic, frequently on the way across the city. They want the seat or slot shown clearly, the total including VAT before they pay, and a ticket that opens at the gate without hunting through email. Your operations team wants something different: a stock model that respects licensed capacity, holds for sponsors and production, clean sales by channel, and refunds that do not need a developer. Our ticket booking online booking system development in Riyadh starts with that stock model and builds the storefront on top of it. Each capability below is a module that your staff configure rather than a fixed screen, so the same platform can run a boxing card at an arena, a winter zone with hourly entry and a heritage walk with a guide. We usually ship the core sale and entry flow first, then add partner channels and memberships once the first on-sale has gone smoothly.

Explain your project
  • Stacked entry and event tickets

    Some Riyadh venues charge for general entry and then sell headline shows, rides or dining inside. The site links these products so a buyer cannot purchase an inside show without valid entry for the same date, and suggests the entry ticket when it is missing. Bundles can be priced as one product while still reporting each component separately for finance and for revenue shares with tenants.

    Buyers arrive with every ticket they need for the night.

  • Arena and hall seat plans

    Seat maps for arenas, halls and theatres with price zones, ringside and floor sections, accessible spaces with companion seats, and blocks held for broadcasters or sponsors. A layout is drawn once and reused, with sections switched on or off for each configuration. Buyers can pick exact seats or accept the best available pair in their price band in two taps.

    Floor plans change per event without rebuilding the map.

  • Timed entry for heritage and family sites

    Half hourly or hourly entry slots with capacity per slot, guided tour sessions by language, and quieter family sessions where your policy offers them. Slots can close for prayer times and reopen afterwards, and evening sessions can be extended in cooler months. If a slot fills, the page offers the next free time instead of an error.

    Crowds spread across the day rather than queuing at opening.

  • Saudi payment methods

    mada debit cards, Visa and Mastercard, Apple Pay, STC Bank and Tabby or Tamara instalments where your agreements allow, processed through a SAMA licensed payment provider. Seats are held for a short countdown during payment and released automatically if the buyer abandons. Our ticket booking online payment integration in Riyadh also covers partial refunds back to the original method and settlement reports your finance team can reconcile.

    Buyers pay the way they already pay, and refunds trace cleanly.

  • On-sale queue and purchase limits

    For a headline concert or a title fight, a waiting room admits buyers in order and shows their position. Limits per account and per card slow down bulk buyers, and bot checks sit in front of checkout. The platform is load tested at the traffic level you expect before the on-sale opens.

    Fans get a fair chance and the site stays up.

  • Named tickets and transfers

    Tickets can carry the holder's name and mobile number, be transferred once to a friend inside the platform, or be locked to the buyer for high demand events. Each transfer issues a fresh QR code and voids the old one. Gate staff see the holder name on scan when your policy requires an ID check.

    Fewer tickets resold on social media at inflated prices.

  • Corporate boxes and group sales

    Companies from the King Abdullah Financial District and the northern business corridors often book boxes, hospitality tables or group blocks. The site gives them an account with quotes, invoices issued in their company name with a VAT number, guest lists and named ticket allocation. Payment can be online or by bank transfer approved by your finance team.

    Corporate sales move out of spreadsheets and into the same system.

  • Arrival guidance and parking passes

    Each ticket email and event page shows the right gate, the nearest Riyadh Metro station where one serves the venue, ride hailing drop off points and parking options. Parking passes are sold as their own capacity limited product and scanned at the barrier. Gate opening times are pushed by SMS on the day.

    Fewer buyers at the wrong gate twenty minutes before the show.

  • Scanning and attendance

    A browser based scanner for staff phones and handheld devices validates tickets offline and syncs when the connection returns, which matters in packed halls. Supervisors see entries by gate in real time and can open an extra lane where queues build. Duplicates and voided tickets are flagged with a clear reason on screen.

    Doors open on time and attendance figures are accurate.

  • Finance and VAT reporting

    Sales by event, zone, ticket type, channel and promotion, refunds by reason, and settlement matched to payment provider payouts. Each order produces an e-invoice in the format ZATCA requires through Fatoora, and exports feed your accounting system. Tenant and promoter shares are calculated from the same data.

    Month end closes without manual reconciliation.

Who this is for

Four Riyadh ticket sellers and what each one needs.

The capital's event calendar mixes arena shows, sports nights, winter zones and heritage visits, and each sells differently. A good ticket booking booking website design in Riyadh begins with what goes on sale and who buys it, not with a template. Below are the four situations we meet most often. Many operators sit across two of them, and the platform is set up so one admin team can run both without separate systems or duplicate buyer records.

01

A promoter selling arena shows and fights

You need seat maps that change per configuration, an on-sale that survives a rush, tiered pricing that steps up as sections sell, and hospitality packages. You also need tight controls on transfers so tickets do not end up on resale accounts. We build the event pages for search and social sharing, so your campaigns land on a page that sells rather than on a listing you do not control.

On-sale testing is part of the scope, not an extra.

02

A tenant or operator inside a season zone

Restaurants, immersive shows and rides inside a larger zone often sell their own tickets alongside the zone's general entry. Your site needs to check or explain the entry requirement, sell timed sessions, and report revenue the way your agreement with the zone operator requires. We keep your product pages separate from the zone brand while making the buying rules clear.

03

A heritage or family attraction

Museums, gardens, historic districts and indoor play venues sell timed entry, guided tours, school visits and annual passes. Buyers are often families planning a weekend or visitors staying a few days. The site needs simple date and slot choice, clear child and resident pricing, group booking for schools, and a calm mobile checkout. Gift tickets and memberships can come in a later phase.

04

A club or sports organiser

Match tickets, stand allocations, away fan sections, season memberships and cup run sales put pressure on stock and identity rules. The website handles the sale and the season ticket holder's account area, with priority windows for members before general release. We connect it to your membership records so priority is checked automatically.

Ticket policy for each competition is confirmed with you before launch.

Six stages from first meeting in Riyadh to the first full house.

  1. 01Inventory workshop in RiyadhHeld at our Riyadh office or yours with operations, finance and marketing. Venues, capacities, price bands, holds, partner allocations, refund rules and licence conditions are written down as rules the platform will enforce.
  2. 02Arabic first designRight to left layouts designed first, English mirrored from them. Seat selection, slot pickers and checkout are tested on mid range phones with real Arabic event names and long venue addresses.
  3. 03Payments and invoicing setupMerchant onboarding with your chosen payment provider, mada and Apple Pay activation, instalment agreements where used, and e-invoicing configured with your accountant against ZATCA requirements.
  4. 04Build and admin trainingThe storefront, inventory engine, scanner and reports built in short cycles, each one reviewed in Riyadh. Your box office team learns to create events and handle refunds before launch.
  5. 05Load test and dress rehearsalSimulated on-sale traffic against the expected peak, then a rehearsal event with real staff scanning test tickets at the actual gates of the venue.
  6. 06Go live and season supportLaunch on a smaller event first where possible, with our team on call during the first big on-sale and a review of sales and gate data afterwards.

Technology

What we build this with.

We build on frameworks such as Next.js and Laravel, with caching, queueing and Saudi or regional cloud hosting chosen with your data protection obligations in mind. The platform connects to your payment provider, SMS gateway, wallet passes, CRM and accounting system through documented APIs.

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 Riyadh ticket sellers ask us.

It depends on seat plans, payment onboarding and how many products launch first.

A timed entry site for one attraction is a smaller build than an arena platform with several seat configurations, hospitality and a queue for high demand on-sales. Payment onboarding and e-invoicing setup also run on the provider's timetable, not only ours. We agree a first release that fits your nearest on-sale date, write the dates into the scope after the Riyadh workshop, and plan later features around the event calendar rather than squeezing everything into launch week.

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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PROVEN RESULTS

4.7 / 5from 23 Google reviews