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Ticketing websites that sell events in every Saudi city from one platform.

Codeeo carries out ticket booking booking website development in Saudi Arabia for promoters, venue groups, attraction operators, sports bodies and companies setting up a ticketing business. One website and admin system sells seats, timed entry and passes in Riyadh, Jeddah, the Eastern Province and beyond, takes payment through mada, Apple Pay, STC Bank and cards, issues ZATCA compliant e-invoices, and keeps buyer data under the Personal Data Protection Law.

Selling in one city is a website. Selling in five, for several organisers, under different licences and seasons, is a platform with rules. We design for that second case from the start, so expanding to a new city means configuring a venue rather than commissioning a new site.

Built for
Promoters touring several cities, venue and attraction groups, sports organisations, cultural programmes and companies launching a ticketing service across the Kingdom.
Typical timeline
Agreed after discovery, which runs in person in Riyadh or by video call elsewhere, based on cities, organiser accounts, payment and invoicing setup and your first national on-sale.
What you own
The platform code, admin and organiser portals, buyer and order data, merchant accounts, domains and hosting, all registered to your company.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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What the national platform includes

The national rules a Saudi ticketing website has to follow.

A ticketing website that operates across the Kingdom sits on top of several national systems at once. Payments run through providers licensed by SAMA, with mada as the domestic card scheme most buyers reach for. Every sale needs an e-invoice that meets ZATCA's Fatoora requirements. Buyer data falls under the PDPL, supervised by SDAIA, and the hosting and security design should reflect the NCA's cybersecurity controls. Entertainment events and the act of selling tickets for them are licensed through the General Entertainment Authority, while sport, culture and tourism have their own ministries. Our ticket booking online booking system development in Saudi Arabia builds these duties into the platform itself rather than leaving them to each event team. The modules below are the ones national operators ask for most. They share one inventory, one buyer account and one finance ledger, so a buyer who attends a concert in Riyadh and a festival in Jeddah has one history with you.

Explain your project
  • Multi city event catalogue

    Buyers browse by city, date, category and venue, in Arabic first with an English version. Each city has its own landing pages, built for search, so someone looking for what is on in Dammam or Abha finds your listings rather than a reseller's. Venue pages hold directions, accessibility details and parking once, reused by every event. Dates can be displayed in Hijri as well as Gregorian form for buyers who plan that way.

    Each city's audience finds its events on your own domain.

  • Organiser and promoter accounts

    If you sell for other organisers, each gets its own portal to create events, set prices, see live sales and download reports, while your team approves before anything goes on sale. Fees, revenue shares and settlement periods are stored per organiser and applied automatically.

    You can grow the number of organisers without growing the back office.

  • Licence references and publishing gates

    Each event records the licence or approval it relies on, whether from the General Entertainment Authority, a ministry or a local authority, with dates and capacity conditions. Events cannot be published until the required fields are complete, and capacity cannot exceed the approved figure.

    Nothing goes on sale without the paperwork behind it.

  • Nafath identity checks for high demand events

    For finals, headline concerts and limited releases, buyers can be asked to verify their identity through Nafath before checkout, where your integration and agreements allow. Purchase limits then apply per verified person, not per email address, which makes bulk buying by touts far harder. Visitors without Nafath can verify through an alternative route you define.

    Purchase limits apply to people, not throwaway accounts.

  • National payment methods

    Our ticket booking online payment integration in Saudi Arabia covers mada, Visa and Mastercard, Apple Pay, STC Bank and instalments from Tabby or Tamara where your agreements allow, through a SAMA licensed provider. Corporate buyers can receive invoices payable through SADAD or bank transfer. Multiple merchant accounts can be supported where organisers settle separately.

    Every common Saudi payment habit is covered at checkout.

  • On-sale protection across cities

    When a tour opens in several cities on the same morning, demand can arrive at once. A virtual waiting room admits buyers in order per event, seats are held in fast memory during payment, and confirmations are queued so nothing is double sold. Each national on-sale is load tested against the traffic your campaigns are expected to create, and our team monitors the platform live during the first releases.

    Big on-sales stay fair and the site stays online.

  • Fatoora e-invoicing at volume

    Each order, refund and credit note produces an e-invoice in the format ZATCA requires, with integration to Fatoora handled by the platform or your accounting system depending on your setup. Invoices are issued in Arabic, with English alongside, and can carry the organiser's details where you sell as an agent.

    Tax records stay complete however many events you run.

  • Data protection and hosting choices

    Data maps, consent records, retention rules and access controls are designed against the PDPL, with transfers outside the Kingdom planned carefully. Hosting can be in Saudi Arabia where your obligations or contracts require it, and security follows NCA controls, with logging and regular access reviews.

    Your data position is clear before a regulator or partner asks.

  • Partner and API distribution

    Hotels, travel agents, airlines, corporate buyers and other ticketing channels can receive stock through allocations or a documented API, with their own rates and reporting. Unsold allocations return to general sale at a cut off you choose, across every city.

    Wider distribution without losing control of stock.

  • National reporting dashboard

    Sales, attendance, refunds and settlement by city, venue, organiser, channel and campaign, with comparisons across seasons. Finance sees payouts matched to orders; marketing sees which cities and categories are growing. Exports feed accounting and business intelligence tools.

    Decisions about the next city are based on evidence.

Who this is for

Four national ticketing situations we design for.

National ticket booking booking website design in Saudi Arabia is mostly about structure: who owns each event, who is paid, which licence covers it and which city's buyers it targets. The situations below are where most national projects start. Each carries different risks, and we shape the first release around the one that matters most to you, rather than building every module before the first ticket is sold.

01

A company launching a ticketing service

You plan to sell tickets for other organisers and need a platform with organiser onboarding, approvals, fee and settlement rules, and buyer facing pages that compete with established marketplaces. Ticket selling for entertainment activities is itself a certified activity, so your licensing adviser should confirm the approvals your company needs. We build the platform so those conditions can be enforced in software.

We build the platform; licensing advice comes from your consultant.

02

A venue or attraction group adding cities

You run venues or attractions in more than one region, perhaps Riyadh and Jeddah today with the Eastern Province or AlUla planned. You need one brand, shared buyer accounts, local pricing and staff permissions limited to each site. New locations are added by configuring venues, products and capacity rather than building again. Head office sees every site's sales in one view, while each site manager sees only their own.

03

A promoter touring shows across the Kingdom

A tour visits several cities in a short run, each with its own venue layout, licence, on-sale date and local partners. You need to clone an event across cities, adjust seat maps and prices per venue, stage the on-sales and see the whole tour's sales in one report. We test each on-sale against the demand you expect. Local partners in each city can be given their own allocation for the dates they help promote.

04

A sports body or league

Fixtures move, clubs play in different cities and away fans need their own sections. You need match ticketing, memberships with priority windows, identity checks where policy requires them and data shared with clubs under clear rules. The website handles sales and member accounts; stadium systems connect through integrations. When a fixture moves, every ticket holder is told in Arabic or English and offered the options your policy allows.

Ticket policy per competition is agreed with you before launch.

Six phases from first workshop to a Kingdom wide rollout.

  1. 01Structure and compliance discoveryWho sells, who organises, who is paid, which licences apply, which data is held where. Run in Riyadh in person or by video call, with your finance and legal advisers invited.
  2. 02Platform architectureInventory model, organiser and partner accounts, payment and invoicing flows and hosting decisions documented and agreed before design begins.
  3. 03Arabic first design systemRight to left components, city and venue templates, checkout and seat selection designed once and reused for every event and city.
  4. 04Build and integrationsPlatform, portals, payment providers, Fatoora, Nafath where used, SMS and accounting connected in reviewed stages on a staging environment.
  5. 05Pilot city launchFirst events go live in one city, often Riyadh or Jeddah, with load testing before the on-sale and close monitoring of sales, entry and refunds.
  6. 06National rolloutFurther cities added in planned waves, each with venue setup, local partners, staff training and an on-sale rehearsal before the first public event.

Technology

What we build this with.

We build national ticketing platforms on frameworks such as Next.js and Laravel, with caching and queueing for on-sale peaks and hosting chosen to suit Saudi data protection obligations. Integrations cover payment providers, Fatoora, Nafath, SMS, wallet passes, CRM and accounting systems. Event pages carry structured data so listings can show dates, venues and availability in search results.

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 about national ticketing websites.

National payment, invoicing, data and licensing rules shape the platform.

The checkout must handle mada as well as international cards and wallets, every sale needs a ZATCA compliant e-invoice, buyer data falls under the PDPL and events depend on licences from the General Entertainment Authority or the relevant ministry. The site must also be Arabic first with right to left layouts. None of these are add ons; they shape the inventory model, the data design and the admin system from the first workshop.

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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