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Booking and payment platforms for licensed travel agencies across the Kingdom.

Codeeo delivers travel agency booking website development in Saudi Arabia for licensed agencies, tour operators and agency groups that sell trips, stays and experiences in more than one city. We build Arabic first booking sites where customers check availability, pay with mada, Apple Pay, STC Bank or an instalment plan, and receive confirmed vouchers, while head office sees every branch's bookings, payments, refunds and invoices in one back office that meets national rules on data, payments and e-invoicing.

Domestic tourism has grown fast, and customers now expect to book a weekend in AlUla or a winter break in Abha the same way they buy anything else online. Agencies that can take payment instantly, at any hour, win those bookings. Outbound demand has not slowed either, so the same platform has to sell a summer in Europe as easily as a weekend at home.

Built for
Travel and tourism agencies licensed by the Ministry of Tourism, multi branch agency groups, tour operators and online first travel brands selling across Saudi Arabia.
Typical timeline
Agreed after discovery, once licences, payment providers, supplier connections and the branch rollout order are clear, and written into a plan with dated releases.
What you own
The platform source code, the back office, customer and booking data, merchant accounts, e-invoicing setup and hosting, all held by your company.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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What the national platform includes

One booking platform that satisfies every national rule it touches.

Selling travel online in the Kingdom involves more regulators than most retail. Your activity is licensed by the Ministry of Tourism, and each branch needs its own licence. Online selling falls under the e-commerce law administered by the Ministry of Commerce. Customer data is governed by the Personal Data Protection Law, supervised by SDAIA. Card and wallet payments run through providers regulated by SAMA. Every invoice must follow ZATCA's Fatoora rules, and the systems that hold all this should be secured against NCA controls.

We design the booking platform so these obligations are built in rather than added later. Licence numbers and terms appear where customers need them. Consent and retention are part of the data model. Payments never touch your servers. Invoices are generated from the booking record itself. That foundation lets you add branches, products and payment methods without reopening compliance questions every time.

Explain your project
  • Multi city product catalogue

    Trips, stays and experiences in Riyadh, Jeddah, AlUla, the Red Sea coast, Abha, the Eastern Province and abroad, managed from one catalogue. Each product carries its own availability type, pricing season and cancellation policy, and each branch can sell the whole range or only its own.

    A single source of truth for every product you sell.

  • National payment stack

    mada debit cards, Visa and Mastercard, Apple Pay, STC Bank (formerly STC Pay), and Tabby or Tamara instalments where they approve your products, all through a gateway operating under SAMA rules. For corporate customers, payment links and SADAD billing where your bank or gateway supports it.

    Every common payment method in the Kingdom, from one checkout.

  • Fatoora e-invoicing from the booking

    Tax invoices, simplified invoices and credit notes are generated from each payment, amendment and refund, with VAT applied correctly, then passed to your ZATCA Phase 2 compliant e-invoicing solution or ERP. Branch and cost centre codes travel with each document.

    VAT reporting that reconciles with sales automatically.

  • Branch and head office permissions

    Branch staff see and manage their own bookings and customers; regional managers see their region; head office sees everything. Prices, margins and promotions can be set nationally or overridden per branch, with every change recorded in an audit log.

    Local flexibility without losing central control.

  • Deposits, balances and refunds

    Deposit rules by product and season, automatic balance reminders, and refunds calculated from the product's policy and returned through the original method. Supplier penalties are recorded against each cancelled booking so margins stay accurate.

    Cash collected on time and refunds without disputes.

  • Consent and data retention under the PDPL

    Consent captured at the point of collection, purpose shown for every document request, encrypted storage for passports and IDs, and deletion schedules applied after travel. Customers can request a copy or deletion of their data from their account.

    Personal data handled in line with SDAIA's expectations.

  • Inbound visitor bookings

    For agencies selling to tourists coming into the Kingdom, booking pages in English and other languages, prices displayed for reference in the visitor's currency, international card acceptance and guidance on the Saudi tourist e-visa, linking only to official sources.

    Overseas visitors book and pay before they fly.

  • Corporate travel accounts

    Company accounts with approvers, travel policies, agreed rates and consolidated monthly invoices. Employees book within policy, managers approve with one click, and finance teams receive a single statement per period, split by department where needed.

    Business clients booking more, with less admin on both sides.

  • Agency SEO across cities

    Destination, package and branch pages in Arabic and English, each with structured data and a clean URL, so you can rank for searches in every city where you have a branch. Live prices load after the content so search engines read the page in full.

    Organic demand in each region, not only in your home city.

  • Reporting by branch and channel

    Sales, margin, refunds and outstanding balances by branch, product, channel and season, exportable to your finance system or a Power BI workspace. Management sees which cities and products are earning and where online bookings are replacing counter sales.

    Decisions based on real booking data, not monthly guesses.

Who this is for

Four kinds of Saudi travel business that build national booking platforms.

The national picture varies widely. Some agencies have a branch in every region and an old reservation system tying them together. Some are online brands with no counter at all. Others combine domestic tourism with outbound holidays and corporate travel. Good travel agency booking website design in Saudi Arabia starts by deciding which of these you are, because that decides the order in which the platform is built and rolled out. Many agencies are a mix, and the plan reflects that.

01

Agency groups with branches in several regions

You run branches in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and beyond, each licensed separately, and want one platform instead of one system per branch. We build a shared catalogue and back office with branch permissions, then roll out branch by branch so staff in each city move over when they are ready, while customers see one brand online.

Rollout order is usually decided by which branch sells most online today.

02

Online first travel brands

You sell mostly or only online and compete on speed, price and convenience. We focus on search, product pages, checkout conversion and payment success rates, with an admin lean enough for a small operations team and analytics that show where customers hesitate. Because there is no counter to fall back on, payment failures and slow pages cost you sales directly, so we test both continuously after launch.

03

Domestic tourism specialists

You sell trips to AlUla, the Red Sea coast, Abha or desert camps, often combining a stay, a guide and an activity. We build packages with timed activities, supplier logins for local partners and refund rules for weather or permit changes, so each component is booked and paid in one go.

Activity operators should hold their own Ministry of Tourism permits where required.

04

Agencies modernising a legacy reservation system

Your current system works but cannot take online payments or produce Fatoora invoices cleanly. We build the booking site and new back office around it, migrate customers and bookings in stages and connect what must stay, so daily work never stops. Old booking references keep working, so customers who booked before the switch can still find and manage their trips.

Six stages for a booking platform that serves every branch.

  1. 01Discovery in Riyadh or by videoLicences, branches, suppliers, payment providers and finance processes are mapped with your team, in person at our Riyadh office or by video call from any other city.
  2. 02Compliance and data designPDPL consent, retention rules, NCA aligned hosting and access, e-commerce law disclosures and Fatoora output are designed into the data model before screens are drawn.
  3. 03Catalogue and pricing modelProducts, availability types, seasons, branch overrides and margins are configured in the back office, so commercial teams change prices without developers.
  4. 04Booking flow and paymentsArabic first search, product pages and checkout are designed and built, then every payment method is tested with live transactions, failures and refunds included.
  5. 05Pilot branch launchOne branch or one product line goes live first. We watch bookings, payments and invoices closely and fix any friction before more branches join.
  6. 06National rolloutRemaining branches move over in a planned order, with staff training by video, data migration per branch and reporting that compares cities as they join.

Technology

What we build this with.

A fast front end such as Next.js or a headless commerce setup over a booking engine designed for seats, rooms and timed slots, with APIs to your suppliers, ERP and e-invoicing solution. Hosting can sit in a cloud region inside the Kingdom, and access follows NCA cybersecurity controls. Confirmations go by email and the WhatsApp Business Platform, analytics load only after consent, and Arabic and Latin fonts are subset so pages stay quick on mobile data in every region.

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 Saudi agencies ask before building a booking platform.

Payments, invoicing, data protection and branch operations, all tied to the booking record.

The visible site is only part of it. Behind it sit a payment layer with mada, Apple Pay and the other methods customers use, Fatoora compliant invoicing, PDPL compliant data handling, and a back office where branches manage availability, quotes, amendments and refunds. For national agencies there is also branch permissions, reporting and a rollout plan. We scope all of these together, because changing one later usually means reworking the others.

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

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