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Paid video memberships for Jeddah's film lovers, learners and visitors.

We offer video streaming membership website development in Jeddah for film distributors, festival and cinema teams, lecture and Islamic education producers, community media and sports creators. The result is a web platform where viewers choose a plan, pay with mada, Apple Pay or a foreign card, and watch a gated library or a live stream in the language they prefer. Jeddah mixes long settled families, residents from many countries and travellers passing through for Umrah, so the membership has to make sense to all three from the first visit.

Our discovery sessions with Jeddah clients run by video call. We map your content, your audience and the way money should flow before we design anything, so the plans, the checkout and the cancellation rules fit the city you sell to.

Built for
Film and festival teams, lecture producers, community media and creators in Jeddah who sell video access through paid plans.
Typical timeline
Set after discovery by video call, once plans, languages, rights and gateway onboarding are agreed in a written scope.
What you own
Source code, member records, video files, gateway and tax accounts, and the domain, registered to your company.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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Platform features

Built for a city where members arrive from everywhere.

Few Saudi cities have an audience as mixed as Jeddah's. A single film club might have members in Al Rawdah who grew up watching Egyptian cinema, residents from South Asia and Southeast Asia who want subtitles in their own language, and a family visiting for Umrah who will only be in the city for ten days. A membership site that serves them all needs flexible plans, multilingual metadata, payment options that work for local and foreign cards, and rights rules that respect where each title may be shown. The features below are drawn from what Jeddah projects tend to need. Not every client needs every item; we agree the first release in discovery and keep the rest on a written roadmap so nothing is forgotten when the first members arrive. Everything is designed for a phone screen first, because that is where most Jeddah viewers will meet the plan page and the checkout.

Explain your project
  • Film club memberships with screening windows

    Members get a monthly selection plus timed screenings that open on a set evening and close after a fixed window, the way a cinema programme works. Premieres can be limited to a top tier, and festival titles can carry their own pass. Programmers schedule everything from the admin in Arabic and English.

    A curated programme people pay for, not an endless scroll.

  • Multilingual catalogue and subtitles

    Titles, synopses and categories in Arabic and English, with subtitle and audio tracks in Urdu, Bahasa, Tagalog or any language your members ask for. The site detects the browser language, remembers each member's choice, and lets them switch subtitle language mid stream without reloading the page.

    Residents from many communities can follow every title.

  • Payments for residents and visitors

    mada and STC Bank for residents, Apple Pay for everyone, and Visa or Mastercard issued abroad for visitors, all through a SAMA licensed gateway with 3-D Secure. Prices display in riyals with tax shown clearly, and foreign cardholders see the same checkout in English.

    A pilgrim's card from Jakarta works as well as a local mada card.

  • Short-stay passes for travellers

    Weekly or monthly passes that do not renew automatically suit visitors in the city for Umrah or business. The pass ends on its own date, sends a polite reminder before it closes, and offers a full membership to anyone who wants to keep watching after they fly home.

    Visitors buy without worrying about a forgotten renewal.

  • Lecture and recitation channels

    Scholars, teachers and education producers publish lecture series with chapters, audio only playback for listening on the move, and downloadable notes. Free sample episodes sit outside the paywall, while full series, live sessions and question time are reserved for members.

    Educational content earns steady income without advertising.

  • Arabic aware search

    Search that ignores diacritics, matches common spelling variants and handles titles typed in Arabic or Latin letters. Members filter by language, genre, speaker or length. For large archives we add synonyms so that a member searching a colloquial word still finds the formal title.

    Members find what they came for in a single search.

  • Territory and rights controls

    Each title carries the countries and dates it may be shown in. A film licensed for Saudi Arabia only is hidden for members travelling outside the Kingdom, while lectures you own can play anywhere. The admin warns your team when a licence window is about to close.

    Distributors see their licence terms enforced automatically.

  • Self-service account and cancellation

    Members change plan, update payment details, switch languages, download invoices and cancel from their account page. The terms they agreed to at checkout are stored with their record, so if a question arises later your team can show exactly what was accepted and when.

    Disputes are settled with records instead of argument.

  • Gift memberships and family sharing

    Members can buy a membership as a gift for a parent, a student or a relative in another city, with a code delivered by email or WhatsApp and a start date the giver chooses. Family plans add profiles for each household member, including a children's profile limited to titles rated for younger viewers.

    Members recruit new members on your behalf.

  • Invoices and VAT through Fatoora

    Each payment and refund creates a ZATCA compliant e-invoice through Fatoora, available to the member online and passed to your accounting software. Corporate buyers can add their VAT number and receive invoices made out to the company, which matters for hotels and schools buying group access.

    Finance closes the month without chasing missing invoices.

Who we build for

Jeddah operators who turn viewers into members.

Jeddah has a long cultural life, from the historic streets of Al Balad, now home to the Red Sea International Film Festival, to the study circles and media producers that serve a large Muslim audience at home and abroad. The clients who come to us for video streaming subscription website development in Jeddah usually fall into four groups, each with its own way of charging and its own audience. What they share is a need to be paid directly by viewers, without handing the relationship and the data to a large platform.

01

Film distributors, cinema clubs and festival teams

Independent films and Arab cinema often struggle to reach audiences after a festival run. A membership site gives them a second life: a monthly programme, festival passes, director conversations streamed live and a library that grows with each season. We build rights controls that distributors accept and a screening calendar your programmers can manage alone. Trailers and synopses stay public, so search engines and social shares bring new viewers to the plan page.

Festival titles can carry their own short pass.

02

Lecture and Islamic education producers

Teachers and institutions publishing tafsir, fiqh, Arabic language or Quran recitation courses need gated series, audio playback and a membership that families can share. We design for viewers in the city and for students abroad who follow a Jeddah teacher, with payments in their own cards and subtitles in their language. Free sample lectures stay open to the public so new students can judge the teaching before paying.

Audio only plans suit listeners on the road.

03

Community and diaspora media

Producers who make drama, talk shows or news for Jeddah's South Asian, Southeast Asian or African communities can sell memberships directly instead of relying on social platforms. We build the catalogue in several languages, low data playback settings for prepaid connections and a simple checkout that works on a phone.

Low bitrate options keep data costs down for members.

04

Sports and fitness creators

Coaches, academies and football content creators sell training libraries, match analysis and live sessions. We add tiers for players, parents and coaches, a schedule of live sessions, and replays that stay in the library. Academies can buy group access for a squad from one account, and coaches see which players have watched the sessions assigned to them before the next training.

Squad accounts save parents from paying one by one.

Six stages from a first video call to members watching.

  1. 01Discovery by video callWe meet your team online, review your catalogue, rights paperwork and audience, and agree which members and which languages the first release must serve.
  2. 02Plans, terms and pricing rulesTiers, passes, renewal behaviour, refund rules and cancellation terms are written in plain Arabic and English, ready for the checkout and the E-Commerce Law disclosures.
  3. 03Gateway and tax onboardingWe prepare the gateway application, confirm foreign card and recurring support, connect Fatoora e-invoicing and register the platform's VAT settings.
  4. 04Multilingual interface designRight to left Arabic layouts first, then English and any further interface languages, with screens shared for review in recorded walkthroughs.
  5. 05Build, encoding and catalogue loadDevelopment runs in short cycles on staging while titles are encoded, subtitled, tagged and given their tiers and territory rules.
  6. 06Soft launch and reviewWe open the site to a small group of real members first, watch payments and playback closely, then fix what they find before the public launch to everyone.

Technology

What we build this with.

A typical Jeddah build pairs a Next.js front end with a headless CMS holding multilingual metadata, a managed video service for encoding, subtitles and adaptive playback, DRM for licensed films and a SAMA licensed gateway. We choose hosting regions with you so member data handling follows PDPL.

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

What Jeddah clients ask before they start.

Timing comes from your scope, your languages and your gateway's approval process.

A first release with one or two plans, an Arabic and English catalogue and a member account can move quickly once content is ready. Each extra subtitle language, a festival pass system or a large archive adds work, and the payment gateway's review of foreign card and recurring support runs on its own schedule. We give you a written plan after discovery and update it openly if anything moves.

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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