Services · Ecommerce development · Yacht charter booking sites
Codeeo delivers yacht charter booking website development Saudi Arabia operators can run from one admin across the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf. Guests pick a yacht, a departure point and a slot, pay a deposit with mada, Apple Pay or a card, and receive a confirmation that already carries a VAT invoice. Behind that checkout sit the rules a Saudi charter business has to respect: licensed vessels only, clear cancellation terms, protected guest data and invoices that ZATCA accepts.
This is a website and payment platform, built for browsers on any phone or laptop. It replaces the chain of WhatsApp messages, bank transfer screenshots and shared spreadsheets that most charter desks still use, and it gives finance, operations and marketing the same record of every booking. Discovery runs in person at our Riyadh office or by video call for teams in Jeddah, the Eastern Province and elsewhere.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the booking platform covers
Saudi charter tourism is still being organised. On the Red Sea, the Saudi Red Sea Authority licenses yacht chartering and marinas, and charters run through licensed maritime tourism agents with permits for each yacht. New coastal destinations open in phases, and the Eastern Province has its own established boating culture on the Gulf. A national operator therefore needs more than a calendar, and yacht charter online booking system development Saudi Arabia fleets can depend on starts with those rules. The booking system has to know which yacht may sail from which coast, take money in the ways Saudi customers actually pay, issue compliant tax documents for deposits as well as balances, and keep personal data in line with the PDPL. We plan those rules before design starts, so the public site stays simple while the logic underneath does the careful work. Your team edits fleets, prices and seasons from the admin without calling a developer. Analytics and consent tools are set up so marketing can see which coast, yacht and campaign produced each paid charter.
Each yacht carries its licence and permit details with start and end dates. A vessel whose paperwork has lapsed drops out of public availability automatically, and the operations team receives a renewal warning weeks earlier. Agents see which permits sit behind every listing they sell.
Only yachts that may legally sail can be booked.
Red Sea and Gulf fleets live in one database but carry separate departure points, seasons, operating hours and weather rules. Guests filter by coast or city first, so a family in Khobar never lands on a Jeddah sunset trip by mistake. New destinations are added as regions, not rebuilds.
One platform grows with every new marina you serve.
Hourly cruises, full days and multi-day charters share a calendar per yacht, with minimum durations, turnaround buffers and blocked maintenance dates. Holds expire if payment is not completed, which releases popular weekend evenings back to sale instead of leaving them reserved by an abandoned checkout.
Availability stays honest at busy times.
Our yacht charter online payment integration Saudi Arabia work connects a SAMA licensed provider that supports mada, Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay and STC Bank (formerly STC Pay). Tabby and Tamara can split smaller packages into instalments. Card details stay with the provider through tokenisation, never on your server.
Guests pay with what is already in their wallet.
Collect a deposit at booking and charge the balance on a date you set, or take everything upfront for short trips. Refunds and credit notes follow your written policy by notice period, and weather cancellations are processed in one batch with a rebooking offer attached.
Money arrives on schedule and refunds follow the rules.
Every payment, including advance deposits, produces a VAT invoice in the format ZATCA's Fatoora programme requires, through your accounting or e-invoicing provider. Corporate clients get tax invoices with their VAT number; individuals get simplified invoices with the QR code.
Tax records match bookings without manual retyping.
Captains, crew and support boats have their own availability and qualifications. A booking confirms only when a suitably qualified captain is free on that coast, and daily manifests reach the marina team with guest counts, extras and special requests.
No confirmed charter without a crew to sail it.
Licensed agents, hotel concierges and corporate travel desks book on account with their own price lists, commission rules and monthly statements. Every agent booking keeps the agent's reference, so reconciliation at month end is a report, not a negotiation.
Partner sales flow through the same calendar.
Arabic pages are designed right to left from the first wireframe, with English as an equal second language. Each yacht, coast and package gets its own indexable page with structured data, so the site can rank for charter searches in both languages instead of hiding everything behind one booking widget.
Search traffic lands on bookable pages in both languages.
Confirmation, balance reminders and the day before message go out by email, SMS or WhatsApp Business, in Arabic or English according to the guest's choice. Each message carries the marina location pin, arrival time, guest limit and ID requirements for the manifest, so the dock team is not answering the same questions on the morning of departure.
Guests arrive on time with the right documents.
Who this is for
Charter companies in the Kingdom start from very different places. Some own a single yacht and sell through Instagram, others coordinate fleets they do not own, and some are hospitality groups adding sea days to a resort stay. The platform is scoped to the way you sell today and the regions you plan to reach, rather than to a template. These are the four starting points we see most often. Whichever applies, the first release is judged by one test: whether your staff stop taking bookings by message within weeks of launch.
You have a few yachts and steady demand, but bookings arrive by message and payments by screenshot. We give you a public calendar, a real checkout and an admin your staff learn in an afternoon. The first release focuses on the trips you sell most, usually hourly cruises and full days, and leaves complex packages for a later phase. Your existing yacht photos and descriptions are rewritten for the web in both languages during the build.
A small, finished release beats a large unfinished one.
You sell yachts owned by others and carry responsibility for permits. The platform holds partner fleets, owner rules, commission and permit status, and it lets each owner see their own bookings and statements without seeing anyone else's. Payment can be collected by you and settled to owners on a schedule. Permit expiry warnings go to both you and the owner, so nobody is surprised when a listing pauses.
Owner portals are planned in from discovery.
Your guests already stay with you and want time on the water. We connect yacht bookings to your existing reservation flow, so a guest can add a charter to a stay and pay once. Room numbers, guest names and arrival dates move across, and the charter team sees them ahead of departure. Guests who are not staying with you can still book the yacht directly through the public site.
You run charters on one coast and plan to open on the other. We build the second region as configuration: new departure points, seasons, crew pools and prices, with reporting split by region. Marketing pages for the new coast go live before the first yacht is listed, so search visibility is building on launch day. Staff on each coast see only their own region's bookings unless their role allows more.
How we work together
Most charter companies commission a fixed scope first release covering one coast, then keep a monthly retainer for new regions, seasonal pricing and improvements. Groups planning several destinations at once sometimes take a dedicated team instead. Cost depends on the number of yachts and departure points, how many payment and invoicing systems we connect, whether agents and owners need their own portals, and how much Arabic and English content must be written from scratch. We explain each of these drivers in the written proposal so you can decide what belongs in the first release and what can wait for a later season.
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
We choose the stack around your hosting requirements, your accounting and payment providers, and the people who will maintain the platform. Hosting can sit in Saudi data centres where your data policy or a client contract asks for it.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on scope, and we agree the dates in writing before design.
A single coast with hourly and day charters, one payment provider and Fatoora invoicing is a contained project. Multi-region fleets, agent portals, owner statements and resort integrations each add design, build and testing time. After discovery we give you a written plan with milestones, and the plan only changes if the scope does. Content, photography and payment provider approval often set the pace more than development does, so we start those tasks early.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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