Web development for Saudi Arabian businesses

Choosing what to build

Web projects fail most often at the first decision: building the wrong kind of thing. A restaurant group needs a menu and booking site, not a custom platform. A logistics firm may need a customer portal, not a prettier homepage. Our web practice starts by matching the build to the job.

Pages for the individual services: website design, Shopify stores, SaaS products and mobile apps.

Whatever the choice, you own the result. Code, domain, hosting and analytics sit in accounts under your name, and we document how it all fits together so another developer could take over.

If you are unsure, send us your current site or your idea and we will say which category it falls into on the first call.

What Saudi websites must get right

• Right-to-left layout done properly: navigation, forms, tables, sliders and icons all mirrored where they should be.
• Arabic typography: a font with full glyph support, readable line height and no broken letter joins.
• Mobile speed: much traffic is on phones, so images, scripts and fonts are kept light.
• WhatsApp: a visible click-to-chat button, since many customers prefer it to a form.
• Trust details: commercial registration number, address and contact in both languages.
• Privacy: a notice and consent wording for forms, written with your lawyer under the PDPL supervised by SDAIA.

Domains ending in .sa are registered through the national registry and have eligibility rules. A .com is acceptable for most businesses.

Forms are another place to look closely. Arabic names, mobile numbers with the +966 prefix and long addresses with district names need fields that accept them without errors. We test forms with real data, including data copied from WhatsApp.

Payments, tax and invoicing

A site that takes money needs gateways that suit Saudi buyers: mada, Apple Pay, cards and often STC Pay or instalment services. What you can use depends on your registration and your bank, so we confirm it early. Consumer prices are normally shown with 15% VAT included. If you issue tax invoices, they must meet the e-invoicing rules of ZATCA, and your accountant or approved solution provider owns that part. We connect orders to it.

Card data never touches your server: the gateway hosts the payment fields, which keeps your own compliance burden small.

Our build process

1. Brief and quoteA short call, a short written brief and a fixed price.
2. Design in Arabic firstLayouts drawn right to left, then the English version.
3. Build and reviewA staging site you open every week.
4. Content and testingReal content in, forms tested, phones tested, speed checked.
5. Launch and hand overDNS, redirects, analytics and a short training session.

We work from Pune, about 2.5 hours ahead of Riyadh. Weekly reviews fit inside your Sunday to Thursday week, and you have one project lead throughout.

Between reviews we answer questions in a shared channel, and a written change list keeps scope clear. If a request is outside the quote we say so before doing it and price it at $30 an hour or as a small fixed add-on.

After launch

Sites break quietly: plugins age, certificates expire, forms stop sending. Our website maintenance plans start from $120 a month and cover updates, backups, uptime and security checks. For organic traffic, the SEO side for Saudi Arabia works from the same bilingual structure we build.

Hosting choices are discussed openly. Many Saudi sites run well on a major cloud region close to the Gulf, and some sectors prefer in-Kingdom hosting. We list the options with prices and let you decide, with your lawyer where needed.

Price

Projects start at $1,500 and extra hours are $30. A small site is near the start. Stores, custom features, many languages and integrations raise it. Use the website cost calculator for a first estimate, then ask for a fixed quote. Browse the Saudi Arabia hub for the rest.

For larger builds we split the work into phases and quote each, so you can stop after any phase with something usable.