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Built for Saudi Arabia, from mada to Fatoora. Website development company for businesses in Saudi Arabia

Marketlube builds websites for businesses in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Khobar from our office in Calicut, India, working in Riyadh hours over WhatsApp and video calls. We have no office in Saudi Arabia. Each build plans for the Kingdom's own rules: mada and Apple Pay at checkout, a PDPL privacy policy live before the first form, the E-Commerce Law's store details and Arabic laid out right to left.

  • The Rawahil homepage on a desktop screen, a concept build by Marketlube (Rawahil is a fictional brand)

    Concept build · Rawahil, a car rental website for Riyadh

  • The Matanah homepage on a desktop screen, a concept build by Marketlube (Matanah is a fictional brand)

    Concept build · Matanah, a construction company website for Jeddah

  • The Sudul homepage on a phone, a concept build by Marketlube (Sudul is a fictional brand)

    Concept build · Sudul on a phone

Concept build · Rawahil, a car rental website for Riyadh / Concept build · Matanah, a construction company website for Jeddah

Who builds your Saudi website, and from where?

Some pages that rank for this search suggest a Saudi presence they never show, such as "based in Riyadh" above UAE phone numbers. We'd rather be plain: Marketlube is a web and marketing team in Calicut, Kerala, with no office, licence, staff or +966 number in Saudi Arabia. We build for businesses in the Kingdom from Calicut, two and a half hours ahead of Riyadh all year, over video calls, shared links and WhatsApp.

A Saudi site has its own rules to meet. ZATCA's Fatoora e-invoicing reaches smaller sellers on 1 February 2027, the Personal Data Protection Law sets what a privacy policy must tell your visitors, and the E-Commerce Law sets what an online store must show and what its invoice must say. Buyers arrive on phones: DataReportal counts 99% of people online and 48.7 million mobile connections for 34.7 million people, with YouTube ads reaching 27.5 million people and Snapchat ads 25.3 million. So we design for the phone first and set up the Snapchat and TikTok tags your ads will need.

Our Saudi work so far is brand and film: the master brand guidelines for Tagus Global, a Saudi group, and three AI films for it. Our Arabic client work so far is design too, so we show Arabic rather than claim it: our three Saudi concept builds are working English and Arabic layouts for fictional brands, right to left, that you can open on your phone. Their Arabic is there to show the layout; on a client site the Arabic words come from a native Arabic writer, scoped with you before we quote.

What a Saudi business website has to handle.

  • mada first, through a licensed gateway

    Every Saudi gateway we read lists mada cards, so a Saudi checkout starts there. Moyasar, for one, says it works under the control and supervision of the Saudi Central Bank and takes mada, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and STC Pay. Your business signs with the gateway; we connect its checkout, test it in sandbox mode and never hold your money ourselves.

    Source: Moyasar, payment methods, read 27 Oct 2026

  • Apple Pay and pay later

    Apple lists Saudi Arabia for Apple Pay, with cards from Al Rajhi Bank, Saudi National Bank, Riyad Bank, Alinma Bank, Saudi Awwal Bank (SAB) and others, and the same list names stc pay and the pay-later services Tamara and Tabby. So an iPhone shopper in the Kingdom expects the Apple Pay button. We switch it on through your gateway and test it on a real iPhone before launch.

    Source: Apple, Apple Pay participating banks in Saudi Arabia, read 27 Oct 2026

  • A privacy policy before the first form

    The PDPL has been enforceable since 14 September 2024, and SDAIA's privacy policy guideline sets what the policy must say: your business and its contacts, the data you collect (cookies included) and which fields are optional, why you collect it, where it is stored, how long you keep it, and how people use their rights and complain. So the policy goes live before the first form does. We also add a plain cookie notice and name each analytics tag in the policy.

    Source: CMS, New SDAIA rules and guidelines published as KSA's personal data protection framework is now enforceable, read 27 Oct 2026

  • Data that leaves the Kingdom

    SDAIA amended its rules on sending personal data abroad in September 2024. A transfer to a country on SDAIA's adequacy list is the simple route, but no list had been published as of February 2025, so transfers rely on SDAIA's standard contractual clauses, binding common rules or accreditation. A form that emails a team abroad, an analytics tag or a server in Europe can all send data out, so we map where each one goes and write it into your policy.

    Source: Clyde & Co, 10 legal updates in KSA tech and data laws, read 27 Oct 2026

  • Who you are, on the store

    Article 6 of the E-Commerce Law asks an online store to show the seller's name or distinguishing mark and its address (unless the store is registered with an e-store authentication body), how to contact it, and the name and number of the commercial or other public register it is in. We set these once in the footer and on the contact page, so every page carries them and one edit updates them all.

    Source: Qanoniah, E-Commerce Law (Royal Decree M/126), read 27 Oct 2026

  • The store's links, and an invoice the shopper can keep

    The Implementing Regulations add three links every store must carry: a privacy policy, the way to complain, and the tax number if there is one, with any change clearly shown (Article 6). Licensed professions also show their licence number, expiry date and issuing body (Article 9). After each sale, Article 8 asks for an invoice the shopper can save, with the total price, the tax and the price breakdown, delivery fees, the delivery date, the carrier and tracking where available, a summary of the return rules, and the payment method with proof of payment.

    Source: Qanoniah, Implementing Regulations of the E-Commerce Law, read 27 Oct 2026

  • Fatoora e-invoicing by 1 February 2027

    Phase 2 of ZATCA's e-invoicing has reached taxpayers in waves since 1 January 2023. Wave 25 covers those whose VAT-subject revenue passed SAR 187,500 in any year from 2022 to 2025, and they must connect their invoicing to the Fatoora platform by 1 February 2027. If your business is in a wave, the store hands each order to your Fatoora-integrated invoicing system rather than emailing a home-made PDF invoice. We scope that hand-off with your e-invoicing provider before we quote.

    Source: ZATCA, Wave 25 of e-invoicing integration, read 27 Oct 2026

  • A .sa domain in your company's name

    SaudiNIC opens .sa only to entities physically in the Kingdom, Saudi nationals and Premium Residency holders, bodies licensed by a Saudi authority and owners of a trademark or trade name registered there. A .com.sa name needs a CR or a local trade name or trademark, the administrative contact must be in Saudi Arabia, and Arabic names sit under .السعودية. So you register it through a licensed registrar, and we set up the DNS and launch.

    Source: SaudiNIC, Domain name regulation v5.0, read 27 Oct 2026

  • Arabic right to left, on its own URLs

    We set the Arabic pages right to left on the html element, use start and end spacing instead of left and right, and give the Arabic and English versions hreflang tags (ar-SA and en) that list each other. Google says it does not use hreflang or the lang attribute to detect a page's language; it reads the words. So the Arabic has to be real Arabic, written by a native Arabic writer named in your quote, not a machine translation.

    Source: Google Search Central, Tell Google about localized versions of your page, read 27 Oct 2026

Riyadh, Jeddah and the Eastern Province.

Riyadh

Riyadh is the capital, and most English directory listings for Saudi web development carry a Riyadh label, though some of those firms describe offices in India, the US or Dubai. So ask any team, us included, where the work is actually done. Rawahil, our car rental concept build for Riyadh (a fictional brand), is a working English and Arabic site you can open on a phone. Our day, 9:30 to 18:30 in Calicut, is 7:00 to 16:00 in Riyadh, so calls fit your morning and early afternoon.

Jeddah

Search in English for a Jeddah web design company and directories fill the results, with few agency sites among them, and the big directories say some placements are paid. So judge a team by work you can open, not by its rank in a list. Matanah, our construction concept build for Jeddah (a fictional brand), is a working English and Arabic site, right to left, on desktop and phone.

Dammam and Khobar

The Eastern Province is where hosting in the Kingdom becomes a real choice: Google Cloud's Dammam region (me-central2) runs under a CST Class C licence, and Saudi customers buy it through CNTXT. AWS lists Saudi regions as announced, with no launch date. The national cybersecurity controls name government bodies and critical infrastructure, not ordinary business sites, so for a Dammam or Khobar business we raise hosting in the Kingdom only where its data or sector calls for it.

Three Saudi concept builds, in English and Arabic.

Concept builds are working homepages we designed and built for fictional brands. For Saudi Arabia: Rawahil, a car rental website for Riyadh, Matanah, a construction company website for Jeddah and Sudul, an abaya store website for Riyadh. None of them is a client, and every page of every demo says so. See every concept build.

Prices in Saudi riyals.

  • Business websiteCustom design, up to 8 pages · 4 to 8 weeksfrom SAR 8,000
  • Next.js website with a CMSHeadless CMS, up to 15 pages · 8 to 14 weeksfrom SAR 15,000
  • Website care planBilled yearly · starts within a weekfrom SAR 500 a month

These figures are before Saudi VAT at 15%, where it applies. Your written quote lists what the project includes: the gateway and wallets it connects, the Fatoora hand-off for a store, the Arabic pages and their native writer, the legal pages above, and meetings in Riyadh hours.

Every price on one page

Five steps. No surprises.

Every stage has an owner, a deliverable and a sign-off, all agreed with you before it starts.

Book a discovery call
  1. A video call in Riyadh hours

    We start with a video call at a time that suits Riyadh, say 10:00 your time and 12:30 ours. The Saudi week runs Sunday to Thursday, so we agree the call days with you. We look at your current site, how your customers pay and what the new one must do.

  2. Scope and quote

    You get the pages, languages, gateway, Fatoora hand-off, privacy and store pages and domain in writing, with a price and a timeline. If Salla or Zid would do the job (Tamara, for one, has plugins for both), we say so before quoting a custom build.

  3. Design both ways

    We design the English and Arabic layouts together, right to left from the first draft, and send a link you open on your own phone. Comments come back on WhatsApp or the call, and the Arabic copy comes from a native writer.

  4. Build and test

    We build the site, run mada and Apple Pay through the gateway's test mode, add the privacy policy, cookie notice, complaints link and CR and VAT numbers, and point your .sa domain once you have registered it.

  5. Launch and care

    We launch after your final check, hand over every login, and keep the site updated and backed up on the care plan, with fixes and questions answered on WhatsApp between 7:00 and 16:00 Riyadh time.

What a Calicut team gives a Saudi business.

  • We say where we are

    Our address in Calicut, India, is printed on this page. No Riyadh label, no borrowed +966 number, no local office we cannot show you. You know who you are hiring before the first call.

  • Saudi rules as line items

    mada checkout, the PDPL privacy policy, the E-Commerce Law's store block and invoice, the Fatoora hand-off and a .sa domain in your name are written into your quote, not discovered after launch.

  • Right-to-left layouts you can open

    Our three Saudi concept builds show English and Arabic layouts, right to left, on any phone. Our Arabic client work so far is design, and we don't write Arabic copy ourselves; a native writer does, and our guide to Arabic-English website design explains how we work together.

  • Briefs in Malayalam or English

    Saudi Arabia's 2022 census counted about 1.38 million Indian residents, and Kerala is among their main home states. Owners and managers from Kerala can brief and review their site with us in Malayalam as easily as in English.

Website development for Saudi Arabia, answered.

The team is in Calicut, India

1414, 4th Floor, Phase 1, HiLITE Business ParkKozhikode, Kerala 673014

Mon–Sat · 9:30 am to 6:30 pm

Do prices on a Saudi website have to include VAT?

The price a shopper sees must be the total: the E-Commerce Law asks a store to show the price including all fees and taxes, and the standard VAT rate has been 15% since 1 July 2020. ZATCA's FAQ makes VAT registration mandatory above SAR 375,000 of annual taxable supplies and voluntary above SAR 187,500. How VAT applies to a foreign team's invoice to you is a question for your tax adviser.

What must a Saudi online store promise its shoppers?

The E-Commerce Law gives shoppers seven days from receipt to return goods they have not used, with some exceptions, and the right to cancel when delivery is more than 15 days late. Your returns page and order emails should say both. If you show a commercial registration, use the unified number that starts with 7, issued under the laws in force since 3 April 2025.

What does Fatoora mean for my online store?

Phase 2 of ZATCA's e-invoicing connects your invoicing system to the Fatoora platform, and Wave 25 sellers must be connected by 1 February 2027. For shop sales, ZATCA's simplified invoice guide has the seller report each invoice within 24 hours through an integrated solution, with a QR code the shopper can scan. Your website passes the order to that system; it should not issue its own invoices.

Does the PDPL apply if my web team is in India?

Yes. The PDPL took effect on 14 September 2023, most businesses had until 14 September 2024 to comply, and it covers processing outside the Kingdom of data about people living in it. Your business normally stays the controller and we work for you as a processor. Breaches must be reported to SDAIA within 72 hours, and fines run to SAR 5 million; this is a summary of the sources below, not legal advice.

Does my website have to be hosted in Saudi Arabia?

Not as a general rule for an ordinary business site. The NCA's 2024 controls cover government bodies and critical infrastructure, and they dropped their explicit hosting rules, while data leaving the Kingdom still follows the PDPL transfer rules. If you want hosting in the Kingdom, Google Cloud's Dammam region is sold through CNTXT; we keep government and critical-infrastructure work out of scope.

Does my website need to be in Arabic?

Arabic is the Kingdom's language, and a consumer site there is expected to have it, though we found no Arabic rule for store pages in the E-Commerce Law's regulations. An English trade name needs an Arabic transliteration under the 2025 trade names rules. A B2B site for an English-speaking audience can start in English; a consumer site is better planned bilingual from the first draft.

How do meetings work when your team is in Calicut?

Saudi Arabia keeps UTC+3 all year, two and a half hours behind Calicut, so our 9:30 to 18:30 day is 7:00 to 16:00 in Riyadh. Monday to Thursday are working days for both of us; Sunday is your working day and our day off, so a Sunday message is answered on Monday morning. Reviews run on shared design and staging links, decisions on a video call, and we travel for a kick-off or a shoot when a project needs it.

Sources

  1. Moyasar, payment methods, read 27 Oct 2026
  2. Apple, Apple Pay participating banks in Saudi Arabia, read 27 Oct 2026
  3. CMS, New SDAIA rules and guidelines published as KSA's personal data protection framework is now enforceable, read 27 Oct 2026
  4. Clyde & Co, 10 legal updates in KSA tech and data laws, read 27 Oct 2026
  5. Qanoniah, E-Commerce Law (Royal Decree M/126), read 27 Oct 2026
  6. Qanoniah, Implementing Regulations of the E-Commerce Law, read 27 Oct 2026
  7. ZATCA, Wave 25 of e-invoicing integration, read 27 Oct 2026
  8. SaudiNIC, Domain name regulation v5.0, read 27 Oct 2026
  9. Google Search Central, Tell Google about localized versions of your page, read 27 Oct 2026
  10. DLA Piper, Data Protection Laws of the World: Saudi Arabia, read 27 Oct 2026
  11. PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Saudi Arabia other taxes, read 27 Oct 2026
  12. ZATCA, FAQ on VAT registration, read 27 Oct 2026
  13. ZATCA, Simplified tax invoice guide, read 27 Oct 2026
  14. CMS, Saudi Arabia implements its new e-commerce law, read 27 Oct 2026
  15. Arab News, New commercial register and trade names laws take effect, read 27 Oct 2026
  16. Clyde & Co, KSA commercial registration law and trade name law, read 27 Oct 2026
  17. Tamara, Saudi Arabia, read 27 Oct 2026
  18. Google Cloud, Dammam region access, read 27 Oct 2026
  19. AWS, Global infrastructure regions, read 27 Oct 2026
  20. Clyde & Co, Saudi Arabia Essential Cybersecurity Controls, read 27 Oct 2026
  21. DataReportal, Digital 2026: Saudi Arabia, read 27 Oct 2026
  22. W3C, Structural markup and right-to-left text in HTML, read 27 Oct 2026
  23. Constitute Project, Saudi Arabia's Basic Law of Governance, read 27 Oct 2026
  24. Wikipedia, Time in Saudi Arabia, read 27 Oct 2026
  25. Wikipedia, Workweek and weekend, read 27 Oct 2026
  26. Wikipedia, Indians in Saudi Arabia, read 27 Oct 2026

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