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Codeeo offers interior design consultation booking website development in Dubai for studios, showrooms and platforms that list several designers. Homeowners browse designer profiles, pick a consultation type, choose a slot, pay a fee or deposit online and send their floor plans before the meeting. Designers get verified profiles, their own calendars and payouts, and you keep commission, refunds and reviews under control.
Free consultations in Dubai often fill a designer's week with people who were never going to commission anything. A paid, well prepared consultation filters for serious clients and gives the designer what they need to quote properly. The portal makes that easy to buy and easy to run. Designers spend their time on clients who are ready to commission.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the portal can include
Booking a design consultation is not like booking a haircut. The client may want a ninety minute home visit to a villa in Arabian Ranches, a video call about a one bedroom flat in Dubai Marina or a studio session in Dubai Design District to look at samples. The designer needs photos, floor plans, a rough scope and a sense of style before they arrive, and both sides need clear rules on fees, cancellations and what happens to the fee if a full project follows.
The capabilities below cover the client side, the designer side and the operator side of a consultation portal. A single studio may need only some of them, such as consultation types, scheduling and payments for its own team. A platform listing many independent designers will need the marketplace parts as well: onboarding and verification, commission, payouts, disputes and reviews. We plan the set that fits your model and leave room to add the rest later.
Profiles with portfolio projects, styles such as contemporary Arabic, Japandi or classic, the property types each designer handles, the areas of Dubai they cover and the languages they speak. Clients filter by style, property type, area and consultation format, and see availability before they open a profile.
Clients shortlist designers who suit their home and taste.
Each designer or studio defines consultation products: home visit, studio session, video call, colour and materials advice or a full room review. You set the rules on duration, deposit or full payment and whether the fee is credited against a later design contract, and the portal displays them consistently.
Every consultation is a clear product with clear terms.
Designer calendars synced with Google or Microsoft 365, with buffers between home visits that account for travel across Dubai, so a designer is not booked in Jumeirah at ten and Dubai Silicon Oasis at half past. Studio rooms and sample libraries can be booked as resources alongside the designer.
Bookable slots that designers can actually reach.
After choosing a slot, the client completes a short brief: property type, rooms in scope, rough budget band, style references and timeline. They upload floor plans, photos and inspiration images. The designer sees everything in one place before the meeting, and the brief carries forward if a project is commissioned.
Designers arrive prepared, and first meetings produce real quotes.
Secure online payment by card, Apple Pay and Google Pay through a UAE licensed payment provider, with VAT invoices issued automatically. For larger design packages bought after a consultation, Tabby or Tamara can be offered where they suit your terms. Deposits are held according to your rules until the consultation takes place.
Fees are paid before the visit, so no-shows cost less.
Email and WhatsApp reminders before each consultation, with the address, parking notes for the building and a prompt to have the floor plan ready. After the meeting, the designer sends a summary and proposal link from the portal, and the client can accept a full design package and pay the first stage online.
More consultations turn into signed design work.
Clear rules shown at checkout on how late a client can move or cancel, and what is refunded. Rescheduling is self service within those rules. If a designer cancels, the client gets a full refund or a quick rebooking. Every change is logged with a timestamp, which settles most disagreements before they start.
Fewer arguments about fees, and a record when one happens.
An application flow where designers submit their trade licence, portfolio, insurance where you require it and references. Your team reviews and approves each one before the profile goes live, and licence expiry dates trigger reminders. Clients see a verified badge only on profiles that passed your checks.
Only checked, licensed designers appear on your platform.
Commission set per designer, per consultation type or per promotion, deducted automatically from each payment. Payouts to designers run on a schedule you choose through your payment provider's split or payout tools, with statements showing every booking, fee, refund and commission line.
Designers are paid accurately and on time without spreadsheets.
Reviews collected only from clients who attended a paid consultation, with designers able to reply. A dispute flow lets either side raise an issue about a missed appointment or a refund, which your team resolves with the booking log, messages and payment records in front of them.
Trust built on genuine reviews and fair resolution.
Who this is for
The same portal can serve very different businesses. A studio in Al Quoz with six designers wants to sell its own consultations and spread bookings fairly across the team. A furniture showroom wants to turn browsers into paying design clients. A platform wants to list dozens of independent designers and earn commission. Each needs the core of booking and payment, but the rules around who sets fees, who gets paid and who handles disputes change. We start by agreeing which of these models you run, or plan to run, because it shapes the data model and the payment setup more than anything else.
A studio portal sells the studio's own consultation types and routes bookings to the designer with the right style, language and availability, or lets the client choose. Fees go to the studio, so no payouts are needed, but you still want reports by designer and a way to credit consultation fees against signed design contracts. This is often the quickest model to launch. Round robin rules can share new clients fairly among designers who match the brief.
Simplest model: one payee, many calendars.
Furniture and lighting showrooms on Sheikh Zayed Road or in Al Quoz often give design advice for free to win orders. A portal lets them sell a home visit or a styling session, credit the fee against a furniture order above an agreed value and track which consultations turn into sales. Product links in the designer's follow up can point back to your store. A booking widget on the showroom website and QR codes on display rooms send walk-in visitors straight to the right slot.
Consultation fees credited against orders.
A platform listing freelance and small studio designers needs the full marketplace: onboarding, licence checks, profiles, commission, payouts, reviews and disputes. In Dubai, it also needs to be clear that each designer works under their own licence and that design advice is not the same as fit-out contracting, which carries its own approvals from Dubai Municipality, Trakhees or the Dubai Development Authority depending on the area. Category pages for styles and Dubai areas also give the platform a strong base for search traffic from homeowners researching designers.
The platform arranges the consultation; the designer delivers it.
Owners preparing an apartment for short stay letting in Dubai Marina, Downtown or Business Bay want fast, practical consultations focused on durable furnishing and photogenic rooms. A portal can offer a dedicated consultation type for this group, with briefs that ask about the rental model, target guests and handover date, and designers who specialise in it. Payouts for these bookings can be bundled with any furnishing commission your platform earns from partner showrooms.
A niche segment with clear, repeatable needs.
How we work together
Most clients begin with a fixed scope first release that covers one business model and the core booking, payment and admin tools. After launch, a monthly retainer usually covers new consultation types, SEO pages, payout changes and improvements from user feedback. Cost depends mainly on whether you need full marketplace features or a single studio portal, the payment and payout setup, calendar integrations, Arabic content and the depth of the operator admin. Studios that already run a WordPress site can sometimes add a booking portal to it, which changes the cost picture, and we will tell you in discovery whether that route makes sense or whether a separate platform is the safer choice.
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 usually build on Laravel or Node.js with a Next.js front end, or extend WooCommerce with booking and vendor tools for smaller portals. Payment providers, calendars and email are connected through their APIs, and hosting is set up in your own cloud account. Client files are stored encrypted with access limited to the booked designer and your admin team, in line with the UAE PDPL.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
A single studio portal launches sooner than a full marketplace.
A studio selling its own consultations needs booking, calendars, payments and a simple admin. A marketplace adds designer onboarding, verification, commission, payouts, disputes and reviews, and its payment setup takes longer because payouts to many designers must be approved by the payment provider. In discovery we choose the model and list every feature and dependency, then put an agreed timeline in writing before design starts.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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