Services · Ecommerce development · Legal consultation booking portals
Codeeo delivers legal consultation booking website development in Dubai for legal marketplaces, multi lawyer networks and firms that sell fixed consultations online. Clients choose a practice area, compare verified lawyers, pick a slot, pay securely and receive a VAT invoice. Lawyers manage their own availability and fees inside a provider portal, and the platform keeps its commission and pays out the balance on a schedule you control.
Legal services booking platform development is commerce work, not brochure work. Every part of it, from lawyer onboarding to refunds after a missed call, has to work when real money and real legal problems are involved, and it has to stay inside the rules that govern the profession in the UAE.
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What the platform includes
A legal booking portal has three sets of users with different needs. Clients want to find a qualified lawyer quickly, see the price before they commit and get a meeting that actually happens. Lawyers and consultants want control of their calendar, their fee and their professional profile, and they want to be paid on time. The operator needs every provider verified, every payment reconciled and every complaint handled through a clear process.
Dubai adds its own requirements. Federal Law 34 of 2022 separates advocates, who may appear before UAE courts, from legal consultants, so listings must show which a provider is. Fees attract VAT, and the operator needs tax invoices that satisfy the Federal Tax Authority. Clients pay by card, Apple Pay and increasingly expect instalments through Tabby or Tamara for larger packages. Personal data falls under the UAE PDPL, and DIFC or ADGM rules where the platform or its providers sit in those centres. These are the modules we build to cover all of that.
Lawyers apply through a guided form that collects licence numbers, issuing authority, practice areas, languages, professional indemnity details and identity documents. Your compliance team reviews each application in the admin, records the check against the relevant register and approves, rejects or requests more information. Licence expiry dates trigger reminders and automatic suspension.
Only verified, currently licensed providers can take paid bookings.
Listings filter by practice area, language, advocate or consultant status, meeting type, earliest availability and fee band. Each profile shows qualifications, jurisdictions and reviews from completed consultations. Ranking rules are set by you and documented, so providers understand how they appear.
Clients find a suitable lawyer in minutes rather than calling around.
Providers set working hours, buffers, consultation lengths and blackout dates, or sync an existing Outlook or Google calendar. Clients see only open slots in Gulf Standard Time, choose video, phone or office meeting, and answer intake questions the lawyer has configured for that practice area.
No double bookings and no back and forth to agree a time.
A short checkout with cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay through a gateway licensed to operate in the UAE, with Tabby or Tamara offered for packages where you choose. Payment is captured at booking or authorised and captured after the session, depending on your refund policy.
Clients pay in a familiar way and the platform is paid before time is spent.
The platform calculates its commission per booking, by provider tier or practice area, and holds the provider's share until the consultation is marked complete. Payouts run weekly or monthly to verified bank accounts, with statements each provider can download.
Providers trust the money flow and finance reconciles it without spreadsheets.
Every payment produces a tax invoice with the correct supplier details, TRN and VAT breakdown, whether the platform or the provider is the supplier under your model. The structure is ready for the UAE's planned e-invoicing rollout so the data does not need rebuilding later.
Invoices satisfy the FTA and your accountants on the first submission.
Rules for client cancellation windows, provider cancellations, rescheduling limits and no shows on either side, applied automatically with partial or full refunds. Refunds return to the original payment method and every decision is logged with a reason.
Disputes about money are settled by policy, not argument.
A structured complaint flow lets clients raise a problem about a session, attach evidence and track the outcome. Your team mediates in the admin, can hold a payout while the case is open and records the resolution for both parties.
Complaints are resolved through a fair process that protects the platform's reputation.
Only clients with a completed, paid consultation can leave a review, and providers may reply once. Moderation rules remove anything that discloses confidential matter details, and reviews never describe case outcomes in a way that breaches professional conduct rules.
Ratings are credible because they come from real paying clients.
Clients see bookings, invoices and documents they chose to share; providers see their calendar, earnings and client intake. Role based access, two factor login, encrypted storage and audit logs are standard. Hosting location is agreed with you in light of the UAE PDPL and any DIFC or ADGM obligations.
Sensitive information is visible only to the people who need it.
Who this is for
The business model decides the build. A marketplace that earns commission from independent lawyers has different verification, payout and tax needs from a single firm selling fixed price consultations from its own team. We start by mapping who is the supplier of the service, who holds the money and who is responsible when something goes wrong. These four models are the ones we see most often in Dubai.
You are building a platform where clients compare and book independent lawyers and consultants across practice areas. You need provider onboarding at scale, verification, listings ranking, commission and payouts, disputes and reviews. We build a first release around a few practice areas with strong demand, so you can prove supply and demand in Dubai before adding more. Employment, tenancy and company setup questions are common starting points for residents and founders across Dubai, and they suit short paid sessions well.
Launching narrow and deep fills calendars faster than launching wide.
Your own lawyers offer a defined first consultation, contract review or will drafting session at a set fee. You do not need payouts to third parties, but you need clean booking, payment, intake and invoicing tied to your practice management system. The platform runs on your own domain and brand, alongside your firm's main site. Clients in DIFC towers or Business Bay offices can choose a video call or a meeting at your premises, and the slot types reflect what each lawyer offers.
You coordinate a group of independent legal consultants who share a brand. The platform handles each consultant's calendar and fee, takes a network fee and pays out the rest. Shared standards for profiles, response times and client communication are enforced through the admin rather than by email reminders. Consultants who fall below agreed standards can be paused from search while the network reviews the issue.
You already sell company formation, visa or accounting services and want clients to book paid sessions with partner lawyers. We add a legal consultation module to your existing platform, with clear separation so clients know they are contracting with the lawyer for advice, not with your firm. Your existing customer accounts carry over, so a client who formed a company with you books a lawyer without registering again.
The contract chain must be clear to clients, providers and the tax authority.
How we work together
Most clients start with a fixed scope first release covering the core booking, payment and provider flows. After launch, a retainer adds features and keeps payments, security and integrations maintained. Marketplaces growing quickly often take a dedicated team for a longer programme. Cost depends on the number of user roles, whether the platform handles split payments and payouts or only direct sales, the number of payment methods, integrations with calendars, CRM or accounting, bilingual content and the depth of verification and dispute tooling. We itemise each of these in the proposal, so you can move a feature into a later release and see what that changes before you sign.
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 typically use Next.js or Laravel with a PostgreSQL database and a UAE capable payment gateway that supports split payments where needed. The stack is chosen with your team, documented and hosted in accounts you own.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
Timing follows the business model, the payment setup and the first release scope.
A single firm selling its own consultations needs fewer moving parts than a marketplace with independent providers, payouts and disputes. Gateway approval and merchant onboarding can take longer than the build, so we start that paperwork early. After discovery we agree the release scope and write the delivery plan with dates, and you see working software at regular reviews rather than waiting until the end.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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