Services · Mobile app development · Subscription billing apps
Codeeo handles subscription billing software development in Dubai for businesses that charge customers on a cycle: gyms and clubs, meal plan kitchens, software firms, schools with term fees, car care plans and membership communities. We build the plan catalogue, checkout, card on file renewals, tax invoices, dunning, customer self service and the finance dashboard as one product, so every renewal is charged correctly, documented properly and easy for the customer to manage.
Recurring revenue only stays recurring when the billing behind it is boring and correct. Most problems we are asked to fix come from spreadsheets, a gateway dashboard and an accounting package that never quite agree with each other.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the platform can include
Off the shelf billing tools are designed around a generic software company charging one card each month. Businesses in Dubai rarely fit that shape. A fitness club may freeze memberships over summer when residents travel, a meal plan kitchen pauses deliveries during Ramadan or changes the menu cycle, and a B2B software firm sells annual contracts to free zone companies that want a tax invoice addressed to the right legal entity with a valid Tax Registration Number on it.
We design the billing logic first: what a plan is, how it renews, what happens on an upgrade halfway through a cycle, how a failed payment is retried and when access is paused. Only then do we design screens. The result is a customer app or portal, a staff console and a finance view that all read from one ledger, so the number your accountant sees matches what the customer was actually charged.
Monthly, quarterly and annual plans, family or team seats, add-ons, setup charges and trial periods defined in an admin screen rather than in code. Finance can retire an old plan while keeping existing subscribers on it, and marketing can launch a seasonal plan for the cooler months without waiting for a developer.
New plans go live in an afternoon, with old subscribers untouched.
The first payment runs with full customer authentication through your gateway, and later renewals are charged as merchant initiated transactions under the card scheme rules your acquirer applies. Apple Pay and Google Pay tokens are supported where the gateway allows, and card details stay with the gateway, never in your database.
Renewals charge on time without asking the customer to re-enter a card.
Every charge produces a tax invoice carrying the details the Federal Tax Authority expects, including your TRN, the customer's TRN for business buyers, the VAT amount and the date of supply. Credit notes are issued against the original invoice for refunds and downgrades, so your VAT return reconciles without manual corrections.
Invoices your accountant does not need to rebuild at quarter end.
The Ministry of Finance has set out a phased e-invoicing programme for business to business invoices, using structured data exchanged through accredited service providers. We store invoice data in a structured form from day one and keep the output layer separate, so connecting to your chosen provider is an integration task rather than a rebuild.
B2B invoices ready to move to the national e-invoicing format.
When a renewal fails, the system retries on a schedule you set, emails and notifies the customer with a secure link to update their card, and only then moves the account to a grace period or a pause. Expiring cards are flagged a month ahead, which prevents many failures before they happen.
Fewer subscribers lost to an expired card rather than a decision to leave.
Subscribers see their plan, next billing date and every invoice in the app or web portal. They can change plan, add a seat, update a card, freeze for travel where your rules allow, and cancel without phoning anyone. Each action shows the price effect before it is confirmed, in English or Arabic.
Billing questions to your front desk drop sharply.
Before an annual plan renews, the customer receives a clear reminder with the amount and date. Cancellation is as easy to find as sign up, with a short reason question and an optional retention offer you configure, and a written confirmation every time.
Renewal terms customers understand, and fewer chargeback disputes.
Mid cycle upgrades charge the difference, downgrades take effect at renewal or create a credit, and goodwill credits are applied by authorised staff with a reason logged. The rules are written down in discovery and tested against real examples from your current customer base.
No more manual calculations when a customer changes plan.
Recurring revenue, churn, failed payment rates, upcoming renewals and deferred revenue by month, with VAT summaries per period. Exports and API sync to your accounting system, whether that is Odoo, Business Central, Zoho Books or another package, keep the ledger and the books aligned.
Month end close based on one set of numbers.
Front desk staff can freeze a membership, finance can issue a refund, and only an owner can change a price. Every change to a subscription, invoice or price is logged with who made it and when, which matters as soon as more than one person touches billing.
Clear accountability for every change to what a customer pays.
Who this is for
A custom subscription billing software development Dubai project makes sense when the way you charge is part of your product. If your plans are simple and a packaged tool fits, we will say so in discovery. The businesses below usually find that packaged tools force them into workarounds: spreadsheets for freezes, manual credit notes, or a second system for corporate accounts. Those workarounds cost staff time every single month, and they tend to hide revenue leaks until an audit or a VAT return exposes them.
Members in Jumeirah, Dubai Marina or Downtown expect to freeze when they travel for the summer, transfer a membership to a family member or switch branch. Joining fees, minimum terms and class credits all need rules. We build the billing around those membership policies and connect it to your access control and booking app, so a lapsed payment changes gate access automatically and a renewed one restores it.
Freeze and transfer rules usually decide the whole design.
A healthy meal kitchen in Al Quoz or a coffee subscription delivering across the city bills by week or month, with pauses, skipped days, address changes and plan swaps. Billing has to talk to the kitchen production list and the delivery routes, so a paused customer is not cooked for. We tie the charge, the order and the delivery slot together in one record.
SaaS products and managed service providers in Dubai Internet City, DIFC or the free zones sell annual contracts, seats and usage. Buyers need purchase order numbers, entity names and TRNs on invoices, and sometimes pay by bank transfer against a pro forma. We build seat management, usage metering and invoice approval, and a structured invoice store that is ready for B2B e-invoicing.
Business buyers are where e-invoicing applies first.
Term fees, instalment plans, sibling discounts and refunds when a student withdraws are billing problems wearing an education badge. Parents want to see what is due and pay by card or instalment, and the accounts team wants a ledger per family. We model terms and instalments as schedules, so reminders and receipts follow on their own.
How we work together
Most clients start with a fixed scope first release covering plans, recurring charges, tax invoices, dunning and self service. A retainer then adds the next layer, such as usage billing, a corporate portal or the e-invoicing connection once your provider is chosen. Larger groups running several brands on one ledger sometimes take a dedicated team. As subscription billing software developers Dubai finance teams can meet face to face, we run discovery at your office. Cost depends mainly on the number of billing rules and exceptions, how many systems the platform must sync with, and the size of the migration.
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
A billing service with a proper ledger and idempotent payment handling, web and mobile front ends, gateway webhooks processed in order, and scheduled jobs that are safe to rerun. We pick a stack your team can maintain and document every billing rule alongside the code.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
The number of rules and integrations sets the pace more than the screens.
A platform with a handful of plans, one gateway and an accounting export is a much shorter build than one with usage metering, family accounts, corporate invoicing and a migration from an older system. Gateway approvals and recurring payment set up with your acquirer can also take time, so we start them in the first week. After discovery you receive a written plan with phases and dates, and we usually advise going live between billing peaks rather than on the first of the month.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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