Services · Ecommerce development · Video streaming membership sites
Codeeo handles video streaming membership website development Dubai creators, studios and publishers use to charge viewers directly. We build the tier and pricing pages, the sign up and checkout, recurring card and Apple Pay billing, gated access to each title, VAT compliant receipts and the member area where people upgrade, pause or cancel. The money side is what decides whether a paid streaming service survives, so every renewal, failed card and refund has to behave predictably and stay visible to your team.
We take payment on the web, where you keep control of the customer relationship and the billing records. Your existing player and catalogue can stay; we put the membership layer in front of them and connect it to what is already working. If you also sell inside phone apps, we keep web memberships recognised there, within each app store's current rules.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the membership platform includes
A paid streaming membership succeeds or fails on details viewers never see when things go right. A card expires and the member is quietly locked out. A family plan lets five households share one login. A cancellation button is so hidden that people complain to their bank instead. Each of those costs money and reputation.
A video streaming paid membership platform development Dubai project with us starts from your commercial model: how many tiers, monthly or annual, what each tier includes and how members move between them. Then we build the pieces below around it, connected to your player and your accounts team. Payment provider approval for recurring charges is planned early, because underwriting by a UAE acquirer can take longer than the build itself.
Plan comparison pages in Arabic and English that state what each tier includes, how often it renews, the VAT position and how to cancel, before anyone enters a card. Prices are edited in the admin and shown in dirhams, with other currencies if you sell abroad. Annual plans can show the saving against monthly billing as a percentage rather than a figure that goes stale.
Viewers understand exactly what they are paying for.
Card and Apple Pay checkout through a UAE friendly gateway with tokenised recurring charges, 3D Secure where the bank asks for it and no card data touching your servers. Annual plans can be paired with a pay later option where the provider supports it.
Members pay once and renew without friction.
Access rules per title, collection or live event: free, members only, a specific tier or a one off purchase. Rules are checked when the playback token is issued, not just in the page, so a copied link does not play for someone who has not paid. Trailers and first episodes can stay free to help conversion.
Paid content stays paid.
A self serve area where members change plan, update their card, see every invoice, manage profiles and devices, and cancel in a few clicks. Upgrades take effect at once with proration; downgrades apply at the next renewal. Members on a corporate or group seat see who pays and when their access ends.
Fewer support emails about billing.
Smart retries timed around common salary dates, reminder emails and WhatsApp messages before a card expires, a short grace period and a clear update card link. Members who fix their card return with their watch history intact.
Fewer members lost to an expired card.
Tax invoices for every charge with your TRN, the VAT amount and the details the Federal Tax Authority expects, emailed and stored in the portal. Exports for your accountant, and a structure ready for the UAE's planned e-invoicing rules.
Finance closes the month without rebuilding records.
Concurrent stream limits per tier, a device list members can manage, and family plans with up to the number of profiles you choose. Unusual sharing patterns are flagged for your team rather than blocked automatically. Limits differ by tier, so a premium household plan can allow more screens at once.
Sharing stays within the plan you sold.
Gift memberships for Eid or birthdays, promo codes you control, and group plans that a gym, school or company pays for and assigns to named people. Each has its own expiry and renewal rules. Codes can be restricted to new members, one use per account or a campaign end date.
New ways to sell without new code each time.
A clear cancellation flow with an optional pause, an exit question and access until the paid period ends. Refunds are issued from the admin under rules you set, and lapsed members can rejoin on their old profile.
Cancelling feels fair, so rejoining feels easy.
A dashboard showing active members by tier, new joins, cancellations with their stated reasons, recovered payments and refunds, alongside which titles new members watched first. Figures reconcile with the gateway's payouts, so the number your finance team reports matches the number the marketing team celebrates.
Pricing and programming decisions rest on the same figures.
Who this is for
Membership streaming suits owners whose audience already shows up regularly and would pay to get more, earlier or without ads. In Dubai that is often a fitness coach with a loyal studio following, a channel with a strong Arabic audience across the GCC, or an education publisher whose students need structured access. The four starting points below shape the tier design and the billing rules more than the video technology does. We also look at where your viewers live, because a GCC wide audience changes currencies, payment methods and tax treatment from the first day.
You built an audience on YouTube, Instagram or a hosted membership tool and now want your own billing, your own member list and your own brand. We migrate members where the old provider allows a token or customer export, map them to new tiers and send a clear switch over message with a deadline, so nobody is charged twice. Your most loyal Dubai followers often move first, so we give them a reason to switch early.
Migration of paying members is planned before launch day.
Many Dubai studios now sell on demand classes beside in person sessions. We tie streaming tiers to your class packs where useful, so a studio member gets video included while an online only member pays separately. Live classes, replays and programme collections each get their own access rules. Members booking in person can see their streaming access in the same account, which cuts confusion at the front desk.
You keep a free, ad supported tier and add paid tiers for early access, ad free viewing or exclusive series. That means gating at title and episode level, clean upgrade prompts at the moments viewers want more, and reporting that shows which titles drive sign ups. Ads stay off for paid tiers across every page and the player.
Free and paid tiers share one catalogue.
Lecture libraries, Quran courses or professional series often sell as annual memberships, sometimes paid by institutions for groups. We support group plans with named seats, invoices made out to the organisation and access that ends cleanly when the year closes. Administrators at the paying institution can add or swap named learners without contacting you.
How we work together
Most owners start with a fixed scope project covering tiers, checkout, billing, gating and the member portal, priced against that written scope. After launch, a monthly plan covers new offers, payment provider changes and reporting. Owners running apps, a website and a membership together sometimes prefer a dedicated team. With 80+ people across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and more than 200 projects delivered across the UAE and the US, we staff each route to match.
Whichever route suits you, billing changes go through a staging copy with test cards first, so a pricing update never surprises a paying member.
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
Usually a Next.js front end, a billing engine such as Stripe Billing, Chargebee or a gateway's own recurring API, and webhooks that issue playback entitlements to your video provider. The final stack depends on which acquirer approves you, on your existing player and on whether members must also be recognised in phone apps.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on tier complexity, payment approval and member migration.
One or two tiers on a new site move quickly. Family plans, group seats, gifts, several currencies and moving hundreds of paying members from another platform all add design and testing time. Gateway underwriting for recurring billing can also set the pace. We agree the schedule after the discovery workshop, with each dependency written down, and share it before design begins. Each dependency gets an owner, so delays are visible early rather than in the final week.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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