Geidea
Geidea is a Saudi payments company that sells card terminals, a mobile POS app, a payment gateway and payment links, plus a point of sale with online ordering, kiosk, kitchen display and branded app for restaurants and other merchants. The Saudi site has a hospitality segment for full-service, cafe, quick-service, food truck, cloud kitchen and food court businesses.
Last reviewed
- Best for
- Restaurants and cafes in Saudi Arabia, Food trucks and cloud kitchens
- Pricing
- Quote only
- Runs on
- Web, Android
Who it is for
Restaurants and cafes in Saudi Arabia
Payment terminals with Mada and international cards alongside a POS, mobile ordering and kitchen tools from one provider.
Food trucks and cloud kitchens
The hospitality page lists food trucks and cloud kitchens as supported business types, with mobile POS and payment links needing no fixed terminal.
What it does
Payment terminals
Accept tap, chip and PIN, magstripe and QR payments on POS terminals, with tipping, pre-authorisation, on-device reports and dynamic currency conversion.
Mobile POS app
Turns an Android phone into a payment terminal with no extra hardware, digital receipts and offline processing.
Payment gateway
Checkout pages, plugins, mobile SDKs and a direct API for taking online payments by card, mobile wallet and Buy Now Pay Later.
Payment links
Send payment links by SMS, email or social channels, or as QR codes, with digital invoices, bulk creation from CSV and a Pay by Link API.
Point of sale
All-in-one POS with 100+ reports, offline mode, built-in tax reporting, staffing and inventory tools.
Mobile ordering
Digital menus where customers browse dishes, open tabs and pay from their phones.
Waiter terminal
An all-in-one terminal for staff to manage tables, take orders and process payments from one device.
Delivery app integrations
Brings orders from delivery partners into one place (partners are not named on the vendor's site).
Branded app
Ready-made app styled to the restaurant's brand.
Promotions and loyalty
Built-in promo and loyalty features for repeat visits.
Pricing
- Pricing model
- Quote only
No prices are published on the Saudi site; each product page has a Get Started button. The terminal page says installation is free.
How it compares
Compared with the 12 products in Payment Processing for Food Businesses that have a profile on this site. These figures describe the category. They are not a recommendation.
- Names 5 integrations. The median in this category is 5.
- One of 8 products in this category with an Android app. 10 products in this category state their platforms.
- The category's 10 most-named integration partners are Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, OpenCart, PrestaShop, Xero, Lightspeed, Oracle Micros, Agilysys, Appetize. Of these, this product's listing names Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, OpenCart, PrestaShop.
Works with
These are e-commerce plugins for the payment gateway. The POS and terminal pages say they connect to other business software but name none.
Where and how it runs
- Available in
- Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
- Languages
- English, Arabic
- Platforms
- Web, Android
- Apps
- Geidea mobile POS app: Accept payments on an Android phone
- Hardware
- Palm payment terminal, handheld all-in-one POS terminals, self-service kiosks and a kitchen display are listed under hardware.
The details here are from the Saudi site; its company history mentions UAE and Egypt expansion in 2021 and a UAE payment gateway licence.
The company
- Company
- Geidea Technology Company
- Registration
- Saudi commercial registration no. 1010332533
- Founded
- 2008
- Headquarters
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Founders
- Abdullah Al Othman
- Funding
- Investment by Gulf Capital, SAR 1 billion, January 2019 (Gulf Capital)
Security and support
- Security and compliance
- Under the supervision and control of the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA); holds a SAMA acquiring licence (vendor statement)
- Support
- Phone (8003030038 inside Saudi Arabia) and email, 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM Sunday to Thursday; free terminal installation by tech support agents.
Listing details
- Built for
- Cafés, Restaurants
- Focus
- General-purpose, used in food businesses
- Status
- Active
- Website
- geidea.net
- Also listed in
- Restaurant POS
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Clip
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What we could not confirm
These points were not confirmed when this page was written.
- Prices and transaction rates
- Contract terms
- Named integrations for POS
- Restaurant customers
- Employee count
Sources
Facts on this page come from the pages below, checked on 29 September 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you buy.
- Home, contact detailshttps://www.geidea.net/ksa/en
- Company historyhttps://www.geidea.net/ksa/en/about-us
- Hospitality segmenthttps://www.geidea.net/ksa/en/segments/hospitality
- Point of salehttps://www.geidea.net/ksa/en/solutions/customer/point-of-sale
- Payment terminalhttps://www.geidea.net/ksa/en/solutions/hardware/payment-terminal
- Payment gatewayhttps://www.geidea.net/ksa/en/solutions/payments/payment-gateway
- Mobile POShttps://www.geidea.net/ksa/en/solutions/payments/softpos
- Payment linkshttps://www.geidea.net/ksa/en/solutions/payments/payment-links