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Codeeo takes on AI chatbot subscription website development Manchester product teams need when their assistant is ready to sell on its own. We build the plans page, the signup that creates a working bot, monthly and annual billing in sterling, Direct Debit and card payments, usage allowances that flex with retail peaks, and the self-serve area where a client adds a channel, moves plan or cancels. Manchester chatbot vendors sell heavily to online retailers, media firms and agencies, and their billing has to cope with busy weeks that look nothing like quiet ones.
Our team works with Manchester clients remotely from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi. Every workshop, design review and billing test is held by video call, with your product, growth and finance people invited to the sessions that concern them. Recordings and written decisions follow each call, so anyone who missed one can catch up the same day.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What we build
Chatbot companies around the Northern Quarter, Manchester Science Park and MediaCity in Salford have a particular mix of buyers. Fashion, beauty and homeware brands run online and see conversation volumes jump around product drops, sales events and the run up to Christmas. Broadcasters and production firms want assistants for audience questions around a series launch. Agencies in Ancoats and Spinningfields want to resell your bot to their own clients. Universities and colleges buy on an academic year and pay on invoice. A single flat monthly price serves none of them well. Our AI chatbot SaaS website development Manchester work starts from those buying patterns, then builds the pricing, metering and invoicing to match. Underneath sits a billing engine such as Stripe Billing, Chargebee or Paddle, chosen in discovery against your currencies, whether you want a merchant of record to carry tax, and the accounting software your finance team already runs.
Conversation allowances that can be raised for a set period, so a retailer can buy extra capacity for a sale weekend without moving to a bigger plan for the whole year. The meter in the account area shows usage against the boosted allowance and returns to normal automatically.
Retail clients pay for their peak without overpaying all year.
Plans described in units a marketing manager can picture: conversations per month, channels such as website chat, Instagram and WhatsApp, languages, and seats for staff who take over chats. Every unavoidable charge appears in the headline price, as UK drip pricing rules require.
Buyers pick the right plan first time and fewer ask support.
Many smaller Greater Manchester firms prefer to pay by Direct Debit. We set up Bacs Direct Debit through a provider such as GoCardless or Stripe, with mandate confirmation, advance notice of each collection and the Direct Debit Guarantee shown where it should be, next to card, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Customers pay the way their accounts team already pays suppliers.
Parent accounts for agencies that run bots for several brands, with wholesale pricing, one consolidated invoice or separate client billing, client level usage and the option to brand the client portal with the agency's logo. Margins stay private to the agency.
Agencies sell your product without spreadsheets of who owes what.
Universities and colleges often buy for a full academic year and pay against a purchase order. The platform issues a quote, records the order number, invoices on agreed terms and sets the renewal for the start of the next year rather than an arbitrary date.
Education buyers renew on their calendar, not yours.
When a card payment or Direct Debit mandate is confirmed, your product receives a signed webhook and creates the workspace, the first bot and the admin login. Failed provisioning is flagged to your team before the customer notices, with the payment held so nobody is charged for a bot that does not exist.
New customers start training a bot within minutes of paying.
Adding WhatsApp or another channel, more staff seats or a second brand is charged pro rata straight away. Downgrades take effect at renewal, and the account area explains exactly what changes and when before the customer confirms.
Plan changes stay honest, predictable and correctly billed.
Retries spaced around typical payment patterns, reminder emails from your own domain, and a grace period before limits apply. Failed Direct Debits are retried within the rules of the scheme and the customer is offered a card instead.
Revenue is recovered without switching off a client's customer service.
Your team sees recurring revenue, usage against allowance, boosts sold, partner revenue and failed payments in one place, split by customer type. Customers see their own usage, invoices and upcoming charges, which cuts the number of billing questions reaching support during busy retail weeks.
Everyone reads the same numbers, from the founder to the customer.
A cancel option in the account area that takes a few clicks, a confirmation email, and a set period in which the customer can export transcripts and trained content before deletion. Retention periods match your privacy notice under UK GDPR.
Customers leave cleanly, and your privacy promises hold.
Who this is for
No two subscription builds start from the same place. Some vendors have no billing at all, some have outgrown a tool they set up in a hurry, and some need to add a partner channel without disrupting direct customers. AI chatbot subscription platform development Manchester teams ask us for tends to fall into these four starting points.
Your bot works and pilot customers love it, but every invoice is created by hand. We build the plans page, checkout, account area and webhooks so new customers can sign up without anyone on your team touching it, and pilots move onto proper plans with notice. Where a pilot customer was promised a particular rate, we record it as a legacy price that renews as agreed.
Selling without a sales call is the first milestone.
If most of your customers are online shops, your billing must handle seasonal spikes, multiple brands under one parent company and integrations with platforms such as Shopify. We design boosted allowances and per brand usage so a group with several storefronts gets one clear invoice. Usage is reported per storefront, so the group's finance team can recharge each brand internally if it needs to.
Manchester has a large agency community, and many chatbot vendors grow through it. We build partner accounts, wholesale pricing, client handover and commission or margin reporting, so agencies can resell without you running a second billing system. Agencies get their own login, their own client list and a view of usage across every brand they manage.
Partner revenue stays visible in the same reports as direct revenue.
A plugin or early billing setup that worked for a hundred customers starts to break with metered usage, annual invoices and refunds. We plan the move to a proper billing engine, map existing subscriptions and test every edge case before customers are switched across. Card details move between processors where both sides support a secure transfer, so most customers never need to re-enter them.
Ways to work with us
A fixed scope project suits a first subscription build or a move between billing engines, because the work has a clear finish. After launch, a monthly retainer covers new plans, partner features and integrations as your product changes. If you are scaling fast and need several developers working daily inside your repository, we can provide a dedicated team. In each case the work is run remotely with shared boards, regular video calls and written decisions, and we agree scope before any build starts. Some clients only need AI chatbot billing integration services Manchester accountants can rely on, such as connecting an existing billing engine to Xero and HubSpot, and that can be scoped as a smaller standalone piece of work.
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
Typical choices include a Next.js or Laravel site and account area, Stripe Billing, Chargebee or Paddle for subscriptions, GoCardless for Direct Debit, and connections to Xero, QuickBooks, HubSpot and Shopify where your customers use them.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
Mostly the number of buyer types and how usage is billed.
A single self-serve plan with card payments is the simplest build. Each extra element adds work: Direct Debit, metered conversations, seasonal boosts, partner accounts, annual invoicing, multiple currencies and accounting integrations. Migrating existing customers from another tool also takes careful testing. We price the scope you choose after discovery and explain which parts could wait for a later release. A clear first release often launches with cards and one plan family, then adds partner accounts once the direct channel is steady.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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