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Codeeo provides AI platform subscription website development Manchester product teams use when a tool people already like needs to start earning. We build the upgrade path from free to paid, the plans and pricing pages, checkout, recurring billing for seats and credits, VAT invoices, failed payment recovery and a self-serve account where customers change plans or cancel cleanly. In Manchester many AI products begin inside agencies, media companies and university labs, so the first billing setup has to be simple to run and easy to grow.
We do not touch your models or your product roadmap. We build the paid side of the platform: what a customer sees when they decide to pay, what happens every renewal, and what your team sees in the accounts afterwards.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
Platform features
The hardest moment for a young AI product is the first paid month. Users who were happy on a free tier suddenly meet a paywall, a card form and terms they have not read, and some will leave whatever you do. The aim is to make paying feel like a natural next step: the free plan shows its limits honestly, the upgrade prompt appears when someone actually hits a limit, and the price they agree to is the price that renews. Behind that, the billing has to handle teams who add colleagues mid-month, customers who buy extra credits before a deadline, and finance contacts who want a proper VAT invoice in their inbox. The list below is where most Manchester projects start; we add or drop items once we understand your product and your users.
Usage limits defined per plan, a visible meter in the product, and upgrade prompts triggered by real events, such as a user reaching their monthly generation limit or inviting a third teammate. Each prompt links straight to a checkout already set to the right plan, so the customer does not have to compare tiers mid-task.
Upgrades happen at the moment the value is obvious.
If you decide to give new teams a trial of a paid tier, the platform supports it with or without a card on file, sends a reminder before it ends, and converts or downgrades automatically. Trial length, eligibility and whether it repeats are your settings to change without a developer.
Trials that end the way the customer was told they would.
Workspaces with an owner, admins and members, invitations by email, and seat charges calculated for the days remaining when someone joins mid-cycle. Removing a member frees the seat for the next renewal. Agencies can run several client workspaces under one billing account.
Teams grow inside the product without emailing you for a new invoice.
One-off purchases of extra credits for heavy months, such as a production company transcribing a full series or an agency running a campaign. Credits are added instantly after payment, spent before plan allowance or after it according to your rules, and shown in a ledger customers can read.
Extra revenue from busy months without forcing a plan change.
A short checkout with card, Apple Pay and Google Pay, Strong Customer Authentication handled by the provider on the first charge, and renewals processed as merchant initiated payments. Company name and VAT number are collected for business buyers, and the total shown includes everything the customer will pay.
Fewer abandoned upgrades at the payment step.
Invoices carrying your VAT number, the correct rate, the customer's details and a sequential number, issued automatically on every charge, plus credit notes for refunds. Business customers outside the UK receive the reverse charge wording your accountant specifies.
Finance contacts get the paperwork they need without asking.
Retries spaced around typical payday patterns, emails that explain what failed and how to fix it, a card update page that needs no password, and a short grace period before the workspace drops to the free tier with its data intact.
Customers with expired cards stay customers.
A cancel button inside the account that works in a few clicks, an optional pause for seasonal users, a short reason survey, and a confirmation email stating when access ends. For consumers, the flow respects cancellation rights under the Consumer Contracts Regulations.
Honest exits that leave the door open for a return.
Customers upgrade, downgrade or switch between monthly and annual billing from their account. Before confirming, they see exactly what they will be charged today and at renewal. Upgrades take effect immediately with a prorated charge; downgrades wait for the end of the period so nobody loses features they have already paid for. Every change produces an invoice or credit note, and the workspace owner receives an email confirming it.
Plan changes without support tickets or surprise charges.
Invoices, payments and refunds sync to Xero, QuickBooks or FreeAgent with VAT coded correctly. Plan and payment events go to your product analytics, so you can see which features people use before upgrading and which plans churn.
Pricing decisions based on what customers actually do.
Good fits
Manchester's AI scene is spread across the city rather than packed into one district: product studios in the Northern Quarter and Ancoats, media technology around MediaCityUK in Salford, professional services firms in Spinningfields, and research-led companies along the Oxford Road corridor and at Manchester Science Park. The billing needs below come up again and again. Some teams want AI platform SaaS website development Manchester buyers can understand in a minute; others need deeper AI platform subscription platform development Manchester finance teams can rely on as revenue grows. We also handle AI platform billing integration services Manchester teams need when they already run Stripe but the setup no longer matches their pricing.
A Northern Quarter agency built a content or analytics tool for its own clients and now other businesses want it. We separate the product from the agency, add public plans and self-serve sign up, and let existing clients keep their invoiced arrangement until you decide otherwise. Multi-workspace billing means one agency account can manage several brands.
From internal tool to sellable product.
Production companies and broadcasters near MediaCityUK buy AI for transcription, subtitling, archive search and editing support, often in bursts tied to production schedules. Platforms selling to them need credit packs, project based usage reports and invoices that a production accountant can allocate to a specific programme budget.
Usage billing that follows production cycles.
A research team from one of the city's universities has a working model and early users from the sector. We set up a lean paid offering with a clear academic or institutional plan, invoicing for universities that pay by purchase order, and card checkout for individuals, without overbuilding before demand is proven.
A lean commercial setup for a research-led product.
Manchester has a strong cyber security community, helped by GCHQ's office at Heron House on Albert Square, and buyers here ask sharp questions about access control. Platforms selling to them need role based billing permissions, audit logs of plan and payment changes, and clear separation between customer workspaces.
Billing that stands up to a security review.
How we work with you
We do not have an office in Manchester. Codeeo's team of 80+ works across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and we run UK projects remotely through video calls, shared design files and a written decision log. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and hold a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. Manchester product teams tend to be small and hands-on, so we work directly with the founder, the lead engineer and whoever handles the accounts, rather than through layers of project management. Every call ends with a short written summary of what was agreed, what is still open and who owns the next step, so a missed meeting never stalls the 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
Pricing sites are typically built in Next.js or on your existing framework, billing on Stripe Billing, Paddle or Chargebee, and accounting through Xero, QuickBooks or FreeAgent. We work inside your stack where it is sound and recommend changes only where billing needs them.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on how many plans and metered units you launch with.
A launch with a free tier, a couple of paid plans, seat billing and standard card checkout moves quickly once pricing is agreed. Usage metering, credit packs, purchase order invoicing for universities and a large group of beta users to migrate all extend the timeline. We set the schedule only after discovery, in writing, and we suggest a phased launch when some features can wait until the first paid customers show what they want.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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