Services · Mobile app development · Automotive apps
Codeeo designs and builds apps for independent garages, bodyshops, used car dealers and fleet service firms across Birmingham. Service booking, collection and delivery, stock listings, video health checks and repeat reminders run from one app your customers keep on their phone. Automotive app development Birmingham businesses actually use starts with the work already happening in the workshop, not with a template.
We have no Birmingham premises. Our team of 80+ sits in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and works remotely with clients in the city and the wider West Midlands. Discovery, design reviews and demos all run by video call, with shared prototypes you can try on your own phone.
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What the app can include
Most motor trade businesses in the city do not need a showroom brochure on a phone. They need fewer missed calls, fuller diaries and customers who come back for the next service. A driver in Erdington or Hall Green wants to book an MOT before work, see the price of a repair before agreeing to it and know when the car will be ready. A small fleet manager on an industrial estate in Tyseley wants every van booked in without phoning round. We start from your diary, your parts supplier and your workshop management system, then build the pieces below in the order that saves your front desk the most time. Nothing goes in because it looks good in a demo; every screen has to remove a phone call, a paper job card or a chase for payment.
The customer types a number plate, the app pulls make, model and fuel type from DVLA vehicle data, and offers the services and ramp slots that actually fit that car. MOT, interim service, full service, tyres and diagnostics each carry their own duration so the diary never overbooks a technician.
Bookings arrive with the right vehicle details and a realistic slot.
Drivers heading into the city centre often ask whether their car is charged inside the A4540 Middleway. A simple screen sends them to the official government vehicle checker and, where a car is not compliant, explains what work or replacement options your business offers.
A common local question becomes a reason to open your app.
Technicians record a short clip of worn pads, a corroded brake line or a leaking shock while the car is on the lift. The clip, a written note and a quote land in the app, and the customer approves or declines each item with one tap.
Extra work is approved faster, with a record of what was shown.
Drivers who cannot get to the workshop book a collection from home or office. Your staff get a route list, photo check on pickup, mileage and fuel level recorded, and the customer sees when the car leaves and returns.
You win jobs from customers who could not spare half a day.
For dealers, a stock screen fed from your dealer management system shows photos, MOT history, mileage and finance availability. Buyers can reserve a car, book a test drive or send part exchange details with photographs before they travel.
Visitors arrive at the forecourt already interested in a named car.
Trade and fleet customers get their own login with every vehicle listed, service due dates, defect reports from drivers and approval limits for each manager. Invoices are grouped by month so the accounts team pays once.
Fleet work becomes repeatable instead of a weekly phone chase.
MOT due, service interval, seasonal tyre swap and recall notices go out by push notification or text, timed from the last visit and the MOT expiry date. Marketing messages only go to customers who opted in, in line with PECR.
Repeat visits rise without staff working through a spreadsheet.
Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay at collection, deposits for larger jobs and reservation fees for stock cars. Receipts and invoices sit in the customer's history alongside the job card and the photos.
Customers pay before they reach the counter, and queues shrink.
Technicians see their jobs for the day, clock on and off each one, log parts used and flag delays. The front desk sees live progress, so the answer to where is my car comes from the app, not a walk to the workshop floor.
Fewer interruptions for technicians and clearer job costing.
Who this is for
Birmingham's motor trade is spread out. There are railway arch workshops near Digbeth, unit garages on estates around Tyseley and Aston, franchised and independent dealers on the main roads out of the centre, and mobile mechanics working from vans across the suburbs. Each of these businesses earns money in a different way, so the app does different jobs. These are the four kinds of business we most often plan apps for, and what the first release usually focuses on. In every case, auto service app development is judged on one thing: whether the ramps and the forecourt are busier six months after launch than before it.
A two or three ramp garage lives on a full diary and repeat customers. The first release usually covers registration led booking, MOT reminders and video health checks, because those three remove the most phone calls. If you already use a workshop management system, we connect to it rather than replace it, so job cards, parts and invoices stay where your team already keeps them. Customers in Kings Heath, Sutton Coldfield or Selly Oak get the same booking experience whichever branch they use.
Best first step: booking plus reminders.
Car buying and selling app development for a Birmingham forecourt centres on live stock, honest vehicle history and a fast part exchange valuation. Buyers from across the West Midlands compare several dealers before they drive anywhere, so reservation and test drive booking matter more than a glossy brand page. We also build the seller side: photo upload, mileage and service history, so you can quote for cars you want to buy in.
Best first step: stock feed and reservations.
Firms that service delivery vans, trades vehicles and private hire cars need accounts, approvals and downtime kept to a minimum. Birmingham City Council licenses the city's private hire vehicles, and those drivers want quick inspections and repairs so they can get back on the road. A fleet portal with driver defect reporting, booking by vehicle and monthly invoicing suits operators running along the M6 and M5 corridor.
Best first step: fleet portal and driver reporting.
Accident repair depends on photos, estimates and insurer approval. The app lets a customer send pictures of the damage, get an initial estimate, book an inspection slot and follow the repair stages. Where insurers or claims handlers send work, we can add a separate view for them with stage updates and documents, so your office stops forwarding emails.
Best first step: photo estimate and repair tracking.
Working together
Most Birmingham clients start with a fixed scope first release covering booking, reminders and payments, priced after discovery. Cost depends on how many systems we connect to, whether you need a staff app as well as a customer app, how many branches share the diary and how much stock data moves each day. After launch, a monthly support plan covers updates and small changes. Dealer groups adding sites over time sometimes prefer a dedicated team. Everything runs remotely: video calls, recorded walkthroughs and written summaries after each meeting, with one named product lead. Buyers comparing quotes for car dealership app development Birmingham agencies offer should ask how stock feeds, finance screens and reservations will be tested before launch; we demonstrate each one against your live data, not sample cars.
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
Cross platform mobile apps for iOS and Android, a web admin panel for the front desk, and connections to DVLA vehicle data, DVSA MOT history, your workshop system and your payment provider. Data is hosted in UK or EU regions to keep UK GDPR obligations simple.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on scope and connections, and we agree the timing after discovery.
A single site garage that needs booking, reminders and payments is a much smaller build than a dealer group syncing stock across several forecourts. The biggest variable is integration: if your workshop system has a documented API the work is predictable, while older desktop systems may need a data export or a middle layer. We confirm all of this on video calls during discovery, then put each release and its contents in a written plan before design starts, so you know what arrives when.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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