Services · Mobile app development · Car hire apps
Codeeo plans, designs and builds car hire app development London operators can run their whole fleet on: booking, licence checks, deposits, vehicle handover and returns, with an admin system that knows which car is where. London hire is shaped by things other cities rarely face at once, from airport handovers at Heathrow and Gatwick to the Congestion Charge and an Ultra Low Emission Zone that covers every borough. The app should handle those rules for you, not leave them to the counter.
Our team works remotely with London clients by video call, from first discovery to launch reviews. You keep the code, the store listings and the customer data. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US with a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi.
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What the app can include
A London hire rarely starts at a quiet suburban counter. It might begin at a terminal, a hotel lobby in Kensington, a mews behind a residential street or an office tower in Canary Wharf. The customer may hold a UK licence, a European one or a licence from much further away. Once the car is out, it will probably cross the Congestion Charge zone and it will certainly be inside the ULEZ, which has covered all London boroughs since August 2023.
So the features below are chosen for that reality. Each one connects to the same fleet record, which means a booking made on a phone at Heathrow and a penalty notice that arrives three weeks later both end up attached to the right vehicle, the right hire agreement and the right customer. You can start with a handful of these and add the rest in later releases.
Customers choose a branch, a terminal or a London address for handover and return, with time windows your drivers can actually meet. Postcode rules control where you deliver, how much notice you need and which slots close during busy periods, so the app never sells a handover your team cannot reach.
Door-to-door hires without phone calls to arrange them.
Flight number capture, arrival tracking and a clear meeting point for each terminal you serve. When a flight lands late, the driver sees the new time and the customer sees who is waiting, so nobody stands in arrivals guessing.
Fewer missed handovers at Heathrow, Gatwick and the other airports you cover.
Each car in the fleet carries its emissions status, so you only offer compliant vehicles for London hires. The hire agreement explains how the Congestion Charge works and who pays it, and reminders tell the customer how to settle it.
Customers know the charging rules before they drive into central London.
When a PCN arrives, staff search by registration and date, find the hire agreement and the signed statement of liability, and prepare the transfer to the hirer. Every step is logged against the booking.
Penalty notices matched to hirers in minutes rather than hours.
UK drivers share a DVLA check code and the last eight characters of their licence number inside the app. Overseas visitors upload their licence and passport, with an International Driving Permit prompt where your policy requires one.
Checks finished before the handover, not at the kerb.
Card pre-authorisation for the security deposit, Apple Pay and Google Pay for the rental itself, and automatic release of the hold when the car comes back clean, with strong customer authentication handled by your payment provider.
Deposits taken and released without manual refunds.
Guided photos of each panel, the wheels, fuel or charge level and the mileage, time-stamped and stored with the agreement. The customer signs on screen and gets a copy, which settles most damage disputes before they start.
Clear evidence for every pickup and return.
Company accounts with approved drivers, cost codes, monthly invoicing and booking rules set by the account holder. Useful for firms in the City and Canary Wharf that hire for visiting staff or for teams travelling out of town.
Business customers book without calling your sales desk.
A live board of every car: hired, delivering, being cleaned, in for service or ready. Drivers see their delivery runs in order, with customer details and parking notes for each London address.
One screen tells you where the whole fleet is.
Customers extend a hire from their phone, with the app checking whether that car is already booked by someone else. If it is, staff can offer a swap at a nearby branch or a delivered replacement. Early returns and late returns recalculate the agreement automatically under the rules you set, and the customer sees the change before they confirm it.
Changes mid-hire stop turning into long phone calls.
Who this is for
London has room for very different hire models, from a single depot in an outer borough to a delivery-only fleet with no counter at all. The right first release depends on where your customers meet the car and how they pay. These are the four situations we hear about most often from London operators, and how the scope changes for each. Many businesses sit across two of them, and the first release then covers whichever model brings in most of your hires today.
Most of your hires begin at a terminal and end there a week later. The first release centres on flight-linked bookings, meet and greet coordination, licence checks finished before landing and fast return inspections, because a slow return makes a traveller miss a flight. We also plan for overseas licences and longer hires, which are common among visitors arriving from abroad, and for the shuttle or car park handovers some airport operators use.
Speed at the terminal matters more than a long feature list.
Your drivers bring the car to a flat in Hackney or an office in Southwark and collect it later. The app needs reliable address capture, delivery windows, parking notes, a driver app with routed runs and digital signatures at the door. ULEZ compliance per vehicle is part of the core, since every delivery and every customer trip happens inside the zone.
Driver tools are as important as the customer app.
Higher value cars mean stricter checks, larger deposits, tighter mileage rules and more careful handovers. We build approval steps where staff review a driver before confirming, add detailed inspection templates and give account managers a direct chat with repeat customers who hire for events, shoots or weekends away from London.
Manual approval stays where your risk policy needs it.
You already run several branches across London and the home counties on a desk system. We connect the app to that system where it has an API, or plan a staged move to a new admin platform, so branch staff are not keying bookings twice while customers start booking on their phones. Branch managers keep their own availability and pricing rules, while head office sees combined reporting across every location, from an outer borough depot to a central London desk.
Branches keep control of their own fleet.
How we work together
Most London operators begin with a fixed-scope first release covering booking, checks, payments and handover. After launch, a retainer keeps the app improving as you add branches, airports or vehicle types. Larger fleets with a long product plan sometimes take a dedicated team instead. Every option is run remotely, with discovery, design reviews and release reviews held by video call. Whichever route you choose, the scope, the decisions and the release plan are written down and shared with you.
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
We choose the stack around your fleet size, your payment provider and the systems your team already runs. Cross-platform builds suit most hire apps, with native work where telematics or digital keys need it. The admin system runs in the browser, so branch staff and office managers need nothing installed beyond a modern web browser.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Discovery, design reviews and release reviews all run by video call.
We start with a structured discovery call or two, where you walk us through your branches, airports and delivery zones and share examples of your hire agreements. Designs are reviewed on shared screens and in clickable prototypes you can try on your own phone. Test builds go to your staff through TestFlight and Google Play testing tracks, so your London team checks real handovers before anything reaches customers. We also share the written scope and the decisions log after every call, so nothing agreed verbally gets lost between sessions.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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