Services · Mobile app development · Cleaning services apps
Codeeo handles cleaning services app development for London agencies, short-let operators and commercial contractors. We build the customer booking app, the cleaner app and the office dashboard as one system, so a client in Hackney can book a regular clean, a host in Shoreditch can schedule a changeover and your coordinators can see who holds which key. London is a hard city to run cleaners across, and the software should absorb that complexity instead of passing it to your staff.
The team behind it numbers 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. We work remotely with London clients, running discovery, design reviews and demos by video call.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the app can include
A London cleaning business rarely loses money on the clean itself. It loses money on the gaps around it: a cleaner stuck on a delayed Northern line train, a concierge who will not release a fob, a guest checking in to a flat that was turned over in a hurry, a van that wandered into a charge it did not need to pay. The features below are the ones that close those gaps. We do not build all of them for every client. Discovery decides which belong in the first release, based on where your coordinators currently spend their phone time and which complaints keep repeating. A domestic agency in Wandsworth and a changeover company in Westminster will end up with quite different apps, and that is the point. A firm that mostly serves flats in Camden needs different defaults from one cleaning large family houses in Richmond. Each feature connects to the same customer, job and cleaner records, so the dashboard shows one version of the truth instead of three spreadsheets and a group chat.
Customers enter a postcode and see only the services, slots and cleaners that genuinely cover it. You draw coverage by outward code, so a team strong in SW and SE districts does not accept a booking in Enfield it cannot staff. Regular, one-off and deep clean options carry their own durations and checklists.
Bookings arrive only where you can actually send someone.
Many London cleaners travel by Tube, Overground and bus rather than by car. The scheduler estimates gaps between jobs from public transport times, not straight line distance, and warns a coordinator when two consecutive bookings sit across the river with too little time between them.
Fewer late arrivals and fewer rushed cleans at the end of a day.
Each property holds its access method: concierge desk, lockbox, key safe, smart lock code or key collected from a branch. Codes are shown to the assigned cleaner only during the booking window and hidden afterwards. Key movements are logged so you know who held what and when.
Access details stop living in personal text messages.
For hosts and management companies, the app reads booking calendars from the listing platforms or channel manager you use and creates changeover jobs automatically between checkout and check in. Linen counts, restocking lists and damage photos are attached to each turnaround.
Changeovers appear on the rota without anyone copying dates by hand.
Where crews drive, the dashboard records each vehicle and whether it meets Ultra Low Emission Zone standards, and flags jobs inside the central Congestion Charge zone so the coordinator can choose a compliant van or send a crew on public transport.
Avoidable daily road charges become a visible planning decision.
Cleaners tick through room by room checklists and add before and after photos, timestamped and tied to the job. For end of tenancy work the photos sit alongside the checklist a letting agent or landlord will compare against at checkout.
Disputes are settled with evidence, not memory.
London cleaning teams often work in several first languages. The cleaner app can present checklists, job notes and safety instructions in the languages your staff read most comfortably, while the office dashboard stays in English.
Instructions are understood the first time, not after a phone call.
Weekly and fortnightly customers pay by saved card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Direct Debit through a UK payment provider. Skipped weeks, holiday pauses and one-off extras such as oven or window cleans adjust the next charge automatically.
Recurring revenue is collected without chasing.
One screen shows today's jobs by borough, unassigned bookings, cleaners running late, keys out and customer messages waiting. Reports cover repeat booking rates, cancellations by area and cleaner reliability, so managers can see which parts of London are profitable.
Coordinators manage by exception instead of ringing every cleaner.
Who this is for
The right app depends far more on your operating model than on the word cleaning. A domestic agency selling regular weekly cleans has almost nothing in common, operationally, with a firm turning over holiday flats in Zone 1. These are the starting points we see most often from London, and how the build changes for each. If you sit between two of them, discovery is where we work out which parts of each apply to you. Requests for home cleaning app development in London usually come from the first two groups, while on-demand cleaning app development in London almost always starts with a founder and a marketplace idea.
You started in one part of London and now cover a ring of neighbouring boroughs. Bookings come in by phone, website form and messages, and coordinators juggle cleaner availability in their heads. We build a customer app for regular and one-off cleans, a cleaner app with rotas and checklists, and a dashboard that shows coverage gaps by postcode. Recurring Direct Debit billing usually belongs in the first release, because chasing regular customers for payment is where small agencies lose the most time.
Postcode coverage is often the first thing that saves you money.
Hosts and management companies in central London live by the changeover window. Your app needs calendar sync with the listing platforms, linen and consumables tracking, damage photo reports and key handling for buildings with concierge desks. Because entire home lets in Greater London are generally capped at ninety nights a year without planning permission, many operators mix short stays with mid-term lets, and the scheduler has to cope with both patterns.
Changeover timing matters more than any other feature.
Office cleaning runs early in the morning or after hours, in buildings with strict access, induction and security rules. Your contracts need site specific checklists, sign in and sign out records, supervisor audits and a client portal where facilities managers raise ad hoc requests. We build for shift patterns rather than single bookings, with absence cover and agreed task frequencies per site.
If your plan is a marketplace where Londoners book independent cleaners within hours, the hard questions are supply, vetting and employment status, not screen design. We help you design onboarding with right to work and identity checks, ratings, cancellation rules and payouts, and we flag decisions on worker status early so the product does not depend on a model your lawyers have not reviewed.
We build the platform; your legal adviser confirms the model.
How we work together
Most agencies begin with a fixed scope first release covering booking, the cleaner app and the dashboard, then move to a monthly retainer for new services and integrations. Larger operators with several brands or a franchise plan sometimes take a dedicated team that works inside their own planning cycle. Every option runs remotely from our side, with recorded decisions, a shared ticket board and access to test builds, so your London managers always know what is changing and why. Where the brief is narrower, such as cleaning booking app development in London for a firm that already has staff software it likes, we scope only the customer app and connect it to what you run.
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 build in Flutter or React Native when one codebase for iOS and Android suits you, or in Swift and Kotlin when the cleaner app needs heavier offline and location work. Back ends run on Laravel or Node with hosting in a UK or EU cloud region.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on how many of the three apps you need in the first release.
A focused release with customer booking, a cleaner app and a basic dashboard is much quicker than a marketplace with payouts, ratings and dispute handling. Integrations with listing calendars, accounting software or an existing booking system also add time. We set the release order in discovery and write it down with review points, so you know what arrives first and what follows. Splitting the build into stages usually gets cleaners using the app sooner, and it lets real London bookings, rather than guesses, decide what the second release contains.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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