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Paid membership sites for Manchester's rental neighbourhoods and student blocks.

Codeeo provides community management membership website development Manchester landlords and operators use to sell the extras their buildings offer. Think fitness and wellness plans in Ancoats and Castlefield towers, co-working memberships for the city's creative and digital workers, term length plans for students along Oxford Road, and shared amenity passes across clusters of blocks in Salford Quays. Members sign up online, pay monthly, termly or yearly, and manage their plan without visiting the management suite.

Many Manchester schemes were let quickly with amenities that residents now take for granted. Community management subscription website development Manchester operators commission from us turns the premium parts of those amenities into steady income, while keeping the basics included in rent exactly as residents were promised.

Built for
Build to rent operators, student accommodation providers, managing agents and residents' groups selling memberships across Manchester, Salford and Greater Manchester.
Typical timeline
Timing is fixed with you after discovery, once the buildings, plan types and payment set up are clear, and it is written into the agreed scope.
What you own
The membership site, its source code, your payment provider accounts and every member and transaction record, in your own name.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer

Modon
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HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

What the platform includes

Plans that fit tenancies, terms and busy schedules.

Manchester renters are often young professionals and students who move every year or two, sign up on their phone and expect to cancel just as quickly. Operators frequently own several buildings within walking distance of each other, sometimes either side of the Irwell in two different cities, and want residents to use amenities in any of them. The membership site has to follow those patterns rather than fight them.

So we design community management paid membership platform development Manchester operators can run as a product: plans tied to tenancies or academic years, passes that work across a cluster of buildings, and pricing your team can test and adjust. The commerce runs underneath, from first payment to renewal to the moment a resident hands back their keys, and every change is visible to the people who manage the buildings.

Explain your project
  • Tenancy linked plans

    When a resident's tenancy starts, they are offered membership upgrades on top of what rent already includes. When the tenancy ends, the membership ends on the same date unless the resident chooses to keep a non-resident plan. Nobody keeps paying for a gym in a building they left months ago. Residents renewing their tenancy are reminded to review their plan at the same time.

    Fewer refunds and complaints after move out.

  • Academic year and term plans

    Student blocks sell plans that run for the academic year or a single term, with start and end dates set by your team for each intake. Summer plans for students staying on, or for short stay residents, can be added without changing the main plans. Groups of flatmates can buy a shared plan paid by one person or split between them.

    Membership dates that match how students actually live.

  • Cluster passes across buildings

    An operator with several schemes in the city centre can sell one pass that opens the gym in one building, the co-working floor in another and the roof terrace in a third. Each building still keeps its own capacity settings and its own reports. Your team chooses which buildings each pass covers and can change it as new schemes open.

    Residents use the whole neighbourhood, not just their own block.

  • Co-working memberships

    Flexible desk, dedicated desk and studio plans for residents and for local freelancers, with meeting room credit, printing allowances and invoices that self employed members can claim against. Day passes are sold online for people who only need a desk now and then.

    Workspace that earns income during the working week.

  • Classes and events programme

    Fitness classes, run clubs, supper clubs and residents' socials can be included in higher tiers or sold as single tickets. Capacity is enforced, waitlists fill cancelled spaces, and attendance figures show which parts of the programme are worth keeping. Instructors and hosts get a simple list of who has booked each session.

    A community programme that partly pays for itself.

  • Storage, bike and parking add ons

    Secure bike spaces, storage cages, parking bays and EV charging access are limited in most city centre blocks. Residents rent them as monthly add ons to their membership, join a waiting list when they are full and release them online when they no longer need them. Each add on can be priced differently for residents and for people from neighbouring buildings.

    Scarce spaces let fairly and paid for on time.

  • Phone first checkout

    Sign up is designed for a phone screen, with Apple Pay and Google Pay as the fastest route and card entry as the fallback. Strong Customer Authentication runs on the first payment and renewals are set up as merchant initiated, so members are not asked to approve every month.

    Higher completion from residents signing up on the move.

  • Self service changes

    Members upgrade, downgrade, pause or cancel from their account. Changes take effect from the next billing date or immediately with a pro rata charge, whichever your rules say, and the member sees the effect on their bill before confirming. Members who pay after a lapse regain access straight away, with no staff action needed.

    Plan changes without emails to the management team.

  • Failed payment recovery

    When a card is declined, the platform retries on a schedule, emails the member with a link to update details and limits access only after a grace period you choose. Staff see a short list of members who need a personal follow up.

    Income recovered without awkward conversations.

  • Operator dashboard

    Income, active members, conversion from resident to paying member and usage per amenity, broken down by building and by plan. Data can be exported to your property management or accounting software for month end.

    Clear evidence of which amenities residents value.

Who this is for

Manchester operators we build membership sites for.

Greater Manchester's rental market is concentrated in a few dense areas: the city centre neighbourhoods, the student corridor south of the centre, and Salford Quays with MediaCityUK beside it. Each attracts a different kind of resident with a different idea of what is worth paying for. We tailor plans and messages to the people who actually live in your buildings, rather than copying a template from another city.

01

City centre build to rent operators

Schemes around Ancoats, the Northern Quarter, Deansgate and Castlefield often have generous amenity floors. Selling premium tiers, such as personal training, private studio hire or storage, gives the scheme new income without taking anything from the standard tenancy. We integrate with your tenancy records so plans start and stop with the lease. Non-resident memberships can be offered where your lease terms and planning consents allow them.

What rent already includes stays included.

02

Purpose built student accommodation providers

Students along the Oxford Road corridor and near the city's universities sign up in September and leave in summer. Term and year plans, group passes for flatmates and simple refunds when a student leaves their course early make the site fit the student year rather than a calendar one. Guarantor or parent payers can be set up as the billing contact while the student keeps the account.

03

Salford Quays and MediaCityUK schemes

Buildings by the water often attract people working in media and digital businesses nearby, who value co-working space and fitness close to home. Because Salford is a separate city with its own council, we keep each scheme's local details accurate while running payments and reporting together with your Manchester buildings. Corporate plans let nearby employers buy desk or gym access for staff who live in the scheme.

04

Residents' groups in converted mills and leasehold blocks

Owners and tenants in converted mills and older leasehold blocks sometimes run a residents' association that collects a subscription for social events, garden upkeep or shared equipment. We build a lighter site for them: one or two plans, Direct Debit, a members' area and a simple list for the committee. Volunteers can run it with a few minutes of training.

Smaller groups get a smaller, cheaper build.

Six steps to a Manchester membership site residents use.

  1. 01Resident researchWhat residents already use, what they would pay for and what puts them off, gathered from your site teams and a short resident survey, then discussed by video call.
  2. 02Plan designTenancy, term, cluster and non-resident plans written up with the full price shown upfront and clear rules for changes and cancellation.
  3. 03Payment buildWallets, cards and Direct Debit connected to your payment providers, with SCA, retries and pro rata changes tested against real scenarios.
  4. 04IntegrationsLinks to your tenancy or property management system so membership status follows move in and move out without manual updates.
  5. 05Soft launchOne building or one intake goes live first, so you can adjust prices and wording before the rest of the portfolio.
  6. 06Ongoing tuningConversion, churn and usage reviewed after each month, with plan and content changes released on a regular cycle.

Technology

What we build this with.

The stack is chosen to work with your tenancy system, the payment providers you already hold accounts with and the team that will manage the site after launch. We favour fast, phone friendly front ends because that is where Manchester residents sign up. Hosting sits in your own cloud account, with backups agreed before launch.

01Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • WordPress

02Commerce

  • Shopify Plus
  • WooCommerce
  • BigCommerce
  • Headless storefronts

03Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

04Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Questions Manchester operators ask about membership sites.

Scope, integrations and the number of buildings, so we quote after discovery.

A single scheme selling one gym upgrade by card is a modest build. Costs rise with cluster passes across buildings, term based plans, co-working with meeting room credit, integration with your tenancy system and reporting by building. We list each of these in the scope with what it adds, so you can decide which belong in the first release and which can wait. Content such as class timetables and house rules adds a little more, depending on volume.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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