Services · Ecommerce development · Construction service portals
Codeeo offers construction services marketplace website development Manchester property operators, letting agents and trade networks use to buy repairs, void works and small projects from vetted contractors. We build the portal where jobs are posted against a property, the bidding and assignment rules, response timers, evidence capture, purchase orders, payment and payouts, and the ratings that decide who gets the next job. Across a city region full of terraced rentals, student houses and new rental towers, speed and proof of work matter more than glossy listings.
This is a paid service portal rather than a company website. We work with Manchester clients remotely, holding discovery, prototype reviews and release demos over video call, and we design around how repair work really moves between tenants, managers, contractors and finance teams in Greater Manchester.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the portal does
Most construction work in a rental portfolio is not a big project. It is a boiler that will not fire in a Levenshulme terrace, mould in a bathroom in Gorton, a broken window in a Fallowfield student house in September, or a full refresh of a flat in Ancoats between tenancies. A marketplace for that kind of work lives or dies on three things: how quickly a suitable contractor accepts the job, whether the evidence of completion is good enough for the landlord, the tenant and any regulator, and whether invoices reach finance in a form they can pay without retyping. The features below are designed around those three needs. Which ones come first depends on whether you are building a private portal for your own portfolio or an open marketplace that sells repair services to other landlords.
Every job is raised against a property and unit, with access arrangements, key holding, tenant contact preferences and known hazards stored once. Contractors see only what they need for the job they have accepted, and history builds up per unit, so repeat faults in the same flat become visible to the manager rather than buried in old emails.
Each property carries its own repair history that anyone authorised can read.
Jobs go to contractors by trade, borough and rating, either as an open bid or a direct offer to the next contractor on a rota. If nobody accepts within the window you set, the job escalates to the next contractor or to a manager, so urgent faults never sit unclaimed overnight.
Urgent work is accepted quickly instead of waiting for someone to notice it.
Hazard reports trigger their own flow, with fixed stages for investigation, written findings to the tenant and remedial work. Housing providers can set the stage timers to match their Awaab's Law obligations, and every step is time stamped so compliance can be shown afterwards. Overdue stages show on the manager dashboard in red.
Hazard cases are handled to set timescales with a clear audit trail.
Between tenancies, a manager can bundle cleaning, decorating, minor repairs and safety checks into one void package. Contractors quote the bundle or individual lines, and the portal tracks each line to completion so the property is ready to let on a date everyone can see.
Fewer empty weeks between tenancies, and fewer surprises on handover day.
Completion requires before and after photos, notes and, where relevant, a gas safety record or electrical certificate uploaded against the job. Missing evidence blocks the invoice, so managers do not pay for work they cannot prove happened, and certificates land in the property record ready for the next inspection.
Proof of work and compliance documents arrive with the invoice, not weeks later.
Each job carries a purchase order, with approval limits per manager and per property. Anything over the limit, or any variation found on site, goes to the right person for sign off before the contractor proceeds, and the change is recorded against the original order.
Spending stays inside budgets that finance actually agreed.
Contractors are paid through an FCA authorised payment provider, either per job or on a weekly run, with your commission or platform fee deducted and shown on each statement. For open marketplace customers paying by card, Strong Customer Authentication and refunds are handled at checkout.
Contractors get paid on a predictable schedule they can plan around.
Landlords and agents managing many properties receive one monthly invoice with every job itemised by property and cost code, VAT shown correctly and evidence linked. Exports go to Xero, Sage or the accounting system your clients use, and portfolio owners see spend by building. Clients can also download evidence packs per building.
Finance teams pay one invoice instead of chasing forty.
Ratings combine landlord feedback, tenant satisfaction, acceptance speed, first time fix and evidence quality. Scores decide routing priority, and contractors can see their own scorecard and what pulls it down, which gives good firms a clear reason to keep standards high. Scores reset gradually, so one bad week does not end a firm's work.
The best contractors win more work on merit.
Who this is for
Greater Manchester has a large and varied rental market, from older terraced streets in Moss Side and Longsight to new apartment towers around Deansgate and the student areas south of the Oxford Road corridor. The businesses that commission a works marketplace here tend to manage many properties and many contractors at once. These are the four we see most, each with a different first release. In each case the first question is the same: which jobs cause the most chasing today, because those are the jobs a portal should take over first, before anything that is merely nice to have.
Your property managers spend their days phoning contractors, chasing photos and matching invoices to jobs across Manchester, Salford and Stockport. A private marketplace puts your approved contractors on one portal, routes jobs automatically and gives landlords a log of every repair. The first release usually covers reactive repairs and safety certificates, with void bundles and an open marketplace added later. Contractors benefit too, because jobs arrive with photos, access details and an approved budget rather than a vague phone message.
Landlord reporting is often what wins new management instructions.
Large blocks generate a steady stream of small jobs and an annual peak when tenancies turn over. A portal with resident fault reporting, contractor routing, turnaround bundles and building level spend reports helps on site teams keep up with that peak. Student operators near the universities can plan summer turnaround packages months ahead and lock in contractor capacity early. Residents report faults from their phones, and on site teams see every open job in their building on one screen.
Peak turnover periods drive the capacity planning features.
Social and supported housing providers need hazard workflows, evidence trails and value for money reporting their boards and regulators can rely on. A marketplace model lets you add local small contractors alongside your main repairs partner, with clear rules on which jobs each can take. We build the hazard timers and audit trail before anything else. Local contractors can be onboarded with the same evidence standards as your main partner, which keeps quality consistent across the estate.
Your legal team confirms the timescales; the portal enforces them.
You coordinate local electricians, plumbers, roofers and joiners and want to sell their services to landlords across the city region as one brand. An open marketplace with landlord accounts, transparent pricing, held payments and consolidated invoices gives small landlords one place to buy repairs, and gives your trades a steadier flow of work than word of mouth. Landlords who buy once can save properties and contractors, which makes the second order much quicker than the first.
Open marketplaces need consumer law and drip pricing rules handled at checkout.
How we work together
Operators with a clear first use case usually start with a fixed scope build, then keep a retainer for new job types, integrations and reporting. Housing providers running a longer modernisation programme sometimes take a dedicated team. The main cost drivers are the number of job flows you need on day one, integration with housing or property management systems, and how payments move. Construction contractor marketplace payment integration in Manchester ranges from simple monthly invoicing for private portals to held funds and card checkout for an open marketplace, and that choice shapes the whole build.
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
Construction contractor marketplace platform development in Manchester has to cope with peaks such as the summer student turnover. We usually use a modern web framework, a managed cloud database, queues for notifications and a payment provider with a marketplace product.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
Yes, coverage is set per contractor and per borough.
Contractors choose the boroughs and postcodes they serve, from Wigan and Bolton to Stockport and Tameside, and routing only offers jobs inside that coverage. You can launch in Manchester and Salford first and open other boroughs when you have enough contractors there. Construction services marketplace website design in Manchester also covers the public pages for each borough, which go live only once supply is strong enough to answer the jobs those pages bring in.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
Get in touchPROVEN RESULTS
React
Next.js
TypeScript
Node.js
Laravel
WordPress
Shopify Plus
WooCommerce
BigCommerce
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
AWS
Azure
Docker
GA4
Google Tag Manager
Search Console
Meta Pixel
Looker Studio