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Manchester CRM products, sold online to small businesses that pay monthly.

We provide CRM subscription website development in Manchester for software teams whose customers are mostly small and growing firms: agencies in the Northern Quarter, trades and service businesses across Greater Manchester, and companies around the wider North West. These buyers want to try a plan, pay by Direct Debit, add a colleague next month and cancel without a phone call. We build the pricing pages, sign-up, recurring billing and account area that make that easy, and connect them to your product.

Codeeo has no Manchester office. Our 80+ people are based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and we work with Manchester clients remotely, with every workshop and review held by video call. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews.

Built for
Manchester and Salford CRM vendors selling self-serve plans to SMEs, agencies and service firms.
Typical timeline
Fixed in a written plan once discovery settles your plans, payment methods and product integration.
What you own
All code, the billing and payment accounts, your plan catalogue and every subscriber record, registered to your business.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

Platform features

Built for high volume, low touch subscriptions.

When most of your customers sign up on their own, the website is your sales team, your billing clerk and your first line of support. A Manchester CRM aimed at small businesses might take dozens of sign-ups a week, each on a modest monthly plan, so every manual step multiplies quickly. Plan changes, failed payments, refunds and invoice requests all need to resolve themselves inside the platform.

Small business buyers also sit close to the line between business customer and consumer. A sole trader in Stockport buying a CRM for their own firm may be treated as a consumer under the Consumer Contracts Regulations, depending on your solicitor's view. We build the checkout, cancellation and reminder flows to handle both cases, display total prices in line with the DMCC Act drip pricing rules already in force, and leave room for the Act's subscription contract rules, which are expected in 2027.

The aim is a platform a small Manchester team can run without a dedicated billing person, where the exceptions that do reach a human arrive with all the context needed to resolve them in minutes.

Explain your project
  • Plan finder and comparison

    A short set of questions about team size, pipeline volume and the tools a buyer already uses points them to a suitable plan. A plain comparison table sits underneath for people who prefer to judge for themselves, and every plan shows its monthly total including VAT where the buyer is a consumer. Buyers can share a plan recommendation link with a colleague or business partner before committing.

    Fewer buyers stall on the pricing page wondering which plan fits.

  • Direct Debit first billing

    Small UK firms often prefer Bacs Direct Debit to cards for regular bills. We make mandate setup part of sign-up through GoCardless or Stripe, with advance notice emails sent before each collection as the Direct Debit scheme requires, and cards kept as an option for those who want them.

    Monthly collections that do not fail when a card expires.

  • Agency partner plans

    Manchester has a dense community of digital and marketing agencies, many of which set up CRM for their clients. Partner accounts let an agency create client workspaces, choose who pays, and receive one consolidated invoice or pass billing to each client.

    Agencies become a sales channel rather than a support burden.

  • Onboarding add-ons at checkout

    Data import, pipeline setup or a training session can be sold as one-off items next to the subscription. The checkout shows them clearly as optional, so the headline price stays honest, and your onboarding team receives a task automatically when one is bought. Add-ons bought later from the account area follow the same route.

    Paid setup work is booked and scheduled without email chasing.

  • Upgrade paths from inside the product

    When a user hits a seat, contact or automation limit in your CRM, the product links them to the right upgrade screen with the plan preselected. Billing calculates the prorated charge, takes payment, and lifts the limit through a webhook within moments.

    Growth in usage turns into growth in revenue.

  • Pause, downgrade and cancel

    Seasonal businesses may want to pause rather than leave. We build pause options, downgrade paths and a straightforward cancel button, with a short optional exit question so you learn why customers go, and confirmation emails that state exactly what happens next. Paused accounts keep their data and resume on a date the customer picks.

    Customers leave cleanly, and some choose to pause instead.

  • Invoices and VAT receipts

    Every charge produces a VAT invoice with your registered details and the customer's company name, which they can download any time. Business buyers can add their VAT number and company registration so invoices meet their bookkeeper's needs. Credit notes are issued automatically for refunds and downgrades.

    No more invoice requests landing in the support inbox.

  • Payment failure handling

    Failed Direct Debits and declined cards trigger retries, a friendly notice and a link to update details. Access continues for an agreed grace period, then limits to read only rather than deleting anything, so customers can recover without losing their pipeline.

    Small customers come back instead of quietly churning.

  • Consent and data protection

    Cookie consent that holds back analytics and advertising tags until accepted, as PECR requires, plus sign-up forms that separate service emails from marketing. Subscriber data handling follows UK GDPR, with export and deletion tools for when a customer asks. Consent records show what each person agreed to and when.

    Marketing lists you can use with confidence.

  • Billing help built into the account area

    Short answers to the billing questions small customers ask most, such as when the next collection is due, how proration works and how to get a receipt, appear beside the relevant screen. A billing contact form routes anything unusual to your team with the account details already attached.

    Support tickets about billing fall, and the ones left are quicker to solve.

Who this is for

Manchester situations we are often asked to help with.

Manchester's software scene spreads from Northern Quarter studios to the creative and tech cluster at MediaCityUK in Salford, with professional firms concentrated around Spinningfields. CRM vendors here tend to sell to practical buyers who want value and clarity more than polish. These four situations shape most of the projects we discuss with teams in and around the city. Customers further afield in Leeds, Liverpool or Sheffield buy the same way, so the platform is built for the whole region rather than one postcode.

01

A bootstrapped CRM ready to stop invoicing by hand

You built the product, won customers through word of mouth and sent invoices yourself. Now the admin is eating into development time. We put a self-serve billing platform in place, move existing customers onto it with their current prices honoured, and give you a dashboard that shows recurring revenue without a spreadsheet. Founders often tell us the first month after launch is the first time they can see churn and expansion clearly.

Your time goes back to the product.

02

A CRM sold mostly through agencies

If Manchester agencies already recommend or resell your CRM, the billing needs to understand that relationship. We build partner tiers, client workspaces and invoices that can go to either the agency or the end client, with reporting that shows which partners bring in which customers and revenue. Partner onboarding includes a simple agreement acceptance step and a record of which terms each agency signed up to.

03

A vertical CRM for one trade or sector

CRMs for estate agents, gyms, cleaning firms or recruiters often price per branch, per location or per active listing. We model that unit in billing rather than forcing it into seats, and write the pricing page in the vocabulary that buyers in that sector use every day. Usage limits tied to those units are enforced in your product through the same billing webhooks as seat limits.

Pricing units that match how the customer's business works.

04

A product spun out of a university or incubator

Teams emerging from the city's universities and incubators often have a strong product and no commercial infrastructure. We set up plans, billing, invoices, consent and terms in a way that will satisfy investors and future acquirers looking at revenue quality. We keep the setup lean so it does not overwhelm a small team, and document it so new hires can run it.

Our process for a Manchester subscription build.

  1. 01Discovery on video callWe learn who your Manchester and UK customers are, how they currently pay, where billing admin hurts, and what your product needs from billing to switch features on and off.
  2. 02Plan and pricing modelPlans, units, add-ons, proration and cancellation behaviour written up and agreed, with your solicitor and accountant confirming terms and VAT treatment. Edge cases are listed early.
  3. 03Design and accessibilityPricing, sign-up, account and email screens designed for small screens first and checked against WCAG 2.2 AA, so every buyer can complete them unaided.
  4. 04Build and connectWebsite, billing engine, Direct Debit and card providers, accounting software and your CRM application connected and tested plan by plan. Sandbox payments test every route.
  5. 05Move existing customersCurrent subscribers imported with their prices and renewal dates, Direct Debit mandates transferred where the provider allows, and customers told clearly what is changing.
  6. 06Watch and tuneSign-up conversion, Direct Debit failures, pauses and cancellations reviewed after launch, and the next round of changes agreed from that evidence.

Technology

What we build this with.

Laravel or Next.js for the site and account area, Stripe Billing, Chargebee or Paddle for subscriptions, GoCardless for Direct Debit, and Xero, FreeAgent or QuickBooks for the books. We pick tools your own developers can maintain after handover. Hosting sits in a UK or European region on AWS, DigitalOcean or Vercel, sized for the sign-up volumes you expect.

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

Common questions from Manchester CRM teams.

With a discovery call about your plans, customers and current billing.

Send us your current price list, how customers pay today and the problems you want gone. We hold a discovery session by video call, then write a scope covering plans, payment methods, integrations and migration. Once you approve it, design starts. There is no on-site visit, since we work with Manchester clients remotely, but every decision is documented and shared. Most Manchester teams find a single focused session is enough to draft the first scope.

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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PROVEN RESULTS

4.7 / 5from 23 Google reviews