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Subscription sites for London document software sold to firms that buy by committee.

Codeeo provides document management subscription website development London vendors use to sell their platform to law firms, insurers, architects and property businesses, then bill them correctly for years. We build the plan and pricing pages, the quote to subscription route, the checkout, the contract renewals and the customer billing area, all connected to your application. In London the first buyer is rarely the one who signs: a practice manager trials the product, IT reviews security, and finance wants an invoice that matches the order form.

The site has to serve all three. A small Clerkenwell studio should be able to subscribe on a card in minutes, while a firm near Chancery Lane moves through a quote, an order form and annual invoicing on the same billing records.

Built for
London based document management, matter filing, records and secure file sharing vendors selling to professional firms and organisations in the capital and beyond.
Typical timeline
We agree the release plan in discovery, once your plans, contract terms and billing provider are clear, and the dates go into the written scope.
What you own
Site code, CMS content, billing and payment accounts, order form templates and every customer and subscription record, registered to your company.
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

What we build into the site

Billing that copes with how London firms actually buy software.

A London professional firm rarely buys document software the way a consumer buys a streaming plan. Partners want to pilot with one team, the firm wants a licence for everyone later, clients and outside counsel need guest access, and procurement asks whether the price includes onboarding. Those demands land on your website and your billing system, not only on your sales team. The capabilities below are the ones London document management vendors most often need. We keep the self serve path short for smaller buyers and give larger accounts the paperwork their finance and risk teams expect, without running two separate billing systems. Discovery decides which of these go into the first release and which wait for a later one.

Explain your project
  • Pilot to firm-wide licence path

    A practice group can start on a monthly team plan, then convert to an annual firm licence without cancelling and starting again. Unused time on the team plan is credited, users carry over, and the firm sees one continuous account history. Your sales team can trigger the conversion from an admin screen once the order form is signed.

    Pilots become firm contracts without a messy restart.

  • Quote and order form generation

    Sales led deals start with a quote built from the same plan catalogue as the website, with agreed discounts recorded. The buyer accepts an order form online with an e-signature, and the signed form creates the subscription with the right start date, term, payment terms and purchase order reference.

    What was signed is exactly what gets billed.

  • Guest and external user pricing

    Law firms share files with clients, barristers' clerks and other parties; architects share drawings with consultants. We model guest users separately from paid seats, set the allowance per plan, and bill extra only when a firm goes past it, so external sharing never feels like a penalty.

    Firms share freely and know when extra charges apply.

  • Single sign on on higher plans

    Larger London firms expect staff to sign in with their existing Microsoft or Google identity. We gate single sign on and user provisioning by plan, show it clearly on the pricing page, and make the account area guide the firm's IT team through connecting their directory once they upgrade.

    An enterprise feature that also earns its place in your pricing.

  • Security and due diligence page

    Risk and IT teams in the City ask the same questions every time: where documents are hosted, who can access them, how backups work, what certifications you hold. A maintained security page and a downloadable pack answer most of them before a call, with a form to request the full questionnaire responses under NDA.

    Shorter procurement because answers arrive before questions.

  • Annual prepay with true-up

    Many firms prefer one annual invoice. When they add people during the year, the site records the change, and either bills a prorated amount straight away or adds a true-up line at renewal, depending on the contract. Finance sees exactly which users were added and from which date.

    Annual contracts that stay accurate as headcount moves.

  • Renewal notices and contract dates

    Annual firm contracts renew on fixed dates, and nobody in a busy London practice remembers them. The billing system emails the account owner and finance contact ahead of renewal with the seats, price and term about to roll over, gives your account managers a list of upcoming renewals, and records any notice of non-renewal received through the account area.

    Renewals that nobody disputes because everybody was told.

  • Card checkout with Strong Customer Authentication

    For smaller studios and agencies, card checkout runs with Strong Customer Authentication on the first payment and merchant initiated renewals afterwards. All mandatory charges, including onboarding fees if you charge them, appear in the headline price, in line with the drip pricing rules now in force under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024.

    Small buyers subscribe without speaking to anyone.

  • Invoices, VAT and remittance details

    Invoices carry the firm's legal entity, PO number, VAT details and your bank details for BACS transfer, and they arrive at the finance mailbox rather than the user who signed up. Credit notes are issued automatically for downgrades and refunds, so the accounts team never edits a PDF.

    Invoices that clear accounts payable first time.

  • Billing area with role separation

    Partners, practice managers, IT admins and finance contacts each see what they need: seats and storage, invoices and payment methods, renewal dates, or user management. A finance contact can download every invoice without seeing a single client document.

    The right person handles each billing task.

Who this is for

London vendors we are a good fit for.

London has a dense mix of document heavy buyers: solicitors' firms around Holborn and Chancery Lane, insurers and brokers in the City, architecture and design studios in Clerkenwell and Shoreditch, and managing agents and housing providers across the boroughs. Vendors serving them need document management SaaS website development that reflects how each group signs contracts and pays. Each group signs off software differently, from a single studio director on a card to a committee with a procurement policy. Here is who we usually build for, and what changes in the build for each.

01

Legal document and matter filing vendors

Solicitors' firms regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority look closely at confidentiality, record keeping and where data is held before they buy. Your site has to present hosting location, access controls and data processing terms plainly, and support firm-wide licences with matter or practice group structure. We build the pricing and account model around how firms are organised rather than a flat per-user list.

Product claims about compliance should be checked by your own advisers.

02

Vendors serving the insurance market

Brokers, managing agents and claims teams around the City handle policy wordings, slips and claims files that pass between many organisations. Pricing often follows the number of external parties and the volume of shared files rather than staff numbers. We model that usage in the billing system and make the plan page explain it in plain English.

03

Drawing and project file platforms for design studios

Architecture and engineering studios in Clerkenwell and elsewhere work by project, often with a team that grows and shrinks between stages. Monthly flexibility, project based workspaces and storage that rises with model files matter more to them than long contracts. We build plans that can scale up for a busy period and down again without a call to your team.

04

Funded London start-ups preparing to scale

If you have raised money and need to show investors clean recurring revenue, churn and expansion figures, the billing system has to be the single source of truth. We set up subscription records, revenue reporting and a pricing site you can change quickly as you test packaging, without rebuilding checkout each time.

Reporting comes from your billing provider, so the numbers match your invoices.

From first video call to renewals running on their own.

  1. 01Commercial discoveryWe review your current contracts, price list, discounts, guest rules and the way London buyers have actually purchased so far, then agree the plan catalogue.
  2. 02Billing architectureWe choose or confirm the billing provider and payment processor, and design how quotes, order forms, subscriptions and invoices link to one customer record.
  3. 03Pricing and buying pagesPlan pages, security page, quote request and checkout are designed and written for partners, IT and finance readers, and tested against WCAG 2.2.
  4. 04Application connectionSubscriptions switch features, seats, guest limits and single sign on on or off in your product through its API, with every change logged.
  5. 05Acceptance testingPilots, conversions, true-ups, refunds and failed payments are tested end of month and end of year so the first real renewal holds no surprises.
  6. 06Customer migrationExisting London accounts move across with notice, their current terms honoured, and their next invoice checked by your finance team before it is sent.

Technology

What we build this with.

We choose tools that fit your product and your finance team: a fast front end, an editable CMS for marketing, an established subscription billing platform and an e-signature tool for order forms. Our document management billing integration services connect these to your accounting software and your application.

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

What London document software vendors ask before we start.

Longer when sales led contracts and migrations are involved.

A self serve site with card checkout and a few plans is the quicker build. Quote and order form routes, annual true-ups, single sign on gating and migrating existing firm contracts each add time. We set the first release in discovery and put dates in the written scope; vendors who need to launch quickly often go live with self serve first and add the enterprise route next. Waiting time for your own legal review of terms and order forms also affects the date, so we schedule it early.

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