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Booking and payment websites for London event companies and venues.

Codeeo delivers event management booking website development London organisers, venue teams and corporate event agencies use to sell places, take deposits and settle balances online. Delegates, hosts and procurement teams book against live availability, pay by card, wallet or invoice, and receive confirmations that match your terms. Your staff stop chasing payments by email and work from one calendar that shows who has booked, who has paid and what is still owed.

Our team is based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and works with London clients remotely, with discovery, design reviews and testing sessions held over video call. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US.

Built for
Conference organisers, venue hire teams, corporate event agencies and private event companies working across London.
Typical timeline
Agreed after discovery, once the booking rules, payment flows and integrations are written down and signed off.
What you own
The source code, the booking database, the payment account in your company name and every customer record.
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 the booking platform includes

Booking tools shaped around how London events are actually sold.

Selling an event in London rarely means one ticket type at one price. A conference sells early and standard delegate places, exhibitor stands and sponsor packages. A venue sells room hire by the half day, catering per head and late licence extensions. An agency books a summer party on behalf of a client whose finance team wants a purchase order before anything is charged.

The event management online booking system development London clients ask us for has to handle that mix, and ours does. Availability is held in one place, so a meeting room, a riverside terrace or a breakout slot cannot be sold twice. Deposits, staged payments and final balances follow rules you set. Cancellations and refunds follow your written terms, and every change leaves a record your accounts team can trust. Below are the parts we usually put together, ordered by how often London clients ask for them.

Explain your project
  • Live availability across rooms and dates

    One calendar for every space, session and package, with buffers for setup and get-out, holds that expire automatically and clear rules for provisional and confirmed bookings. Staff see the same picture as customers, so a hold placed for a City client in the morning cannot be resold by lunchtime.

    No double bookings and fewer phone calls to check what is free.

  • Deposits and staged payments

    Take a deposit at booking, a second payment at a set point and the balance before the event, with automatic payment links and reminders. Rules can differ for private hire, corporate clients and delegate places, and every payment is matched to the booking it belongs to.

    Cash collected on schedule without staff chasing each instalment.

  • Invoice and purchase order checkout

    Corporate buyers in London often cannot pay by card. The checkout can accept a purchase order number, issue a VAT invoice with your registration details and hold the booking until payment arrives, while individual delegates still pay by card or wallet.

    Corporate sales close without manual invoicing in a spreadsheet.

  • Group and delegate registration

    A booker can reserve twenty places, pay once and add names later, or send each colleague a link to complete their own details, dietary needs and access requirements before the deadline.

    Group bookings stop arriving as one email with a list of names attached.

  • Cancellations, transfers and refunds

    Your terms are built into the booking flow: what is refundable, when a deposit is kept, whether a place can be transferred to a colleague and how credit notes are issued. Refunds go back through the original payment method and the record shows who approved them.

    Fewer disputes because the rules were clear at the point of sale.

  • Reminders and pre event messages

    Automated emails for unpaid balances, missing delegate names, joining instructions and venue access details, with travel notes for venues such as those near the Elizabeth line or the river. Marketing messages are sent only to people who agreed to receive them.

    Guests arrive prepared and balances are settled before the doors open.

  • Staff, supplier and room scheduling

    Assign event managers, AV technicians, hosts and caterers to each booking, see who is working where, and print or share run sheets. When a booking moves date, the people attached to it move with it.

    The operations team works from the same booking record as sales.

  • Card security and Strong Customer Authentication

    Payments run through a regulated gateway with 3D Secure handled correctly, so UK and European cardholders pass authentication and card details never touch your own server. Saved cards for later balances are set up with the right customer consent.

    Fewer failed payments and a smaller security burden on your business.

  • Reporting for finance and sales

    Bookings by space, event and channel, deposits held, balances due and refunds issued, exportable to your accounting system. Directors can see forward revenue for the next quarter without asking anyone to build a report.

    Clear figures on what is booked, paid and still owed.

Who this is for

Four kinds of London event business we build booking sites for.

The common thread is money changing hands before the event happens. If your team currently confirms bookings by email, takes deposits by bank transfer and tracks balances in a spreadsheet, a booking platform pays for itself in time saved and payments no longer missed. These are the situations we see most often from London clients.

01

Conference and seminar organisers

Organisers running professional events at venues such as the QEII Centre, Olympia or hotels in the West End need delegate registration, early and standard rates, member pricing and invoices for employers. We build registration that handles individual and group bookings, collects the details your badges and catering need, and keeps a clean list of who has paid. Changes to speakers or sessions can be published without breaking existing bookings.

Delegate data stays in your own system, not a rented platform.

02

Venues that hire out space

Rooftops, galleries, livery halls, warehouses in east London and riverside spaces all sell hire by date and time, often with minimum spends and catering packages. The booking site shows real availability, lets enquirers place a short hold, and converts the hold into a confirmed booking when the deposit is paid. Your events team keeps control of approvals for larger or unusual requests, such as late finishes, amplified music or exclusive use, and the site can collect the details your licensing conditions require before a booking is confirmed.

03

Corporate event agencies

Agencies plan summer parties, awards dinners and offsites for clients across the City, Canary Wharf and beyond. They need client portals where each account sees its own events, approves quotes, pays staged invoices and shares guest lists. We build that around your existing workflow, so account managers spend less time copying figures between quotes, invoices and supplier bookings. Supplier costs and margins stay visible only to your own staff, never to the client looking at the same event.

04

Workshop, class and experience providers

Smaller operators selling cookery classes, tastings, tours or creative workshops across London boroughs need a fast mobile checkout, gift vouchers, waitlists and simple rescheduling. Because these are leisure services for a specific date, your cancellation terms carry more weight than a statutory cooling off period, so we make sure customers see them before paying.

Clear terms reduce chargebacks and awkward refund conversations.

Six stages from booking rules to a live payment platform.

  1. 01Booking rules workshop by videoWe map every product you sell, from delegate places to venue hire, with its pricing, deposit, cancellation and approval rules, and agree what the first release must handle.
  2. 02Booking flow and page designEvent management booking website design London buyers can finish on a phone: wireframes for checkout, accounts and admin, tested on phones because many London bookers start on mobile while commuting.
  3. 03Payments and finance setupEvent management online payment integration London finance teams can audit: gateway account in your name, 3D Secure, wallets, invoice and purchase order rules, VAT treatment and the export format your accountant or finance system expects.
  4. 04Build and integrationsThe booking engine, calendar, customer accounts and admin, connected to your CRM, email platform, accounting software and any venue or catering tools you rely on.
  5. 05Testing against real scenariosWe run full bookings, part payments, transfers, cancellations, failed cards and refunds, plus accessibility checks against WCAG 2.2 before your team signs off.
  6. 06Launch and handoverGo live with monitoring in place, staff trained by video, documentation written down and support agreed for the first busy booking period after launch.

Technology

What we build this with.

We choose the stack around your team and integrations: commonly Next.js or Laravel for the booking platform, a payment gateway such as Stripe or another FCA authorised provider, and connections to tools such as HubSpot, Xero or Microsoft Dynamics. Everything is hosted in accounts you own.

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 London event teams ask about booking websites

Scope, payment rules and integrations matter far more than the number of pages.

A booking site for one venue with a single deposit rule is a very different build from a conference platform with member pricing, group bookings, purchase orders and exhibitor packages. The main cost drivers are the number of bookable products, the complexity of deposit, refund and transfer rules, the systems we connect to, such as your CRM and accounts package, and any data migration from an existing ticketing or booking tool. Design depth and the number of user roles in the admin area also play a part. We give a fixed proposal once discovery has written those down, so you know the scope before any build work begins.

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