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One booking and payment platform for UK events across every city you work in.

Codeeo provides event management booking website development UK organisers, venue groups and touring producers use to take bookings and payments under their own brand. One platform holds availability for every venue and date, collects deposits and balances, applies your cancellation and refund terms, and follows UK consumer, payment and data protection rules. Whether an event runs in Belfast, Cardiff, Birmingham or Glasgow, your team sees the same records and your customers get the same clear checkout.

We are a team of 80+ in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi with 200+ projects delivered across the UAE and the US. UK clients work with us remotely, and all discovery and reviews run by video call. Our project leads have run multi site rollouts before.

Built for
National event organisers, touring producers, venue groups, membership bodies and agencies running events across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Typical timeline
Planned after discovery, often as a first release for one region or brand followed by a staged rollout to the rest.
What you own
The code, the payment accounts for each trading entity, all booking records and the customer database.
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

What a national event business needs from its own booking system.

Selling events across the UK brings problems a single venue never meets. Prices, licensing conditions and staff differ by location. Some brands trade through separate companies with their own VAT registrations. Consumer law applies across the country, but licensing and contract law vary between England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Customers expect the same fast checkout everywhere, whichever device they use.

The event management online booking system development UK groups ask us for has to bring all of that under one roof without flattening the differences. We structure the platform by organisation, brand, venue and event, so rules can be set once at the right level and inherited below it. These are the capabilities we usually include for clients operating nationally, adjusted during discovery to the way your own business is organised.

Explain your project
  • Multi venue and multi brand structure

    Run several brands, venues or trading companies from one admin, each with its own branding, terms, payment account and reports, while head office sees the whole picture. Staff permissions follow the same structure, so a venue manager in Leeds cannot change prices in Bristol. Shared customer accounts work across every brand if you choose.

    Local control without losing group oversight.

  • Pricing that meets the drip pricing rules

    Headline prices include every mandatory fee from the first listing, as the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 requires now its drip pricing rules are in force. Optional extras stay optional and clearly labelled, and the final summary always matches the price first shown.

    Checkout pricing your legal team can sign off.

  • Deposits, instalments and balances

    For tours, conferences and private hire booked months ahead, customers pay a deposit, then scheduled instalments, then the balance. Card authentication is handled properly for each payment, and missed instalments trigger reminders before a booking is released. Customers can see their payment schedule and pay early from their account.

    Long lead bookings paid in full before the event.

  • Pay by Bank and wallets

    Alongside cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, the checkout can offer Pay by Bank through an FCA authorised open banking provider, which suits higher value bookings and corporate customers who prefer not to use a card. Funds settle to the right trading entity for each event.

    More payment choice and fewer failed high value payments.

  • Terms, cancellations and refunds by event type

    Leisure events booked for a specific date, business conferences and multi date courses carry different cancellation rights. The platform applies the right terms to each product, records acceptance and processes refunds, credits or transfers according to the policy you set. Changes to policy apply to new bookings without altering past ones.

    Fewer disputes because every booking carries its own clear terms.

  • Membership and season passes

    Members can book at their rate and season pass holders can reserve dates across venues. If passes renew automatically, the platform is built so the subscription contract rules expected in 2027 under the same Act can be adopted when they arrive. Pass holders see their remaining dates in one account.

    Loyal customers book easily, and renewals are ready for new rules.

  • Consent and data rights

    Booking messages, marketing consent and cookie consent are kept separate, in line with UK GDPR and PECR. Customers can download or delete their data through a simple request route, and retention rules clear old records automatically. Consent records are kept for every marketing message sent.

    A booking platform that stands up to ICO scrutiny.

  • Accessible booking across all venues

    Listings describe access for each venue, buyers can request companion places and adjustments during booking, and the site is built and tested to WCAG 2.2, supporting your duties under the Equality Act 2010. Access information is maintained by each venue so it stays current. Venue teams receive alerts for each request.

    Disabled customers book independently at any of your venues.

  • Corporate accounts and invoicing

    Companies booking staff onto conferences, training days or hospitality packages can open an account, add colleagues, pay by invoice against a purchase order and download VAT invoices for each trading entity they bought from. Credit limits and payment terms are set per account by your finance team.

    Business customers buy again without paperwork slowing them down.

  • Group reporting and finance exports

    Revenue, deposits held, balances due, refunds and VAT reported by brand, venue and event, with exports or direct links to Xero, Sage or Business Central for each trading entity. Head office sees forward bookings for the next season in one view. Each trading entity's VAT figures can be exported separately for its returns.

    Finance closes each month without manual reconciliation.

Who this is for

Four kinds of UK event business that outgrow rented booking tools.

A national booking platform makes sense when you sell in several places, under several brands or through several companies, and the tools you rent no longer fit the way you trade. It also makes sense when ticketing fees and lost customer data have started to cost more than owning the platform. These are the organisations we most often build for across the four nations. If you are unsure whether you need a full platform or a smaller change, discovery answers that before any build is agreed.

01

Touring producers and live entertainment companies

Producers taking a show, a comedy tour or a family event around the country need dates in many cities, local pricing, capacity set by each venue's licence and settlement with each venue afterwards. We build one booking site for the whole tour, with each date carrying its own rules and each venue receiving its own report. When a date is added or moved, marketing pages, availability and confirmation emails all update together. Venue settlement statements are produced automatically after each show.

Every tour date sold from one site under your own brand.

02

Venue groups and hospitality operators

Groups running event spaces, hotels or bars in several cities sell private hire, ticketed nights and packages. They need consistent booking rules across the group, local managers who can approve hire requests, and finance reporting by site and by company. The platform handles all three without forcing each venue onto a separate system. New sites join the group by copying an existing venue setup and adjusting local details, rather than starting again. Group offers and shared gift vouchers work at every site.

03

Membership bodies and national associations

Professional bodies, charities and trade associations run annual conferences, regional seminars and training days across the UK. They need member pricing, employer invoicing, CPD session choices and certificates of attendance. We connect the booking platform to the membership database so eligibility is checked automatically at checkout. Non members can still book at the standard rate, and the system invites them to join. Attendance records feed back to the membership database so CPD hours are logged without staff typing them in again.

Member rates applied without manual checks.

04

Agencies delivering events for clients

Event and experiential agencies run launches, roadshows and conferences for brands across the country. Each client needs its own branded booking pages, separate payment accounts where required and access to its own data only. We build a multi client platform so a new client event can be set up from a template rather than built from scratch each time. Agency staff keep one login across all clients, and each client sees only its own events, attendees and payments. Reporting for each client is ready to share after every event.

Six stages to a UK booking platform rolled out city by city.

  1. 01Discovery across the businessVideo workshops with operations, finance and marketing to map brands, venues, companies, pricing, terms and the integrations each part of the business relies on. The output is a written scope with priorities.
  2. 02Structure and designEvent management booking website design UK customers find familiar on any phone, built on a structure of brands, venues and events that matches how you trade. Designs are reviewed on shared screens with your team.
  3. 03Payments by entityEvent management online payment integration UK finance teams can audit, with gateway accounts per trading company, wallets, Pay by Bank and correct VAT handling. Refunds route back to the correct entity automatically.
  4. 04Pilot releaseWe launch for one brand, region or venue first, watch real bookings and fix anything that does not suit how staff and customers actually behave. Lessons from the pilot shape the national rollout plan.
  5. 05National rolloutFurther venues and brands move across in planned stages, each with data migration, redirects from old booking links and staff training by video call. Each stage is signed off before the next begins.
  6. 06Ongoing improvementRegular reviews of conversion, failed payments and support requests, plus updates as consumer and payment rules change, under a support agreement you control. You decide the priorities for each review.

Technology

What we build this with.

We typically use Next.js for the booking pages, Laravel or Node for the booking engine and an FCA authorised payment provider for cards, wallets and open banking. Common integrations include Microsoft Dynamics 365, HubSpot, Xero and Sage. Hosting runs in your cloud account, with UK or EU data residency where you need it.

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 UK event businesses ask about booking platforms

The platform has to handle several venues, companies and legal systems at once.

A city site usually serves one venue or one operator. A national platform needs brands, venues and trading companies arranged so rules can be set centrally and changed locally, plus separate payment accounts, VAT reporting by entity and terms that reflect differences between England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It also needs a rollout plan, because moving every venue at once is risky. We design the structure first and then build features on top of it, which keeps later venues and brands cheap to add.

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