Services · Mobile app development · Fashion apps
Codeeo handles fashion app development Manchester brands can run at their own pace: catalogues that publish new lines the day they land, checkout built for repeat buyers, loyalty, returns and push campaigns that reach customers the moment a restock lands. Manchester has a strong cluster of online first fashion businesses, a wholesale trade around Cheetham Hill and independent and vintage shops in the Northern Quarter. We build apps that fit each of those models instead of forcing them into one template.
Our team of 80+ sits in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and holds a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. We do not have a Manchester office. Manchester clients work with us remotely, and every workshop, review and demo happens by video call.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What we build into it
Many Manchester fashion businesses grew up online. They release new styles every week, sell heavily through social media and measure success in repeat orders. For them, an app is a way to own the customer relationship instead of renting it from social platforms and marketplaces. For the independent shops on Oldham Street and around Afflecks, it is a way to sell one off pieces to people who cannot get into town that day. Commuters on the Metrolink and on trains into Piccadilly and Victoria browse in short bursts, so every screen must load quickly and pick up where the customer left off.
The list below mixes features for both. We help you choose a first release that matches your model and your team's capacity to run it, because an app that needs daily attention must fit how many people you have to give it.
New lines go live from your commerce platform or product information system the same day they are photographed, with sizes, colourways, model measurements and fabric details. Scheduled launches let you prepare a whole edit in advance and release it at a set hour.
Weekly drops without late nights for the ecommerce team.
Short videos, creator edits and shoppable looks sit inside the app, and links from Instagram or TikTok open the exact product rather than the home screen. Each creator link is tracked so you can see which partnerships actually sell. Content shot by local creators or studios around Salford can be scheduled into the app like any other release.
Social traffic lands on a product, not a dead end.
Customers tap to be told when a sold out size returns. When stock arrives, the app notifies people in the order they signed up, and you can see demand by size before placing your next production order.
Sold out pages turn into future orders and better buying data.
With the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford nearby, students are a large share of many local brands' customers. We integrate a verification service so the discount applies only to verified accounts.
A student offer that stays a student offer.
Vintage and preloved stock needs fast listing from a phone: photos, measurements, condition grade and price, published in minutes. Customers filter by era, brand, measurements or condition and save searches that alert them when a match is listed. Sold items stay visible for a short time as inspiration, marked clearly as gone.
Unique pieces sell before they sit on a rail for weeks.
For traders supplying shops from Cheetham Hill and beyond, a separate buyer area shows trade prices, pack ratios, minimum order quantities and stock on hand. Buyers reorder from their history and track dispatch, while retail customers never see trade terms.
Trade customers reorder at any hour, without phoning the warehouse.
Customers select items, give a reason, choose a drop off point or locker and receive a label or QR code. Exchanges for a different size can be processed before the original arrives back, if your policy allows it. Return reasons are reported by product, so fit problems show up quickly and can be fixed in the size guide or with the supplier.
Returns cost less to handle and exchanges keep the sale.
Manchester's calendar is full of football fixtures, concerts at the Co-op Live and AO Arena and festival weekends. Campaign scheduling lets your team line up edits, push messages and in app banners around those dates weeks ahead, aimed at customers who bought similar pieces before.
Event led demand reaches you before it reaches a competitor.
Points, tiers and perks such as free delivery or early access to sales, calculated from spend across app, web and stores. Members see their progress and rewards on one screen.
Repeat customers have a visible reason to stay.
Your team sees app sales, conversion, return rates by product and the results of each push campaign, broken down by channel and creator, and exports anything to your finance or BI tools.
Decisions about stock and campaigns rest on actual app data.
Who this is for
Greater Manchester spans fast growing online brands, wholesalers that supply shops nationwide, independent boutiques and shopping centre retailers at the Arndale and the Trafford Centre. Clothing ecommerce app development Manchester businesses need varies widely across that range, and so does the right first release. These are the four situations we plan for most often. Many businesses combine two of them, and the plan can too.
You sell mostly through your website and social channels, release new styles often and want customers to buy again without paying for every visit through ads. The app focuses on speed: fast browsing, saved payment details, restock alerts and personalised push notifications. We connect to your existing commerce platform so the ecommerce team keeps one product catalogue and one order system. We also plan for the traffic spikes your launches create, so a big release does not slow the app for everyone.
Repeat orders pay for the app.
Your stock is curated and often one of a kind, and your customers like the shop as much as the clothes. The app extends the shop to people who cannot visit that day: quick listings, saved searches, reserve for viewing and simple shipping. We keep running costs low and the admin simple enough for a small team to update between customers. Customers who follow your Instagram can tap straight from a post into the listing, which matters when a piece may sell within the hour.
Small team, simple admin.
Your buyers are shop owners who order by the pack and want to reorder quickly. A trade app or portal with buyer accounts, trade pricing, pack ratios, credit terms and dispatch tracking cuts phone and messaging traffic. It can run alongside a retail app or on its own, connected to your stock and accounting systems. Images and pack details can be shared from the app to a buyer's phone, which suits traders who order on the move.
Built for trade buyers, not shoppers.
With stores in the city centre and in towns such as Stockport, Bolton or Altrincham, the app ties online and in store activity together: stock by shop, click and collect, loyalty recognised at the till and receipts in the app. We integrate with your point of sale and design reports for regional managers. Shoppers heading to the Trafford Centre can check a size first and collect it on arrival.
Stores and app work as one business.
Working with us
For a first release, most brands choose a fixed scope where features, integrations and milestones are agreed before any design begins. When the app is live, a retainer covers new features, campaign support, store updates and fixes on a monthly basis. Fast growing labels with constant releases often prefer a dedicated team of designers and developers working through their backlog. Each model runs remotely, with video meetings, shared boards and written records of what was agreed. Moving between models later is straightforward, because the code and documentation are always yours.
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
We typically use React Native or Flutter for iOS and Android from one codebase, with Shopify, BigCommerce, a headless commerce backend or a custom API behind it. Choices are explained in plain terms, and the stack is picked so another team could maintain it later if you wished. Hosting sits in your own cloud account.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on the size of the first release and the state of your systems.
Brands on a modern commerce platform with clean product data can launch a focused app much sooner than a business combining wholesale, retail and several stores. We agree the timing after discovery, write it into the plan and share builds throughout so you see progress for yourself. App store review adds a short final step, so we plan launch around your next big release rather than in the middle of it. If your product data needs cleaning first, we say so early and include it in the plan.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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