Services · Mobile app development · Furniture apps
Codeeo provides furniture app development in London for showrooms, design-led brands, made-to-order workshops and retailers selling to interior designers. We build apps that answer the questions a London buyer always has: will it fit through the door of a third-floor flat, when can it be delivered on a street with permit parking, and what happens to the old sofa. The customer app, the staff tools and the admin system are designed together so every promise the app makes can be kept.
London customers compare everything on their phones, often on the Tube. An app that loads fast, shows true dimensions and handles awkward deliveries honestly wins orders that a slow website loses. That is the standard we build to for retailers across the capital, from Richmond to Walthamstow.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What goes into a London furniture app
A large share of Londoners live in flats, mansion blocks and Victorian conversions where the hallway is narrow, the stairs turn twice and there is no lift. Many rent, move often and furnish in stages. Others are buying a first home and want a sofa that will last a decade. Interior designers order on behalf of clients and expect trade terms. The capability set below reflects those realities.
We do not suggest every feature for every business. A Tottenham Court Road style showroom with high footfall needs strong appointment and stock tools. A brand that sells mainly online needs the fit checker, swatches and delivery logistics to carry the whole sale. Discovery tells us which mix will pay back first, and the rest waits for a later release.
Customers enter doorway width, hallway turns, stair width and lift size once, and every product page then shows whether the piece should fit, needs feet removed or is too large. The check uses the packaged dimensions as well as the assembled ones. Customers can save measurements for several rooms.
Fewer failed deliveries and refused sofas on the doorstep.
At checkout the customer records floor number, lift access, parking type, controlled parking zone hours and any building concierge rules. The delivery crew sees the notes in the driver app before they leave the depot. If a parking suspension is needed, the app reminds the customer or your team to apply to the borough in good time.
Crews arrive prepared for the building they are visiting.
Shoppers order up to a set number of swatches from the app, track the envelope and are reminded to complete their order when the samples arrive. Swatch requests feed your sales reports so you can see which fabrics attract interest. Popular fabrics can be bundled into a starter swatch set.
Confident colour choices without a showroom trip.
For upholstered and joinery pieces with long lead times, the order screen shows production stages such as frame built, upholstered, quality checked and ready for dispatch, updated by your workshop or supplier. Delays are explained in plain language with a revised date, rather than leaving the customer to discover them when they chase.
Customers wait calmly instead of calling for news.
Designers sign in to a trade area with their own terms, project folders, client-ready product sheets and the ability to place orders for delivery to several client addresses. Access is approved by your team before it opens. Trade discount rules are set per designer by your team.
A repeat channel built around how designers already work.
Customers book a consultation at the nearest showroom, choose a style adviser and list the pieces they want to see, so the floor team can prepare samples before they arrive. Video consultations can be offered too, for customers who live further out in the suburbs.
Showroom visits that start with a plan.
An optional add-on at checkout lets customers ask the crew to take the old sofa or mattress away, with the item type and size recorded, so your team can plan van space and arrange responsible disposal or donation. The crew app records what was taken and why.
One less reason for a customer to delay buying.
True-to-scale 3D models let a customer place a dining table in their kitchen and walk around it. In compact London rooms this helps people judge clearance around chairs and doors, not just style. Models can be loaded for the bestselling pieces first, with more added as suppliers send files.
Size questions settled before the order is placed.
A shopper on a lunch break can hold a lamp, rug or side table at the nearest branch for collection after work, with a time limit your team sets. Small pieces like these are often what people carry home on the bus or Tube, so reserving them saves a wasted trip.
Smaller items sold the same day, without delivery cost.
Couples and flatmates furnishing a home together can share a list, vote on options and comment, then one person checks out. Useful when buying decisions involve more than one person and several evenings of browsing, which is common for first homes in boroughs such as Hackney, Lewisham or Ealing.
Group decisions that end in a purchase.
Who this suits
The capital's furniture trade is wide. It runs from historic stores on Tottenham Court Road to trade showrooms at Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, independent makers in East London workshops and online brands with a warehouse outside the M25. Each sells differently, and each needs a different first release. Events such as the London Design Festival each September also bring bursts of interest that a well-prepared app can capture with launch notifications and showroom bookings. Below are the four starting points we see most often in the capital.
You have a strong product and a recognisable look, but basket abandonment is high because shoppers cannot see, touch or measure the pieces. We focus the first release on fit checking, swatches, AR and honest lead times. Furniture ecommerce app development London brands invest in tends to succeed when it removes doubt rather than adding more product pages. Push notifications for back-in-stock pieces and price drops bring browsers back once they are ready to buy. Most such brands launch with their top sellers.
Remove the reasons people hesitate.
Customers browse in Islington, then visit the branch near their office in the City. Stock, appointments and baskets need to follow them. We connect every branch to one stock record and give staff a tablet view to pick up a customer's saved basket at the counter. Managers see which branch generated each sale, even when the order finished on a phone at home. We also make sure prices, promotions and delivery promises are identical in every branch, so customers never get different answers in different stores.
Your pieces are made in London to the customer's chosen size and finish, and the wait is part of the product. We build a configurator limited to combinations your workshop accepts, deposit and balance payments, and production updates that make the wait feel looked after. Your makers can post progress photos from a simple staff app, which customers tend to share with friends. A customer can return to the app to check the order, add a matching footstool or book the delivery date once production finishes.
Made to order needs clear cancellation terms.
Much of your revenue arrives through trade buyers furnishing client homes and new developments. We build a trade app with approval-based access, project folders and multi-address delivery, and keep retail customers on a separate, simpler path. Specification sheets with dimensions, materials and fire safety labels can be downloaded for each piece, which developers and designers often need for their own records. Lead times for large developments can be planned in batches, so the warehouse can see which floors or units are due in the coming weeks.
Ways to work with us
You can commission a fixed-scope first release, keep a dedicated product team for ongoing work, or bring us in to extend an app someone else started. Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US with a team of 80+ based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and is rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. We have no London office. Our team works remotely with London clients, and every workshop, design review and sprint demo takes place by video call, with shared boards so your team can comment between sessions. After launch, we can stay on for support, store updates and new features, or hand everything to your own developers with documentation.
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
Customer and crew apps are typically built in Flutter or React Native, with a Next.js admin and a Node.js API. For brands that want the website and app to share one product catalogue, we often recommend a headless commerce setup on Shopify or a similar platform. We meet WCAG 2.2 accessibility guidance throughout, which also supports your duties under the Equality Act.
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Mostly access, parking and space.
The product side is similar everywhere, but London delivery is harder. Flats without lifts, permit parking, red routes, Congestion Charge hours and the London-wide ULEZ all affect whether a crew can complete a drop. Rooms are often smaller, so dimension tools and AR matter more. We design the checkout, crew app and admin rules around those conditions, then test them with real addresses across several boroughs before launch. Each borough sets its own parking suspension and loading rules, so the admin system lets you store notes by postcode district and update them when a council changes its restrictions.
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