Services · Website development · Grocery websites
We provide grocery website development Manchester food businesses use to win local searches and steady trade accounts. Our clients include Asian and Chinese supermarkets, independent grocers in Chorlton and Didsbury, convenience groups near the universities and wholesalers supplying the restaurant trade. The sites we build put each shop on the map for its own area, explain ranges that general supermarkets do not stock, and give restaurant buyers a straightforward way to open an account. Managers edit everything themselves, so the site keeps pace with the shop.
The website here is your shop window and your enquiry desk. Selling online with a basket and checkout is a different project, which we scope separately if you need it, using the same brand and content.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
Inside the build
Greater Manchester is ten boroughs with their own councils, and shoppers cross between them without noticing. A family in Longsight might shop in Rusholme, a student in Fallowfield might head into Chinatown, and a chef from Salford Quays might buy from a wholesaler in Cheetham Hill. People search by area, tram stop, cuisine and product. Restaurant owners on the Curry Mile and in Chinatown want accounts, not offers. The capabilities below reflect those patterns. We choose a mix for your shops after discovery, and anything that will not earn its keep in the first months is held back for a later release. That keeps the first launch manageable for a small team and gives you real data before you spend more.
Pages for the areas your stores really serve, from Cheetham Hill and Levenshulme to Stretford and Eccles, each with directions, parking, nearest Metrolink stop and the ranges that area buys most. No copied paragraphs with a new place name; each page is written from what your staff know about that patch.
Each store is found by the people living around it.
A hospitality section for curry houses, Chinese restaurants, cafés and takeaways, setting out the categories you supply, delivery days, minimum order rules and how credit accounts work. The application form collects company details and references and sends them to your accounts team for checks.
New restaurant accounts start with the paperwork done.
Pages for students arriving at the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan and Salford each September: what you stock from home, how to get to the shop by bus or tram, store hours around lectures and sign up for offers by email with clear consent.
New students find you in their first week, not their final year.
Range and brand pages that show product names in Chinese, Urdu, Arabic or other scripts beside English, so a shopper can match the label they know. Search engines see the right language markup, and editors can add names without breaking layouts.
Hard to find brands become easy to find online.
A finder that lists your shops by distance with opening hours, counters, parking and the closest Metrolink stop or bus corridor, such as Wilmslow Road or Oxford Road. Each result links to the store page and its Google Business Profile.
Shoppers can plan the trip before they leave.
Trade customers can request your current price list or a quote for a specific line without you publishing every trade price on the open web. Requests are logged with the buyer's details so your sales team can follow up the same day.
Trade pricing reaches buyers, not competitors.
A content section where your staff write about dishes, ingredients and festival cooking, linking each article to the ranges you stock. Well written food content earns links from local bloggers and community groups and keeps search traffic coming between offer weeks.
Your knowledge turns into steady search visits.
Sign up forms with separate opt ins for offers and trade news, double confirmation, and a record of when consent was given, in line with PECR. The list connects to your email tool so weekly offers go out without retyping them.
A mailing list you can use without legal worry.
Genuine reviews pulled from your Google Business Profiles, shown per store, with no editing or selective filtering that could mislead. We also add a short feedback form that goes to the store manager before anyone reaches for a public review.
Real feedback shown honestly, problems caught early.
Templates kept lean, images sized for phones and pages cached close to visitors, then tested against Core Web Vitals on real devices. Every page is built to WCAG 2.2, with readable contrast on offer banners, alt text on product photographs and forms that work with a keyboard or screen reader, which also supports your duties under the Equality Act.
Every customer can use the site, quickly.
Who this is for
Picking a grocery web development company Manchester owners can rely on comes down to fit. We build for businesses that know their customers well but whose website lags behind the shop. Each of the four cases below needs a different first release, and we will tell you plainly if a smaller site will serve you better than a large one. The size of your team matters as much as the size of your business, since every page you publish needs someone to keep it right.
Customers come from across the region for rice, noodles, sauces, fresh greens and frozen goods they cannot get elsewhere. The site needs strong range pages with names in the original scripts, a clear store page with parking and tram details, and seasonal pages for Lunar New Year, Ramadan and Diwali. We also build a hospitality section for the restaurants that buy from you, and a page for the fresh deliveries you bring in from New Smithfield Market in Openshaw if your buyers want that freshness shown.
Range depth is the selling point; the site must show it.
Your customers care about local producers, organic lines, refills and a good deli counter. The site tells that story: sourcing pages, producer profiles, a weekly what is in section and an events page for tastings. It needs to look as considered as the shop does, and stay easy to update for a small team. Producer pages are written with the producers themselves, so every claim about origin or farming method is one they have confirmed.
Several shops serve student areas and apartment blocks, with demand that rises sharply in September and falls away in summer. We build a store finder, student welcome pages, opening hours that change with term and a recruitment page for the part time staff you hire each year. Reporting shows which store pages bring visits in each term, so you can shift effort to the shops and weeks that matter.
Your buyers run kitchens on the Curry Mile, in Chinatown, in the Northern Quarter and across Salford. They need categories, delivery days, account terms and a fast way to request a price list or open an account. We also add a public section if you sell to households from a cash and carry counter, kept clearly separate from trade. Buyers can also download allergen and specification sheets for the lines they put on their menus.
How we work together
We work with Manchester businesses remotely, with every workshop, review and training session held over video call and all files shared in one place. Most grocers start with a fixed scope build and keep us on a support plan for updates, security and new pages around term starts and festivals. Wholesalers with larger trade catalogues sometimes add a dedicated developer. Codeeo's team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, and is rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews.
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
WordPress with a custom theme suits most single shop and small group sites, because it is easy for staff to edit. Wholesalers with large range catalogues or groups with many stores may suit a headless Next.js build. We connect consent tools, analytics, email platforms and CRM systems as needed.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
Usually yes, because walk-in trade starts with a search.
Most new customers check a map listing or a website before visiting a shop they have not used before, especially if they are new to the city. A site that confirms your hours, shows your ranges and gives clear directions turns those searches into visits. For walk-in heavy shops we keep the build focused on store pages, offers and local search rather than features you would not use. Calls, direction requests and enquiries are tracked per store, so you can see the effect within the first few months.
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