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HR apps for London employers with regulated roles, sponsored staff and many sites.

Codeeo takes on HR management app development London organisations need when generic HR software stops matching how they are regulated and structured. We build apps that hold the employee file, certification and conduct records for financial services staff, sponsored worker obligations, multi venue onboarding, subject access requests and Good Work Standard evidence. Typical clients include firms in the City and Canary Wharf, tech companies around King's Cross and Shoreditch, and hospitality and retail groups running sites across the West End and the outer boroughs.

London HR teams carry more regulatory weight than most. The app is built so that when the FCA, the Home Office, the ICO or a tribunal asks a question, the answer is already on record, dated and attributable to a named person. Rotas, clocking, payroll and hiring stay in the tools built for them and connect to this one.

Built for
London employers in regulated sectors, businesses sponsoring overseas staff, and groups with many sites or legal entities.
Typical timeline
Set after discovery, once regulatory needs, entities and integrations are clear, and recorded in the scope you approve.
What you own
Code, store listings, the HR console, audit logs and all workforce data, under your organisation's own accounts.
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 app can include

HR features built for how London organisations are regulated and run.

The London brief is rarely about basic records. Most organisations already have some system for names, addresses and job titles. The trouble starts with the obligations layered on top: an investment firm that must certify staff as fit and proper every year, a scale up whose engineering team depends on Skilled Worker visas, a restaurant group onboarding new front of house staff every week, a professional firm fielding subject access requests from departing employees.

Those obligations usually live in separate spreadsheets owned by compliance, legal or a single HR adviser, and they drift out of step with the main record. The capabilities below pull them back into one app with the right permissions, so HR, compliance and line managers each work from the same facts. We pick and order them in discovery according to the risks your organisation carries, starting with whichever obligation would cause the most damage if it were missed.

Explain your project
  • SM&CR certification records

    For FCA regulated firms, the app tracks which staff hold senior management functions or certification roles, schedules the annual fitness and propriety assessment, stores the evidence reviewed and records the sign off. Conduct rules training completion and any breaches sit against the same profile.

    Certification renewals completed on schedule with evidence attached.

  • Regulatory references

    When a certified person joins or leaves, reference requests and responses are logged with dates, the template used and who approved the content, so the firm can show it requested and gave references as the rules expect.

    A clean reference trail for every regulated move.

  • Sponsored worker obligations

    For sponsor licence holders, each sponsored employee's visa end date, role code, work location and salary record are held together. Changes that may need reporting to the Home Office, such as a new address or a long unauthorised absence, raise a task for the authorising officer with the deadline shown.

    Sponsor duties tracked before they become compliance findings.

  • Venue onboarding in volume

    Restaurant, bar and retail groups with sites from Soho to Stratford can onboard new starters from a link sent by the general manager. Right to work evidence, contract signature, uniform size and bank details are captured in one sitting on the starter's phone, and head office reviews only exceptions.

    Weekly hiring without a stack of paper at each venue.

  • Living Wage and Good Work evidence

    Employers accredited by the Living Wage Foundation or working towards the Mayor's Good Work Standard can report from their own HR data: which roles and contractors are covered, progression and training activity, and wellbeing measures. Reports are generated on request rather than rebuilt each year.

    Accreditation and tender evidence produced in an afternoon.

  • Subject access request handling

    Requests are logged with the date received and the one month deadline. HR can gather everything the app holds about a person in a single export, mark items to be withheld with a reason, and keep a record of what was sent, which matters most when a departing employee is in dispute.

    Requests answered within the deadline with a defensible record.

  • Leave with cover rules

    Annual leave, family leave and study leave requests are checked against cover rules your managers set, such as a minimum number of people on a trading desk or at a reception. Managers see clashes before approving, and HR sees accrued balances across the whole organisation.

    Leave approved without leaving a team short.

  • Group and entity structure

    Many London employers operate several companies, sometimes with staff on secondment or employed abroad. The app models each entity, cost centre and reporting line separately, so permissions, policies and reports follow the legal employer rather than the office a person sits in.

    Correct employer, policy and approver for every person.

  • Confidential document vault

    Contracts, settlement agreements, occupational health reports and investigation notes are stored with access limited by document type. Each file carries a retention period agreed with your data protection officer, and deletion or review happens automatically when that period ends.

    Sensitive files seen only by the right people and kept no longer than needed.

  • Harassment and whistleblowing reports

    Staff can raise a concern about harassment or wrongdoing from their phone, with the option to stay anonymous where your policy allows. Reports go to a small named group, each step of the investigation is logged, and leadership sees anonymised trends. That record helps show the reasonable steps London employers are expected to take to prevent harassment at work.

    Concerns reach the right people and every response is on record.

Who this is for

London organisations that get the most from a custom HR app.

A custom HR app makes sense in London when an organisation's obligations outgrow what a standard product handles without workarounds. It is less suitable for a small single office business with routine needs. The four profiles below are where we see the strongest case, and each one starts from a different first release. We will tell you during discovery if a packaged tool would serve you better. Organisations that fit two profiles, such as a fintech that also sponsors engineers, simply carry both sets of needs into the plan.

01

Asset managers, brokers and fintech firms

Firms in the Square Mile, Canary Wharf and Mayfair carry SM&CR duties on top of normal HR. The first release usually brings certification, conduct rules, regulatory references and the employee file into one place, with compliance able to report without asking HR to export anything.

We build the record keeping; regulatory judgements stay with your compliance function.

02

Tech companies hiring internationally

Engineering and product teams around King's Cross, Shoreditch and Old Street often rely on sponsored visas. We focus on visa end dates, reportable changes and onboarding for international starters, and connect to your applicant tracking system so offer data arrives without retyping. Hybrid working, equity schemes and relocation support often join later releases.

03

Hospitality and retail groups

Operators with venues across Zone 1 and beyond deal with constant hiring, frequent leavers and staff who rarely visit head office. The app gives general managers simple onboarding and offboarding on a phone, and gives HR a single view of documents and contracts across every site.

Shift clocking is handled by your attendance system; we integrate with it.

04

Charities, housing and professional bodies

London based charities and membership organisations often need careful governance: trustee oversight, volunteer records kept apart from employees, and Living Wage or Good Work Standard reporting for funders. We plan roles and reports around those duties from the start. Volunteer records can follow a lighter process than staff records.

From brief to launch: six stages for a London HR app.

  1. 01Obligations reviewBy video call we list the regulators, accreditations and contracts your HR data must satisfy, alongside the systems you run today and the tasks that eat most time.
  2. 02Access and retention designWith HR, compliance and your data protection officer we agree who sees each field and document, how long each is kept, and what gets logged.
  3. 03Prototype and testClickable designs are tried by an employee, a line manager, a compliance user and an HR adviser, and changed until each can finish their tasks unaided.
  4. 04Build and connectMobile apps and the console are developed in short sprints, with integrations to payroll, identity, applicant tracking and document storage demonstrated as they land.
  5. 05Migration and parallel runExisting records and certification history are imported, then the old and new systems run side by side for one entity or team until the data matches.
  6. 06Rollout and regulatory upkeepRemaining entities and sites join in order, and the retainer keeps rules aligned with new legislation, FCA changes and your own policy updates.

Technology

What we build this with.

Sign in usually runs through Microsoft Entra ID or Google Workspace with multi factor authentication. Data is hosted in a UK region where your policies or clients require it, and every access to sensitive records is logged for audit. Mobile apps are usually cross platform so a single codebase serves both iPhone and Android staff, and the console runs in the browser for HR and compliance users.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Questions London HR and compliance teams ask.

Regulatory scope, the number of entities and the systems to integrate.

An app for one company with standard HR needs is a much smaller build than one covering several regulated entities, sponsored workers and certification. Data migration is often underestimated: years of records in spreadsheets need cleaning before import. Integrations with payroll, identity and applicant tracking each add effort. We explain these drivers in discovery and price the first release once the scope is fixed, so you are never estimating against a vague brief. Hosting choices and the level of audit logging you need also affect the effort, as does the number of languages the screens must support.

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