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We provide HR management subscription website development Manchester product teams use when growth comes from signups rather than sales calls. The work covers self service signup, in product upgrades, usage and shift based billing, project length plans, pricing experiments, consent aware analytics and the billing area customers manage themselves. It fits Greater Manchester vendors selling people software to hospitality groups, venues, production companies and fast growing tech firms, where headcount changes weekly and buyers expect to pay the way they use the product.
We work on the commercial layer only. Your HR features stay in your application; we build how people find a plan, pay, upgrade, pause and leave, and how that information reaches your product and your finance tools.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
Platform features
A Manchester HR product often wins its first customers through a free plan or a trial the vendor chooses to offer, a strong onboarding flow and word of mouth among operators in the Northern Quarter and Ancoats. Revenue then depends on how smoothly a team upgrades from inside the product, how fairly hourly and shift staff are counted, and how quickly the pricing page can be tested and changed. That needs a subscription platform designed around product events rather than sales paperwork. Below is what we typically put in place, grouped loosely from the first visit to the pricing page through to renewal and exit.
Plans, feature lists and headline prices are held as structured content, so marketing can run controlled tests on layout, wording or the default term without a deployment. Every compulsory charge sits in the headline figure, and results are measured against paid conversions rather than clicks.
Pricing decisions rest on evidence from real buyers.
A visitor creates a workspace first and pays when they reach a limit or the end of any trial period you offer. Checkout opens in context, prefilled with company details, and card payment completes Strong Customer Authentication once so later renewals go through quietly.
Users pay at the moment they see value.
Hospitality and events employers in Manchester may roster many casual staff for a busy weekend and few the next. You choose whether billing counts active profiles, workers rostered in the period or a monthly average, and the platform applies that rule from your product data with the figures shown on the invoice. Disputes drop when the count is visible.
Operators pay for real use, not a payroll list full of leavers.
Film and TV productions around MediaCity in Salford hire crews for a fixed run. A production can buy a plan for the length of the shoot, add crew as they join, and close the workspace with records exported when it wraps, without a long contract.
Short engagements become paying customers instead of lost leads.
Venues and seasonal operators can pause a subscription for a quiet period, keeping their records and settings, then resume at an agreed date. Pause rules, limits and the reduced charge for data retention are set by you and stated before the customer confirms.
Customers pause rather than cancel and forget you.
When a workspace nears a seat or feature limit, your product shows an upgrade prompt that opens the right plan with the price difference and proration already calculated. Account owners approve it in a click; other users can request it from their administrator.
Expansion revenue without a sales conversation.
Marketing and advertising tags wait for consent under PECR. First party statistics that the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 now allows without consent are separated from tracking that still needs it, following current ICO guidance, so your growth reports stay usable and lawful.
Conversion data you can rely on and defend.
Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay for quick self service upgrades, with Bacs Direct Debit offered to customers whose finance team prefers a mandate. The billing engine handles each method's retries and notifications, and invoices state how each payment was taken.
Fewer failed renewals across very different buyers.
Every upgrade, proration and usage charge produces a numbered VAT invoice, and every downgrade or refund produces a matching credit note. Customers download them from the billing area, and the same records post to your accounting software so digital VAT records for Making Tax Digital stay complete without a month end export.
Fast moving billing still leaves a clean audit trail.
Upgrades, pauses, cancellations and failed payments are sent to your product, your accounting software and your data warehouse. Your team can see recurring revenue, expansion and churn in the same dashboards they use for product metrics, without manual exports.
Product and finance work from one set of numbers.
Who this suits
Greater Manchester has a strong mix of digital product companies and the kinds of employers that stress test HR software: venues, hospitality groups, broadcasters, production companies and professional firms around Spinningfields. Public bodies and employers in the city region are also encouraged to back the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter, which shapes what some buyers ask HR tools to evidence. The four situations below cover most of the Manchester teams we speak to. Many sit in more than one, and the discovery calls decide which problem the first release should solve and which can follow once revenue from it is flowing.
You have active free users and need a paywall that does not damage growth. We add signup inside the product, usage limits, a checkout that opens in context and a billing area, then connect entitlements so your engineers stop hard coding plan checks. The pricing page is built for testing from day one, so early decisions can be revisited quickly.
Monetise without slowing signups.
Your customers run bars, restaurants, stadium catering or event venues, and their staff lists swing with fixtures and seasons. We design fair counting rules, pause options and invoices that show the worker figures used, so operators in the Northern Quarter or at Manchester's big venues can see exactly why the bill changed this month.
Bills that make sense to an operations manager.
Production companies in Salford and across the region hire crews for weeks or months, and need onboarding and contracts for each run. We build project length plans, crew based pricing and easy wrap up with record export, so a production can buy your tool for the shoot rather than sign an annual contract it will not use.
Fixed term work, fixed term subscriptions.
Some Greater Manchester employers buying HR tools want help evidencing Charter characteristics such as secure work, flexible working and fair pay. If your product supports that, we build feature pages that describe it accurately and plans that bundle the relevant reporting. We never suggest the software secures Charter membership, which is assessed separately by the Charter itself.
Accurate claims for values led buyers.
Our way of working
Codeeo has no Manchester or UK office. Our team of 80+ is based 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. Manchester clients work with us by video call and in shared tools, and we fit into your sprint rhythm where that helps. Cost depends on how complex the metering is, the number of plan types, how many systems receive billing events and whether existing customers need migrating. We scope and price each stage after discovery, so the first release can go live and start earning before the more involved metering or project plans are built.
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
A common build is a Next.js marketing and pricing site with a headless CMS, Stripe Billing or Chargebee for subscriptions and metering, and a lightweight event service that feeds your product, Xero or QuickBooks, and a warehouse such as BigQuery. The choice follows your stack and team, and everything is documented so your Manchester engineers can own it after handover.
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02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
We cannot give a figure before discovery, but we can explain what moves it.
The biggest factor is metering: counting shift workers or rostered staff fairly takes more design and testing than a flat per seat price. Project length plans, pauses and in product upgrades each add work, as does sending billing events to several systems. Migrating existing customers with their payment methods and history is another variable. After discovery we price the first release and later stages separately, so you can launch the essentials and fund the rest from revenue.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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