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Insurance marketplaces built for Scottish property, events and Scots law.

Codeeo delivers insurance marketplace website development Edinburgh brokers, MGAs and insurtechs rely on to compare and sell cover from several providers in one place. We build for the risks this city actually generates: tenement flats with shared roofs and stairs, short-term let hosts who must hold insurance to keep their licence, festival venues and performers, students and financial services professionals. Quote comparison, regulated checkout or referral, provider vetting and commission tracking run on one platform, with Scottish legal differences built into the rules.

Many UK comparison products are designed around English property and English procedure. An Edinburgh marketplace earns trust by asking the right questions for a Scottish home or business and by showing customers cover that will respond under Scots law. That local accuracy is what keeps customers and providers coming back.

Built for
Brokers, MGAs, comparison start-ups and insurtechs in Edinburgh and the Lothians selling personal and commercial cover online.
Typical timeline
Once discovery has confirmed your permissions, panel and product lines, we agree the timing together and fix it in a signed plan before any design work.
What you own
The code, comparison rules, provider records, commission ledger and policyholder data, in accounts registered to your business.
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

Platform capabilities

What an Edinburgh insurance marketplace needs to do well.

Edinburgh's housing, tourism and professional economy create a distinctive mix of insurance demand. A large share of central homes are flats in tenement buildings, where repairs to roofs, stairs and walls are shared under title deeds or the Tenement Management Scheme. Short-term lets are licensed by the City of Edinburgh Council, and every licence carries insurance conditions. August brings the festivals, with venues, producers and performers all needing short policies. The Exchange District and the wider city host many financial and professional firms whose staff and clients expect precise, well-documented online services. So the marketplace has to understand Scottish property structures, keep track of licence-linked cover, sell short-term commercial policies quickly and record everything an FCA-regulated distributor must evidence. These are the features we most often build first.

Explain your project
  • Tenement-aware home comparison

    Customers identify whether they own a flat in a shared building, a main door flat or a house. For flats, the comparison explains common parts and shows how each policy treats shared repairs, so owners can meet the duty under the Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004 to insure their flat for its reinstatement value.

    Flat owners buy cover that matches how their building is actually owned.

  • Short-term let host cover

    Licence conditions in Scotland require valid buildings insurance for the licence period and public liability cover for each let. Hosts compare products that accept short-term letting, store their licence number, and receive reminders before either cover lapses, with documents ready to show the council. Hosts with several properties manage them from one account.

    Hosts keep the cover their licence depends on.

  • Festival and event policies

    Venues, producers and performers compare public liability, equipment and event cancellation cover for August runs or one-off shows. Policies can be bought for a set number of performance dates, and certificates are issued instantly so venues can check cover before the first night. Next year's run can be requoted from the saved details.

    Event cover bought in minutes, not chased by email.

  • Professional indemnity for advisers

    Consultants, small accountancy practices, architects and technology contractors compare professional indemnity by limit, retroactive date and run-off terms. Answers are packaged into a proposal form providers accept, with referral routing where an underwriter needs to review the risk. Contract insurance clauses can be uploaded and checked against the chosen limit.

    Professional firms compare cover on the terms that matter.

  • Student and renter contents

    The University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh Napier and Queen Margaret bring a large student population, much of it renting flats in Marchmont, Newington and Leith. The comparison checks for cover already included in halls or a landlord's package and shows limits for laptops, bikes and musical instruments.

    Renters buy only the cover they are missing.

  • Scottish claims and dispute wording

    Guidance pages and policy summaries reflect Scots law where it differs, for example the five-year prescription period for most contract claims and the role of sheriff courts. Providers confirm their wording applies in Scotland before their products appear for Scottish postcodes.

    Customers are not sold cover written only for English procedure.

  • Panel vetting and approval

    Insurers, brokers and MGAs apply online. The platform records their Financial Services Register entry and Companies House details, collects wordings and product information documents, and keeps each listing hidden until your compliance lead approves it. Status is rechecked on a schedule. A change in status pauses the listing until reviewed.

    Only checked, current providers appear in results.

  • Insurance comparison payment integration

    Depending on your model, customers pay through your checkout with Strong Customer Authentication on cards or Open Banking pay by bank, or move securely to the provider's own page. Instalments are routed to a regulated premium finance partner, with the full cost shown first.

    Payment flows match your permissions and premium handling.

  • Commission ledger and statements

    Every policy sold, cancelled or changed mid-term creates a ledger entry by provider and product. Providers download monthly statements and query individual lines, and clawbacks for early cancellations are calculated automatically rather than reconciled by hand at month end. Statements export straight to your accounts package.

    Clear revenue figures for you and your panel.

  • Consent, privacy and accessibility

    PECR-compliant cookie consent, marketing permissions kept separate from the quote, and UK GDPR access and erasure handled in the admin. Quote forms meet WCAG 2.2, and customers can flag support needs so someone in vulnerable circumstances reaches a person before buying.

    Data and accessibility handled as part of the product.

Who we work with

Edinburgh firms that suit a marketplace build.

Edinburgh has a long history in insurance, investment and pensions, and its brokers and start-ups tend to be careful buyers of technology. Insurance comparison platform development Edinburgh clients ask for is usually tied to one of four situations, each with its own first release. We confirm which applies before we scope anything, because it changes the providers involved and the regulated responsibilities. Some clients later combine two of these, and the platform is designed so that extending it does not mean rebuilding it.

01

A Scottish broker going online

Your firm knows tenement buildings, rural properties and Scottish commercial risks, and handles most business by phone. The marketplace lets customers compare and buy simple cover online, while your brokers keep the complex cases. Their knowledge goes into the question sets, so the online flow asks what an experienced Scottish broker would ask. Renewals are invited online, with pricing drawn from the same route new customers see.

Local expertise turned into a working online channel.

02

A start-up focused on hosts or events

You want to serve short-term let hosts, festival producers or another Edinburgh-heavy segment. We launch with a small panel and a tight product range, measure quote completion and sales from the first season, and add providers as volume grows. Seasonal demand around August is planned into hosting and support from the start. Hosts and producers can store details once and requote next season in a few clicks.

Built around the city's busiest months.

03

An MGA serving Scotland directly

You underwrite Scottish property or liability risks and want a direct channel beside your broker partners. The platform sells within your appetite, refers anything outside it, and exports bordereaux in the formats your capacity providers expect. Underwriters adjust referral triggers and declinature wording without waiting on developers. Rural and island postcodes can be included or excluded per product.

Direct sales that respect delegated authority.

04

A property manager or factor offering cover

Property factors and letting agents look after many tenement blocks and rented flats. A marketplace module lets owners and landlords compare cover suited to their building, while the regulated activity sits with an authorised partner whose status is displayed. Block details are reused so owners do not have to type them in again. Owners in the same block can see which cover the common parts already carry.

Cover offered where owners already manage their property.

How we deliver an Edinburgh marketplace.

  1. 01Permissions and rolesWe document who is authorised for what, whether premiums are collected or handed off, and which partner holds each regulated responsibility, so every screen reflects it.
  2. 02Scottish risk questionsWith your brokers and underwriters we write question sets for flats, hosts, events and professional firms, checking each against Scottish property and legal differences.
  3. 03Prototypes and testingClickable prototypes are tested with real customers, including people using screen readers and older phones, and changed until they complete a quote without help.
  4. 04Provider integrationPanel APIs, payment and premium finance partners and your CRM are connected on staging, and each provider confirms its prices match its own rating.
  5. 05Compliance approvalYour compliance officer reviews every disclosure, document and regulated screen. Approvals are recorded in the platform so the evidence exists when the FCA asks.
  6. 06Launch before the seasonWhere events or lets matter, launch is timed ahead of the busy summer period, with redirects from any old site and close monitoring through the first weeks.

Technology

What we build this with.

Our usual stack is Next.js for quick, indexable comparison pages, Laravel or Node for services, PostgreSQL for the commission ledger and queues for provider calls. We host in UK regions where your data protection impact assessment requires it, and every quote is logged for audit. Provider credentials sit in a secrets manager, never in code.

01Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • WordPress

02Commerce

  • Shopify Plus
  • WooCommerce
  • BigCommerce
  • Headless storefronts

03Data and cloud

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

04Marketing and tracking

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

Edinburgh insurance marketplace questions.

Comparison, regulated checkout or referral, provider vetting and commission tracking.

We build the public comparison site, the question sets for each product, the provider onboarding and approval process, the payment or hand-off step and the ledger that tracks commission and clawbacks. Insurance marketplace website design is part of the same work, so comparison tables, documents and buying screens are tested together with Edinburgh customers before launch. The first release usually covers one or two product lines with providers that quote automatically, and further lines follow once the core comparison and ledger are proven in use.

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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