Services · Mobile app development · Inventory management apps
Codeeo offers inventory management app development Birmingham traders can use to see and control stock in every shop, counter and branch they run. Our apps record each item or batch, follow it from supplier to sale, keep tills and web shops in agreement, and prompt reorders or transfers before a line runs dry. For a jeweller with pieces out at the workshop, or a grocer with three shops on one road, that means fewer lost sales and fewer surprises at stocktake.
We work with Birmingham businesses remotely. Discovery, screen reviews and test sessions take place over video call, and the scope, priorities and milestones for each release are signed off by you before development starts. Choosing an inventory management app development company Birmingham owners can brief without leaving the shop is often the practical choice for busy family businesses.
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Inside the app
Birmingham's retail economy is unusually varied. The Jewellery Quarter has hundreds of small jewellers and makers, many of whom send pieces out for hallmarking, setting or repair and need to know where every item is at any moment. Along Soho Road in Handsworth and Ladypool Road in Sparkbrook, family run clothing, jewellery and grocery shops often trade from two or three units, with demand rising sharply before weddings, Eid, Diwali and Vaisakhi. Engineering and motor factors across the West Midlands run trade counters where a missing part means a customer drives to a competitor.
The features below are the ones we most often build for these businesses. Each app is assembled from the parts that fit your stock, then connected to the tills, accounts and online shops you already run. Screens are designed for real counters, which are often crowded, busy and staffed by people serving customers at the same time as they check stock.
Pieces can be marked as in the window, in the safe, at the workshop, at the Assay Office or with a customer on approval. Each change records who moved the item and when, so a Jewellery Quarter retailer can answer an enquiry without phoning round.
Nothing goes missing between the counter, the bench and the hallmarking queue.
Jewellery items carry fields for metal type, carat, weight, stone details and certificate numbers, with photos attached. Gold items can be valued against a price you enter, and reports show stock value by metal for insurance purposes.
Valuations and insurance schedules come from live records.
Trade counters selling motor, plumbing or engineering parts can link each part to equivalents and to the newer number that replaced it. When a fitter asks for an old code, staff see what is on the shelf that will do the same job.
Fewer counter customers leave because the exact code is out.
Shops can tag lines to seasonal peaks and set higher stock levels in the weeks before them. After each season, the app compares what was ordered, sold and left over, so next year's buying starts from your own figures.
Popular outfits and sets are in stock when the rush arrives.
Grocery and food shops can record batch codes and best before or use by dates on receipt, then see what needs selling or reducing first. Waste is logged with a reason, which shows whether losses come from overbuying, damage or slow lines.
Short dated stock is spotted while it can still be sold.
Families running shops in Handsworth, Small Heath and Solihull, or across the Black Country, see each unit's stock in one place. A transfer request moves goods from the shop with spare stock to the one that needs it, scanned out and scanned in.
Stock sits where it will sell, not where it happened to be delivered.
We connect to your POS and online store through their APIs, whether that is Epos Now, Square, Shopify or WooCommerce. Sales and refunds update the right shop, and online stock reflects what is actually free rather than what is promised to counter customers.
The website stops selling what the shop sold an hour ago.
Supplier price lists can be imported so orders use current costs. The app suggests quantities from sales and minimum levels, groups them by supplier and tracks what is outstanding, including part deliveries and back orders.
Owners know what is on order and what is still to come.
The interface is in English, with product names or short notes in other languages if your staff or customers use them, such as Punjabi or Urdu. Search works on either name, so a shop assistant finds an item however it was entered.
New staff learn the app quickly and enter stock correctly.
A web back office shows stock value, fast and slow movers, margins and adjustments by shop and by staff member. Every manual change is logged, which helps owners spot errors early and gives accountants a clear trail at year end.
Owners see where stock and margin are going without a monthly recount.
Good fits
The right first release depends on what your stock is and where it goes. A gold chain and a brake pad need very different records, and a family shop on one road works differently from a chain across the region. Custom inventory management app development Birmingham businesses ask for usually begins with one of the four starting points below, and each one leads to a different first version of the app. None of them requires replacing everything you use today; most build on the till and accounts you already have.
You hold high value pieces, many of them unique, and they move between the shop, the bench, outside workshops and the Assay Office. We start with item level records, status tracking, photo and certificate storage and restricted access, then add customer approvals, repairs and links to your till. Insurance and stock value reports follow once the records are complete.
Repairs taken in for customers can be tracked separately from your own stock.
Your customers are fitters and tradespeople who want the right part now. We build fast search by code, description and alternative numbers, bin locations within the counter area, account sales and reorder rules based on what actually moves. Counts by bin keep the most requested parts accurate without stopping trade. Account customers can see their own order history and outstanding items in a simple portal later, which cuts down on calls asking whether a part has arrived.
Clothing, jewellery or grocery shops on Soho Road, Ladypool Road or Stratford Road often share stock between units run by relatives. We give each shop its own count, simple transfers, a shared supplier list and a single owner view, while each shop manager keeps control of their own counter. Weekly summaries show each shop's sales, transfers and adjustments side by side, which makes family conversations about stock far easier.
Permissions can mirror who in the family runs which shop.
You trade near the Bullring, in the Mailbox or in Digbeth, with an online shop that now matters as much as footfall. We link the till and web shop to the same stock, add click and collect reservations and give you reporting that compares channels, so buying decisions reflect where customers actually shop. Pop up stands at events such as those held at the NEC can be set up as temporary locations with their own stock and sales.
Ways to work with us
The common route is a fixed scope first release, followed by a retainer that covers fixes, small features and new integrations as the business grows. Larger groups sometimes ask for a dedicated team to work through a longer plan. Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, and our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, meeting Birmingham clients by video call at agreed checkpoints. The inventory management app developers Birmingham clients speak to are the same people building the product, and our work 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
We generally use Flutter or React Native for the iOS and Android app, a web back office for owners, and cloud hosting in a region you approve. Barcode, label and receipt hardware is chosen around the devices you already own.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Accurate counts per shop, item tracking where it matters, and a link to the till.
Most Birmingham clients need stock by location, fast lookup, receiving against supplier orders and a sync with their POS. Jewellers add item level records and status tracking for workshop and hallmarking trips. Trade counters add part alternatives and bin locations. Grocers add batch and date tracking. We decide with you which of these come first, based on where errors cost the most today. Most first releases are kept small on purpose, so staff build the habit of scanning before the app grows.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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