Services · Mobile app development · Inventory management apps
We handle inventory management app development Manchester businesses use to control stock across shops, wholesale counters and branches in the wider city region. The app tracks every size, colour and batch you hold, ties counts to your tills and online store, and turns low stock into supplier orders or transfers from a sister branch. Owners stop chasing figures by phone, and staff stop selling items that are not actually there.
Codeeo works with Manchester clients remotely. Discovery workshops are replaced by structured video calls, and every design and test build is shared online for your team to review. Nothing is built until the scope and order of work have been agreed with you in writing. If you are comparing an inventory management app development company Manchester firms have used before with a remote team, ask us how a typical week of reviews runs.
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Features we build
Manchester has an unusual mix of stock holders. Wholesale clothing traders around Cheetham Hill sell by the pack to retailers who drive in from across the North. Independent and vintage shops in the Northern Quarter carry one off pieces that cannot be reordered. Chain branches trade in the Arndale and the Trafford Centre, while restaurant and bar groups in Ancoats, Spinningfields and Deansgate order fresh stock several times a week.
Each of these needs something slightly different from an inventory app, so we do not start from a fixed template. We pick the features that match how you trade, connect them to the systems you already use, and keep the screens fast enough for staff serving customers at a counter. Below are the features Manchester clients ask for most, roughly in the order they are usually built.
Fashion lines are stored as a style with its sizes and colours, so staff see at a glance which combinations are running out. Wholesalers can also hold pack ratios, such as a six piece pack across sizes, and sell either whole packs or single units.
Gaps in a size run show up before the customer asks for them.
Retail buyers visiting a Cheetham Hill showroom can have stock reserved against their trade account while they browse, then picked, invoiced and released. Account history shows what each buyer took last season, which helps your team suggest repeat lines.
Reserved stock is never sold twice to two different buyers.
Vintage and resale shops photograph and list a single item once, with condition notes and a unique tag. The same record appears in the shop app and the online store, and the listing closes the moment it sells in either channel.
No more refunding an online order because the piece sold in store that morning.
We link stock to tills and web stores such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Square or Lightspeed through their APIs. Sales, refunds and exchanges adjust the correct location, and stock held for online orders is ring fenced from shop floor sales.
Every channel sells from the same accurate count.
Branches in Salford, Stockport, Altrincham or Bolton can request stock from the city centre store, or from each other, with pick lists, a driver or courier handover and scan in on arrival. Pending transfers show as incoming so nobody reorders them by mistake.
Stock reaches the branch that will sell it, not the one that ordered first.
Manchester trade swings with university terms, Freshers' week and home fixtures at Old Trafford and the Etihad. The app lets you set seasonal reorder levels and event flags, so bars, takeaways and convenience shops order more ahead of busy dates and less over quiet weeks.
Fewer empty shelves on the busiest nights and less overstock after them.
Suggested orders are built from minimum levels, recent sales and supplier lead times. Managers adjust and approve them on a phone, the order goes to the supplier by email or integration, and expected deliveries show against each branch.
Ordering takes minutes instead of an evening with a spreadsheet.
Staff count by area or category with phone cameras or Bluetooth scanners. The app compares counts with expected stock, highlights large differences for a recount and asks for a reason before any adjustment is saved.
Stocktakes finish faster and adjustments come with an explanation.
The back office shows sell through by style, branch and season, flags lines that have not moved for a set period and estimates the value tied up in them. Exports go to your accountant or into Xero or Sage.
Markdowns and reorders are decided from evidence.
New deliveries can print barcode and price labels straight from the receiving screen, including size and colour on garment tags. When prices change, the app produces a list of shelf edge labels to replace per branch, so the price at the till and the price on the rail agree.
Customers see the same price on the shelf that they pay at the till.
Who it suits
Manchester businesses tend to come to us when their stock has spread across more places than one person can keep in their head. That might be a second shop, a trade showroom alongside a retail unit, or a website that now sells as much as the counter. Custom inventory management app development Manchester traders commission is rarely about adding features for their own sake; it is about removing the phone calls, recounts and oversells that eat into every week. The fits below describe where we usually start, but discovery shapes the final plan around your own stock and staff.
You sell to retailers in packs and singles, often face to face, and stock sits partly on the showroom floor and partly in a back room or nearby unit. We build reservation against trade accounts, pack and size handling, quick invoicing and a clear view of what is genuinely free to sell, so your team can answer buyers without walking off to check. Buyers who order by phone or WhatsApp after a visit can have their picks entered against the same account, so the history stays complete.
Trade pricing tiers can be built in without showing them to retail customers.
Your Northern Quarter or suburban shop has added a Shopify or Instagram store, and keeping both in step by hand has started to cause oversells. We connect the till and the web store to one stock record, add a simple listing flow for new arrivals and give you a daily view of what sold where. Photos, descriptions and condition notes are captured once on a phone, so a new delivery can be online before it reaches the rail.
Bars, restaurants and cafes across the city order drinks, food and consumables from several suppliers, and stock moves between venues when one runs short on a busy night. We build par levels per venue, transfer logging, batch and expiry tracking for perishables, and weekly counts that show the gap between what was bought and what was sold. Venue managers get a short list each morning of what is low, what is close to its date and what has been moved in from another site, so ordering starts from facts rather than a walk round the cellar with a notepad.
Spillage and comps can be recorded separately from losses.
One shop worked on memory and a spreadsheet. Three or four do not. We set up each branch as its own location, give area managers a combined view, and build transfer and reorder flows that let the central branch act as a feeder for smaller sites in the surrounding towns. Each new opening then becomes a matter of adding a location and its staff, rather than rebuilding the way you count and order.
Working together
Many Manchester businesses start with one clearly scoped release and move to a monthly retainer once the app is in daily use. Others, usually larger retail or hospitality groups, prefer a dedicated team that keeps building through a longer roadmap. With 200+ projects delivered across the UAE and the US and a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, we can staff either model, and reviews always run over video call. You deal directly with the inventory management app developers Manchester clients are assigned, so questions reach the person writing the code.
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
Staff apps are usually cross platform for iOS and Android, built in Flutter or React Native, with a web back office and cloud hosting in a region you approve. Scanner hardware and your existing POS shape the final choices, and we explain each one in plain terms before work starts.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on the scope you agree in discovery.
A focused first release with counts, POS sync and reordering for a few branches is quicker than a platform that also covers trade accounts, batch tracking and several sales channels. Data quality matters too: clean barcodes and product lists shorten the import stage considerably. We set milestones with you during discovery and write the dates into the scope, so you know what arrives when. If a deadline matters, such as a new branch opening or the run into Christmas trading, tell us early so the first release can be shaped around it.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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