Services · Mobile app development · Inventory management apps
Codeeo provides inventory management app development UK retailers, franchise networks and branch based businesses use to run stock across many locations. The app holds one accurate count for every shop and branch, connects to tills, web stores and accounting software, and handles reordering and transfers between sites. Head office sees the whole country at once, while each store manager works on the few screens their branch actually needs.
We work with UK clients remotely, from discovery through to rollout. Planning sessions, design reviews and staff training run over video call, so a network with branches from Plymouth to Inverness can take part on equal terms without anyone travelling. As an inventory management app development company UK organisations brief remotely, we keep decisions, scope and progress written down where every stakeholder can see them.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
Platform features
Running stock across one city is a logistics question. Running it across the UK adds regional buying patterns, franchisees with their own priorities, different delivery routes for each region, and a reporting layer that finance, buyers and area managers all depend on. It also brings national rules into play: UK GDPR for staff and customer data, PECR for marketing messages such as back in stock alerts, and HMRC's Making Tax Digital for the VAT records your stock figures feed.
The features below are the building blocks of a multi-region inventory platform. We choose and order them with you so the first release solves the problem costing the most today, and so later branches and regions join a system that already works. Each feature is built so it can be switched on per region, which lets you trial new processes in one area before taking them nationwide.
Stores are grouped by area, region and nation, with franchise and company owned sites marked separately. Reorder rules, price lists and permissions can be set at any level and inherited below, so a change for every Scottish store is made once, not forty times.
Head office manages the network by region instead of branch by branch.
Buyers allocate new stock to stores using sales history, store grade and space, then the app generates replenishment from minimum levels. Branches can request extra stock, and requests are approved or adjusted centrally before suppliers or your central store fulfil them.
New lines reach the stores most likely to sell them.
Transfers between stores in the same area are approved locally, while longer moves go through head office. Goods heading from Great Britain to Northern Ireland can be flagged so the right paperwork is checked before they leave.
Slow stock in one region becomes sales in another.
Franchisees see and manage their own stock while the franchisor sees agreed figures across the network. Ordering from the franchisor's approved catalogue can be enforced, and reports show compliance with core range and display standards.
Franchisor and franchisee work from the same numbers.
Stock movements, purchase orders and supplier invoices flow to Xero, Sage, QuickBooks or Business Central, so cost of sales and stock valuation reach the ledger without rekeying. That helps keep the digital records Making Tax Digital for VAT expects.
Month end close uses live stock figures, not estimates.
Online orders can be routed to the nearest store holding stock, picked there and handed to Royal Mail, DPD, Evri or another carrier you use, or held for collection. Stock committed to these orders is removed from what the shop floor can sell.
Your whole store network acts as fulfilment for online sales.
The app reads GS1 barcodes and your own codes, and a central product record holds descriptions, variants, supplier codes and images. Store staff can request corrections, which a product team approves before they spread to every branch.
Every store scans and sees the same product information.
Screens are designed against WCAG 2.2, with readable text, clear contrast and support for screen readers and larger fonts. That helps you meet your duties under the Equality Act to make reasonable adjustments for staff who use the app every shift.
Every colleague can count and receive stock without workarounds.
Dashboards compare stock cover, sell through, shrinkage and availability by store, region and nation. Exceptions such as large count variances or repeated short deliveries surface automatically for area managers to follow up.
Problems are spotted across hundreds of sites, not discovered at audit.
Stores in Wales can show product names and shelf labels in Welsh and English where you choose to. The same approach supports Gaelic signage in parts of Scotland, using fields maintained centrally.
Bilingual stores keep labels consistent without manual edits.
Who it suits
A national business usually reaches for a custom inventory app when its current tools stop scaling: the POS stock module works for each shop, but nobody can see the network as a whole, or the ERP is too heavy for store staff to use on a phone. Custom inventory management app development UK networks commission tends to sit between those systems, giving store teams a simple app and head office a single picture. These are the most common starting points we see across the country.
You run dozens of stores from a head office, buying centrally and allocating to branches. Regional demand differs, and stock often sits in the wrong part of the country. We build allocation, replenishment, inter-store transfers and network reporting, with a staff app for counts, receiving and lookups that fits around your existing POS and ERP. Store grades, such as flagship, high street and outlet, can drive different ranges and minimum levels, so a small format store is not sent the depth a flagship needs.
We plan around the systems you keep, rather than replacing them for the sake of it.
Franchisees run their own businesses but buy from your catalogue and follow your standards. We build separate franchisee and franchisor views, controlled ordering from approved lines, stock reporting that respects what franchisees share, and a rollout plan that onboards new franchise sites as they open anywhere in the UK. Where franchisees already run their own tills, we can read their sales through agreed integrations instead of asking them to change systems.
Builders' merchants, parts distributors and trade suppliers with branches in many towns need counter speed and network visibility. We focus on stock lookup across nearby branches, account orders, branch transfers by your own vans and reorder rules tuned to each branch's trade, so a customer can be told within seconds which nearby branch has the part. Branch managers keep control of local stock decisions, while the network view stops two branches ordering the same slow line from a supplier.
Nearby branch search can use distance or your own delivery routes.
Pub groups, cafe chains and leisure sites across the country order food, drink and consumables locally and centrally. We build par levels by site, supplier ordering, batch and date tracking, waste logging and transfers between sites, with group reporting that compares gross profit and waste by site and region. Seasonal sites such as coastal venues can be opened and closed in the system, with leftover stock returned or transferred at the end of the season.
Engagement models
National projects usually begin with a scoped first release and pilot, followed by a dedicated team or retainer through the rollout and beyond. The inventory management app developers UK clients work with stay on the product after launch, so knowledge of your network is not lost. Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and is rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. All collaboration with UK clients is remote, by video call. Governance is agreed at the start: who signs off each release, who owns product data, and how store feedback reaches the backlog.
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
Store apps are typically built in Flutter or React Native for iOS, Android and rugged handhelds, with a web back office and cloud hosting in a UK or other approved region. Integration work uses each platform's published APIs. Rugged scanners from the main manufacturers run Android, so one codebase covers phones and handhelds.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
The hard parts are hierarchy, integration and rollout, not the screens.
For a single shop, an inventory app is mostly about counts and reorders. For a UK network, the work centres on how regions and franchisees are structured, which system holds the master stock figure, how data flows to finance and how dozens of stores are onboarded without disrupting trade. We plan these early so the store app stays simple while the platform behind it carries the complexity. It also means choosing sensible defaults per region, because a rule that suits a London store may not suit a rural branch with weekly deliveries.
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