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Subscription platforms for stock software sold to businesses across all four UK nations.

Codeeo provides inventory management subscription website development UK software vendors use to sell stock control by monthly or annual plan, nationwide. We build the pricing site, checkout, recurring billing, VAT invoicing and customer account area, set up for how British businesses buy and pay: Direct Debit, card with Strong Customer Authentication, invoice terms for larger accounts and pay by bank. Customers from a Cardiff wholesaler to a Belfast distributor can sign up, change plan and settle invoices without your team stepping in.

Selling across the whole country brings questions a single city vendor rarely meets: Scots law contracts, Welsh language expectations, Northern Ireland goods rules, accountants acting as resellers, and VAT reporting under Making Tax Digital. The platform handles them as configuration rather than special cases. Each is switched on only where you need it.

Built for
UK inventory and stock control software companies selling to retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers and accountants' clients in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Typical timeline
Release order and timing are agreed in discovery and written down; national features such as reseller billing or bilingual pages can follow the core launch.
What you own
Code, billing and payment provider accounts, plan catalogue, customer, subscription and reseller records, all in your company's name.
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 scope

The parts a national stock software subscription needs.

Inventory software reaches British businesses through several routes at once. Some customers find you in search and sign up alone. Some are introduced by their accountant or bookkeeper, who may manage the subscription for them. Larger groups buy through a sales process with a contract and purchase orders. A national platform has to serve all three without three separate billing setups.

It also has to meet national rules consistently: VAT invoices HMRC will accept, data handling that satisfies UK GDPR and the ICO, cookie consent under PECR, and price display that respects the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. Here is what we build, ordered from the public pages to the back office. Not every vendor needs all ten on day one; we agree with you which ones belong in the first release and which can wait for evidence from paying customers.

Explain your project
  • National pricing and plan pages

    One plan catalogue drives the pricing page, checkout and invoices, so nothing on the site can disagree with what customers are charged. Plans can be priced by locations, SKUs, users or orders, with a comparison table and an estimator built on the units your product actually tracks.

    A single source of truth for every price you publish.

  • Accountant and reseller channel

    Many small UK businesses adopt software on their accountant's advice. We build a partner area where accountants and resellers open client accounts, choose who pays, receive wholesale or referral pricing and see commission statements based on paid invoices. Clients can move to direct billing later without losing history.

    A sales channel that scales with no extra admin.

  • Business verification at sign up

    Company name lookup against Companies House data to fill details and reduce typing errors, plus VAT number capture. Your team can flag accounts for manual review where a higher risk plan or invoice terms are involved.

    Cleaner customer records from the first day.

  • British payment methods

    Bacs Direct Debit for recurring collections, cards with Strong Customer Authentication at the first payment, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and Open Banking pay by bank through an FCA authorised provider. Customers choose; your billing logic stays the same.

    Payment options that match how UK firms prefer to pay.

  • VAT and Making Tax Digital ready records

    VAT invoices with the required details, credit notes for adjustments, and a clean sync of invoices and payments to Xero, Sage, QuickBooks or Business Central. Your quarterly VAT figures come from the same records your customers see. Adjustments never require editing an issued invoice.

    VAT returns built on data nobody has rekeyed.

  • Four nations configuration

    Contract terms selectable by jurisdiction where your lawyers want Scots law wording, Welsh language pages and emails where you choose to offer them, and add-ons for Northern Ireland customers whose stock moves under the Windsor Framework if your product supports that.

    Customers in every nation see terms and language that fit them.

  • Self-serve account management

    Plan and add-on changes with the price effect shown first, user management, payment method updates, invoice downloads and cancellation. Rules such as upgrades now and downgrades at renewal are applied consistently for every customer.

    Routine admin handled by customers themselves.

  • Dunning and collections

    Retry schedules matched to card and Direct Debit rules, reminder emails, in product notices and staged restrictions that never delete stock data. Invoice customers receive statements and reminders before and after the due date. Access resumes the moment the account is settled.

    Overdue revenue recovered with less manual chasing.

  • Accessible by design

    Pricing tables, forms, checkout and the portal built to WCAG 2.2 AA, tested with keyboards and screen readers. Public sector bodies and larger buyers increasingly check accessibility, and it supports your duties under the Equality Act.

    A buying process every customer can complete.

  • National revenue reporting

    Recurring revenue, churn and expansion by channel, plan and region, sent to Power BI or your data warehouse. You can see how the accountant channel compares with direct sign ups, or how Scotland performs against the English regions.

    Growth decisions grounded in billing data.

Who this is for

Four kinds of UK vendor that need a national subscription platform.

The UK stock software market runs from long established vendors with thousands of small business customers to newer cloud products growing through ecommerce agencies and accountancy firms. Subscription platform development UK vendors commission tends to fall into four patterns, each shaped by how the product reaches its customers and how far across the country those customers are spread. Customers in Aberdeen, Swansea, Newcastle and Belfast should all find the same clear pricing and the same quick sign up, even though their terms, language preferences and payment habits may differ.

01

A vendor growing through accountants

Bookkeepers and accountancy practices recommend your product to their clients and sometimes pay for it on their behalf. You need partner accounts, client switching, flexible payer rules and commission statements. We build that partner layer on the same billing records as direct customers, so nothing is reconciled by hand. Accountants also get a simple way to move a client to a higher plan when the client's stock grows.

Partner billing often decides how fast a vendor can grow.

02

An established product modernising its billing

Your stock software has served UK businesses for a long time, and renewals still rely on annual invoices and phone payments. We move customers to Direct Debit or card with their existing terms, open online sign up and give finance clean recurring revenue reporting. Customers who prefer to keep paying by invoice can, with reminders and statements sent automatically.

03

A cloud product expanding from one region

You started with customers in your home city and now sell across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We add jurisdiction aware terms, optional Welsh language content, regional reporting and a sales assisted route for larger multi site customers. Sales teams in different regions see their own accounts and renewals in the CRM.

National reach without separate sites per nation.

04

A vendor serving multi site retail and wholesale groups

Your customers run branches and depots in several regions and buy centrally. They need per location pricing, purchase order numbers, consolidated invoices and an account owner who can add sites. We build those into plans and the portal. Each site can be added from the portal, with the price effect shown before it is confirmed.

Six phases to a subscription platform that serves the whole UK.

  1. 01Commercial and channel mappingDirect, partner and sales assisted routes mapped, with plans, units, payer rules, commission and contract terms written into one billing specification your finance and legal leads approve.
  2. 02Compliance and content planningPrice display, cancellation terms, privacy notices, cookie consent, accessibility standard and any Welsh language or Scots law wording agreed before pages are designed.
  3. 03Design and buildPricing site, checkout, partner area and customer portal designed around real plan data, then built and connected to the billing provider in your own account.
  4. 04Payments, tax and finance linksDirect Debit, cards, pay by bank, VAT rules, invoice templates and accounting sync configured and tested with sample customers from each nation.
  5. 05Customer and partner migrationExisting customers and partner relationships imported with their terms intact, a billing cycle rehearsed, and differences checked before switching over.
  6. 06Staged national rolloutLaunch to direct customers first, then partners, then regional or multi site accounts, with monitoring of renewals and failed payments at each stage.

Technology

What we build this with.

We usually combine Next.js or WordPress for the public site, Stripe Billing or Chargebee for subscriptions and VAT, GoCardless for Bacs Direct Debit, and Laravel or Node services for partner logic and product entitlements. Finance data syncs to Xero, Sage, QuickBooks or Business Central.

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

Questions UK inventory software vendors ask us.

Pricing site, checkout, billing, partner channel and customer portal.

For a nationwide vendor we build the public pricing and sign up pages, recurring billing with British payment methods, VAT invoicing and accounting sync, an accountant or reseller area if you sell through partners, and a customer portal for plan changes and invoices. We also connect your product so it enforces each customer's plan limits. The inventory product itself stays with your engineering team unless you want us to work on it. Where your product already has a billing module, we assess whether to extend it or replace it before recommending either, and explain the trade-off in plain terms.

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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PROVEN RESULTS

4.7 / 5from 23 Google reviews