Services · Ecommerce development · Food ordering portals
We take on online food ordering website development in Manchester for groups of food businesses that want to sell together under one name. A cuisine street, a food hall, a stadium concourse or a student district can each run a portal where diners order from several kitchens, pay in one go and collect or receive their meals. Your organisation sets the rules, earns the commission and owns the customer list. Manchester's mix of match days, concerts, two big universities and strong independent food scenes shapes every decision.
We focus on the parts that handle money: seller sign-up, menus, checkout, splitting payments, refunds and ratings. The portal runs in any phone or desktop browser, so diners do not need to download anything before their first order. Codeeo works with Manchester businesses remotely, holding every meeting by video call and sharing progress on a staging site.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the portal can include
Manchester's food scene is spread across distinct districts: curry houses along Wilmslow Road in Rusholme, Chinatown near Piccadilly, independents in the Northern Quarter and Ancoats, and newer clusters around Spinningfields and MediaCityUK in Salford. Groups in each of these areas want something different from a shared portal. A cuisine street wants to be found by the people who travel for that food. A venue wants pre-orders tied to kick-off times. A student district wants cheap, quick collection between lectures. The capabilities below cover those needs, starting with the seller tools that keep menus accurate and moving through payments to the controls you need on the busiest nights. Each one can be switched on, adjusted or left out depending on what your sellers will actually use. Your operations team changes these settings in the admin without waiting for a developer.
Restaurants apply online with their business details, bank account through the payment provider and their Food Standards Agency hygiene rating. Your committee or operations team approves each seller and can set conditions, such as a minimum rating, before a menu goes live. Ratings refresh from the published data, so a changed score shows without manual edits.
Members join quickly without lowering standards.
Diners filter by halal status, vegetarian, vegan or gluten free. For halal, sellers can name their certifying body or declare their own sourcing, so the portal shows what they actually state rather than a vague badge. Allergen details sit beside these tags on every dish.
Diners find food they can eat in fewer taps.
Dish names and descriptions can carry translations, useful in Chinatown, along the Curry Mile and for international students. English stays the base language, with translations managed by each seller in the admin. Missing translations fall back to English rather than leaving gaps.
Visitors and newcomers order without guessing.
On days with fixtures at the Etihad or Old Trafford, or shows at the arenas, the admin can tighten delivery zones, extend preparation times and open pre-order windows tied to the event schedule, then reset everything afterwards. Sellers get a notice the day before so they can plan staff and stock for the rush.
Big nights stay profitable instead of chaotic.
Coverage is drawn by postcode or radius per seller, so a kitchen in Ancoats can serve the city centre without promising Didsbury. Zones can cross council boundaries while each seller's alcohol licence stays tied to the authority that granted it. MediaCityUK office workers can be served at lunch from nearby Salford kitchens.
Every promise on the map is one a rider can keep.
A student flat or an office team builds one basket from several kitchens, and each person pays their own share before the order is sent. The organiser sees who has paid and can release the order once everyone has. Unpaid shares expire after a set time so kitchens are never left waiting.
Group orders without one person chasing money.
Payment runs through a regulated provider's marketplace product with Apple Pay, Google Pay and cards under Strong Customer Authentication. Each seller's share is paid on a schedule you set, and your commission is invoiced automatically. Statements show VAT on your commission separately.
Sellers stop asking when they will be paid.
Fields cover the fourteen allergens and calorie information, which larger businesses in England must show online. Fees and charges appear in the price from the start, as the drip pricing rules require. Sellers also confirm ingredients for dishes prepacked for direct sale, which need full labels.
Menus that inform rather than surprise.
Only verified diners can review, sellers can reply, and fake reviews are screened out. Complaints follow a set path, refunds are issued through the provider, and patterns per seller show up in the admin. Sellers can reply publicly once to each review.
Trust that builds over time instead of eroding.
Manchester's city centre trades late, and many portals sell drinks with food. Each seller's licensing hours set when alcohol can appear, checkout asks for age confirmation, and riders or counter staff check ID on handover. Kitchens open after midnight can run a shorter late menu without editing the daytime one. Late menus can also be limited to collection only if riders are scarce after midnight.
Late orders welcomed, licence conditions respected.
Who this is for
A shared portal works best when the sellers already have something in common: a street, a building, an audience or an owner. In Manchester we see four starting points again and again. Each brings its own first priorities, and naming yours early saves a lot of rework later in the build. Manchester groups that combine two of these, such as a market that also caters for a nearby venue, can run both from one admin.
Restaurants on the same street compete, but they also share a reputation that draws people across the city. A portal under the street's own name lets diners browse every member, compare menus and order collection or delivery. Fair ranking rules, member approval and a modest commission that funds shared marketing usually lead the plan. Search pages for each cuisine help diners from other parts of Greater Manchester find the street online.
Shared reputation, shared site.
Halls and markets with many traders want order-ahead for collection, table ordering and a way to sell on quiet days. Traders need simple dashboards and payouts after each trading day, while the operator needs one view of sales across the building. Table numbers or QR codes link diners to the right seating area so runners can find them.
Pre-ordering before a match or concert cuts concourse queues and spreads kitchen work across the hour before doors. The portal opens per event, caps orders per collection point and handles the licensed bar alongside food from several outlets. Collection points near each stand keep crowds moving at half time and after the final whistle.
Around the Oxford Road corridor, purpose-built student housing and campus outlets can share a portal offering collection between lectures and late delivery to halls. Term dates, group ordering and accessible checkout come first. Halls can choose whether residents pay by card or through an allowance set by the provider.
Built around the academic year.
How we work with you
Codeeo does not have a Manchester office. Our team of 80+ in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and is rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. Manchester clients work with us by video call, with a shared plan, a staging site and written decisions after every session. Sellers can join short training calls from their own premises. A named project lead keeps one list of open decisions, and every release ends with a demo on the staging site and written notes of what changed. Your sellers are invited to test before each release reaches diners.
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 Next.js or Laravel with a marketplace payment provider and hosting in your own UK cloud account. The stack is chosen to suit your sellers' tills and the people who will maintain the portal later. Monitoring, backups and error alerts are in place from the first day of trading, and every account and password is registered to your organisation.
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03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
We do, by video call from our team abroad.
Codeeo plans, designs and builds shared ordering portals for Manchester clients without being on site. We gather requirements in video workshops, share screens and prototypes for review and test the portal with your sellers on a staging link. You get written scope, dates and decisions throughout. Seller training, launch support and later releases follow the same remote pattern, and recordings of key sessions are shared so new staff can catch up without another meeting.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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