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Paid job boards for Edinburgh employers, built with Scots law in mind.

Our paid job board website development Edinburgh service is for founders, sector bodies and recruiters who want Scottish employers to pay for advertising. We build checkout and terms that work under Scots law, verification for Scottish companies and charities, annual plans for universities and public bodies, short-run packs for the festival season, confidential listings for financial services, and candidate search that reaches commuters from Fife, the Lothians and the Borders. Every paid product sits on one platform your team runs.

Edinburgh's hiring mix of finance, public sector, universities, tech and hospitality rewards a board that understands it. Codeeo works with Edinburgh clients remotely from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and every discovery session, design review and demo is held by video call.

Built for
Scottish job boards, membership bodies, publishers and recruiters selling job advertising to Edinburgh and east of Scotland employers.
Typical timeline
Phases, priorities and launch order are settled in discovery and recorded in a written plan before design begins.
What you own
All source code, the domain, employer and candidate records and the payment provider account, held by your business.
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

What the Edinburgh platform covers

Paid products shaped by Scottish rules and the capital's hiring calendar.

Edinburgh is a capital city with its own legal system, its own charity regulator and a hiring year that bends around August, when the festivals draw huge numbers of visitors and seasonal staff. Employers range from asset managers and insurers to universities, the Scottish Government and its agencies, small hospitality businesses in the Old Town and tech firms around the city centre. A paid board that serves them well needs Scottish terms, Scottish verification sources and products that suit each kind of buyer. The modules below are the ones we build most often for an Edinburgh board, chosen and ordered with you so the earliest release brings in paying employers rather than waiting for every feature.

Explain your project
  • Terms and checkout written for Scots law

    Contracts in Scotland follow Scots law, and small disputes run through simple procedure in the sheriff court rather than the English small claims track. We build checkout, renewal and cancellation steps around terms your Scottish solicitor approves, with the governing law shown clearly and accepted before payment.

    Terms that fit the buyers you actually sell to.

  • Scottish company and charity verification

    Companies registered in Scotland carry an SC prefix at Companies House, and the board checks it automatically at sign-up. Charities are checked against the public register kept by OSCR, the Scottish Charity Regulator, which matters in a city with many third sector employers. Anything that fails a check waits for a person to review it.

    Real employers only, verified from Scottish sources.

  • Festival season listing packs

    Bars, venues, cafés and event producers hire in a rush before and during August. Short-run packs let them post several roles for a few weeks, pay once by card or Apple Pay and repost quickly when someone drops out. Packs expire after the season, so nobody pays for listings they no longer need.

    Revenue from Edinburgh's busiest hiring weeks of the year.

  • Annual plans and invoices for institutions

    Universities, NHS boards, councils and agencies usually buy through their own procurement rules and pay by invoice. We set up annual employer plans with purchase order references, VAT invoices and statements, and allow several departments to post under one institutional account with separate budgets.

    Large buyers can commit for the year on their terms.

  • Confidential listings for financial services

    Fund managers, insurers and banks often recruit quietly for senior or sensitive roles. A paid confidential upgrade hides the employer's name, routes applications through the board and reveals the employer only to candidates the hiring team invites forward, with the full record kept in the audit log.

    A premium product suited to the city's finance sector.

  • Commuter search across the east of Scotland

    Many people working in Edinburgh live in Fife, West Lothian, Midlothian or along the Borders Railway, and some travel from Glasgow. Candidates can filter by rail line, tram stop or travel time, and listings show the nearest station, so employers reach a wider pool without misleading anyone about the commute. Hybrid patterns are shown too, since two office days a week changes what counts as a reasonable commute.

    Listings seen by everyone who can realistically get there.

  • Disclosure level on each listing

    Where a role involves regulated work with children or protected adults, the employer can state that PVG scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland is needed, or that a basic disclosure applies. The board shows the employer's statement; it does not run checks itself, and candidates know what to expect before applying. Listings can be filtered by disclosure level, which saves time for both sides.

    Fewer late surprises for candidates and hiring teams.

  • Student and part-time channel

    Students at the University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh Napier and Queen Margaret University look for part-time and seasonal work that fits around study. Employers can mark roles as suitable for term-time hours, and students with visa conditions can filter accordingly. Featured placement in this channel is sold separately, timed to the start of each academic term.

    A sponsored channel with a clear, renewable audience.

  • Fair Work First statements

    The Scottish Government's Fair Work First approach asks employers about practices such as the real Living Wage and effective voice for workers. Employers can add a short statement of their commitments to their profile, checked by your team before publishing, and candidates can filter by employers who have done so.

    Good employers rewarded with visibility.

  • Reporting for employers and your team

    Each employer sees views, applications and where applicants are travelling from for every Edinburgh advert, and institutional accounts see spend by department. Your own team sees revenue by product, sector and month, with the festival season shown separately, so you can judge which packs, channels and upgrades deserve more attention next year.

    Evidence that helps employers renew and you plan ahead.

Who this is for

Four Edinburgh businesses that charge for job advertising.

Edinburgh boards rarely compete on raw volume. They compete on knowing a sector or a community better than the national sites and on handling Scottish detail correctly. These are the starting points we see most often. Paid job board website design Edinburgh employers trust depends on which one you are, because the first paying customer differs for each. Once that is clear, the pricing, verification and launch order follow from it, and the rest of the build can be planned around real demand.

01

A Scottish sector body or professional association

You represent accountants, engineers, lawyers, charities or another profession and already run events and member services. The board adds member pricing, included postings within a membership tier and invoice billing for the larger employers. Members are recognised automatically at checkout, and non-members pay the standard price without anyone needing a code.

Membership records drive pricing with no manual work.

02

A third sector or public sector jobs board

Charities, housing associations and public bodies make up a large share of Edinburgh hiring. A board for them needs OSCR verification, institutional invoice accounts, Fair Work First statements and clear disclosure information for care and education roles. Pricing often has tiers by organisation size, so small charities can afford to post.

Verification and invoices matter more than design flourishes.

03

A hospitality and events board built around the festivals

The August rush creates thousands of short contracts and a scramble for staff. A board for this market sells quick card-paid packs, reposting tools and featured placement in the weeks before the season, with year-round listings for the city's hotels and restaurants keeping income steady outside it. Posting from a phone in a couple of minutes matters more than anything else to these employers.

Seasonal packs plus steady year-round listings.

04

A specialist recruiter opening a public board

Your agency places people in finance, tech or life sciences and wants a board other employers pay to use. Job board subscription platform development Edinburgh recruiters need often means monthly plans with job slots, confidential listings and a separate data space for your own clients.

The board's data stays separate from your agency records.

From first call to a Scottish board employers pay for.

  1. 01Discovery and revenue planWho in Edinburgh pays first, which products they buy, how membership or events feed sales, and which terms need a Scottish solicitor's review before launch.
  2. 02Pricing, terms and Scottish detailPlans, packs and upgrades priced in full, with Scots law terms, refund rules and renewal wording agreed before any checkout screen is drawn.
  3. 03Experience designPosting, payment, search and applications designed for phones and tested against WCAG 2.2 and the Equality Act duties you carry as a service provider.
  4. 04Build and payment setupThe board, payment provider, Direct Debit, institutional invoicing and accounting export built and tested with declined cards, bank challenges and refunds.
  5. 05Verification and moderationCompanies House and OSCR checks, review queues, scam advert rules and badge approval set up with your team before the first paid listing.
  6. 06Launch and first festival seasonListings and employers migrated, old URLs redirected, structured data checked, and the first August reviewed together to tune pack sizes and prices.

Technology

What we build this with.

We usually build an Edinburgh board on Next.js or Laravel with PostgreSQL, a search index for location and commute queries, UK hosting and a payment provider covering cards, wallets and Bacs Direct Debit. Consent for cookies and analytics follows PECR from the first visit.

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 Edinburgh job board owners ask before launch.

Yes, mainly in your contracts and how disputes are resolved.

Scotland has its own legal system, so the terms your board uses with Scottish employers should be written for Scots law and reviewed by a Scottish solicitor. Small claims run through simple procedure in the sheriff court. Data protection, VAT and the Consumer Contracts Regulations apply across the UK, so those parts work the same as in England, and the same VAT invoice serves an employer in Leith or in Leeds. We build the checkout to show and record acceptance of whichever terms your solicitor approves.

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