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Codeeo delivers paid job board website development Manchester founders and regional publishers use to turn local hiring into steady revenue. We build pay-as-you-post checkout for small firms, slot-based plans for recruiters, seasonal graduate packages, paid stands at your hiring events and sponsored sector channels for digital, media, professional services and logistics. Candidate search works across all ten Greater Manchester boroughs, so an employer in Stockport or Wigan pays for an audience that can actually reach them.
Regional boards win on local knowledge and lose on clumsy checkout. We work with Manchester clients remotely from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, holding every workshop and review by video call, and we write each phase's scope down before work starts.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What we build for a regional board
A regional board competes with national giants by being more useful locally. Employers in the city region want applicants who can get to work, a fair price for one vacancy, and a board that knows the difference between a role at MediaCityUK and one at a warehouse near the airport. Candidates want search that understands trams and buses, not just miles on a map. That makes the commercial design different from a national site: smaller orders, more of them, and products tied to the local calendar of graduate intakes and hiring events. The modules below are the ones Manchester boards tend to need. We choose and order them with you so the first release starts earning quickly.
Independent businesses in the Northern Quarter or a Bolton high street rarely want a contract. They post one vacancy, choose how long it runs, and pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay with bank authentication handled by the provider. A receipt with VAT shown arrives straight away, and reposting the same role later takes two clicks. Accounts are created during checkout, so nobody has to register before they can post.
Small employers buy without being sold to.
Agencies working across the North West subscribe to a plan with a set number of live job slots. They swap vacancies in and out of slots freely, pay monthly by card or Direct Debit, and can move up a tier mid-month with the difference prorated automatically.
Recruiters pay for capacity, not for every single advert.
Candidates filter by borough, by Metrolink stop or by travel time on the Bee Network, so a job seeker in Rochdale sees roles reachable without a car. Each listing shows the nearest stops, which tends to reduce applications from people who later find the commute unworkable.
Employers receive applicants who can get to the job.
Employers recruiting graduates from the universities along Oxford Road and beyond buy packages timed to the autumn and spring recruitment windows: a set of listings, a featured spot in the graduate section and inclusion in a graduate alert email. Packages expire when the season closes, so pricing stays simple.
Seasonal revenue that matches how graduate hiring actually happens.
If you run jobs fairs or sector hiring evenings, employers book and pay for stands on the same platform they use to post jobs. Candidates register free, stand holders download the attendee list where consent allows it, and the event page links straight to each exhibitor's open vacancies.
One account covers events and adverts together.
Digital and creative roles around MediaCityUK and the Northern Quarter, professional services in Spinningfields, health and care across the boroughs, and logistics near the airport each get their own channel. An employer or agency can sponsor a channel for a period, with their brand on the page and their roles listed first.
Premium visibility sold by sector rather than by advert.
Employers can show that they support the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter or pay the real Living Wage. Badges are self-declared, then checked by your team against the public information before they appear, and a badge can be removed if the claim stops being true.
Candidates can spot fair employers at a glance.
Firms without an applicant tracking system can pay a little more per advert for simple tools: a shortlist, rejection messages, interview invitations and notes shared between two or three managers. Applications stay on the board under UK GDPR retention rules, deleted automatically after the period you set.
An upsell that saves small employers real admin time.
When an advert is withdrawn early or a duplicate order slips through, the admin team issues a full or partial refund and the system raises a matching credit note. VAT on the original invoice is reversed correctly, and the accounting export keeps your books aligned without manual journals.
Mistakes fixed in minutes, with the paperwork done properly.
Every paying employer sees views, applications and the boroughs their applicants live in, broken down by advert. Recruiters on slot plans see which slots are earning and which sit idle. Your own team sees revenue by product, sector and borough, which shows where the next sponsored channel or event is worth launching in Manchester and beyond.
Data that helps employers renew and helps you plan.
Who this is for
Regional boards in Greater Manchester tend to start from something they already own: a readership, a network, an event series or a recruitment desk. Each brings a different first customer and a different first product. Paid job board website design Manchester employers respond to begins with that existing asset, because it is what makes your board worth paying for over a national site. Below are the four we meet most often, with the product each one usually sells first.
You have readers across the boroughs and a sales team that already sells advertising to local businesses. The board adds a product they can bundle: listings with display adverts, sponsored sector channels, and an invoice option for the employers who already have accounts. We connect the board to your existing advertising customers so your team is not maintaining two separate lists.
Existing advertisers become the first paying employers.
Your members hire, and they want a place to reach candidates that feels local. Member pricing, included postings in a membership tier and event stands at your networking evenings fit naturally. We check membership status automatically at checkout, so the right price appears without discount codes. When a membership lapses, the board moves the business to standard pricing at its next order and tells them why.
Membership and hiring sit in one account.
Hiring around Salford Quays and the city centre often moves through word of mouth and personal networks. A sector board formalises that, with portfolio links on applications, freelance and contract fields, and recruiter slot plans. Job board subscription platform development Manchester digital agencies will pay for usually starts with slots and a featured allowance. Freelancers can be listed alongside permanent roles, with day rates shown where the employer provides them.
Contract and freelance fields matter as much as salaries here.
Your agency places across the North West and wants a board that other employers pay to use. We keep the board's employer accounts and data separate from your own client records, and give you reporting that shows which sectors and boroughs generate paid postings.
Your own desk and the board can grow without sharing data.
Working with a Manchester client
We have no office in Manchester and do not offer in-person meetings there. Discovery workshops, design walkthroughs and sprint demos run by video call, and every session ends with written notes, a recording and an updated backlog. You approve each phase before the next starts, and any change to scope is priced and agreed first. Questions of law, such as whether event attendee lists can be shared with exhibitors, go to your own adviser, and we build to their guidance. Once the board is live, we can carry on with new products season by season, or hand the whole system to your own developers with documentation, admin guides and access to every account.
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
A typical Manchester board runs on Laravel or Next.js with PostgreSQL, a search index for location and travel time queries, open transport stop data for tram and bus filters, and UK hosting. Cookie and analytics consent follows PECR from the first page view, and the site is built to load quickly on mid-range phones over mobile data, which is how many candidates in the region search.
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02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
With the one paid product your existing audience will buy soonest.
For a publisher, that is often listings bundled with existing advertising. For a business network, member postings. For a sector board, recruiter slot plans. We build that product first, with checkout, VAT invoices and verification done properly, then add packages, events and sponsorships in later phases. Starting narrow means the board earns while the rest is built, and early sales tell you which products to prioritise next. It also gives your sales team something concrete to sell to Manchester employers while the larger features are still in progress.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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