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Codeeo handles paid job board website development UK founders, trade bodies and recruitment groups use to charge for vacancies. We build the side of the board that takes money: self-serve job posting, listing packs and credits, recurring employer plans, CV database access, VAT invoices and verified employer accounts. Candidate search is built alongside it, because traffic is what each employer is paying for. The platform is planned for buyers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from the first release.
Our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and runs UK projects remotely, with discovery and design reviews held by video call. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, and clients rate us 4.7 from 23 Google reviews.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the platform sells and runs
A job board earns from employers, so the parts that matter most turn a hiring manager's visit into a paid, live vacancy. Across the UK that means one platform serving very different buyers: a café owner posting a single role by card, a national retailer on an annual plan paid by invoice, and an agency buying a bundle of credits for several desks. Each needs the full price shown before checkout, VAT handled properly and receipts their finance team accepts. Candidates need fast, honest search, since a board with weak traffic cannot keep its paying customers. Below are the modules we usually build, roughly in the order money moves through them. Each one is sized to the business model you settle on in discovery rather than switched on by default.
An employer writes the advert, picks a duration and any upgrades, previews it and pays by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Strong Customer Authentication is handled inside the payment provider's flow, so a bank challenge does not break the order. Drafts save as the employer types, so stopping to confirm a salary band does not lose the work.
Single vacancies sold without a sales call.
Recruiters and multi-site employers buy postings in advance and spend them across branches or consultants. You set the expiry rules, balances appear on every dashboard, and finance staff can download a statement showing which user spent which credit on which vacancy.
Larger orders from repeat buyers, traceable to each user.
Monthly or annual plans bundle live jobs, featured slots and database searches. Upgrades and downgrades are prorated, failed card payments trigger retries and reminder emails, and Bacs Direct Debit can sit beside cards for customers who prefer it. This is the core of job board subscription platform development UK clients ask us for most often.
Predictable income that renews without chasing.
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 brought drip pricing rules into force: mandatory charges belong in the headline price, not at the last step. Some buyers are private households or very small firms, so we show the full amount up front for everyone, mark VAT clearly and keep optional upgrades genuinely optional.
Prices that hold up if a buyer or regulator looks closely.
Limited companies are checked against Companies House at sign-up, email domains are matched to the business, and sole traders and charities go to a manual review queue. New accounts can be held until approved, and adverts that ask candidates for money or bank details are flagged before they publish.
Fewer scam adverts in front of job seekers.
Employers on qualifying plans search candidates who chose to be visible. Candidates control what is shown and can withdraw at any time, view limits follow the plan, and every employer search and download is logged so you can answer a subject access request or an ICO enquiry with evidence.
A premium product that respects UK GDPR.
Every order produces a VAT invoice with your registration number. Large accounts can pay on terms against a purchase order, and transactions export to Xero, QuickBooks or Sage so your bookkeeper keeps filing VAT returns through Making Tax Digital without retyping anything.
Finance teams can approve spend without emailing you.
Some boards let recruitment agencies respond to employer briefs and take a commission on each placement fee. We build agency onboarding with the identity checks your payment provider requires, split payments and payouts, a dispute window and refund handling, with every agreement recorded against the brief.
A second revenue line beyond paid listings.
Search by postcode and travel radius, remote and hybrid filters, and an optional Welsh language version of the candidate pages. Every vacancy carries job posting structured data, so listings can appear in Google's job results and send employers the traffic they paid for.
Visible listings that justify the price of the next one.
Who this is for
Most UK boards that charge employers fall into one of four groups. The difference matters, because it decides whether invoices or card payments come first, how much verification you need, and whether candidates ever pay for anything. In discovery we work out which group you sit in, then cut the first release around the buyer who will pay you soonest. Paid job board website design UK employers trust starts with that decision, not with the colour of the search button.
You already have members or readers in nursing, engineering, law or another field, and employers want to reach them. The board needs member discounts, bundles sold alongside print or event advertising, and invoice billing for the larger employers who already buy from you. We link it to your membership records so discounts apply automatically rather than through codes passed around by email.
Usually invoice-led, with card checkout for smaller employers.
Your traffic is real, but the listings are free and the business does not pay for itself. We introduce paid posting gradually: featured slots first, then paid standard listings, then plans, so employers who valued the free board are not driven away overnight. Analytics show which employers convert, which helps you set the next price.
A staged pricing rollout protects the traffic you built.
Your own brand attracts candidates for more roles than your consultants can fill. A paid board lets other employers and agencies advertise to that audience, with commission on placements made through the platform. We keep the agency marketplace separate from your internal recruitment systems, so client data never mixes. Agencies see only the briefs they are invited to, and employers see only the candidates submitted to them.
Commission and payouts are set per brief, not per agency.
A board that began in one city meets new rules when it sells across the UK: Scottish employers expect terms that work under Scots law, Welsh public bodies may need Welsh language content, and Northern Ireland has its own employment agency legislation. We plan regional landing pages, pricing and terms for each nation before the national launch. Sales reporting is split by nation as well, so you can see where employers convert and where the price needs another look.
Expansion is planned nation by nation, not switched on at once.
How we work with UK clients
Codeeo has no UK office. Our team works with UK clients remotely, and every workshop, design review and sprint demo runs by video call with notes and recordings shared afterwards. Work is split into phases with a written scope for each, so you know what the next phase includes before it starts. Anything that touches law, such as candidate fees, consumer cancellation rights or Scottish terms, we flag for your own solicitor rather than presenting our view as legal advice. After launch we can stay on for support and new modules, or hand everything to your own developers with documentation, admin guides and the credentials they need to carry on.
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 usually build on Next.js or Laravel with a PostgreSQL database, a payment provider that supports UK cards, wallets and Direct Debit, and hosting in a UK or EU region. Search runs on a dedicated index so filters stay fast as listings grow. Consent for cookies and analytics follows PECR, and candidate data stays in the region you choose.
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It depends on the revenue model, not on the number of pages.
A board that sells single listings by card is a much smaller build than one with plans, credit packs, invoice accounts, an agency marketplace and a paid CV database. We agree the first release in discovery, usually the posting and checkout flow that will bring in revenue soonest, and write the order of the remaining modules into the plan. Timing is then set phase by phase against an agreed scope, and anything that would change it is raised before work starts.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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