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Billing that keeps up with Manchester payrolls that grow, shrink and pause.

Codeeo offers payroll subscription website development Manchester payroll providers rely on when their customers' headcount refuses to sit still. We build plan pages, usage-based billing, sign-up, invoices and an account area for payroll software firms and bureaux selling to Greater Manchester employers: production companies around MediaCityUK in Salford, hospitality operators in the city centre, event caterers working arena and stadium dates, and fast-growing tech firms in the Northern Quarter. Customers pay for the payroll they actually run, and you stop correcting invoices by hand.

Our work covers the site that sells the service and the billing behind it. The payroll calculations stay in your product, which we connect to billing through its API so usage, plans and access always agree.

Built for
Payroll software companies and payroll bureaux in Manchester and Salford whose customers' headcount changes month to month.
Typical timeline
Discovery calls settle the pricing model and first release; written dates follow before design starts, and later releases are planned the same way.
What you own
The code, the billing account and its subscriber data, usage records, content and domain, all registered to 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

Platform capabilities

Built for payroll that changes size every month.

Flat per-employee plans work for a firm whose staff numbers barely change. Many of the employers a Manchester payroll provider serves are not like that. A television production may hire a full crew for twelve weeks and then drop to a few office staff. A city-centre bar group takes on casual staff around big weekends and university terms. An events caterer working dates at the arenas and stadiums across Greater Manchester can triple its payroll for a week. If billing assumes a steady headcount, these customers either overpay and leave, or underpay and cost you money. The capabilities below price payroll by what is actually processed, let customers pause and resume, and give them invoices they can check against their own pay runs. We choose the mix with you, based on how your current customers behave.

Explain your project
  • Usage-based billing by payslip or run

    The payroll product reports payslips or pay runs processed each period, and billing charges against the rates in the customer's plan. A minimum monthly charge can protect your margin, with usage above it billed at the end of the cycle. Customers see usage building up in their account before the invoice arrives.

    Customers with variable payrolls pay a fair amount.

  • Pause and resume between projects

    A production company between series, or a seasonal operator out of season, can pause its subscription from the account area. Records stay accessible for the retention period you set, billing drops to a dormant rate or stops, and the account resumes with one click when the next contract begins.

    Customers come back rather than cancel.

  • Multiple companies under one login

    Some production groups set up a new company for each project, and hospitality groups often run each venue as a separate employer. One login can hold many companies, each with its own PAYE reference, plan and invoice, or one combined invoice if the group prefers it.

    Groups manage every entity from a single account.

  • Clear plan pages and estimator

    Plan pages explain how usage pricing works in plain English, with an estimator where a visitor enters typical crew size or casual headcount and pay frequency. VAT and any onboarding charge are included in the estimate, so the figure on the page matches the first invoice.

    Usage pricing feels predictable before purchase.

  • Checkout with Strong Customer Authentication

    Card payments include the bank approval step required by Strong Customer Authentication, handled inside checkout. For usage charges taken later, the billing provider uses the agreed merchant-initiated payment flow, so customers are not asked to approve every variable invoice. Direct Debit through Bacs is available for customers who prefer it.

    Variable charges collect without repeated approval prompts.

  • Usage alerts and spending caps

    Customers set alerts when usage passes a level they choose, and finance contacts receive a mid-cycle summary. Optional caps hold processing for approval above a set point, which suits production accountants working to a fixed budget per project.

    No customer is surprised by a large invoice.

  • Invoices that match pay runs

    Each invoice lists the pay runs or payslips charged, by company and date, alongside the VAT details a UK invoice requires. A customer can match every line to their own payroll records, and your accounting system receives the same detail for Making Tax Digital reporting.

    Fewer billing queries reach your team.

  • Account area for finance contacts

    Finance contacts change plans, add companies, update payment details, download invoices and manage pauses without contacting support. Role permissions separate who can approve spending from who can only view, which matters for groups with several venues or productions.

    Routine account work becomes self-service.

  • Usage feed from your payroll product

    Payroll billing integration services in Manchester projects usually centre on this feed. Your product sends usage events after each pay run; billing confirms them, rejects duplicates and flags gaps. We add a reconciliation report so your finance team can check usage against invoices each month.

    Billing and payroll records stay in step.

  • Pages for Manchester search demand

    Sector pages for production payroll, hospitality payroll and payroll for tech start-ups answer the searches each type of employer makes, with structured data, quick load times and plain explanations of pricing. Each page leads to the plan that suits that employer instead of a general contact form.

    Visitors arrive at a page written for their business.

Who this is for

Payroll providers whose Manchester customers rarely stand still.

These four situations come up most often when payroll providers in Manchester and Salford look at their billing. In each, the payroll service itself works, but the way it is sold and charged does not fit customers whose staff numbers move with productions, seasons, events or funding rounds. Payroll SaaS website development in Manchester for these firms is mainly about getting the pricing model right, then building the site around it.

01

A production payroll specialist near MediaCityUK

Production payroll means short engagements, crew paid weekly, and a company that may only exist for one series. Billing per production, with the ability to pause between projects and reopen under the same login, matches how production accountants work. Plan pages can explain the model in the language they use, and invoices can be split by production for their cost reports. Crew onboarding links can be shared with each new production so the payroll team receives starter details before the first weekly run.

Pricing per production is one option among several.

02

A bureau serving hospitality across the city centre

Bars, restaurants and hotels across Manchester city centre take on casual staff, many of them students, around busy weekends, concerts and term dates. A bureau billing these clients on a fixed headcount either overcharges in quiet months or undercharges in busy ones. Usage pricing with a minimum charge and clear invoices solves both problems. Onboarding forms can also capture student status and term dates where they affect how a worker is paid.

03

A payroll start-up in the Northern Quarter

Young software teams need a site that sells without a sales team: public plans, self-serve sign-up, automatic provisioning and billing that scales as customers grow from five employees to fifty. We build the first release around the plans you are most sure of, then add usage pricing or multi-company accounts as the customer base shows demand. Search pages aimed at other Manchester start-ups help early sales, since founders often buy from people they meet in the same co-working spaces and events.

04

An established provider adding a second pricing model

Some providers keep their existing per-employee plans for steady customers and want a usage plan for variable ones. Payroll subscription platform development in Manchester for these firms means running both models on one billing system, letting customers switch between them at renewal, and keeping reporting comparable across the two.

Existing customers keep their current terms until they choose to move.

From pricing model to live billing in six stages.

  1. 01Study how customers really payWe look at a year of anonymised headcount and pay run data with you to see how usage moves across seasons, productions and events, and which pricing model fits.
  2. 02Agree the pricing rulesMinimums, usage rates, pauses, caps, multi-company discounts and notice terms are written as rules your finance team signs off, before any screen is designed.
  3. 03Design the plan and account screensPlan pages, estimator, checkout and the finance contact's account area are designed together and reviewed by video call with people who resemble your customers.
  4. 04Build the usage pipelineWe build the usage feed from your payroll product, the billing logic and the reconciliation report, then run months of sample data through it to prove invoices are right.
  5. 05Test payments and edge casesCard authentication, merchant-initiated charges, Direct Debit collections, pauses, mid-cycle plan changes and refunds are all tested against the signed-off rules.
  6. 06Launch and watch the first cyclesCustomers move across in groups, and we review the first invoices with your finance team so any disputed lines are traced and fixed before the next cycle.

Technology

What we build this with.

We use a mainstream billing provider that supports usage-based pricing and UK payment methods, a fast front end for the public site, and documented APIs between billing and your payroll product so your own developers can extend them. Everything is hosted in accounts you own.

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 from Manchester payroll providers.

It suits providers whose customers' headcount changes a lot, but not every provider.

If most of your customers employ a steady number of people, simple per-employee plans are easier to explain and forecast. Usage pricing earns its extra complexity when customers run productions, seasonal trading or event staffing. We look at your real customer data in discovery and recommend a model, or a mix of two, based on what it shows. For a Manchester bureau with a mixed client base, a common answer is a per-employee plan for steady employers and a usage plan with a minimum charge for the rest, both on the same billing system.

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