Services · Mobile app development · Perfume apps
We offer perfume app development Birmingham businesses can trade through all year, including the weeks before Eid, Diwali and Christmas when gift orders pile up. Codeeo designs and builds iOS and Android apps for city centre fragrance shops, family attar and oud sellers, Solihull boutiques and online brands shipping from Midlands warehouses. Gift set building, festival campaigns, click and collect, multilingual product pages and stock that matches the shelf all sit in one app your staff can run without extra headcount.
Codeeo has no Birmingham office; our team of 80+ works remotely with clients in the city, and discovery, design reviews and demos all happen by video call. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and hold a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. Below you will find the features, the businesses they suit and the questions owners here ask.
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Inside a Birmingham perfume app
A great deal of fragrance bought in Birmingham is bought for someone else. Gift sets for weddings and mehndi nights, Eid boxes for relatives, Diwali hampers and Christmas presents drive the busiest weeks, and they are the weeks when a shop has the least time to answer messages. The features below are chosen with that in mind. They also reflect the mix of customers in the city: students at the University of Birmingham, Aston and Birmingham City University, families who prefer to read in Urdu, Punjabi or Bengali, and shoppers who visit the Bullring at the weekend but order on a phone midweek. Perfume shopping app development Birmingham shops ask for tends to start with gifting and click and collect, then grows into loyalty once the first release has proved itself.
Customers assemble a box from a perfume, an attar, a body mist and bakhoor or a candle, choose the packaging and see the finished set before paying. You decide which products can be combined and how sets are priced, and staff receive one picking list per gift rather than five separate lines.
Bigger baskets without more questions at the counter.
Campaign pages for Eid, Diwali, Vaisakhi, Christmas and Valentine's Day go live on dates you schedule, with gift guides and last order dates for delivery. Because Eid moves each year, the calendar is set by your team rather than fixed in code.
Each peak is planned weeks ahead, not on the night.
English by default, with optional Urdu, Punjabi or Bengali text for product names, descriptions and checkout messages. Urdu is laid out right to left properly. We work from translations you trust rather than machine output on scent descriptions, where tone matters.
Older relatives can order without asking a younger family member for help.
Concentrated perfume oils are often sold in small roll-ons, by the tola or in sizes customers ask for by name. The catalogue handles these as proper variants with their own stock, so a 3 ml roll-on and a larger bottle of the same blend never get confused at picking.
Oil orders are picked correctly and stock counts stay true.
Customers reserve a fragrance online and collect it from your Bullring, Grand Central or Soho Road shop, with an option to test the tester before paying. Staff receive a ready-to-collect list and the customer gets a message when the bag is waiting. Uncollected reservations return to stock automatically after a period you set.
Online interest turns into footfall at your counter.
If you fulfil from a unit near the M6 or M42, the app shows a dispatch cut-off and courier options that will carry fragrance, with tracking inside each order. Delivery promises are taken from your courier's actual services rather than written in by hand.
Customers across the country get accurate delivery dates.
Points per purchase, birthday rewards and optional student offers checked through a verification service you choose. Rewards follow the customer between the app and your tills when your EPOS system supports it, so a regular is recognised whichever way they buy.
Students and regulars come back to you rather than a marketplace.
Customers ask whether a blend is long lasting or suitable as a gift and staff reply from the dashboard, with the product attached to the conversation. Messages stay in your business account, not on a personal phone that leaves when a staff member does.
Advice that used to happen on WhatsApp is kept on the record.
If you also supply other shops or market traders, approved trade accounts see trade prices, minimum quantities and repeat order lists in the same app. Retail customers never see those screens, and you approve each trade account yourself.
Wholesale and retail run from one catalogue and one stock count.
One admin view for stock across your shops and warehouse, collections waiting, gift orders to pack and campaign performance. Staff roles keep warehouse pickers, shop staff and managers on the screens they need.
Everyone on the team works from the same numbers.
Who this is for
Birmingham has a fragrance trade that rarely gets talked about outside the city: national names in the Bullring and Grand Central, family businesses selling attar and oud on Soho Road, Stratford Road and Alum Rock Road, premium independents in Solihull and Sutton Coldfield, and online sellers who chose the Midlands because it is easy to reach the rest of the country from here. Each needs perfume store app development Birmingham customers will actually use, and each starts somewhere different. Few businesses fit one box exactly, so treat these as starting points we adapt during discovery.
Your customers have bought from you for years, often for the whole family, and they order heavily before Eid and weddings. The app should make reordering a favourite blend quick, support Urdu or Punjabi where your customers prefer it and let relatives in other cities order from you too. We keep the design warm and simple, and we build around the measures and blends you already sell.
Repeat orders and festival peaks shape this build.
You compete with large department store counters a few minutes' walk away. An app gives your customers a reason to stay with you: reserve to try, personal recommendations from staff who know them and loyalty they cannot earn elsewhere. Click and collect brings app users back through your door, where your team does what it does best. Shoppers who travel in by train to New Street or Moor Street can reserve before they set off and pick up on the way home.
Your customers expect personal service and are happy to spend on niche houses. The app supports appointment booking, gift wrapping, a wishlist partners can see before birthdays and early access to new launches. We keep the volume of notifications low and the tone considered, because this customer notices when a shop starts to shout.
You already sell through a website and perhaps a marketplace, and you want customers who come back without paid ads. The app adds saved addresses, faster checkout, reorder reminders and push notifications for restocks. Because your warehouse sits near the motorway network, accurate dispatch cut-offs become a selling point we put on the product page. Customers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland see their own delivery options rather than a single national promise.
Retention is the reason to build, not reach.
Engagement options
Smaller shops usually begin with a fixed scope build that covers catalogue, gifting, click and collect and payment, then add loyalty or trade ordering later. Busier sellers often keep us on a monthly retainer so festival campaigns, new launches and app store updates are handled without hiring. A dedicated team suits groups with several shops and a warehouse. Perfume ecommerce app development Birmingham retailers commission is priced on the work involved: the number of languages, the integrations with EPOS, warehouse and courier systems, trade features and how much content needs structuring. A smaller first release that launches before a festival season is usually worth more than a larger one that misses it, and we will tell you if your wish list puts a peak at risk.
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 cross platform framework such as Flutter or React Native keeps one codebase for iOS and Android. Your catalogue can stay in the ecommerce system you already use, connected by API, so the shop, website and app always agree on stock. Push messaging, analytics and hosting accounts are opened in your company name from day one, so handing over or changing suppliers later is straightforward.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Catalogue, gifting, checkout and click and collect, in most cases.
Most Birmingham sellers get the quickest return from a release that lets customers browse, build a gift, pay and either collect from a shop or receive a delivery. Loyalty, chat and trade ordering follow once that core is working. We agree the first scope with you during discovery and explain what each extra feature adds to time and cost, so you can decide what is worth including before the next festival season.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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