Services · Mobile app development · Perfume apps
Codeeo designs and builds iOS and Android apps for fragrance retailers, perfume houses and direct to consumer scent brands selling across Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The apps carry compliant product information, branch stock for click and collect, subscriptions and samples, consent-led marketing and checkout with the payment methods UK shoppers already use. They are planned so a business can launch in one region and extend to shops in other cities without rebuilding, and so the rules that apply to selling cosmetics nationally are handled in the product rather than left to chance.
Codeeo has no UK office. Our team of 80+, based across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, works remotely with UK clients and runs discovery and reviews by video call. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
Capabilities for national retailers
Selling perfume nationally is different from running one shop. Product information has to meet cosmetics rules, parcels have to reach the Highlands, Belfast and the Isles of Scilly with couriers that accept flammable liquids, and marketing must respect consent rules that the ICO enforces. A national retailer also needs one customer account that works in every branch and online. Perfume shopping app development UK businesses commission from us is shaped by those requirements first, then by the brand experience on top. The capabilities below are the ones we most often plan for a national rollout, and we help you decide which go into the first release. Where your business already runs a strong website, the app reuses its catalogue and checkout logic instead of duplicating them.
Fragrances sold in Great Britain are cosmetics, notified through the OPSS Submit Cosmetic Product Notification service and backed by a Responsible Person. Each product page has structured fields for the ingredient list, labelled fragrance allergens, warnings and the Responsible Person's details, so information stays consistent with your packaging across hundreds of lines.
Product data that matches the label and is easy to keep current.
Fragrance is classed as a dangerous good for air transport, which affects services to the Scottish islands, Northern Ireland and some remote postcodes. The app applies your carriers' rules by postcode, offers only services they will accept for perfume and shows realistic dates rather than a single national promise.
Fewer parcels refused, delayed or returned.
Customers see which of your shops in Glasgow, Leeds, Bristol or Cardiff holds a fragrance, reserve it and collect it. Stock comes from your EPOS or inventory system in near real time, and stores can be added to the app from the dashboard as the rollout reaches them. Opening hours and collection cut-offs are set per branch.
Online browsing turns into visits to your branches.
Monthly or seasonal sample boxes, travel-size subscriptions and pause, skip and cancel controls that customers can use without contacting support. Billing runs through your payment provider, with renewal reminders that respect the cancellation rights UK subscription customers expect.
Recurring revenue that customers do not feel trapped by.
Push notifications, emails and texts are sent only with the consent PECR requires, recorded with the wording shown and the date given. Service messages such as dispatch updates are kept separate from promotions, and preferences are editable in one place inside the app.
Marketing you can defend if the ICO or a customer asks.
Contrast, text scaling, screen reader labels and focus order are designed in, and testing with VoiceOver and TalkBack happens before every release. The Equality Act expects service providers to make reasonable adjustments, and an accessible app reaches more of your customers. Scent descriptions are written as text, never baked into images.
An app every customer can use without help.
Apple Pay, Google Pay, debit and credit cards, Open Banking pay by bank where your provider supports it and optional buy now pay later. Strong Customer Authentication is handled through your provider so card payments are not declined for missing checks.
Checkout that matches how UK shoppers prefer to pay.
Points, tiers and rewards follow a customer between the app, the website and every branch till, so someone who joins in Edinburgh is recognised in Nottingham. Rules sit in the dashboard so marketing can change them without a release. Points balances show on every receipt, digital or printed.
Customers stay loyal to the brand, not one shop.
Head office sees sales, stock, collections and app engagement nationally, while regional managers and branch staff see only their own area. Reports export to the tools your finance and merchandising teams already use. Access is granted by role, and every change to prices or stock is logged with the user who made it.
Every level of the business sees the numbers it needs.
We connect to your ecommerce platform, EPOS, ERP, warehouse and courier systems through their APIs, and to email and push messaging tools. Where an older system has no API, we agree a workable alternative during discovery rather than discovering the gap mid-build.
The app fits the business you already run.
Who we build for
The UK fragrance market is split between department store halls, national health and beauty chains, independent perfumeries, niche houses that sell through stockists and online brands that sell direct. Perfume store app development UK retailers ask us about depends on where they sit in that structure. These four profiles cover most of the businesses we speak to. Department store concessions and national chains also come to us, usually for loyalty or clienteling tools that sit alongside their existing systems. If you recognise more than one profile, we combine the relevant parts during discovery and leave out what does not apply.
You have shops in more than one region and a website that does most of the online trade. The app adds branch stock, reserve and collect, a single loyalty account and messaging tied to the nearest store. We plan the rollout region by region so staff in each area are trained before their stores appear in the app, and so early feedback improves later launches.
Rollout order is agreed in discovery, not fixed in code.
Your fragrances sit in department stores and independent perfumeries, but you rarely know who buys them. An app builds a direct relationship: sample requests, launch news, a stockist finder and exclusive editions. We design it to support your stockists rather than compete with them, for example by pointing customers to a local shop when that suits them better. Stockist data comes from a list your team keeps updated in the dashboard.
Your business runs on recurring orders, so the app has to make managing a subscription easy and honest. Customers rate each sample, swap upcoming scents, pause before holidays and buy full bottles of the ones they love. Your team sees churn reasons and which samples lead to full size purchases, so the box improves every cycle. Gift subscriptions can be bought for someone else with a start date of your customer's choosing.
You have built a following through your website and social channels and now want customers who reorder without paid ads. The app adds saved details, one-tap reordering, restock alerts and loyalty, connected to the platform your website already uses. Northern Ireland orders can be handled with the separate product rules that apply there.
Retention is the business case.
Engagement models
National retailers often start with a fixed scope pilot covering one region, then move to a retainer or a dedicated team for the rollout. Smaller brands usually choose a single fixed scope build followed by a monthly retainer. For perfume ecommerce app development UK businesses commission, the main cost drivers are the number of systems to integrate, the number of branches and regions, subscription and loyalty logic, accessibility testing depth and how much product information needs structuring for compliance. We put every assumption behind an estimate in writing, so you can see what would change it, and we suggest which features could move to a later phase if the first release needs to be smaller.
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 typically use Flutter or React Native for the apps, a headless commerce or existing ecommerce back end for products and orders, and cloud hosting in a region agreed with you. Choices follow your existing systems and your in-house team. Analytics and crash reporting run under your own accounts, so regional performance data stays with your business.
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Longer than a single shop, mainly because of integrations and rollout.
The apps themselves are rarely the slow part. Integrating EPOS, stock and loyalty across many branches, training staff and switching regions on in order take most of the time. We set the scope and rollout plan in discovery, often starting with a pilot region, and you receive written milestones once you approve the first release. Later regions then move faster because the groundwork is already done.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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