Services · Ecommerce development · Perfume online stores
Codeeo delivers perfume ecommerce website development UK fragrance businesses can trade through nationally: a fast catalogue, a checkout that takes cards, wallets and pay by bank, delivery rules that respect the limits on posting flammable liquids, and product pages that carry the cosmetics information British law expects. We build for perfume houses, multi-branch retailers, distributors and online brands that need one store to serve England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland without four different sets of workarounds.
The store is planned around how perfume actually sells: by scent family, by size, as gifts and as samples first. Your team edits products, prices and promotions themselves, and the orders, stock and customer records sit in accounts you own from the first day.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the store includes
Selling perfume online in the UK is not the same as selling clothing or homeware. Bottles are flammable liquids, so carriers limit how they travel. Every cosmetic product placed on the market in Great Britain needs a Responsible Person and a notification through the government's SCPN service, while Northern Ireland follows EU cosmetics rules. Shoppers cannot smell a screen, so the catalogue has to describe scent in words people trust. Our perfume online store development UK work starts from those facts. The features below are the ones we scope first for a national store; we drop what you do not need and add what your range demands, such as wholesale pricing or engraving. Every feature is judged by one test: does it help a shopper who cannot smell the bottle feel confident enough to buy it, and does it help your team fulfil that order without manual fixes.
Products organised by family, top, heart and base notes, concentration and occasion, with filters that work on a phone. Each size of a fragrance is a proper variant with its own stock, barcode and price, so a 30ml and a 100ml never share an inventory figure by mistake.
Shoppers narrow a large range to a short list in a few taps.
Fields for ingredient lists, allergen declarations, warnings and the Responsible Person's details, held in the product record rather than pasted into descriptions. Your team updates one field and every page, feed and marketplace listing that uses it follows.
Product pages stay consistent with what is printed on the box.
Shipping methods filtered by what the basket contains. The store can apply the per item volume and per parcel quantity limits your carriers set for perfume, split large orders automatically and hide services that refuse flammable liquids.
Orders leave with a carrier that will actually accept them.
Postcode rules that recognise BT addresses, show the right delivery options and keep product information correct for the market where the goods are placed. Islands and Highlands surcharges are shown before checkout, never added at the end.
Customers everywhere in the UK see an honest delivery promise.
Cards with Strong Customer Authentication, Apple Pay, Google Pay and pay by bank through Open Banking, with fraud screening tuned for high value gift orders. The total, including delivery, is shown from the first price a shopper sees.
Fewer abandoned baskets at the payment step.
Paid sample vials, discovery boxes and credit that carries from a sample order to a full bottle. The store tracks which samples a customer bought so the follow up email suggests the right size.
Hesitant first time buyers have a low risk way to try.
A returns flow that respects the Consumer Contracts Regulations cancellation period and records whether a sealed item came back sealed. Refunds, exchanges and store credit are handled in the admin rather than by spreadsheet.
Returns are processed consistently, whoever is on shift.
One inventory picture for a central warehouse, branches and third party fulfilment, synced with your EPOS or ERP. Click and collect only offers branches that hold the bottle.
No more selling a fragrance that is already gone.
Gift messages, wrapping, engraving where your bottles allow it, and delivery to a different address from billing, with a hidden price option on the packing slip. Gift cards can be bought online and redeemed in branches if your EPOS supports it, which matters most in the weeks before Christmas and Mother's Day.
Gift buyers finish the order without needing to call.
Clean product feeds for Google Shopping and the marketplaces you sell on, generated from the same product records, with structured data on every page for search results.
Listings everywhere stay accurate without double entry.
Who this is for
A national perfume store has to work for a buyer in Belfast, a gift shopper in Inverness and a regular in Cardiff, all on the same day. The businesses below are the ones we most often plan for. Each needs a slightly different store, and the difference usually sits in stock, delivery and who owns the product information rather than in the design. A store for a single brand with one warehouse can stay simple; a retailer with branches and trade customers needs more careful rules from the start.
You already sell from shops and want the website to behave like another branch rather than a separate business. That means one stock picture, prices that match the shelf unless you decide otherwise, click and collect from the nearest branch and returns that can be taken back in store. We connect the store to your EPOS so each sale moves stock in one place, and we give regional managers a view of web orders fulfilled from their shops.
Stock and pricing kept in line with the shops.
Your fragrances are on counters around the country, and the website must not undercut the partners who carry them. We build a store that sells the full range directly, offers exclusive sizes or editions if you choose, and includes a stockist finder so a shopper who wants to smell first is sent to a real counter. Trade customers can log in for their own price lists.
Direct sales grow without upsetting stockists.
You import or distribute brands and hold the stock, but have mostly sold to shops. Before going direct you need clarity on who is the Responsible Person for each product and whether every item is notified. We build the product data model around that, so a line cannot go live without its compliance fields completed.
No product goes on sale with gaps in its records.
You started on a template and now hit limits: variants that do not reflect sizes properly, delivery rules you fudge by hand, or a checkout that adds charges late. We move you to a store that fits, migrate products, customers and order history, and keep your search rankings with careful redirects.
Growth no longer depends on manual fixes.
Working together
Codeeo has a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. We work with UK clients remotely: discovery, design reviews and testing sessions run by video call, and progress is visible in a shared board. As a perfume ecommerce development company UK clients can hold to account, we write down scope, decisions and acceptance criteria, and you have access to the code repository and every platform account throughout. We are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews.
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
Fast pages matter for a visual product with many images, so we compress photography, load it responsively and test Core Web Vitals on mid range phones. We build on Shopify, WooCommerce or a headless stack with Next.js, depending on the size of the range, how many channels you sell through and how much control you need over checkout and delivery logic. The recommendation comes with the reasons, not a default.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends mainly on the size of the catalogue and the systems the store must connect to.
A brand with a focused range on a hosted platform moves faster than a retailer that needs EPOS sync, several warehouses and trade pricing. Migrating years of order history also adds time. During discovery we list every integration, the product data that needs cleaning and the content you will supply, then agree a schedule in writing. Most delays come from late product information, so we ask for it early and give you a template that matches the store's fields.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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