Services · Mobile app development · Pet care apps
We handle pet care app development Birmingham businesses can put in front of their regulars: grooming salons, kennels and catteries, dog daycares, pet shops and veterinary practices from Sutton Coldfield to Kings Heath. Families book the next groom, reorder food, store each pet's records and collect loyalty rewards in one app. Your team gets a single diary and customer list instead of a paper book, a card machine and three social inboxes.
We are not based in Birmingham. Codeeo's team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and serves UK businesses remotely, running every workshop and review by video call. Our track record is 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, and a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews.
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Features for Birmingham pet businesses
Birmingham's pet trade is spread across a big city of suburbs. Owners in Erdington, Harborne, Moseley or Hall Green mostly drive to their groomer or vet, often with more than one pet, and many households book for a dog and a cat in the same week. That shapes the app: multi-pet profiles, fast rebooking, reminders that fit family routines and rewards that keep a customer loyal to the salon down the road. Licensing matters as well. Birmingham City Council licenses boarding, dog daycare and home boarding in the city under the England animal activity regulations, while businesses over the boundary in Solihull deal with Solihull's own council. Grooming is not a licensable activity in England, but a groomer who also boards dogs overnight needs that licence for the boarding side. Families from across the city's many communities use these apps, so we keep wording plain and can add further languages where your customers need them. These are the features we scope most often for operators here.
One login per family, with a profile for every dog, cat or rabbit in the house. Each profile carries coat type, temperament, allergies, vet details and microchip number, and a parent can book two pets into back to back slots in one go.
Multi-pet families book in one visit to the app, not three.
Pet grooming booking app development Birmingham salons need starts with how long each groom really takes. Durations depend on breed, coat condition and service, so the diary blocks the right time per dog and stops a full hand strip being squeezed into a bath slot.
A diary that reflects real grooming time and fewer overruns.
Groomers record blade lengths, styling preferences, matting and skin observations after every appointment, with photos attached. The next groomer, or the same one six weeks later, opens the profile and repeats the cut the owner liked.
Consistent grooms even when staff change.
A digital stamp card for grooms, a reward after a set number of daycare days, or a credit when a neighbour books through a referral link. You choose the rules in the admin and change them whenever you run a promotion.
Regulars have a reason to stay with your salon.
Pet shops and salons with a retail shelf can let customers reorder their usual food, treats or shampoo and pick it up at the next appointment. Stock levels sync from your till system where it offers an API.
Repeat product sales that ride along with every booking.
Home visits are grouped by area so a van covers Edgbaston and Selly Oak on the same day. Addresses inside the A4540 Middleway ring road fall in Birmingham's Clean Air Zone, so the admin can flag those bookings if your van is not compliant.
Tighter routes and no unexpected zone charges.
Owners request dates, choose a kennel or cattery pen type and upload vaccination proof before the stay is confirmed. Staff log feeding, exercise and medication each day, which also gives you the records your council licence expects.
Stays confirmed with paperwork checked in advance.
Booster, flea, worming and dental reminders go out on the schedule your practice sets. Clients request repeat medication in the app, and the request lands with a vet to approve rather than being dispensed automatically.
Fewer lapsed vaccinations and fewer phone requests for repeats.
Take a deposit on new client grooms or peak holiday boarding by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, and apply your cancellation policy automatically. Repeat clients with a good record can be exempted.
Fewer empty slots from last-minute cancellations.
Trainers and salons running puppy socials, recall classes or self-wash sessions can sell places by session or by course, set a maximum per class and keep a waiting list. Attendance is marked on a tablet and missed sessions can be moved to the next course where your rules allow.
Classes fill from the app instead of a sign-up sheet.
Who this is for
Most of the pet businesses we speak to in Birmingham are owner-run, busy and short on admin time. They do not want an app for its own sake; they want fewer messages to answer, fewer no-shows and customers who come back. These four situations come up again and again, and each leads to a different first release. Across all of them, the app has to work for a parent booking from a car park on a phone, so we keep every booking to a handful of taps.
Your diary is full, rebooking happens at the counter and the waiting list is a stack of messages. We give clients self-service rebooking for their usual groom, a cancellation list that fills gaps automatically and reminders the day before. Your groomers see the day's dogs, their coat notes and any handling warnings on a tablet at the table, so the morning starts without a phone call. Once a family has booked through the app a few times, you can see which households drift away and invite them back.
Most salons start here and add loyalty in the next release.
Holiday demand arrives in waves and owners ask the same questions about dates, vaccinations and what to bring. We build stay requests with vaccination uploads, a pen availability view and daily care logs. Owners receive a photo each day of the stay, and your licence records build up in the background. Waiting lists for holiday periods can be opened early for returning customers before new enquiries are accepted.
You already have loyal customers buying food every month and want to add grooming, a self-wash or puppy classes. We connect product reorders and service bookings in one app, so a customer who buys their food on Saturday can book a nail clip for the same visit. Loyalty points work across both sides of the business. Points earned at the till appear in the app straight away, so customers see the benefit of shopping with you rather than online.
Till system access is confirmed during discovery.
Veterinary appointment app development Birmingham practices ask about tends to centre on spreading appointments across branches. Clients choose the nearest site, see the vets and nurses working there and book the right appointment type. Reminders, repeat requests and practice news come through the same app, connected to your practice management system where its API allows. Branch managers get their own view of bookings and staff, while the practice owner sees all sites together.
How we work together
A single salon or kennel usually starts with a fixed scope project: an owner app, a staff view and an admin, launched and then supported. Multi-branch vet groups and pet retailers often prefer an ongoing retainer so features keep arriving every month. Whichever route you take, scope and cost drivers are written down before work starts, and we will say so if a packaged booking product would suit a small business better. After launch, support covers operating system updates, store policy changes and bug fixes so the app keeps working as phones change.
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 build cross platform apps in Flutter or React Native, a web back office, and cloud hosting in a UK or EU region. Integrations with tills, accounting and practice systems are chosen during discovery.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Booking, pet profiles and reminders for your existing customers.
Most Birmingham clients begin with the problem costing them the most time, which is usually bookings arriving by phone and message. A first release covers self-service booking, household accounts with every pet, reminders and payments. Loyalty, retail reorders, mobile routing or boarding stays can follow once customers are used to the app. Starting smaller gets the app into customers' hands sooner and gives you real data for the next decision. We put the dates for that first release in writing once the scope is agreed.
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