Services · Mobile app development · Point of sale apps
Codeeo provides POS software development Birmingham businesses can shape to their own counters: market stalls in the Bull Ring markets, restaurants along Ladypool Road, bars in Digbeth and shops across the city and its suburbs. We build the checkout app, connect it to your card terminals, keep it selling when the signal drops and send clean VAT records to your accounts, so every sale is quick for the customer and accurate for you.
Off the shelf tills suit plenty of traders. Custom POS software development in Birmingham earns its place when your service style, your mix of sites or your reporting needs no longer fit a packaged system, and staff spend more time working around the till than serving the person in front of them.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the till can do
Birmingham trade is unusually mixed. A single city centre walk passes indoor market stalls where cash still matters, department stores in the Bullring, food counters in Grand Central and independent shops around the Jewellery Quarter and Digbeth. Out in the suburbs, family businesses on the Soho Road or in Kings Heath run two or three branches from one back office. A point of sale app has to fit whichever of these you are, not force you into a supermarket layout. Below are the parts we most often build for Birmingham clients. Your first release will use only the ones that solve a real problem today; the rest can follow once staff are comfortable and the numbers show where the next gain sits.
Traders in the Bull Ring indoor market and the Rag Market need a till that fits in a hand. We build a light checkout for a phone or tablet paired with a card reader, with large buttons for the twenty items you sell most and a quick price entry for everything else.
Faster service at a busy stall without a counter terminal.
Mobile coverage inside older market halls and basement units can be patchy. The app stores each sale on the device, takes card payments through a terminal that can work offline where your provider allows it, and syncs everything once the connection returns, flagging anything that needs a second look.
No queue stops because the network did.
For restaurants around Ladypool Road and Stoney Lane, waiting staff take orders on handhelds, send them to the kitchen by course, split bills between large family tables and add takeaway orders from the same screen without retyping anything. Allergen notes travel with each dish to the kitchen ticket.
Orders reach the kitchen correctly and big tables settle quickly.
The Frankfurt Christmas Market on New Street and Victoria Square brings weeks of heavy trade, often with extra staff. A pop-up profile gives new staff limited logins, a short product list and their own takings report, then closes cleanly when the season ends. The same profile suits weekend food fairs and festival pitches around the city.
Temporary staff can sell on day one without seeing the full system.
Jewellers and furniture shops often take a deposit, hold an item and collect the balance later. The till records the deposit against the customer and item, prints a clear receipt and brings the balance up automatically when they return.
Part payments are tracked instead of written in a notebook.
Bars in Digbeth and off-licences across the city sell under a premises licence from Birmingham City Council. Products flagged as age restricted trigger a Challenge 25 prompt, and the refusal or approval is logged against the member of staff for your records.
A clear record if a sale is ever questioned.
We connect the app to terminals from your chosen acquirer using a semi-integrated setup, so the amount is sent to the terminal and the card is read there. Card numbers never pass through your till, which keeps your PCI DSS scope much smaller.
Fewer keying errors and a lighter compliance burden.
Each sale is stored with its VAT rate, and daily totals move to your accounting software through a digital link rather than a spreadsheet copied by hand. Your accountant gets records that fit HMRC's Making Tax Digital rules without a month end rebuild.
VAT figures come straight from the till, not from retyping.
Busy counters are where losses hide. Refunds above a set value, voided lines and manual discounts can require a manager PIN, and each one is logged with the time, the till and the staff member. Owners receive a short daily summary of exceptions rather than having to dig through every transaction to find them.
Unusual activity is visible the same evening, not at stocktake.
Owners with a city centre unit plus branches in Sutton Coldfield, Solihull or Erdington see sales, refunds and staff performance per site and in total, on a dashboard that works on a phone during the drive between shops.
One view of every branch without phoning each manager.
Who this is for
Most enquiries from Birmingham come from owners who already use a till and have outgrown it. Some have grown from one site to several, some trade in a way packaged systems never planned for, and some are tired of paying for features they do not use while missing the one they need. These are the four situations we see most, and the way we usually approach each one. If none of them sounds like you, tell us how your counter works anyway; the starting point is always your own trading pattern.
You trade from a stall in the city centre markets, at weekend events or from a food van at Digbeth gatherings. You need something that starts in seconds, runs on a phone, copes with no signal and still produces a proper end of day report. We keep the interface small and the product list editable from the stall, and we make sure takings from every pitch land in one place for your accountant.
Small screens, few taps, clean takings.
Your restaurant serves families at the table, takes phone orders for collection and receives orders from delivery platforms. Today those arrive on three different screens. We bring them into one order flow with the kitchen, so the chef sees a single queue and front of house can tell a caller exactly when their food will be ready.
One kitchen queue for every channel.
You started with one shop on a busy road and now run several across Birmingham and Solihull. Prices, promotions and staff permissions are set shop by shop, which leads to mistakes. We centralise those settings, keep local overrides where a branch genuinely differs and give you comparable reports for every shop, including refunds and voids by staff member.
Head office control without losing branch flexibility.
Bars and food outlets near Edgbaston, Villa Park or St Andrew's see quiet weekdays and very busy match or concert days. On those days queue speed decides takings. We build pre-set event menus, extra temporary tills that can be switched on for a day and reports that compare event days with ordinary trading so you can staff accordingly.
How we work together
Codeeo has delivered more than 200 projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi. We do not have a Birmingham office; we work remotely with clients in the UK, running discovery, design reviews and progress meetings by video call. Most clients start with a fixed scope first release and then keep a monthly retainer for updates and new features. Larger groups sometimes prefer a dedicated team. For a single shop the fixed scope route is usually simplest, because you know what you are getting and when it arrives.
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 choose the stack to suit your devices, your card terminal provider and the accounting software your bookkeeper already uses. Everything is documented, from the database to the terminal settings, so another team of POS software developers in Birmingham or anywhere else could pick it up later without starting again.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on how many sites, integrations and order types the first release covers.
A single shop with one card terminal and an accounting link is a smaller project than a restaurant group with kitchen screens, delivery platforms and several branches. During discovery we list every feature and integration, agree what goes into the first release and write down the dates. Anything that can wait moves to a later phase, which keeps the first launch focused and lets your staff start using the new till sooner. Cost follows the same drivers: the number of order types, integrations, devices and sites, plus how much reporting you need on day one.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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