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Point of sale software for London queues, visitors and busy multi-site estates.

Codeeo handles POS software development London operators use when a standard till slows them down: lunchtime counters in the City and Canary Wharf, West End shops full of overseas visitors, traders at Borough and Camden markets, and groups running sites in several boroughs. We build the checkout, the staff and manager apps and the admin system, connect them to your card terminals and accounts, and keep each London site selling when trade is at its heaviest.

A London till is judged in seconds. If a lunchtime customer waits too long they walk to the next counter, and if a tourist's wallet payment fails they leave the item behind. Custom POS software development in London is about removing those moments from your own service. For some operators that means a faster counter, for others it means one set of figures across a dozen sites.

Built for
Food to go chains, West End and high street retailers, market traders, hospitality groups and concession operators across Greater London.
Typical timeline
Discovery fixes the scope of the first release, and its delivery dates are written into the agreement before design starts.
What you own
The source code, the admin platform, your app store listings and all transaction data, held in your own accounts.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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What we build

The parts of a London point of sale system that earn their keep.

London asks more of a till than most cities. Footfall arrives in sharp peaks around office lunch hours and evening commutes, a large share of shoppers in central areas are visiting from abroad, rents push operators into small units where every square metre of counter matters, and many groups run sites under different landlords and different borough licensing conditions. Packaged systems handle the average case. The features below are the ones London clients ask us to build when the average case is not theirs. We scope the first release around the two or three problems that cost you most each week, then add the rest in planned phases. Every feature is optional; none is bundled in just to make a proposal look larger.

Explain your project
  • Order ahead for the lunch rush

    Office workers around Bank, Liverpool Street and Canary Wharf want to order at their desk and collect on the way past. Pre-orders land in the same queue as counter sales with a pickup time, and the kitchen screen staggers preparation so food is ready when the customer arrives, not ten minutes early. Customers get a text or app notice when their order is on the shelf.

    More covers through a short peak without a longer queue.

  • Wallets and international cards

    Visitors in Covent Garden or on Oxford Street pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay and cards issued all over the world. We integrate terminals that accept these, handle Strong Customer Authentication prompts properly and show staff a clear reason when a payment is declined, so they can offer another method without guesswork. Receipts can be emailed in place of paper for visitors who prefer not to carry them.

    Fewer abandoned sales at the counter.

  • Clear answers on tax-free requests

    Since the VAT Retail Export Scheme was withdrawn in Great Britain at the start of 2021, overseas shoppers can no longer reclaim VAT on goods carried home. Where you ship goods to an overseas address instead, the till records that as a separate sale type with the evidence your accountant needs to support zero rating.

    Staff give consistent answers and exports are documented.

  • Turnover reports for landlords

    Units in shopping centres and transport hubs often carry a lease with turnover rent or regular sales reporting. The system produces the figures in the format and period each landlord asks for, per unit, without someone rebuilding them from daily Z reads.

    Lease reporting takes minutes, not an afternoon.

  • Market and pop-up checkout

    Traders at Borough Market, Spitalfields or Camden, and brands running short pop-ups in Shoreditch or Soho, need a compact till on a phone or tablet with a card reader. Sales are stored on the device during dropouts and synced later, with takings from every pitch reported together. Product lists can be changed between market days from the phone itself.

    A full till in a jacket pocket.

  • Sell from another branch

    When a size or item is missing in one shop, staff can see whether another London branch holds it, take payment there and then, and arrange collection or courier delivery. The sale belongs to the branch that served the customer, and the transfer is recorded for both sites.

    A missing item becomes a sale, not a lost customer.

  • Site settings by borough and landlord

    Each of London's boroughs, and the City of London, licenses premises separately, so the hours for alcohol sales or late night refreshment can differ between your sites. The till holds each site's own trading and licensing hours and blocks restricted items outside them. Staff see a short explanation on screen rather than a bare error.

    Each site follows its own licence conditions automatically.

  • Card terminal integration and PCI scope

    We use semi-integrated terminals so card details are captured and processed only on the terminal. The till sends the amount and receives the result. That approach keeps most of your estate outside PCI DSS card data scope and makes the annual self-assessment far simpler.

    Card data never sits in your systems.

  • Making Tax Digital links

    Every transaction carries its VAT treatment, and daily summaries post to your accounting software through a direct connection. Your finance team keeps digital records that meet HMRC's Making Tax Digital rules for VAT, across every London site, with no spreadsheets copied between systems.

    VAT returns built from sales data, not manual totals.

  • Estate dashboard for managers

    Area managers see sales per hour, queue time, refunds and staff exceptions for every site on one screen. Alerts flag a site whose takings drop sharply against the same day last week, which in London often means a closed station entrance or a street works diversion nearby. Managers can drill from the group total into a single till in two taps.

    Problems spotted during the day, while there is still time to act.

Who this is for

Four London operators we build tills for.

London businesses usually come to us after the off the shelf route has stopped scaling. The till that worked for one café struggles with eight sites, or the system that suited a quiet suburban shop cannot keep up with a West End flagship. Below are the four profiles we meet most often. Each starts with discovery by video call, since we do not have a London office and work remotely with UK clients. If your situation mixes several of them, that is common in London and the scope simply reflects it.

01

Food to go groups in the City and Canary Wharf

Your trade happens between roughly midday and two, from office workers who know exactly what they want. Every second at the till matters. We build fast counter screens, pre-order and collection, and a kitchen display that sequences preparation by pickup time, plus reports that show throughput per quarter hour so you can plan staff and production for the next day.

Built for speed in a narrow window.

02

West End and high street retailers

You serve a mix of Londoners and visitors, sell higher value items and handle a steady flow of exchanges. We focus on payment acceptance, clear receipts, returns that can be processed at any branch and staff permissions that stop large refunds or discounts without a manager. Customer records are kept only where shoppers agree, in line with UK GDPR.

03

Market traders and street food brands

You trade from markets in different parts of the city on different days. One pitch may have good signal, another very little. We give you a light till that works offline, a menu or product list you can change from your phone and a single takings report per day and per market, ready for your bookkeeper.

Different market each day, one set of records.

04

Hospitality groups across several boroughs

You run restaurants or bars in Islington, Hackney, Southwark and Westminster, each under its own premises licence and landlord. We give each site its own hours, menus and printers while keeping pricing, tips records and reporting central, so head office can compare sites fairly and each manager sees only what they need. Tips and service charge are recorded per site so they can be shared fairly under the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act.

Our six stages for a London point of sale build.

  1. 01Discovery by video callWe map your peak hours, payment mix, landlord reporting and existing systems with the people who run the counters, and we look at real sales exports rather than relying on memory.
  2. 02Scope and planWe agree the first release, the terminals and accounting software to integrate and the sites to launch first, then write the scope, responsibilities and delivery dates into the agreement.
  3. 03Counter designLayouts are built around your busiest product mix, with the most used items one tap away and clear payment status, then reviewed with your staff on screen before development goes further.
  4. 04Development and integrationCheckout, manager app, admin platform and connections to terminals, accounting and ordering channels are built in short cycles, with working builds you can try throughout.
  5. 05Pilot siteOne London site runs the new till first. We measure queue speed and errors, fix what staff raise, and only then plan the rollout to the rest of your estate.
  6. 06Rollout and ongoing careSites move over in planned batches. After launch we maintain the apps, keep up with terminal and operating system updates and add features as your trading changes.

Technology

What we build this with.

The stack is chosen to suit your terminals, devices, ordering platforms and accounting system. We document the architecture, keep the code in your repository and make sure any competent team could continue the work without us.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Questions London operators ask about a custom till.

A checkout app, a manager view, an admin platform and the integrations around them.

Most London projects include a counter or handheld till, a dashboard for managers, an admin system for prices and staff, and links to card terminals, accounting software and online ordering. Many also need landlord sales reporting and site specific licensing hours. We agree which of these belong in the first release during discovery, so you launch with what fixes your largest problems first. Concession units inside department stores sometimes add a link to the host store's own tills, which we review case by case.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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