Services · Mobile app development · Point of sale apps
Codeeo offers POS software development Manchester venues and shops can build around their own trade: bars and independents in the Northern Quarter, food hall traders, restaurants along the Curry Mile, retailers around the Arndale and Deansgate, and outlets that swing from quiet to packed when there is a game or a gig. We design the till, connect it to card terminals and accounting, and make sure it keeps up when the crowds arrive.
Manchester customers are used to tapping a card or phone for almost everything, from Metrolink trams to Bee Network buses. They expect the same speed at the bar and the counter. Custom POS software development in Manchester is about meeting that expectation on your busiest night. It also means records your accountant can trust the next morning.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
Features we build
Trade in Manchester is shaped by events and by evenings. A bar near the Etihad Campus might do a week's takings across one match and one concert at Co-op Live. Kitchens on Wilmslow Road in Rusholme stay busy late into the night. Food halls put several independent traders under one roof with shared seating and, sometimes, shared payment. Student areas along Oxford Road follow the university calendar. The capabilities below come from those patterns. We pick the handful that matter most to your business for the first release, and plan the others once the till has proven itself on the shop floor. Licensing conditions, tipping law and VAT on hot and cold food add a layer of rules on top, and the till should handle those without staff having to remember them.
Before kick off or doors, managers switch the till to a short event menu with fixed prices, faster payment and extra temporary tills. After the event it returns to the normal menu. Reports compare event days with ordinary trading, so you can plan staff and stock for the next fixture.
Queues move faster when the crowd arrives all at once.
Customers in Northern Quarter bars can open a tab with a card, or order to their table by scanning a QR code. Orders go straight to the bar or kitchen printer, and the tab closes with a single tap on the terminal at the end of the night.
Staff pour and serve rather than chasing payments.
Since the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act took effect in October 2024, hospitality employers must pass on tips in full, allocate them fairly and keep records. The till captures card tips and service charge per shift and exports an allocation report that matches your written tipping policy.
A clear audit trail for every tip your team earns.
In a food hall with several traders, one customer may order from three counters. A shared checkout takes one payment, splits it to each trader's account and sends each order to the right kitchen, while each trader still sees only their own sales and settlement.
One payment for the customer, separate books for each trader.
Restaurants along the Curry Mile mix dine in, walk in takeaway and delivery platform orders late into the evening. We merge those channels into one kitchen queue with promised times, so a phone order is never forgotten behind a full dining room. Collection and delivery times are shown to front of house too.
Every order has a time and a place in the queue.
Venues operate under a premises licence from Manchester City Council or the relevant Greater Manchester borough. Restricted items prompt a Challenge 25 check, staff record the outcome, and refusals are logged for your licence records and any review by the licensing authority. Refusal logs can be exported by date for any licensing review.
Evidence of good practice, kept automatically.
We integrate semi-integrated terminals that take contactless cards and phone wallets, so card data stays on the terminal and outside your PCI DSS scope. Where you want a cashless venue, the till supports that, though we recommend keeping a cash option for customers who need it.
Fast taps and a smaller compliance footprint.
Each sale stores its VAT rate, which matters for venues mixing hot food, cold takeaway and drinks. Daily totals go to your accounting software through a digital link, so your Making Tax Digital VAT records come straight from the till. Takings are reconciled against the terminal's own totals each night.
VAT treatment is right at the point of sale.
Traders who take a chalet at the Manchester Christmas Markets, or a stall at the Arndale Market, need a compact phone till with a card reader, a short product list and offline storage for crowded squares where mobile data slows down. Seasonal staff get limited logins that expire when the season closes, and takings from each stall roll up into your main reports.
A busy season run on the same system as the rest of the year.
At the end of a long night nobody wants a slow cash up. The till totals card, cash and tips per terminal, highlights any gap between expected and counted cash and records who closed the shift. Managers approve the close on their phone, and the figures pass to accounts the next morning without anyone retyping them.
Closing takes minutes and differences are explained.
Who this is for
Plenty of Manchester traders are well served by a packaged till. The owners who contact us usually have one of four specific problems that a standard product handles badly or not at all. We do not have a Manchester office; we work remotely with UK clients and run discovery, design reviews and testing by video call, sharing screens with the staff who will use the till every day. If your venue mixes two of these profiles, as many in the city do, the scope simply reflects that mix.
You run bars near the stadiums or the arena district, or a late venue in the Northern Quarter or Ancoats. On a match or gig night you may take more in three hours than in a normal week. We focus on speed: event menus, tabs, quick card taps, extra pop-up tills and clean reconciliation at the end of the night, so the busy evenings are profitable rather than chaotic. Managers can add staff to temporary tills from a phone in seconds, and deposits for private hire and booths can be taken in advance.
Built for the three busiest hours of your week.
You manage a hall with several independent kitchens and shared seating. Customers want one payment; traders want their own figures and fast settlement. We build a shared checkout with trader level reporting, so you can show each trader exactly what they sold and what they are owed, and charge any commission on a transparent basis. Settlement can follow whatever cycle you agree with traders. Shared costs such as cleaning or seating can be charged back to traders on the same statement.
Your restaurant serves families in the dining room, takeaway at the counter and delivery through apps. Orders arrive on separate devices and the kitchen loses track at peak times. We put every channel into one queue with times, add split bills for large groups and make sure allergen notes reach the kitchen ticket. Large tables can pay separately by person or by dish, and card tips are recorded per shift for fair sharing between kitchen and front of house. Takeaway bags are labelled from the same ticket.
One queue, every channel.
You run shops in the city centre and in towns such as Stockport, Bolton or Altrincham. Prices and promotions are managed shop by shop, and nobody has a clear group view. We centralise pricing, staff permissions and reporting, while allowing local settings where one shop genuinely trades differently from the rest. Returns can be taken at any branch, with the refund recorded against the original sale. Head office can see refunds and discounts by person across every Greater Manchester shop.
How we work together
Our 80+ people work from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi; together we have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, and clients rate us 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. Manchester clients usually begin with a fixed scope first release. Many then move to a monthly retainer for updates, support and new features. Venue groups with a long roadmap sometimes take a dedicated team of POS software developers who stay with the product. Whichever route you choose, scope, responsibilities and dates are written down before work starts.
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 pick technology to suit your devices, card terminal provider, delivery platforms and accounting software. Everything is documented and kept in your own repository, so you are free to change supplier later. Where you already have a back office system you like, we connect to it rather than replace it.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Order channels, integrations, devices and the number of sites.
A single bar with card tabs and one terminal type sits at the simpler end. A food hall with shared checkout and trader settlement, or a group with delivery platforms and kitchen screens across several sites, takes more work. We price against a written scope agreed in discovery, with a fixed quote for the first release and later phases estimated once you have used it. Ongoing support and hosting are quoted separately so you can see what the system costs to run as well as to build.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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