Services · Ecommerce development · QR ordering marketplaces
Codeeo delivers QR menu ordering website development Edinburgh operators can run as a marketplace: one scan at the table opens menus from several kitchens, guests pay once, and each trader is settled their share after your commission. We build it for food halls, festival courtyards, stadium concourses and hotel groups with more than one outlet, with vendor onboarding, payouts, disputes and reviews handled in an admin your team controls, and terms written to work under Scots law.
Edinburgh trade swings hard between a quiet February and an August when the Fringe fills every courtyard with pop-up kitchens. A platform that suits the city has to add a trader in an afternoon, survive the evening rush on patchy venue Wi-Fi and close the books cleanly when the stalls pack up.
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What the platform handles
A single restaurant can live with a basic order button. A shared venue cannot. When six independent kitchens sell to the same table, somebody has to decide who is allowed to trade, how the money is split, what happens when one dish arrives cold, and how a trader who leaves after the festival gets paid their last week. These are the pieces we build into an Edinburgh marketplace, in roughly the order an operator meets them.
Everything here is the web platform itself: the guest ordering site that opens from the QR code, the vendor portal and the operator back office. Guests never need to download anything.
A vendor application form collects the business name, Companies House number or sole trader details, bank details for payouts through your provider, and the trader's food hygiene result. Your team approves, rejects or asks for more, and an approved trader can load a menu the same day, which matters when festival stalls sign up in late July.
New kitchens trade within hours, with their checks on file.
Scotland runs the Food Hygiene Information Scheme, which shows Pass or Improvement Required rather than the numbered scores used in England. The vendor record stores each trader's current result and inspection date, and your team can pause a listing while an Improvement Required issue is resolved.
You can show who checked what, and when.
Each trader declares the fourteen regulated allergens against every dish, and the guest menu shows them before the item reaches the basket. Changes are logged with the trader's name and time, so if a recipe changes mid-festival there is a record of when the listing was updated.
Guests with allergies can order with clear information.
A group at one table orders haggis bao from one stall, pizza from another and drinks from the bar, then pays once. The platform splits the order into separate tickets for each kitchen screen or printer and tracks preparation status per trader.
One payment for the guest, clean tickets for each kitchen.
Commission can be a percentage, a flat amount per order, a weekly pitch fee or a mix, and can differ by trader or by event. Funds move through a regulated payment provider's marketplace product, so your business does not hold traders' money itself, and each trader sees a statement for every payout.
Payouts traders can check line by line.
The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act applies in Scotland as it does in England and Wales. Tips added at checkout are attributed to the right trader and passed through in full, with reports each trader can use for its own written tipping policy.
Tips reach the staff who earned them, with a paper trail.
A guest reports a missing or wrong item from the receipt link. The case goes to the trader first, with a timer, and escalates to your team if nobody responds. Approved refunds come off that trader's next settlement, not your margin.
Complaints are resolved on a record, not at the counter.
Temporary venues, short trading windows and pop-up traders can be grouped into an event with its own opening hours, QR codes, commission terms and closing settlement. When the event ends, the codes stop working and final statements go out automatically.
Festival trading opens and closes on schedule.
Only guests with a completed order can leave a rating for that trader, and the operator cannot hide or reorder reviews to favour one kitchen. That design reflects the fake review rules under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024.
Ratings guests and traders both trust.
Who this is for
Edinburgh has a particular mix: a dense Old Town tourist trade, a waterfront in Leith that has grown its own food scene, universities that keep term-time footfall steady, and an August that changes everything. The platform is the same core in each case, but the vendor rules, payout rhythm and admin roles change with the operator.
You lease pitches to independent kitchens and want guests to order from any of them from the table. The platform replaces a tangle of separate card terminals with one checkout, gives you a single view of sales across traders, and settles each kitchen on the schedule in its licence agreement. Commission and pitch fees sit in the same statement so traders stop querying deductions.
Most common starting point in Edinburgh.
You run food courts at courtyards and temporary venues during the Fringe, the International Festival or Hogmanay. You need traders who arrive for three weeks, hygiene and allergen checks in place before they open, and fast final settlement. Event mode lets you prepare the whole season in advance and reuse the set-up the following year with new traders.
Licensing for temporary sites goes through the Edinburgh Licensing Board, so we build around the conditions you are given.
A hotel near Princes Street may run a restaurant, a lobby bar, a rooftop terrace and room service, sometimes with outside operators. Guests scan one code and see what is open, order to a table or room, and pay or charge to the room where your property system allows. Each outlet, including franchised ones, reports separately.
You want to sign up independent restaurants across Edinburgh and charge them for table ordering. That means a self-serve vendor portal, subscription or commission plans for venues, and clear platform terms. We plan the business rules with you and build the portal so a new venue can go live without your developers. Restaurant ordering platform development Edinburgh founders ask us about usually starts with a few friendly venues in one neighbourhood, such as Leith or Stockbridge, so the onboarding flow is proven with real kitchens before you sell it citywide.
We advise on structure, not legal drafting; your solicitor signs off the terms.
Working together
Codeeo has no Edinburgh office. Our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US; we are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. With clients in Scotland, discovery, design reviews and sign-offs all run by video call, with shared boards for scope and a staging site you can test on your own phone at the venue. You can engage us for a fixed first release, keep a team on for ongoing changes, or ask us to take over an existing ordering platform and stabilise it. Whichever route you choose, the scope, the people on your project and the next decision point are written down after every review, so nobody in Edinburgh is waiting on a reply to find out what happens next.
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 the stack around your trade, not a template. Typical builds use a modern web front end that loads fast on mobile data, a server application with a proper database for orders and settlements, and a payment provider's marketplace product for split payments and payouts. Everything is documented and handed over.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on traders, payment model and integrations, and we agree dates in writing after discovery.
A single venue with a fixed set of traders and one payment provider moves faster than a platform meant for many venues and self-serve sign-up. Kitchen screen and accounting integrations add time, as do custom commission rules. If you need to be live for the August festivals, tell us in the first call, because the pilot has to run before the season, not during it. We split the work into phases and put a date on each one once its scope is signed off.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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