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Codeeo takes on QR menu ordering website development Manchester venue operators use to run many traders through one checkout. Market halls, converted warehouses, arena and stadium concourses and student-area dining spaces get a guest ordering site that opens from a table code, a portal where each independent kitchen manages its own menu and sales, and an operator console that takes commission, settles traders through a regulated provider and handles refunds, disputes and reviews.
Manchester's food scene leans heavily on small independents: two or three people, one kitchen, thin margins. A marketplace that works here has to be easy for them to join, quick to pay them, and fair when something goes wrong, while still giving the venue owner control.
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Platform features
In a Northern Quarter food hall the hard part is rarely the menu. It is getting a two-person kitchen set up without a week of paperwork, paying them quickly enough that cash flow holds, and keeping a crowd of hungry fans or students ordering smoothly when everyone arrives at once. The features below address those problems first.
All of it runs in the browser. The guest site opens from the code on the table, each trader manages its business in a web portal, and your team works from an operator console. Nothing needs installing, which matters when half your guests are visitors in town for one match or one gig and will never come back to download anything.
Plenty of Manchester street food businesses are sole traders or small partnerships without a Companies House number. The onboarding form handles every structure, runs identity and bank checks through your payment provider, and lets a trader upload a menu from a phone between services.
Independent kitchens join without needing an office or an accountant on hand.
Some traders are VAT registered and some sit below the threshold. Each receipt is issued in the selling trader's name and shows VAT only where that trader charges it, while your commission is invoiced to the trader separately. Your accountant gets one export with both sides reconciled.
No trader is shown charging VAT it does not charge.
Small kitchens often want their money weekly or even daily. Payouts run through a regulated marketplace payment provider, which splits each order and pays traders to their verified accounts, so your business never holds their funds. Statements break down sales, commission, refunds and tips line by line.
Traders get paid on time and can see exactly why.
When a match or concert empties into nearby bars and food spaces around the Etihad Campus or Old Trafford, demand arrives in minutes. Surge mode shortens menus to fast items, lets guests pre-order for a collection time, and gives each trader a limit on open orders so kitchens are not buried. Once the crowd thins, the full menu returns automatically at a time you set.
Kitchens keep pace instead of drowning in tickets.
A group can open a shared tab at a table, each person adds dishes from any trader, and the bill is split per person or paid by one. It suits student groups along Oxford Road and big Saturday tables in Ancoats alike.
Groups order together without one person chasing everyone for money.
Traders declare the fourteen regulated allergens for each dish, and guests can filter the whole venue by what they need to avoid. Changes are timestamped, so a recipe tweak on a Thursday is visible in the record if anyone asks.
Guests with allergies see every safe option in one view.
Guests report problems from their receipt. The trader gets the case first with a deadline to respond; contested cases go to your team with ticket times attached. Agreed refunds come out of the right trader's next payout automatically.
Disputes end with a decision on file and the right party paying.
Reviews are tied to completed orders and cannot be filtered to flatter favoured traders. That matters now that fake and concealed incentivised reviews are banned practices under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024.
A rating system traders accept as fair.
Old mill and warehouse buildings can be hard on Wi-Fi. Orders are queued on the server and delivered to kitchen screens or printers as soon as they reconnect, with an alert to your team if a kitchen stays offline.
No lost tickets when the network wobbles.
The operator can set rules that apply to every trader at once: a happy hour on drinks, a closing time for the whole hall, or a mandatory charge that is built into displayed prices rather than added at checkout, as the drip pricing rules in the 2024 Act require. Traders still control their own dishes and prices inside those rules.
Consistent pricing across the venue without micromanaging traders.
Who this suits
Greater Manchester is ten boroughs, so a group trading in the city centre, Salford and Trafford deals with three different councils for licensing and inspections. The platform treats each venue as its own unit with its own hours, rules and reporting, while traders who work across several venues keep one account. A trader who cooks in a Northern Quarter hall on Fridays and a Salford courtyard on Sundays sees both in the same portal, with separate statements for each venue so each landlord's commission is clear.
You curate a mix of independent kitchens and bars under one roof, in the city centre or in a town like Altrincham. You want one ordering site for guests, a clear split of every sale, and less time spent chasing payments or explaining deductions. The operator console gives you sales across the whole hall, while each trader sees only its own business. Trader rotation is simple too: a guest kitchen on a three-month residency can be added and removed without touching the rest of the menu.
The usual starting point for Manchester projects.
You run food and drink for crowds that arrive together and leave together. Some kitchens are yours and some are concessions. The platform runs both through one checkout, with pre-ordering before kick-off or doors, collection points instead of table service where needed, and settlement that separates concessions from your own outlets. After the event, a reconciliation report shows every concession's takings, commission and refunds, ready for finance the next morning.
We plan capacity for your largest expected crowd, then test it.
You own or manage a converted building with several restaurants, a bar and shared seating in a courtyard or atrium. Tenants each have their own tills. Restaurant ordering platform development Manchester landlords ask for connects to those tills where possible, takes payment once and settles each tenant, giving the shared space a single ordering experience. Where a tenant's till has no usable connection, orders print to a ticket printer in that kitchen instead, so no tenant is left out of the shared system while a better integration is planned.
You want to sign up independent venues across Greater Manchester and run ordering for them. You need a self-serve trader portal, plan or commission billing for venues, clear platform terms that meet the UK's platform-to-business transparency rules, and support tools. We help define the rules and build a product your own team can operate.
Your solicitor finalises the terms; we make the software enforce them.
How we work
Codeeo has no office in Manchester. Our 80+ people are based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi; we have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and hold a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. Manchester clients work with us remotely, with discovery and reviews by video call, scope tracked on shared boards, and every release available on a staging site you can try in your own venue. You can start with a fixed first release, keep a dedicated team for ongoing work, or bring us an existing platform that needs fixing. After each review you get a short written note of what was decided, what changes next and who on our side owns it.
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 tools for the job: a light, fast mobile web front end for guests, a server application with a relational database holding orders, ledgers and payouts, and a payment provider with a proper marketplace product. You receive the documentation and own every account.
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We price after discovery, because the main drivers differ a lot between venues.
The number of traders and venues, whether traders onboard themselves, how many tills and kitchen screens we connect, and how complex your commission and payout rules are all affect cost. Event surge features and group tabs add work. After discovery you get a written estimate and phased plan, with running costs such as hosting, payment provider fees and support set out separately so you can test your margins.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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