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Codeeo delivers security guard management app development Manchester contractors use to staff gig nights on the Etihad Campus, patrol construction sites in the city centre, cover student halls along Oxford Road and guard warehouses in Trafford Park. One officer app, one control room view and one client portal replace the WhatsApp groups and paper logs that most firms still run on. The aim is simple: every post covered by a licensed, briefed officer, and proof of it.
Manchester work swings between quiet weeks and huge peaks. A big arena night, a Premier League fixture and a festival weekend can all need hundreds of extra officers, often across Manchester, Salford and Trafford at once. Software that only handles steady static guarding will break on those days. Planning has to start days ahead, with officers confirmed, briefed and checked before the gates open.
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Features we build
Greater Manchester is ten boroughs under one police force, Greater Manchester Police, but each borough council licenses its own pubs, clubs and venues. That matters to a guarding firm because the arena is in Manchester, MediaCityUK is in Salford and Old Trafford is in Trafford, each with its own licensing team. The officer still holds a single SIA licence, issued under the Private Security Industry Act 2001, but the paperwork around each site differs. Our builds handle that at site level. Start with the features below that solve your busiest problem, which in Manchester is often event surge staffing or construction patrols, and add the rest as the platform proves itself. Each one is designed to work on a cheap Android phone at a muddy gate as well as on a supervisor's tablet.
Officers and stewards register through a link, upload ID and SIA licence details, confirm availability and accept the event briefing before the day. On the day, a scan at the staff gate checks them in against the deployment plan, and supervisors see headcount by zone.
Hundreds of event staff onboarded without a queue of paper forms.
Stewarding roles and SIA licensed roles are kept apart in the plan. Door supervision licence holders go to search and entry points that need them; unlicensed stewards are never assigned to licensable duties, even when the plan changes at short notice.
Every licensable post on an event day has a correctly licensed officer.
Out of hours patrols around hoardings, cranes, cabins and plant compounds, with checkpoint scans, photos of open gates or damaged fencing and a hand over note for the site manager each morning.
Principal contractors see each night's patrols before the first shift arrives.
Late finishes after arena shows and matches mean officers rely on trams, buses and taxis home. Rotas can record finish times against last tram times on the relevant lines, so supervisors plan staggered stand downs or transport before the night, not after.
Officers get home safely and keep accepting late shifts.
Halls and purpose built student blocks need welfare checks, visitor control and quick incident reporting during freshers' weeks and exam seasons. The app records welfare calls and visitor sign in, and alerts the accommodation team when a student needs follow up. Out of hours contacts for wardens are stored per block.
Accommodation managers get welfare records, not just a sign in book.
Vehicle arrivals, driver details, seal numbers and trailer checks at distribution sites in Trafford Park and around the motorway ring, recorded on a tablet in the gatehouse and visible to the logistics manager live.
Clients can trace which vehicle came and left, and when.
Officers on a quiet building site or an empty office at 3am get scheduled check-ins, a panic option and escalation to the control room when they do not respond. Where you already pay for a BS 8484 lone worker service, we integrate with it.
No officer is alone and unmonitored overnight.
Fast incident capture with photos, witness details and a Greater Manchester Police reference field, routed to the right client contact and kept with the site record. Supervisors review each report before it is released.
Clear, timed records that support police, insurers and clients.
A single screen showing every active post across Greater Manchester: who is on, who is late, which patrols are overdue, which check-ins are missed, with one click to call the officer.
Duty managers act on problems as they happen, not at the end of the shift.
Alarm activations from offices, shops and units across Greater Manchester dispatched to the nearest mobile officer, with key registers showing which keys sit in which vehicle, arrival times logged against the agreed response window, and a short report sent to the keyholder after every call out.
Keyholding clients see response times and outcomes for every activation.
Who this is for
Manchester's security market mixes large national contractors, local independents that grew up around nightlife and football, and specialist firms serving the construction boom. Custom security guard management app development Manchester firms choose usually comes down to one question: is the generic tool they use now costing them contracts, sleep or margin? If any of these four descriptions sounds like your business, a tailored build is worth discussing.
Firms staffing concerts at Co-op Live and the AO Arena, match days at the Etihad and Old Trafford, and city festivals manage huge rosters for short windows. The app handles availability, onboarding, licence checks, zone deployment and post-event reports. Venues of this scale fall into the enhanced tier of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, so documented search and briefing records will matter more to the clients you serve.
The venue holds the legal duty; your records help it show compliance.
Manchester city centre has seen tower after tower go up, and every site needs gatehouse cover, out of hours patrols and CCTV response. Principal contractors want proof each morning that the site was checked. We build patrol routes that change as the site grows, photo evidence of breaches and a daily report sent before the first trades arrive. When a site moves from groundworks to fit out, checkpoints and risk notes change with it, and the history of earlier phases stays on file.
Door teams in the Northern Quarter, Deansgate and Spinningfields work under premises licences with conditions set by Manchester City Council. Supervisors need a fast way to log admissions, refusals, ejections and incidents that the venue can use at licence reviews. We keep the screens simple enough for a busy door and the records detailed enough for a licensing hearing. Body worn camera references can be attached to an incident so footage is easy to find later.
Campus security and accommodation providers around Oxford Road manage welfare, access and incident response across many buildings, with peaks at the start of term. We build welfare logs, visitor control and reporting that fits their safeguarding procedures, and keeps student data under tight access controls in line with UK GDPR. Out of term, the same tools cover summer schools and conference guests.
Student data access is limited by role from the first release.
Engagement
Our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. We do not have a Manchester office, and we work remotely with clients in the city, holding discovery, reviews and demos by video call. Pick a fixed scope first release, an ongoing retainer, or a dedicated squad of security guard management app developers Manchester operations can direct as priorities change. Every option includes written scope, a shared backlog and regular demos you can join from the office or the control room.
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
One cross platform codebase for Android and iOS keeps costs and maintenance down, with offline storage for patrols in basements and on sites without signal, a UK hosted cloud backend, and a web control room for duty managers. Push notifications carry briefings and rota changes.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Officer app, control room dashboard and client portal, built around your contracts.
Most Manchester builds start with rostering, licence checks, clock in with geofencing, patrol scans and incident reports. Firms that work events add surge onboarding and zone deployment; construction specialists add patrol photo reports and morning summaries. Client portals, payroll exports and lone worker integration usually follow in the same release or the next one, depending on where the pressure is greatest. Cost and timing depend mostly on how many of these arrive in the first version and how many outside systems the platform must talk to.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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