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Staffing apps that fill London shifts and keep every agency worker compliant.

Codeeo handles staffing app development in London for employment businesses, hospitality groups, event contractors and agencies supplying care settings. We build the worker app that offers shifts, the portal where venues and wards book cover, and the back office that checks right to work, approves timesheets and sends approved hours to payroll. London clients book late and cancel later, so every part of the product is shaped around short notice, many sites and records that survive an inspection.

Our team works remotely with London clients, and discovery, design reviews and demos all run by video call. You keep the code, the store listings and every worker record in accounts your company controls, so the platform stays yours if suppliers or staff change.

Built for
Employment businesses, shift marketplaces and in-house staff banks supplying restaurants, venues, warehouses and care settings across Greater London.
Typical timeline
Timing follows the scope agreed in discovery: the roles you place, the checks you automate and the number of client systems the app has to talk to.
What you own
Source code, design files, app store accounts, the admin system and all worker and client data, held under your own company.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer

Modon
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HP
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What a London staffing platform needs

Built for late cancellations, scattered venues and a mixed workforce.

A single London agency might cover a Friday dinner service in Soho, banqueting at ExCeL, a peak week at a Park Royal warehouse and a night shift in a care home in Croydon, all before Monday. Each client has its own induction, dress code, entry procedure and sign-off habit. A useful app holds those rules per site, so a worker sees exactly what the venue expects before accepting, and the client sees exactly who is arriving.

The other half of the work is evidence. The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate, HMRC and the Home Office all expect records you can produce on request. We design the data model so that every shift carries its own trail: who was offered it, who accepted, which checks were valid on the day, what hours were confirmed and when pay left the account. The features below are the ones London operators ask for most, ordered by how often they come up in discovery.

Explain your project
  • Shift offers matched to realistic travel

    Shifts go to workers by role, skills, client feedback and how long it takes to reach the site by public transport. Each venue stores travel notes, such as whether a late finish still has a Night Tube or night bus option, so a worker in Walthamstow is not sent to a Wimbledon closing shift they cannot get home from.

    Fewer no-shows caused by impossible commutes.

  • Right to work at sign-up

    British and Irish passport holders verify through a certified identity service provider, eVisa holders share a Home Office code, and staff record any manual check with a date and checker name. Time-limited permission triggers reminders well before expiry, and the worker cannot accept shifts past that date until a follow-up check is logged.

    A defensible record for every worker on the books.

  • Credentials wallet per role

    Door supervisors carry SIA licences, bar managers carry personal licences, kitchen staff carry food hygiene certificates and care workers carry enhanced DBS results. The app stores each one with its expiry and links it to the roles that require it, so a booking for a role is blocked when the matching credential has lapsed.

    Clients only receive people cleared for the work.

  • Client booking portal

    Restaurant managers, event organisers and ward coordinators post requests, choose preferred workers, approve substitutes and see confirmations in one view. Rate cards per role and per client sit behind the portal, and every change to a booking is logged with a time and the person who made it.

    Bookings stop arriving by text message at midnight.

  • Clock-in and timesheets

    Workers check in on arrival inside a site boundary, record breaks and check out. The client approves hours on a phone or tablet, or raises a query that goes to your team with the clock data attached. Disputed shifts are flagged rather than silently edited.

    Hours confirmed on the day, with evidence behind them.

  • Pay released as hours are verified

    Approved hours flow into payroll for the next run. Because the Conduct Regulations stop you withholding a temp's pay just because the hirer has not signed a timesheet or paid you, the app keeps a second verification route based on clock data and supervisor confirmation, so pay is never parked behind a missing signature.

    Workers paid on schedule and within the rules.

  • Agency Workers Regulations tracking

    The system counts qualifying weeks for each worker with each hirer, applies the rules on breaks that pause or reset the count, and alerts your team as week twelve approaches. Day-one entitlements, such as access to staff canteens and notice of vacancies, are shown to the worker in the app.

    Equal treatment dates never arrive by surprise.

  • Working time controls

    Many London temps work for several clients in a week. The app adds up hours across all of them, records any signed opt-out from the weekly limit, and warns when a new booking would cut the daily rest gap after a late finish.

    Rest breaks and weekly limits checked before booking.

  • Messaging in plain, translatable English

    Your workforce speaks many first languages. Shift briefings use short, plain sentences and optional translated summaries, while contracts and the Key Information Document stay in English with the key terms highlighted for the worker to confirm.

    Instructions understood the first time they are read.

Who this is for

Four London operators we build staffing platforms for.

London staffing splits along sector lines more than geography. A hospitality supplier lives on weekend peaks and event calendars, a logistics supplier on seasonal surges along the western and eastern industrial corridors, a care supplier on vetting and continuity. The app for each one shares a core, but the screens, rules and reports differ a great deal. These are the four starting points we see most from London businesses.

Some clients need temporary staffing app development in London for a single sector; others want one product spanning several divisions with separate branding. Both are workable once the shared rules and the sector rules are separated early.

01

Hospitality and events agencies

You supply waiting staff, bartenders, porters and runners to West End restaurants, City hotels and venues such as ExCeL and the O2. Bookings arrive in batches when an event sells out and shrink when one is cancelled. We build quick multi-shift posting, standby lists, venue briefings with entry points and uniform rules, and post-event feedback that shapes who gets offered the next big job.

Standby pools matter more than headline fill rates.

02

Warehouse and logistics suppliers

Your clients sit around Park Royal, the Lea Valley, Dagenham and the Heathrow corridor, with peaks before Christmas and during sales. Workers need site inductions, safety footwear and sometimes forklift tickets. We build induction tracking, block booking for whole weeks, shift swaps that keep the headcount steady, and reports that show each client how many hours were worked and confirmed.

03

Care and healthcare staffing agencies

You place healthcare assistants and support workers with CQC-registered care homes, home care providers and hospital staff banks. Vetting is heavy, continuity matters to residents and every record may be read during an inspection. The app keeps DBS, training and reference status in one profile, lets clients request familiar workers and blocks bookings once any mandatory item has lapsed.

04

New shift marketplaces

You are launching a platform that matches London businesses with flexible workers. The first question is legal rather than technical: are you an employment business, an introductory agency or a marketplace, and who engages the worker? We build to the model your advisers settle on, and design the data so the model can change later without rebuilding the product.

Settle the operating model before the first screen.

How a London staffing app goes from first call to live shifts.

  1. 01Operating model and rulesWe map how you engage workers, which regulations bite on that model, and which checks must be recorded before a shift can be offered. This becomes the rulebook the software enforces.
  2. 02Worker and client flowsSign-up, vetting, offer, acceptance, clock-in, approval and pay for the worker, then request, confirm, approve and invoice for the client, drawn as screens and reviewed with your coordinators by video.
  3. 03Design and prototypesClickable prototypes for the worker app, the client portal and the coordinator dashboard, tested with a few of your temps and a friendly venue manager before any build starts.
  4. 04Build and integrationsNative or cross-platform apps, the admin system, and connections to your payroll, accounting, identity checks and messaging services, built in short cycles with a working release at each step.
  5. 05Pilot with one client groupA controlled launch with one sector or a cluster of London clients, so coordinators learn the tool and the rules are proven against real bookings and real cancellations.
  6. 06Rollout and improvementWider release to every branch and client, app store publishing under your accounts, then a steady list of improvements drawn from booking data and coordinator feedback.

Technology

What we build this with.

We pick the stack around your payroll provider, your identity checking service and the people who will maintain the app afterwards. Common choices are React Native or Flutter for the worker app and a web dashboard for coordinators and clients.

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 agencies ask before building a staffing app.

It depends on how much compliance and payroll logic sits in the first release.

A first version with sign-up, right to work, shift offers and timesheets is far quicker than one that also automates pay, tracks the Agency Workers Regulations and connects to several client systems. We agree the first release in discovery, write the scope down, and give you a timeline based on that scope before design starts. Later features are planned as separate releases so your London clients start using the core product sooner.

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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