Services · Ecommerce development · On-demand staffing marketplaces
Codeeo handles staffing marketplace website development in London for agencies, shift platforms and labour operators who want hirers to find vetted people, book shifts and pay on the web. We build the public marketplace, the hirer account where restaurants, event organisers and offices post and pay for cover, the onboarding flow that verifies each worker before a profile goes live, and the finance layer that takes commission, issues VAT invoices and releases pay once hours are signed off.
London hirers book late, cancel later and argue about hours on Monday morning. A marketplace that survives that needs clear prices before checkout, payment rules agreed in advance and records good enough to settle a dispute without a phone call.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the marketplace includes
A London staffing marketplace has two sets of customers who want opposite things. Hirers in Soho kitchens, Canary Wharf receptions and ExCeL exhibition halls want a named, checked person on site at short notice for a price they saw before they booked. Workers want shifts they can reach, a clear rate and pay that arrives when promised. The website sits between them and takes a margin for doing so.
Everything below is built for the web first: the booking pages, hirer checkout, worker onboarding and the admin your team runs the market from. Workers and hirers can use it from a phone browser; there is no app store involved unless you add one later. Each feature ties back to one question: can this booking be paid, invoiced and defended if someone disputes it? Clients often come to us asking for staffing booking platform development London hirers will actually use; in practice that means fewer screens at checkout and more rules running quietly in the admin.
A hirer picks a role, date, venue and headcount, sees matching workers or an open request option, and confirms with a price that already includes your booking fee and VAT. Account hirers can book against a purchase order; new hirers pay by card with Strong Customer Authentication at the first booking.
Bookings arrive paid or credit checked, never as an unpriced request.
New workers upload identity, right to work evidence, role certificates and references in one guided flow. Your compliance team reviews each item in the admin, and a profile only becomes bookable when every required check for that role has passed and has an expiry date set.
No unverified person can be booked by a London hirer.
Hirers filter by role, borough, skills such as barista, SIA licensed steward or silver service, language, rating and availability. Profiles show what has been checked, not personal details, and results respect any blocks a hirer or worker has placed on the other.
Hirers find a suitable person in a few filters rather than a phone call.
Your margin is set per hirer, role or zone, with uplifts for nights, bank holidays and same day requests. Where a hirer has committed to the London Living Wage, the rate card refuses any pay rate below the current figure you enter.
Margin is calculated the same way on every shift.
Pay is released through a regulated payment provider's marketplace accounts once the hirer approves the timesheet or the approval window lapses. Workers paid through your payroll or a limited company are routed differently, and each payout carries the booking reference.
Workers see when they will be paid and why.
A hirer can query hours, a no-show or a late arrival inside a set window. The dispute holds only the amount in question, shows both sides the clock-in record and messages, and lets your team settle it with a credit note or a revised timesheet.
Most disagreements close inside the admin with a paper trail.
Only a completed, paid booking can leave a review, on both sides. Reviews are moderated against a written policy and nothing is hidden because it is negative, which keeps you on the right side of the fake review rules in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024.
Ratings mean something because each one is tied to a real shift.
Each booking produces a VAT invoice, or a weekly consolidated invoice for account hirers, with cost centre and purchase order fields that large London employers ask for. Credit notes link back to the original document, and exports go to your accounting software.
Finance teams at hirers can pay without chasing missing details.
A restaurant group with sites in Shoreditch, Covent Garden and Battersea gets one account with a separate venue, budget holder and approver for each site. Managers book only for their own venue, finance sees every site, and workers who have been blocked at one location can still be offered shifts at another if the group allows it.
Groups book centrally without losing control at each venue.
Your team sees open requests, unfilled shifts by borough, pending verifications, disputes and payouts on one screen. Roles control who can change rates, approve workers or issue refunds, and every change is logged with a name and time.
The market can be run by a small team without spreadsheets.
Who this suits
A marketplace makes sense when you have more hirers and workers than a coordinator can match by phone, and when you want hirers to self serve within rules you set. It suits operators who already hold the relationships and want the website to carry the booking, payment and evidence. It is less suited to agencies placing a few permanent hires a month; a standard website with an enquiry form does that job better and costs less to run.
Suppliers who staff West End restaurants, hotel banqueting and exhibitions at ExCeL or Olympia handle bursts of bookings around trade shows, Christmas parties and summer events. The marketplace lets repeat hirers book named favourites, lets event organisers request whole teams with a supervisor, and charges a deposit on large crew bookings so a late cancellation does not leave you paying for people who were already on their way.
Team bookings and deposits matter most here.
Firms in the City and Canary Wharf book receptionists, post room staff and meeting hosts, often through procurement teams that insist on purchase orders, consolidated monthly invoices and a supplier portal login. The marketplace gives these hirers account terms, approval by a named manager and invoice detail their accounts payable team will accept without a query.
Purchase orders and account terms come first.
Founders launching a marketplace in one or two boroughs before going city wide need the core loop working first: verified supply, a hirer checkout, commission and payouts. We build that core so it runs properly at a small scale, then add zones, roles and rate cards as you sign hirers, rather than building for every borough from day one.
Start small, with the money flows done properly.
Established London agencies that take bookings by email and WhatsApp and invoice from a spreadsheet can move their existing hirers onto self service booking. We import hirers, workers and rates, keep your current payroll or umbrella arrangements, and add online payment only where it helps, so the change does not upset clients who already pay on account.
Keeps current clients and payroll in place.
Working with Codeeo
Codeeo has no London office. Our team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi works with UK clients remotely, with discovery sessions, design reviews and pilot check-ins held by video call and written up afterwards. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and hold a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. For a marketplace, the work is usually led by a product lead, a payments developer and a designer who stay on the project from scoping to launch. Staffing marketplace website design London hirers respond to is tested in those reviews with screens your own clients have tried, not mockups judged in isolation.
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 build marketplaces on proven web stacks such as Next.js or Laravel with a relational database, a regulated payment provider's marketplace product for split payments and payouts, and hosting in UK or EU regions where you want worker data kept close. Staffing booking payment integration London operators need, including card, pay by bank and invoice terms, is configured in the provider's sandbox and tested before any real hirer pays.
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02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on how many payment flows and roles launch first.
A marketplace with one hirer type, card payments and payouts to workers is a smaller first release than one with account hirers, purchase orders, team bookings and several worker pay routes. We agree the first release in scoping and write down what is in it, then give a timeline for that scope. Verification rules and the payment provider's own onboarding checks for your company can affect dates, so we start those early.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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