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Staffing marketplaces that match Greater Manchester hirers with checked workers.

Staffing marketplace website development in Manchester is about one thing: letting a warehouse in Trafford Park, a production company at MediaCityUK or a caterer working a Co-op Live concert book checked people online and pay for them without a back and forth by phone. Codeeo builds that web platform for agencies, labour providers and new shift marketplaces, covering supplier and worker onboarding, listings, hirer checkout, commission, payouts and the evidence you need when a booking is disputed.

Greater Manchester spans ten boroughs with very different hirers. The platform treats a Bolton distribution centre, a Salford studio and a city centre hotel as separate markets with their own roles, rates and rules, all run from one admin. Your coordinators see every zone at once, while each hirer and supplier only sees the part of the market that concerns them.

Built for
Agencies, licensed labour providers and shift platforms supplying logistics, media production, hospitality and venue work across Greater Manchester.
Typical timeline
Set once the first borough, the first hirer type and the payout routes are fixed in scoping; later markets are planned as separate releases with their own dates.
What you own
All source code, the hosting and payment provider accounts, supplier and worker records, booking history and invoices, registered in your company's name.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

Marketplace features

Built for the way Manchester hirers book and pay.

Many Manchester staffing businesses do not just supply their own workers. They subcontract to smaller agencies, take crew from freelance pools and sell blocks of shifts to logistics firms on monthly terms. A marketplace here is often multi-vendor: several suppliers list people, hirers book across them, and the operator takes commission and carries the compliance record.

We build these platforms for the web, so hirers book from a desktop in a transport office and workers accept from a phone browser. The features below are the ones that decide whether money moves correctly between hirer, supplier and worker. Staffing booking platform development Manchester operators ask for usually starts with the supplier side, because without enough checked supply the hirer checkout has nothing to sell.

Explain your project
  • Supplier agency onboarding

    Partner agencies apply through the site, upload their Companies House number, insurance certificates and, where they supply food processing or packing roles, their Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority licence. Your team approves each supplier before any of their workers can be listed.

    Only approved suppliers can sell through your marketplace.

  • Worker checks inside each supplier

    Every worker, whichever supplier lists them, passes the same checks before they can be booked: identity, right to work through the Home Office online service or a certified identity provider, role certificates such as forklift or food hygiene, and student visa hour limits where they apply. Expiry dates pause a profile automatically until the document is renewed.

    One compliance standard applies across every supplier on the platform.

  • Block and recurring bookings

    A logistics hirer books forty pickers for every night shift in November in one request, or sets a weekly pattern that repeats until cancelled. The platform splits the block across suppliers by rules you set, such as preferred supplier first, and shows the hirer fill rate as shifts are accepted.

    Peak season volume is booked in minutes, not over a week of calls.

  • Borough and venue zones

    Rates, roles and supplier lists are set per zone, so Trafford Park, Manchester Airport, Salford Quays and the city centre can each have their own price and travel rules. Workers only see shifts they have said they can reach, including late finishes when trams and buses run less often.

    Fewer shifts accepted and then dropped because of travel.

  • Split commission across vendors

    When a hirer pays, the payment provider splits it between the supplying agency or worker and your commission in one transaction. Different suppliers can have different margins, and your share is reported separately so it is clear what the marketplace earned on each booking.

    Each party sees its share without manual reconciliation.

  • Account terms for business hirers

    Large hirers are credit checked and given invoice terms, with weekly or monthly consolidated invoices and Bacs Direct Debit collection on the due date. Smaller hirers pay by card or pay by bank at booking. Credit limits stop a hirer booking past an agreed exposure.

    Monthly accounts and card hirers coexist on one platform.

  • Crew lists for events and productions

    Stewards, bar teams and production runners for arenas, stadiums and studio shoots are booked as a crew with a lead, call time, accreditation fields and a printable list for the venue. Late replacements are drawn from a standby pool and the list updates automatically.

    Venue managers get one accurate list rather than three emails.

  • Timesheets and approval

    Hours are recorded at check in and check out, then approved by the hirer's named supervisor. Breaks, overtime and night rates are applied from the rate card, and an approved timesheet triggers both the hirer charge or invoice line and the payout to the supplier.

    Approval is the single event that moves money.

  • Supplier performance and reviews

    Hirers rate shifts and suppliers after completion. Fill rate, late cancellations and dispute history build a supplier score your team can use when allocating blocks. Public reviews are only accepted from completed bookings and moderated under a written policy.

    Good suppliers win more work on evidence, not favour.

  • Disputes with three parties

    When a hirer, supplier and worker disagree about hours or a no-show, the dispute thread shows each side the booking record, check in times and messages. Only the disputed amount is held, and the resolution produces matching credit notes for the hirer and adjustments for the supplier.

    Disputes are settled with documents everyone can see.

Who it is for

Manchester businesses that broker shifts between many parties.

The strongest case for a marketplace in Manchester is a business that already sits between several suppliers and many hirers and spends its week reconciling who worked, who pays and who gets paid. Moving that onto a platform with clear rules frees coordinators to deal with exceptions. If you only supply your own employees to a handful of hirers, a simpler booking site may be enough, and we will say so during scoping. The same applies to agencies whose hirers all want to keep booking by phone: a marketplace only pays back if a meaningful share of bookings moves online.

01

Master vendors for logistics and warehousing

Operators managing labour for distribution centres around Trafford Park, the airport and the M60 corridor often run a supply chain of second tier agencies. The platform gives each tier its own login and margin, lets the hirer see a single invoice, and records which agency supplied which worker for every shift so supply chain questions can be answered from the data rather than from memory.

Built around tiered suppliers and one hirer invoice.

02

Media and production crew platforms

Production companies around MediaCityUK book runners, drivers, set dressers and catering crew for shoot days that move at short notice. A crew marketplace lets them book from a pool of freelancers and small agencies, attach call sheets, and pay on approval. Freelancers working through their own companies are invoiced and paid differently from agency workers, and the platform keeps those routes apart.

Handles freelancers and agency crew side by side.

03

Venue and event staffing suppliers

Suppliers working arenas, stadiums and conference events at Manchester Central handle large crews on fixed dates. They need deposits on big bookings, crew lists venues accept, standby pools and quick settlement after the event. The marketplace handles the commercial side while your supervisors handle the people on the night. After the event, approved hours from the crew list feed straight into invoices and payouts, so settlement does not wait for paper sign-in sheets to be typed up.

Large fixed date bookings with deposits.

04

Founders building a regional shift marketplace

Start-ups that want to own the Manchester market before expanding to Leeds, Liverpool or Sheffield need a platform where adding a region means adding zones and rate cards, not rebuilding. We build the first region properly, with verification and payouts fully working, and design the data so new regions plug in later. Hirers with sites in more than one city keep a single account as you expand.

One region first, with room to add the next.

From scoping to a live Manchester market

  1. 01Map the partiesWe list every party in a booking: hirer, supplier, worker, umbrella company or limited company, and your marketplace. For each, we agree what they see, what they pay and how they are paid.
  2. 02Agree the rulesCommission, cancellation charges, dispute windows, credit limits and supplier approval criteria are written down and signed off before design, because they shape every screen.
  3. 03Design the two checkoutsWe design the card checkout for small hirers and the account booking flow for business hirers, plus supplier onboarding, and review each with you by video call.
  4. 04Build and connectThe platform is built with split payments, Direct Debit collection, accounting exports and payroll files, and every flow is tested with refunds, failures and partial approvals.
  5. 05Pilot one zoneOne zone and a few hirers go live first, usually where you already have strong supply. We review fill rate, disputes and payment failures weekly and adjust.
  6. 06Extend across boroughsFurther zones, roles and suppliers are added in planned releases, with your team trained to manage rates, suppliers and disputes without our help.

Technology

What we build this with.

A typical build uses Laravel or Next.js, a relational database, a payment provider that supports split payments and connected payout accounts, and Direct Debit for account hirers. Staffing booking payment integration Manchester operators rely on also covers exports to Xero, Sage or QuickBooks and payroll files.

01Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • WordPress

02Commerce

  • Shopify Plus
  • WooCommerce
  • BigCommerce
  • Headless storefronts

03Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

04Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Manchester marketplace questions

Cost follows the number of parties, payment routes and integrations.

A two sided marketplace with card payments costs less to build than a multi-vendor platform with supplier tiers, account hirers on Direct Debit, crew lists and payroll exports. Each integration, such as accounting software or a vetting provider, adds work. We price after scoping, once the parties and money flows are written down, and we can split the build so the first release earns revenue before the next is funded. Timeline follows the same logic: the payment provider's checks on your business and the number of suppliers you need onboarded before launch often matter as much as development time.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

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