Services · Ecommerce development · On-demand staffing marketplaces
Codeeo provides staffing marketplace website development across the UK for employment businesses, multi-vendor shift platforms and labour suppliers that want hirers to book and pay online. We build the web marketplace, hirer checkout and account billing, supplier and worker verification, commission splitting, payouts, VAT invoicing and dispute handling, set up for the national rules on agency work, payments and consumer protection, and for differences between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
A national marketplace rarely launches everywhere at once. Most start in one city, prove that supply, checkout and payouts work, then add regions. We design the platform so each new region is a set of settings, not a new build. Hirers with sites in several regions keep one account as you grow, and suppliers who work across regions keep one profile and one payout history.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
National platform features
Selling shifts across the country means one platform carrying several rulebooks. Vetting differs by nation, bank holidays differ, some sectors need a licence to supply labour, and pay floors change every April. Hirers range from a single café paying by card to a national retailer with procurement rules, cost centres and sixty day terms. Suppliers range from individual workers to regional agencies.
We build these marketplaces as web platforms that work on any device, so there is no app store approval between you and a change in the rules. The capabilities below cover the commercial core: who can sell, who can buy, how money moves and how you prove what happened. Staffing booking platform development UK operators bring to us usually needs this core done properly before any growth features.
Criminal record checks are set per nation and role: DBS in England and Wales, PVG through Disclosure Scotland, and AccessNI in Northern Ireland. Right to work checks use the Home Office online service or a certified identity service provider, and each result is stored with its date and expiry.
The right check is required for each role in each nation.
A retailer or hotel group gets one parent account with regions, sites, budget holders and approvers beneath it. Head office sees spend across every site, local managers book only for their own, and invoices can be split by site, region or cost centre to suit the hirer's finance team.
National clients buy through one account with local control.
Roles in agriculture, horticulture, shellfish gathering and related food processing and packing can be marked as licensable, so only suppliers holding a Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority licence can fill them. Insurance, Companies House details and supplier terms are tracked with renewal reminders.
Licensable work cannot reach an unlicensed supplier.
Rate cards are set per region and role, and the platform checks every worker pay rate against the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage bands you load each April. Hirers who have committed to the real Living Wage can have a higher floor applied to their bookings.
No booking goes out below the legal minimum for that worker.
Card payments carry Strong Customer Authentication, saved cards are charged later as merchant initiated payments, Open Banking pay by bank suits larger one off bookings, and account hirers pay by Bacs Direct Debit against monthly invoices. Each method feeds the same booking ledger.
Every hirer pays the way their business already works.
A regulated payment provider's marketplace product collects the hirer's payment, splits off your commission and pays the supplier, umbrella company or worker by Faster Payments once hours are approved. Your company does not hold other parties' funds, and every payout links to a booking and invoice.
Money moves on approval with a full audit trail.
Invoices carry the VAT treatment your accountant confirms for each supply, whether you supply workers as principal or only introduce them. Credit notes reference the original invoice, and exports go to your accounting system with commission, worker cost and VAT kept in separate lines.
Finance and HMRC records agree with the platform.
Where households or individuals book cover, the platform shows all-in prices from the first point a price appears, as the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 requires, and provides cancellation information under the Consumer Contracts Regulations. Business hirers get your commercial terms instead.
Consumer and business bookings follow the right rules automatically.
For any booking your team can pull the terms each party accepted, the checks a worker had passed on that date, the rate paid against the legal floor, the hours approved and the payout made. Reports can be filtered by region, supplier or hirer, so a question from an inspector or a large client is answered from data rather than a search through inboxes.
Evidence for any shift is a few clicks away.
Hirers can raise disputes inside a set window, holding only the disputed amount. Reviews come only from completed bookings and are moderated under a published policy, since fake reviews are a banned practice. Terms accepted, checks passed and hours recorded are kept as evidence for disputes and inspections.
You can show what happened on any shift, months later.
Who it is for
A national marketplace earns its keep when the volume of hirers, suppliers and shifts is already beyond what coordinators can match by phone, and when several regions need the same rules applied the same way. It suits operators who want one ledger for every booking and payout across the country. A business supplying its own staff to a few clients in one town usually needs a good website and a simpler booking tool first. We are open about that in scoping, because a marketplace with too little volume costs more to run than it earns.
Businesses that manage labour supply for national clients through a network of second tier agencies need each supplier to work inside the same rules, with one invoice to the client and clear records of who supplied each worker. The marketplace gives suppliers their own logins and margins, shows the client a single view across regions and keeps the supply chain visible for any audit. Suppliers that fall below agreed standards on fill rate, cancellations or documents can be paused without affecting the rest of the network.
Tiered supply with one client invoice.
Platforms that started in London, Manchester or Birmingham and now want Leeds, Bristol or Glasgow need regional rate cards, nation specific vetting and local zones without rebuilding. We structure regions as configuration, so launching a new city means loading its rates, roles and zones and recruiting supply, not a development project each time.
New regions added as settings.
Suppliers covering hotel chains, retail estates and event venues nationally need parent accounts for big hirers, card checkout for small ones, and bank holiday uplifts that differ between Scotland, Northern Ireland and England and Wales. The marketplace handles those differences so coordinators do not correct invoices by hand after each holiday weekend.
National accounts with regional calendars.
Providers supplying food processing, packing and agricultural work operate under GLAA licensing and close scrutiny of how workers are treated and paid. The platform restricts licensable roles to licensed suppliers, records pay rates against legal floors and keeps worker communications in one place, so the business can show its standards rather than simply assert them. Worker messages can be sent in plain English with translated versions where your workforce needs them.
Licensing and pay records built in.
Working with Codeeo
Codeeo has no UK office and does not offer visits to clients in the UK. Our 80+ staff work from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and run UK projects over video calls, shared specifications and a staging platform you can test at any point. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. Staffing marketplace website design UK hirers trust is reviewed with your compliance, finance and operations leads, each joining the sessions that affect them.
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 usually build on Laravel or Next.js with a relational database, hosting in UK or EU regions and a payment provider that supports split payments, payouts and Direct Debit. Staffing booking payment integration UK operators need also covers accounting exports, payroll files and vetting provider connections.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
Agency law, data protection, consumer law and payment rules together.
In Great Britain, the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and the Conduct Regulations govern how agencies and employment businesses deal with hirers and work seekers, and the Agency Workers Regulations cover equal treatment. Northern Ireland has its own equivalent regulations. UK GDPR and PECR cover data and consent, the Consumer Contracts Regulations and the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 cover consumer bookings, and payment services rules shape how money is collected and paid out.
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