Services · Mobile app development · Subscription billing software
Codeeo offers subscription billing software development Manchester businesses use to sell streaming and content plans, subscription boxes, agency retainers and gym memberships on their own platform. We build the plan rules, Direct Debit and card collection, pause and skip controls, VAT invoices and a customer app, connected to the shop, product or booking system you already run. The aim is simple: customers can see and change what they pay for, and your team stops fixing billing by hand.
Greater Manchester has a strong digital, media and online retail economy, and many of its subscription businesses grew quickly on plugins and hosted tools. When those start costing more in workarounds than they save, a platform you own gives you control of pricing, data and the customer experience, and lets you add new plan types as the business changes.
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Features we build
The subscription businesses we hear from in Manchester are often consumer facing and move fast. A content studio near MediaCityUK in Salford wants to sell a premium tier through its app and its website. A Northern Quarter brand ships monthly boxes and runs promotions every few weeks. A gym group across the city's suburbs collects memberships by Direct Debit. A digital agency bills retainers that change scope each quarter. These businesses share a need for flexible plans, honest renewal communication and payment recovery that does not lose good customers. The features below are the ones we build most often for them, ordered roughly by how early they tend to appear in a first release. Underneath, every build follows UK rules on Bacs Direct Debit, strong customer authentication for cards, VAT invoicing and the consumer subscription regime due to start in January 2027.
Subscribers can pause for a month, skip a delivery or swap a product before the cut-off date, within limits you set. Retail and box brands use this to keep customers who would otherwise cancel, and student services use it to pause over summer when term ends.
Customers stay subscribed instead of leaving for a break.
Content apps often sell plans through the App Store, Google Play and the website at once. We combine those sources into one subscriber record, so access, support and reporting work the same whichever route the customer used to pay. Store policies change, so we check them at build time.
One subscriber view across every place you sell.
Premium video, audio, articles or courses open by plan, with free previews, gifting and household or team sharing where your licences permit it. Lapsed subscribers move back to free access automatically on the date you set.
Paywalls that match each plan without manual edits.
Gym and club members sign a paperless mandate online, see the Direct Debit Guarantee, and get advance notice of each collection. The platform reads Bacs return reports so unpaid collections and cancelled mandates show on the member record the next morning.
Front desk staff see payment issues before the member arrives.
Agencies set monthly retainers with included hours or deliverables, bill overages at agreed rates, and change scope at quarter boundaries. Invoices carry purchase order references and follow HMRC VAT invoice rules for business clients.
Retainer invoices that match what the client agreed.
Introductory prices, referral rewards and seasonal codes are configured by your marketing team, with limits on stacking and expiry. The platform remembers what price each customer will move to and tells them before it changes.
Promotions run without surprising customers later.
Expired or replaced cards are updated through your provider's card updater where available. When a bank asks for strong customer authentication on a renewal, the subscriber gets a one tap approval request instead of a vague failure email.
Fewer involuntary cancellations each month.
Cancellation in the account area takes a few taps, retention offers can be shown once without blocking the exit, and renewal and trial reminders go out on schedule. Each notice is logged so you can show what was sent and when.
A cancellation flow that stands up to the new rules.
Links to Shopify, WooCommerce, your warehouse system, Klaviyo or HubSpot keep orders, fulfilment and marketing lists in line with subscription status, and keep service notices separate from marketing under PECR.
Fulfilment and marketing always know who is active.
Who this is for
Every subscription model in Manchester has its own pressure point. For media brands it is selling across apps and the web. For box brands it is fulfilment cut-offs. For gyms it is Direct Debit failures, and for agencies it is scope that moves. The four profiles below show how the first release changes for each. They are starting points for a discovery conversation, not fixed packages. Plenty of Manchester firms combine two of them, such as a fitness brand that also sells an on demand video plan, and the platform is designed so a second model can be added later without rebuilding the first.
You sell premium content through an app and a website, and subscribers buy through whichever is closer to hand. Store purchases and web purchases sit in different places, so support cannot see the full picture. We build one subscriber record, an entitlements service your apps check, and reporting that shows revenue by channel after store fees, so you can decide where to send people to subscribe. Editorial teams can also schedule free access windows for launches without asking engineering.
Channel mix drives the first release.
Monthly or weekly boxes depend on billing and fulfilment agreeing on who ships what. We tie each charge to a picking list, enforce cut-off times before your warehouse run, and let customers skip or swap without emailing support. Delivery to Manchester postcodes and beyond is priced by zone, and promotions are tracked against retention, not just signups. Failed payments pause the next box automatically, so stock is not shipped before the charge clears.
Billing and fulfilment share one calendar.
Membership fees mostly arrive by Direct Debit, and every unpaid collection becomes a conversation at reception. We build online joining with paperless mandates, freeze and transfer rules, class credits for studio plans, and staff screens that show payment status at check-in. Members from Didsbury to Ancoats can manage their plan from the app instead of queueing at the desk, and multi site groups can let members train at any club on the right plan.
Reception gets payment status at check-in.
Retainers, support plans and hosting packages are recurring revenue, but they are often invoiced from a spreadsheet and a reminder in someone's calendar. We turn each client agreement into a subscription with included work, overage rates and renewal dates, generate VAT invoices automatically and sync them to your accounting software. Account directors see which retainers renew next month and how much included time each client has used.
Recurring client work billed on time, every time.
Ways to engage
Codeeo works with Manchester clients remotely. We have no office in the North West; our 80+ person team sits in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and every discovery session, design review and demo runs by video call. If you are comparing a subscription billing software development company Manchester based with a remote one, ask both how they test renewals. Most clients start with a fixed scope first release, then keep a monthly retainer for new plans and promotions, or take a dedicated team when billing is part of a wider product roadmap.
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 pick tools that suit your existing shop, app and team. Common choices include a typed backend service, a relational database with a full ledger history, React for the web account area and React Native or native code for mobile. Payment providers are chosen for their UK Direct Debit support, card updater coverage and clear reporting, not for brand familiarity alone.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It is when workarounds cost more than the tool saves.
Hosted billing tools suit many early stage businesses. Custom subscription billing software development Manchester firms commission usually starts when pricing, fulfilment or channel mix no longer fit: box brands needing cut-off logic, media firms combining app store and web plans, or gyms with complex freeze rules. A platform you own removes per transaction platform fees, keeps your data in one place and lets you change rules without waiting for a vendor's roadmap. We help you weigh both options honestly during discovery.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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