Services · Website development · Taxi and private hire websites
We provide taxi booking website development Manchester operators use to take more work direct instead of handing it to the big apps. The sites we build serve hackney carriage firms and private hire operators across the city and Greater Manchester: booking request forms, airport and station pages, matchday and concert information, school and contract enquiry routes, and pages for each borough you cover. Every page is written for how people in Manchester actually search for a cab, and built to load fast on a phone.
A Manchester firm often licenses its cars in one council and picks up in five others. Your website needs to show that coverage honestly, rank in each area that matters to you and send every request straight to your controllers, without any of it reading like a national franchise template.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What we build
Manchester's cab trade runs on volume and repeat custom: students heading home from the Oxford Road corridor, office workers leaving Spinningfields, fans leaving the Etihad, Old Trafford or Co-op Live, and early flights from Manchester Airport. A good website catches those requests at the moment of need and passes them to dispatch without friction. It also has to represent a firm whose drivers may hold licences from different councils, which is normal across Greater Manchester. We build sites that make that clear without confusing passengers, and that give your office the tools to keep content current. Booking requests go to your dispatch platform where it allows, or to a monitored queue with alerts. The features below reflect what Manchester operators ask us for most; discovery decides which ones you need at launch.
A form that asks only for what the controller needs: pickup, destination, time, passengers and luggage. Address lookup recognises Manchester postcodes, stations, campuses and venues, and the confirmation screen tells the passenger what happens next and how they will be contacted. It also works well on older phones.
More completed requests and fewer abandoned forms.
Pages for football, concerts and arena events that explain pickup zones, likely waiting times and how far in advance to book. Your office updates them through the CMS before each big fixture or tour, so the advice stays accurate. Pages are written so they can be reused each season with small updates.
Event crowds book ahead instead of searching on the night.
Pages for Manchester Airport, Piccadilly and Victoria covering meeting points, delayed flights and luggage, written to rank for the searches that bring in your best paying regular work. Each page covers where the driver meets the passenger, how luggage and child seats are handled and how waiting time works, with a booking form already set to that airport or station.
Airport transfers booked direct with your firm.
Pages for the boroughs and towns you genuinely serve, such as Salford, Trafford, Stockport or Tameside, built around local stations, hospitals, business parks and estates. Each page is unique and reflects where your cars are licensed. MediaCity, the Trafford Centre and the hospitals at Wythenshawe and Salford Royal are the kinds of places that make a borough page useful to a real passenger.
Local searches in each borough find your firm.
A page aimed at students and night time passengers, explaining how to confirm the car and driver, why pre-booking private hire matters and how to raise a concern. Universities and student unions can link to it, and it gives parents of first year students a page they can check before term.
Trust from younger passengers and their parents.
A section for schools, councils, care providers and businesses that need regular transport, with an enquiry form collecting routes, frequency and any safeguarding requirements, so your contracts team can respond with a proper proposal. Supplier documents can be downloaded directly from the section. Each enquiry is logged for follow up.
Contract work enquiries arrive with the detail needed to quote.
Pages explaining which council licences you accept, what vehicles qualify and what you offer drivers, with a secure application form. Greater Manchester's shared minimum licensing standards are explained in plain terms so applicants know what to expect. We suggest you confirm the details with your licensing contacts.
Licensed drivers apply direct, ready to start.
Content and forms built to WCAG 2.2, with a clear way to request a wheelchair accessible vehicle and information on assistance dogs. Duties under the Equality Act apply to drivers and operators, and the site makes your approach visible. Forms work by keyboard and screen reader.
Disabled passengers can book without calling.
A section for firms in the city centre, Salford Quays and the airport business parks that want invoiced travel for staff and visitors. It explains how accounts, booker access and monthly statements work, and the enquiry form asks for company size and typical trips so your sales lead can reply with something relevant.
Corporate accounts found and opened through the website.
A short, plain page on your fleet's emissions and safety standards. Greater Manchester chose an investment led clean air plan rather than a charging zone, and taxi upgrade deadlines have moved, so we keep this content simple and easy for your team to update. Our notes list this for you to confirm.
Clear answers for corporate and public sector buyers.
Who this is for
Greater Manchester's cab market mixes long standing hackney firms, large private hire operators and small specialist companies. What each needs from a website differs: one wants to win back app users, another wants school contracts, another is trying to rank in a single borough. These are the four starting points we see most often. Most firms recognise themselves in at least one. The website plan follows the work you want more of, which is not always the work you have most of today, so we discuss growth plans as well as current bookings.
Your drivers hold licences from more than one council and your work comes from across the conurbation. We build a site with clear coverage pages, honest licensing information and a booking form that sends each request to the right controller. Local pages are written one at a time from real local trips, not generated from a template, so they rank and read well. We start with the boroughs that bring you the most bookings and add others as you grow.
Coverage pages that reflect where you really work.
Your members want more pre-booked work without paying commission to a large app. A shared website can promote the association, explain how to book and route requests to members or a central desk. We plan the structure with you so it is fair to members and simple for passengers. Hackney carriages can still be hailed and use ranks, so the site also explains where your members wait in the city centre and at the main stations, and how account customers can book a black cab for a set time.
Much of your income comes from councils, schools and care providers. The site needs to show your capability, safeguarding approach and vehicle range in a way procurement teams can assess, with a contracts enquiry route rather than a passenger booking form front and centre. We write for that reader first. Pages cover your vehicle types, driver checks, training and how you handle escorts and passenger assistants, with downloadable documents such as insurance certificates managed through the CMS so they never go out of date on the site.
Built for tender readers as well as passengers.
Your current site came bundled with dispatch software and looks like dozens of others, which limits how well it ranks. We build a site you own, keep the booking widget or connect to the dispatch API, redirect your old URLs and give you content that is clearly yours. Choosing a taxi booking web development company Manchester operators can call on later for changes matters here, because the site should grow with you. Your Google Business Profile and directory listings are updated to match the new site.
How we work
Codeeo does not have a Manchester office. Our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and Manchester clients work with us by video call, shared designs and a staging site they can open at any point. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. A named project lead keeps a written log of every decision, and each stage waits for your approval before the next starts, so the person running your office always knows what is coming.
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
Manchester operator sites we build usually run on WordPress or a Next.js front end with a headless CMS, hosted in a UK region. Booking requests link to common dispatch platforms by API. Analytics and maps wait for cookie consent, as PECR requires.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on scope, integration and how many local pages you need.
A focused site with a booking request form, airport pages and a few core sections is a modest project. Costs rise with live quoting from your fare system, a contracts section, a booker login for businesses and a large set of borough pages, each needing local research. Migrating an existing site with ranking URLs adds redirect and testing work. We give a fixed price after discovery, against a written scope, and suggest a phased approach if that suits your budget. Many firms launch the booking form, airport and event pages first, then add borough pages once they see where new bookings come from.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
Get in touchPROVEN RESULTS
React
Next.js
TypeScript
Node.js
Laravel
WordPress
Shopify Plus
WooCommerce
BigCommerce
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
AWS
Azure
Docker
GA4
Google Tag Manager
Search Console
Meta Pixel
Looker Studio