Services · Mobile app development · Warehouse management apps
Codeeo delivers warehouse management software development London operators need when space is tight, cut-offs are late and imported stock lands from the Thames ports or Heathrow. We build handheld scanning apps, slotting logic, same-day order release, customs status tracking and client billing for shared buildings, joined to your ERP, web shop and carriers. The result is a system shaped around a dense urban site rather than a vast greenfield shed.
Our team works remotely with London clients. Discovery, screen reviews and acceptance testing all take place by video call, and your own operators test each build on the floor between sessions. That keeps the people who understand the building in charge of how it should work, while we handle design, code and integrations.
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What the system can include
London warehouses rarely have room to spare. Sites in Park Royal, the Lea Valley, Barking and Dagenham or near Heathrow are often older multi-let units, mezzanine floors or newer multi-storey schemes, and the cost of space pushes operators to store densely and turn stock fast. Customers in the capital also expect late order cut-offs and quick deliveries, so the hours between the final order and the last collection are the most pressured of the day.
Custom warehouse management software development London businesses commission therefore has to be good at three things: deciding exactly where each item lives, releasing work in the right order once orders stop arriving, and keeping clear records for stock still under customs control. The capabilities below reflect those pressures. We pick the set that suits your building and leave the rest for later releases.
Containers arriving from London Gateway, Tilbury or Felixstowe are booked in against the packing list. Operators scan cartons as they come off, mixed pallets are broken down and rebuilt, and any shortfall against the supplier's paperwork is logged before the container is released back to the haulier.
Import discrepancies are caught at the door, not weeks later.
Where your premises hold HMRC customs warehouse approval, each unit carries a status showing whether duty and import VAT are still suspended. Goods released to free circulation are moved to a separate status with the declaration reference attached, so your records support the stock accounts you keep for HMRC.
Duty-suspended stock is always distinguishable from cleared stock.
Slotting rules use real pick data to place fast movers in golden zones and push slow lines into high bays, mezzanine shelving or deep storage. The system suggests re-slotting moves during quiet hours, so the layout keeps pace with seasonal ranges without a full weekend reshuffle.
More picks per hour from the same floor area.
Orders flow in from web shops and marketplaces through the afternoon. The system groups them by courier collection time and service level, releasing urgent same-day orders first and holding next-day work until pickers are free, so late arrivals still make the van.
Late orders reach the right collection without a scramble.
Heavy goods vehicles over 18 tonnes need permission to use many London roads at night and at weekends under the London Lorry Control Scheme. Dispatch planning records which outbound vehicles fall under it, so loads for restricted periods are prepared for the permitted routes or brought forward.
Outbound plans respect the hours your vehicles can run.
Dense London sites cannot stop trading for a full stocktake. The system schedules small counts by location, prioritising high value lines and bins with recent errors, and sends them to operators during quiet spells. Variances above a threshold trigger a recount by a second person before any adjustment is posted.
Stock accuracy improves without a weekend shutdown.
Fulfilment and 3PL operators charge for pallet nights, picks, packaging, labels and value added tasks. Every scan becomes a billable event against the right client and tariff, and month-end invoice data is produced from those events instead of from a spreadsheet assembled by hand.
Every chargeable task ends up on the client's invoice.
Returned items are scanned, photographed and graded as resaleable, needs steaming or repair, or written off. Resaleable stock goes back to a pick face straight away, and the grading feeds refund decisions in the web shop so customers are not kept waiting.
Returned stock is back on sale within the same shift.
London sites rely on temporary workers at peak. Each task on the handheld shows one instruction at a time with photos of the product and location, so a new starter can pick accurately after a short briefing, and supervisors see who needs help.
New starters become productive on their first shift.
Many operators hold bulk stock in a larger building outside the M25 and run a smaller unit closer to customers. The system calculates top-up quantities for the inner site, builds the transfer and confirms receipt at the other end.
The city unit stays stocked without carrying excess.
Who this is for
The capital's warehouses range from airside forwarding sheds to multi-storey fulfilment units and basement stockrooms behind shops. As a warehouse management software development company London operators can brief remotely, we start from what is actually slowing your floor down. These four profiles cover most of the enquiries we receive. If your operation mixes two of them, for instance a fulfilment unit that also holds bonded imports, the system can carry both sets of rules in one building without confusing the floor team.
You run a shared building in north or west London and onboard new brands every month. Each client has its own packaging, inserts, courier accounts and reporting needs. We give you a client set-up screen, per client rules and billing that comes straight from activity, so adding a brand does not mean adding a spreadsheet.
Onboarding a client should take hours, not weeks.
Your stock arrives in containers, some of it held under customs warehousing before you decide where it will be sold. You need clear separation between suspended and cleared goods, and a link between each release and its declaration. We build that status model first, then the picking and dispatch around it.
Customs status sits at the heart of the stock record.
Air freight moves quickly and arrives in irregular volumes. You need fast receipt against airway bills, short dwell times and clear handover records when goods leave for an onward flight or a road service. We design for speed at the dock and exception handling when paperwork and freight do not match.
Dwell time is the measure that matters.
You keep a small urban unit for quick deliveries and click and collect, fed from a larger regional centre. The challenge is keeping the right range in a small space. We focus on replenishment rules, accurate counts and fast picking so the city site rarely runs short or overflows.
A small site needs sharper replenishment.
How we work together
Many London clients begin with a fixed scope release covering one flow, such as returns or client billing, and then extend on a monthly retainer. Operators with a large client base or several sites sometimes prefer a dedicated team that sits within their own sprint planning. Warehouse management software developers London firms hire through us work remotely by video call in every case. Cost is driven by the number of clients and rule sets, integrations with couriers and customs systems, any data cleanup from older software and how much of the building goes live in the first phase. A smaller opening release is usually the sensible route in a busy London building.
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
Android apps for rugged handhelds and wearable scanners, web dashboards for supervisors and a client portal, all on cloud hosting in UK or EU regions. Integrations use the published APIs of your ERP, marketplaces, courier platforms and customs software, with queued updates so a short network drop never loses a scan. Client portal pages follow WCAG 2.2 so brand staff using assistive technology can check stock and download reports without help.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
We price after discovery, based on scope rather than a list rate.
Two London projects that sound alike can differ greatly. A single-client unit with one web shop is simpler than a shared building with dozens of brands, customs warehousing and several courier accounts. The main drivers are the number of integrations, how many distinct client rule sets the system must hold, whether customs status tracking is needed and how much data must be cleaned during migration. Discovery produces a written scope and an estimate, so you can compare it fairly with packaged options.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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