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Warehouse software built around UK customs, excise and multi-site operations.

Codeeo offers warehouse management software development UK businesses can run across every building they operate: receiving, putaway, picking and packing, scanning, bonded and duty-suspended stock, and billing for third party logistics. We design handheld apps, supervisor dashboards and client portals that follow HMRC customs and excise rules where they apply, record packaging data for national reporting and roll out site by site from the Midlands to Scotland.

Our team works remotely with clients across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Discovery, reviews and testing are run by video call, and every site tests builds on its own equipment before go-live. Site leads stay involved throughout, because the people who run each building know its quirks better than any specification.

Built for
Multi-site 3PLs, bonded warehouse keepers, importers, manufacturers and retailers running warehouses in several UK regions.
Typical timeline
The scope of the first site is agreed in discovery, and the rollout order for later sites is documented before design starts.
What you own
Source code, cloud accounts, handheld and portal apps, integration keys and all warehouse data, registered to your organisation.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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What the platform can include

One platform for every building and every regime.

A national warehouse operation in the UK usually means several buildings with different histories: a distribution hub in the Midlands, a site near a port in the South East or on the Humber, perhaps a bonded store in Scotland and a smaller unit serving Northern Ireland. Each may run its own software, and head office stitches the numbers together at month end.

Custom warehouse management software development UK groups commission is often about bringing those buildings onto one platform without forcing every site into the same mould. The rules that must be consistent, such as stock status, customs and excise controls, labelling standards and reporting, are shared. Local differences in layout, equipment and customer mix are configured per site. The capabilities below are the national building blocks we put together most often.

Explain your project
  • Customs warehouse controls

    For premises approved by HMRC to operate a customs warehouse, every unit carries a duty status, a link to its import entry and a record of movements. Releases to free circulation reference the declaration made through the Customs Declaration Service, and stock reports are ready when HMRC or your auditor asks for them.

    Suspended and cleared goods are always separated in the records.

  • Excise warehouse records

    Spirits, wine, beer and tobacco held under duty suspension need records that satisfy the Warehousekeepers and Owners of Warehoused Goods Regulations. The system tracks each owner's goods, movements in and out of bond and duty point events, and produces the figures behind your regular returns to HMRC.

    Bonded stock reconciles with what HMRC expects to see.

  • Great Britain and Northern Ireland stock

    Goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or held in Northern Ireland, can be subject to different procedures. The platform records the location and status of stock by jurisdiction, so each movement carries the information your customs adviser needs for the right route.

    Stock in Northern Ireland is treated under its own rules.

  • Receiving and putaway across sites

    Every building receives against the same advance notice format and applies the same quality and discrepancy rules, while putaway logic is configured to each site's racking and equipment. Head office sees inbound performance for every warehouse in one report. Discrepancies raised at any building reach the same purchasing or client services queue.

    Goods in works the same way at every site.

  • Picking and packing by channel

    Store replenishment, trade orders and online parcels each follow their own pick method, whether batch, zone or single order, with pack station checks before labels print. Sites can switch methods by channel without code changes. Cut-off times are set per site, so a building in Scotland and a hub in the Midlands each close parcel waves at the time their own carrier collections allow.

    Each sales channel gets the pick method that suits it.

  • Packaging data capture

    Pack stations record the packaging used for each shipment by material and weight. That data supports your Plastic Packaging Tax records and your reporting under the UK extended producer responsibility scheme for packaging, instead of relying on estimates compiled at year end.

    Packaging reports come from what was really used.

  • GS1 barcodes and labelling

    The platform reads and prints GS1 standard barcodes, including pallet labels with serial shipping container codes, so national retailers and their distribution centres can scan your deliveries on arrival. Customer-specific label formats are held per account. Labels are checked for scannability at print, which avoids rejected pallets and booking-in delays at retailer depots.

    Deliveries meet the labelling rules of major retailers.

  • 3PL billing across the network

    Storage, handling, packaging and value added tasks are charged from scanned events against each client's tariff, whichever building did the work. Clients with stock in several sites receive one consolidated statement. Tariffs can differ by site, so a client pays the rate agreed for each building while still seeing a single document. Disputed lines link back to the original scans as evidence.

    Network clients get one accurate bill.

  • Equipment and safety records

    Pre-use checks for forklifts and other lifting equipment are recorded on the handheld, along with due dates for thorough examinations, so you can show compliance with HSE expectations under LOLER and PUWER at every site. Failed checks remove the truck from task allocation until maintenance signs it off, and regional managers can compare compliance between buildings.

    Safety checks are logged consistently across buildings.

  • Group reporting

    Executives see throughput, accuracy, dock to stock time, order cycle time and labour use for every site on one dashboard, with the ability to drill down to an individual building, client or shift. Figures come from the same scanned events at every site, so comparisons between buildings are fair rather than distorted by different counting methods.

    Network performance is visible without month-end spreadsheets.

Who this is for

Four national operations we build for.

National warehouse networks face problems that a single site never meets: inconsistent processes, duplicated software licences and reports that do not agree. As a warehouse management software development company UK operators brief remotely, we focus on what must be the same everywhere and what can safely differ. These profiles cover most national projects, from contract logistics groups to bonded stores and retailers running their own distribution.

01

A 3PL with sites in several regions

You have grown by winning contracts and acquiring warehouses, so each building runs its own system. Clients want one view of their stock, and your finance team wants one billing process. We build a shared platform and onboard each site in turn, keeping local configuration for racking, equipment and shifts. Clients see one portal regardless of where their stock sits, and transfers between your buildings are recorded so nothing goes missing in transit.

Consolidate one site at a time.

02

A bonded warehouse keeper

You store wine, spirits or tobacco for many owners under excise duty suspension, possibly alongside customs warehousing for imported goods. Your records must satisfy HMRC and reconcile with each owner's statements. We design the stock model around owners and duty status from the start, then add picking, despatch and billing. Owners can view their own stock and movements in a portal, which cuts the number of statement queries your team handles each month.

Duty status shapes every screen.

03

An importer using a freeport or port-side site

You hold goods near a port in England or in a Scottish green freeport and want to make the most of customs procedures that delay duty. The warehouse system must mirror your customs approvals and support your agent's declarations. We work alongside your customs adviser to capture the right data at each step. Stock can be tracked by procedure, so goods moving between customs sites or released for sale are always visible with their status.

Customs approvals and stock records must agree.

04

A retailer or manufacturer with its own network

You run distribution centres serving stores, trade customers and online orders across Great Britain, possibly with a Northern Ireland operation. You need consistent processes, retailer-compliant labelling and packaging data for national reporting. We build a platform that standardises the essentials and adapts to each building. Store and online orders can share stock without one channel starving the other.

Standardise the essentials, adapt the rest.

Six steps to a platform every site runs on.

  1. 01Network discoveryWe review each site's layout, systems, customs and excise approvals, clients and reporting by video call, and agree which rules must be shared and which can stay local.
  2. 02Common data modelStock status, owners, duty status, locations and units are defined once for the whole network, so every site and report uses the same meaning for each field.
  3. 03Pilot site design and buildWe choose a representative pilot site, design the handheld and dashboard screens with its staff and build the first release with its integrations.
  4. 04Pilot go-liveThe pilot runs in parallel with existing processes until stock and customs records reconcile, then switches over, with lessons recorded for the rollout.
  5. 05Rollout by siteFurther buildings join one at a time, each with its own configuration and test period, so trouble at one site never affects the rest of the network.
  6. 06Continuous improvementOnce several sites are live, group reporting shows where processes differ in performance, and we refine rules and add features on a retainer.

Technology

What we build this with.

Android handheld apps, web dashboards and client portals on cloud hosting in UK or EU regions, designed to support many sites from one deployment. Integrations use the published APIs of ERPs, carriers, marketplaces and customs software. Portal pages follow WCAG 2.2, and handheld screens work offline when warehouse wifi drops.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

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

03Marketing and tracking

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

Questions national operators ask before building.

One shared platform, configured per site and rolled out one building at a time.

We define a common data model and shared rules for stock status, customs and excise controls, labels and reporting. Each building then gets its own configuration for racking, equipment, shifts and client mix. A pilot site goes live first and runs in parallel with existing processes until records reconcile. Other sites follow in a planned order, so risk is contained and lessons from each go-live improve the next. Training material, test scripts and configuration templates are reused between sites, which shortens each later rollout.

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

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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