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Codeeo delivers construction services marketplace website development USA founders, trade networks and property companies use to match customers with contractors across several states and take payment online. We build state aware provider vetting, job requests by trade and location, payments held and paid out through a licensed marketplace payments provider, commission, tax reporting support, verified reviews and dispute handling. In American construction the rules on licensing, liens, privacy and sales tax change at every state line, so the platform is designed to carry those differences instead of pretending one national rule covers them all.
This page is about the marketplace that takes payment, not a marketing site for a single contractor. Our team works with US clients remotely and runs discovery, design reviews and testing by video call, then plans a rollout state by state and metro by metro.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Platform capabilities
A homeowner in Phoenix, a property manager in Atlanta and a builder in Charlotte all want the same thing from a contractor marketplace: someone qualified, a clear price and safe payment. Behind that simple request sits a patchwork. Some states license general contractors and some do not. Trade licenses for electricians and plumbers are issued state by state, and sometimes city by city. Mechanic's lien notice rules differ everywhere. Sales tax on construction labor and materials varies, and since the Supreme Court's Wayfair decision, remote sellers and marketplace facilitators can owe tax in states where they have no physical presence. Consumer privacy laws now exist in a growing list of states. The construction contractor marketplace platform development USA operators need treats these as configurable rules per state, managed by your team, so entering a new market means adding settings and content rather than rebuilding the platform.
Each state and, where needed, each city gets its own settings: which trades require a license, which documents a provider must upload, required contract notices, deposit limits, tax treatment and privacy notices. Admins change these without a developer, and every job inherits the rules of the address where the work happens.
A new state is a configuration task, not a rebuild.
Providers register their business entity, state licenses, insurance certificates and service areas. Admins verify licenses against each state board's public lookup, identity checks run through the payment provider, and optional background checks connect through a consumer reporting agency with the FCRA disclosure and consent steps that requires.
The same standard of vetting applies in every market you open.
A licensed marketplace payments provider such as Stripe Connect collects card, ACH, Apple Pay and Google Pay payments, holds funds until a stage is confirmed and pays each contractor directly, keeping your commission. Your business never holds customer money itself, which keeps money transmission licensing off your plate.
Money moves legally and predictably in every state.
The payment provider collects taxpayer details from payees and issues the federal Form 1099-K where the rules require it. The platform keeps earnings records per provider, and a tax calculation service can apply state and local sales tax where your adviser says marketplace facilitator rules apply to materials or services sold.
Year end reporting is a report, not a scramble.
Lien and payment rights rules differ in every state. The platform does not give legal advice, but it can record the first work date, contract value and parties for each job, and remind subcontractors and suppliers of notice dates your lawyer configures per state.
Fewer payment rights lost to a missed date.
Providers send itemized quotes built on state specific contract templates, customers sign electronically under the federal ESIGN Act, and every change order is approved by both parties before the price moves. All versions are stored against the job.
Each dispute starts from a signed scope.
Only customers with paid, completed jobs can leave a review, and providers can reply publicly. The policy follows the FTC rule on consumer reviews and testimonials, which bans fake reviews and the suppression of honest negative ones.
Ratings stay trustworthy as the marketplace grows.
When a stage is disputed, funds stay held, both sides upload evidence and your team decides against the signed scope. Card chargebacks are answered from the same evidence file, so you are not hunting through email when a bank asks for proof.
Problems are settled with evidence, inside the platform.
Property managers and builders with sites in several states get company accounts with multiple users, approval limits, preferred vendor lists, invoice terms and spending reports across every property.
Large buyers manage every location from one login.
Trade and city landing pages, a waitlist for areas not yet open, provider recruitment pages and language options such as Spanish help you seed supply before customers arrive in each new metro.
Each new market opens with contractors already signed up.
Who this is for
National marketplaces fail in two common ways: launching everywhere with too few contractors, or building one state's rules so deep into the code that the second state costs as much as the first. These are the four situations we see most, and how the plan changes for each of them.
You have a thesis about a trade, perhaps roofing, ADUs, solar installation or home repair, and a plan to cover several metros. We build the state rules engine and payment flow from day one, launch in two or three markets, and measure supply, conversion and dispute rates before opening more. Investors see real numbers from a platform designed to expand. The first markets are chosen for supply as much as demand, because a marketplace with eager customers and no contractors loses both.
Design for many states, launch in a few.
You already run a successful marketplace or referral network in one state and want to enter neighboring ones. We review what you have, separate the rules that were hard coded for your home state, and rebuild them as settings. The construction services marketplace website design USA expansion needs usually also includes new city pages, provider recruitment and data migration from the old system. Reviews and provider histories are carried across so established contractors do not start again from zero.
Existing data and reviews move with you.
Single family rental operators, multifamily owners and commercial landlords can run a private marketplace where approved vendors bid on work orders at every property. Insurance, licensing and W-9 records are checked per state, invoices flow into accounting, and regional managers see spending by property and vendor. Vendors who serve several properties see all of their work orders in one place, which makes them quicker to respond.
Vendor compliance becomes automatic across the portfolio.
Homebuilders, manufacturers and materials suppliers can offer installation and upgrade services through vetted local trades, earning commission and keeping the customer relationship. The marketplace connects to your existing customer records and routes each job to providers licensed in that buyer's state. Warranty claims and callbacks route back to the original installer, so the customer has one place to go after the job is done.
Services revenue on top of the products you already sell.
How we work together
Most US founders start with a fixed scope first release that includes the rules engine, the payment flow and two or three launch markets. A retainer after launch covers new states, trades and rule changes as laws move. Companies running the marketplace as their core business often take a dedicated team that stays with the product for the long term. All three include written acceptance criteria, video call reviews and full access to the code and test environment. Each new state after launch is scoped and priced as its own phase.
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 the stack for multi-state configuration, payment volume and the team who will maintain it. Common choices are Next.js or Laravel, Stripe Connect for split payments and 1099 reporting, a tax calculation API, and cloud hosting in US regions. Rules and content are stored separately from code, so admins can update a state without a release.
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02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on the launch states, trades and payment rules in the first release.
A marketplace for one trade in two states with simple deposits is a much smaller project than one covering many trades, portfolio accounts, background checks and tax calculation. The state rules engine adds effort up front but saves it on every state after the first. We estimate each feature in discovery, agree dates in writing, and plan later states as separate phases so the first launch is not held back.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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