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Paid job boards that sell to employers in every state and follow each state's rules.

Codeeo provides paid job board website development USA publishers, associations, staffing groups and founders use to turn an audience of job seekers into revenue. Employers register, pass verification, buy postings, bundles or plans, and pay by card, wallet, ACH or invoice. Sales tax is calculated by buyer location, listings carry the pay data that state laws demand, partners earn commission through automated payouts, and every refund or dispute is recorded. One platform serves employers from Seattle to Miami without a separate build for each market.

The difficult part of a national board is not the listing page. It is the patchwork: state sales tax after the Wayfair decision, state pay transparency laws, state privacy acts and consumer renewal rules. We design the platform so those differences are settings, not rewrites.

Built for
National associations, niche and industry publishers, staffing networks and job board founders selling postings to employers across the United States.
Typical timeline
Agreed in writing after discovery by video call, based on the products you sell, the states you launch in first and any platform you are moving from.
What you own
Source code, the employer, candidate and listing data, the payments and tax accounts, domains and analytics, all held in your company's name.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

Platform capabilities

The parts of a national board that take and protect revenue.

A board that sells nationally has three kinds of customer: employers who pay, candidates who make the board worth paying for, and partners who bring either one in. Job board subscription platform development USA operators can grow on has to treat all three fairly while keeping revenue, tax and compliance in order across fifty states and the District of Columbia. The capabilities below are grouped around money first, then trust, then reach, because that is the order in which national boards tend to run into trouble. We include what your business model needs and leave the rest for later releases. Every capability is designed so it can be switched on per state.

Explain your project
  • Flexible employer pricing

    Single postings, credit bundles, monthly and annual plans, résumé database seats, featured placement and sponsored categories, each configured in the admin. Enterprise accounts can have custom contracts with negotiated limits, while self-serve buyers see the public pricing page. Proration, upgrades and downgrades are handled by the billing system. Credit expiry, rollover and seat limits are rules your staff adjust.

    Every type of employer finds a product that fits how they hire.

  • Sales tax by buyer location

    Since South Dakota v. Wayfair, states can require remote sellers to collect sales tax once sales cross their thresholds, and states disagree on whether software access and information services are taxable. California, for example, begins taxing SaaS and prewritten software from 1 January 2027. A tax engine applies rates by buyer address according to the treatment your adviser sets.

    Tax collection keeps up as you grow into new states.

  • Pay transparency rules by state

    Several states and cities now require pay ranges in job postings, including California, Colorado, Washington, New York and Illinois, each with its own details. The posting form reads the work location and requires the fields that location expects, so an employer posting nationally cannot miss one state's rule.

    Listings meet the rules where the work is performed.

  • Checkout for every buyer type

    Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay for self-serve buyers, invoices with purchase order numbers and ACH for larger employers. Hosted payment fields keep card data with your provider, which helps keep your PCI DSS obligations manageable. A single job board subscription payment integration USA finance teams can audit links orders, renewals and refunds. Failed renewals retry on a schedule and notify the account owner.

    Payment never becomes the reason a sale stalls.

  • Employer verification and scam controls

    The FTC warns job seekers about fake job offers that collect personal data or demand payment. Boards are a target. New employers verify a business domain and business details, first listings can wait for review, and listings asking candidates for fees or bank details are flagged automatically.

    Candidates trust the board, and trust is what employers pay for.

  • Partner networks and payouts

    Associations, regional publishers and recruiters can run white label boards or refer employers through tracked links. The platform attributes revenue to each partner, calculates commission, collects tax forms at onboarding and pays out on the schedule you set through a connected payouts service. Partners see referred accounts, pending commission and past payouts in their own dashboard.

    A distribution network that scales without spreadsheets.

  • Disputes, refunds and moderation records

    Refund rules for unused credits, removed listings and duplicate charges resolve routine requests. Other disputes open a case with the order, listing history, verification checks and messages, and the decision and reason are saved for future reference and chargeback responses. Reports show refund rates by product, so weak packages surface early.

    Consistent decisions across a growing support team.

  • Fair advertising checks

    Federal law prohibits job advertisements that indicate a preference based on protected characteristics, including age under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. The posting form flags phrases such as age limits or gendered wording for employer review before publishing.

    Fewer listings that put employers, and your board, at risk.

  • Privacy controls by state

    California's privacy law covers job applicants, and other states have their own consumer privacy acts with different scopes. The platform handles access, deletion and opt out requests, records consent for job alerts by email and text, and blocks registration by children under 13 so COPPA does not come into play.

    Data requests from any state are handled the same careful way.

  • Search reach and accessibility

    Listings carry JobPosting structured data for Google's job results, state and city pages give search engines a route to current roles, and the site is designed against WCAG so candidates using screen readers can search and apply, which also reflects how courts read the ADA for websites. Expired listings are marked so search engines drop them promptly.

    More candidates reach listings, which makes postings worth buying.

Who this is for

Four national operators that sell job postings.

Paid job board website design USA employers will pay for depends on the operator behind it. A national association, an industry publisher, a staffing network and a founder with a new niche each have different buyers and different reasons a candidate shows up. We start by understanding where your audience comes from, what employers believe they are buying and where your current setup loses money, then design around that.

01

National associations with a career center

Professional associations often run their job board through a hosted vendor that takes a share of revenue and keeps the employer relationship. A custom board under your brand links to your membership system for member pricing, gives you the employer list for sponsorship and conference sales, and lets state chapters run their own sections within one platform. Chapter revenue can be reported separately for budgeting.

State chapters can have their own pages and pricing.

02

Industry and trade publishers

Publishers in trucking, construction, healthcare, education or hospitality reach professionals that general job sites struggle to reach. A paid board sold alongside advertising and newsletter sponsorships gives employers a direct line to that audience, with reports showing how each listing performed across regions. Job slots can be sold in the same insertion order as display advertising.

03

Staffing networks with branches in many states

Multi-branch staffing groups can sell posting access to client employers while branches keep their placement business. The board feeds candidates into your ATS, branch pages rank for local searches, and reporting splits posting revenue by branch and state so regional managers see their own numbers. Corporate clients with sites in several states can buy one plan that covers all of them.

04

Founders building a niche board

A founder with a community, such as remote nurses, veterinary technicians or climate engineers, can launch with one plan and card checkout, then add credit bundles, résumé access, partner commissions and invoicing as employers ask for them. We keep the first release small enough to test demand quickly. Early sales data shows which employers convert and where to put marketing budget.

Prove employers will pay before adding complex products.

Six phases from discovery to a national rollout.

  1. 01Discovery and business modelProducts, buyers, renewal and refund terms, launch states and existing systems are documented by video call and agreed in a written scope.
  2. 02Compliance and tax mapSales tax, pay transparency, privacy, renewal and advertising rules are mapped to features, settings or your counsel, starting with the states you launch in.
  3. 03Experience designPricing, posting, checkout, search and apply flows designed and tested with real employers and candidates, with accessibility checked throughout.
  4. 04Build and integrationsBoard, billing, tax, verification, partner payouts and connections to your CRM, ATS or membership system built in short sprints with staging demos.
  5. 05Launch in priority statesEvery payment path is run in test mode, data moves across from any old platform, and the board opens first in the states where you already have an audience.
  6. 06Expand state by stateNew states mean new tax registrations, pay rules and local pages. Each is a configuration change and a content task, not a rebuild.

Technology

What we build this with.

Our usual stack is Next.js or Laravel with PostgreSQL, Stripe Billing and Connect or a comparable provider, a sales tax engine such as Stripe Tax or Avalara, and a search index tuned for location, pay and keyword filters, hosted in your own cloud account.

01Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • WordPress

02Commerce

  • Shopify Plus
  • WooCommerce
  • BigCommerce
  • Headless storefronts

03Data and cloud

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

04Marketing and tracking

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

Questions about building a national paid job board.

Billing, tax, verification, compliance fields and partner payouts.

A national paid board needs a pricing model with plans and bundles, checkout for card and invoice buyers, sales tax by state, employer verification, posting forms that meet state pay transparency laws, privacy request handling, refunds and disputes, and payouts for partners. The listing and search pages are the visible part. The commercial and compliance layer underneath is where most of the build effort goes, and where boards built on simple templates usually fail as they grow. We plan both layers together from the first workshop.

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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PROVEN RESULTS

4.7 / 5from 23 Google reviews