Services · Ecommerce development · QR menu ordering marketplaces
Codeeo provides QR menu ordering website development USA companies use to run ordering for many restaurants at once: national food hall operators, concession contractors and founders launching a paid QR ordering portal for independent restaurants. Guests scan and pay in the browser. Restaurants sign up, verify their business, publish menus and receive payouts. The operator sets plans and commissions, settles every vendor and keeps tax, privacy and accessibility right in each state it reaches.
A platform that moves money between guests and businesses it does not own takes on national duties: card security, tax collection after Wayfair, payout reporting and state privacy law. We design for the strictest state you plan to enter, then switch rules on per location.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
What the platform can include
Running ordering for one restaurant is a product. Running it for hundreds of restaurants you do not own, across several states, is a regulated business. Every order involves a guest, a restaurant, the platform and a payment provider, and each one has different obligations depending on the state where the food is sold. Since the Supreme Court's 2018 Wayfair decision, every state with a sales tax has adopted rules that can make a marketplace responsible for collecting it. Payment providers must verify the businesses they pay out to. A growing list of states give consumers privacy rights over their data. The capabilities below are the parts that let one platform respect all of that while still giving guests a fast scan and pay. We decide with you which are needed for launch and which can wait for later states.
Restaurants join through a guided flow: legal entity, tax ID, owner identity check run by the payment provider, bank account, health permit upload and menu import from a spreadsheet or their POS. Operators approve each account before it goes live. Signup can pause and resume, because owners rarely have every document ready in one sitting, and reminder emails bring stalled applications back.
Hundreds of restaurants can join without a sales call each.
Charge restaurants a monthly plan, a per order commission or both, with plan changes, proration, invoices and failed payment retries. Cancellation is online and as easy as signup, in line with state automatic renewal laws. Software charges, payment fees and any hardware are itemized separately, since states tax software subscriptions differently and California begins taxing SaaS in 2027.
Revenue from restaurants is predictable and properly invoiced.
Guest payments route through a marketplace payment provider that holds the licensing for moving funds, splits each payment, deducts platform fees and pays restaurants on schedule. The provider also handles the payout tax forms it is required to issue.
You move money for restaurants without becoming a money transmitter yourself.
A tax engine applies state, county and city rates to each order by the restaurant's address, and records whether the platform or the restaurant is responsible for remitting. Reports are produced per state for filing. Exemptions, such as tax-exempt organizations ordering catering, are stored with their certificates.
Tax liability is known per order, not guessed at quarter end.
California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas and many other states give consumers rights over their data. The platform supports opt-outs, browser privacy signals, access and deletion requests and data minimization, enabled per state as you expand. Each request and its answer is logged with dates, which is what a state attorney general would ask to see.
Entering a new state does not mean rewriting the privacy layer.
Each city or state gets a profile: required menu disclosures, service charge display rules, cash acceptance, alcohol limits and licensing notes. New restaurants inherit the profile for their address automatically. Examples include New York City's cash acceptance rule and California's restaurant service charge disclosure.
Local rules are configured once and reused for every vendor there.
Federal wage law bars employers from keeping workers' tips, and guests expect tips to reach staff. Tips are carried as a separate line, never included in the commission base, and paid to the restaurant in full with their own reporting. Tip suggestions are set by each restaurant.
No question about where the tip went.
When a cardholder disputes an order, the platform assembles evidence automatically: order details, timestamps, ticket confirmations and pickup records. Losses are allocated to the responsible restaurant according to its agreement. Refunds issued before a dispute is filed are tracked too, so the same order is never refunded twice.
More disputes are won, and lost ones are charged fairly.
Restaurants across the country run many POS systems. One integration layer translates orders into each supported system's format, with tablets or printers for restaurants whose POS has no ordering API. Integrations are versioned, so a POS vendor's API change does not break every restaurant at once.
Restaurants join without replacing the hardware they own.
Sales, take rate, refund rate, payout timing and vendor churn by state, city and plan. Exports feed your finance and board reporting, and alerts flag a restaurant with sudden refund spikes or failed payouts. Cohort views show how restaurants signed up in each month perform over time.
You see the health of the marketplace without building spreadsheets.
Who this is for
A restaurant ordering platform development USA project only makes sense when you sit between guests and many restaurants. These are the four operators we see most, each with a different first priority. If you run a single brand, a standard ordering product is usually the better fit.
Companies running halls in more than one metro need one platform with per location tenants, tax setups and rules. Head office wants consolidated reporting; each hall manager wants control of their own vendors. We design roles and data so both are true at once. Tenants that operate in several of your halls can keep one vendor account across locations. New halls copy an existing setup and change only what differs.
Lease terms and commission rules are stored per hall and per tenant.
Software companies that sell QR ordering to independent restaurants on a subscription need signup, billing, payouts and support tools that scale without manual work. The first release focuses on the signup to first payout path, because that is where new restaurants abandon. Support tooling, such as impersonation with audit logs and bulk menu fixes, follows soon after, since a small team must serve many restaurants.
We build the platform; pricing and go-to-market stay your decisions.
Contractors that manage dining at stadiums, campuses, hospitals or transit hubs often host several branded vendors at each site. A shared ordering layer gives guests one scan for every vendor and gives the contractor settlement per vendor per site. Event days are load tested before the first game or graduation, not discovered during it.
Client-specific rules, such as campus meal plans, are scoped site by site.
Franchisors with several brands under one parent sometimes co-locate them. A marketplace lets a guest order from two brands in one cart while each franchisee is paid separately. Franchise agreements decide who owns guest data, and the system enforces it. Royalty reporting can draw on the same sales data the franchisees see.
How we work together
We work with US clients remotely, by video call, with recorded demos and written decisions after each session. Codeeo has a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, and is rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. Clients usually begin with a discovery phase that produces a compliance plan, money map and fixed scope. From there you can choose a project build or a dedicated team that keeps developing the platform as you enter new states. Your counsel and accountant are welcome in discovery sessions, since their answers shape the build.
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
Guests use a browser storefront opened from the camera, with Apple Pay, Google Pay and cards. Restaurants and operators use web portals on one API. A marketplace payment provider handles card data, identity checks and payout tax forms, keeping your PCI DSS scope narrow. Infrastructure runs in US regions of a major cloud provider, in your account.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
A storefront, a vendor portal, payouts, and per state rules.
The guest side is a fast browser ordering flow. Behind it sit restaurant signup and verification, plans and commissions, marketplace payouts, a tax engine, privacy controls and location rule profiles. Most of the effort goes into the parts guests never see. We scope the first launch state in detail and design the rest so adding a state is configuration, not a rebuild. Restaurants and guests should never notice which state's rules are running; they just see a clear menu and a clear total.
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