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One booking and payment platform for US security companies working in many states.

Q: How does the platform handle sales tax in different states?

A tax engine applies each state's rules to the post address. After the Supreme Court's Wayfair decision, states can require out of state sellers to collect tax once they pass economic thresholds. Security services are taxed in some states, Texas and New York among them, and not in others. The platform sends each order's service type and post address to a tax engine, shows tax as its own line and stores exemption certificates per state. Your tax adviser decides the settings for each state.

Q: Do federal rules on junk fees and cancellations apply to us?

The FTC Act always applies, and state laws add more detail. The FTC's fee rule that took effect in 2025 covers live-event tickets and short-term lodging, not guard services, and a federal appeals court set aside its click-to-cancel rule the same year. The FTC Act's ban on deceptive pricing still applies to everyone, and states such as California and New York have their own pricing and automatic renewal laws. We build all in prices and easy online cancellation as the default.

Q: How do we handle different state licenses on one website?

Licenses are stored per state and shown wherever that state's buyers look. Each branch holds the license details for its state, and those details appear on its location pages, quotes and confirmations. Services that require armed or specially certified officers can be offered only where your company holds the right authority. When a license is renewed, your compliance team updates it once in the admin and every page and document follows. Ask your counsel which disclosures each state requires in advertising.

Q: Can franchisees or branches get paid directly?

Yes, through split payments to separate merchant accounts. With a platform payment setup such as Stripe Connect, each franchisee or legal entity has its own connected account. The buyer pays once, and the funds settle to the business that delivers the service, with any platform or royalty share taken automatically if your agreements allow it. Refunds come back from the same account. Finance at head office sees every payment and payout in one report.

Q: Do we need to worry about ADA accessibility on a booking site?

Yes, because inaccessible checkouts attract complaints and lawsuits. Courts have applied Title III of the ADA to business websites, and booking flows are where problems show up: forms without labels, date pickers that do not work by keyboard and error messages screen readers cannot read. We design to WCAG 2.2 AA, test with keyboard and screen readers before launch, and train your team to keep new content accessible as branches add pages.

Q: What drives the cost of a national security booking platform?

States, entities, payment structure and legacy systems. A platform for one entity in a few states with standard card and ACH payments is at the lighter end. Cost rises with franchise split payments, many legal entities, national account hierarchies, a large set of location pages, several merged legacy sites, and integrations with different scheduling and accounting tools across branches. We price after discovery, and phase the work so spending follows rollout.

Q: Can a team outside the US deliver a platform like this?

Yes, working remotely with your head office and branches. We work with US clients by video call and shared review boards through discovery, design, testing and training. Branch managers join the sessions relevant to their state, and head office approves scope and configuration in writing. The code, the data and every merchant account are registered to your company, so you control the platform whoever supports it later.

Codeeo delivers security services booking website development USA security companies use to sell guard shifts, patrol plans and event staffing in every state they are licensed in, from one platform. Each branch keeps its own services, rates, tax rules and license details, while national accounts book posts in several cities with one login and one invoice. Buyers see the full price for their location, pay by card or ACH or book on terms, and the order reaches the right branch dispatcher.

Officer apps, guard tours and scheduling are separate products. This page covers the commercial side: the national website, the booking engine, payments and billing, and the rules that change as you cross a state line. It suits companies growing past one metro area and providers joining several regional brands together.

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Built for: Regional and national contract security companies, franchise and branch networks, and event staffing providers licensed in more than one state.
Typical timeline: Agreed after discovery, usually with a first group of states or branches going live before the rest, and recorded in a written rollout plan.
What you own: Platform code, admin, customer and order data, and merchant accounts, all registered to your company, with documentation for your own team.
Rated: 4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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

Platform capabilities

What a multi-state security booking platform has to get right.

Selling security online in one city is a website project. Selling it across the country is a rules project. Every state sets its own licensing for guard companies and officers, usually through a board or agency such as the Texas DPS Private Security Program, California's BSIS or the New York Department of State. Some states tax guard services and others do not. Consumer protection, privacy and automatic renewal laws vary too, and national clients expect consistent service whatever the address.

We design the platform so these differences live in configuration, not in copies of the code. A branch is a set of services, prices, licenses, tax settings and policies attached to a territory. Buyers start from a location, see only what that branch can staff, and check out under that branch's terms. Head office sees every order, every payment and every state in one admin. Good security services booking website design USA buyers can use also hides that complexity: a facilities manager in Ohio never has to think about rules written for Florida.

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Branch and territory setup
Territories defined by state, metro area or ZIP code, each mapped to a branch with its own services, rates, minimum shifts, cancellation terms and contact team. Adding a new state means configuring a branch and its rules, not building another website.
Expansion into a new market starts in the admin, not in a development backlog.
Sales tax by post location
Since the Wayfair decision, states can require tax collection from out of state sellers that meet their thresholds, and several states, including Texas and New York, tax guard and patrol services. A tax engine applies the rate for each post's address and stores exemption certificates by state.
Each invoice carries the tax the post's state requires.
License display by state
The platform stores your company license number for each state and shows it on that state's service pages, quotes and confirmations. Services that need armed or specially certified officers can be restricted to branches holding the right authority.
Buyers see the license that covers their location.
National account ordering
Retail chains, property groups and logistics firms book cover for sites in many states from one account, with location managers allowed to order for their own sites within spending limits. Consolidated invoices group every location under one billing contact with cost center codes.
Large clients buy from you nationally without a separate contract per branch.
Payments, ACH and terms
Security services online payment integration USA providers need covers cards and wallets through hosted fields, which keeps PCI DSS v4.0.1 scope narrow, ACH debits for larger deposits, and invoices on net terms for approved accounts. Funds can settle to one merchant account or to separate accounts per legal entity.
Each entity gets paid correctly, and finance reconciles in one place.
Time zone aware bookings
Shift times are stored and shown in the post's local time zone, so a client in Phoenix booking cover for a site in Miami sees the right start time, and the branch receiving the order does too. Reminders go out on local time.
No officer arrives an hour early or late because of a time zone.
Renewal rules by state
Patrol and alarm plans sold to consumers follow the strictest automatic renewal rules you sell under, including California and New York: clear terms before purchase, recorded consent, an acknowledgment and online cancellation. Business contracts can follow your negotiated terms instead.
Recurring plans stay sellable in every state you enter.
Privacy controls for many states
State privacy laws, such as the CCPA in California and the TDPSA in Texas, give residents rights to access, correct and delete their data. One request workflow serves them all, with consent controls that honor Global Privacy Control signals and keep marketing tags off booking pages until a visitor agrees.
One process covers privacy requests from any state.
Location pages at scale
City and service pages generated from branch data, each with real local content written by your team, structured data for services and areas, and a booking form already set to that territory. Pages only exist where a branch can actually staff the work.
Search traffic in each market lands on a page that can take an order.
Head office reporting
Dashboards for orders, revenue, deposits, refunds, quote conversion and cancellations by branch, state and client. Branch managers see their own figures, while head office compares markets and spots where booking requests are being turned away.
Leadership sees which markets are growing and which are stuck.

Who this is for

Four kinds of US security business this platform serves.

Security services online booking system development USA companies take on usually starts with a growth problem: a booking process that worked in one city does not stretch to five states. The four profiles below cover most of the companies we talk to. The platform is the same underneath, but the order of the rollout and the first features differ for each.

Regional companies entering new states

A firm strong in one state wins a client with sites across the region and needs to license, staff and sell in new markets. The platform lets it add each state as a branch with its own license, tax settings and rates, launch location pages there, and take orders from day one. Head office keeps one admin while the new branch builds its team. Pages for the new state can go live as soon as the license is granted, so sales do not wait for a separate web project.

Growth into new states without a new website each time.

Providers joining acquired brands

After acquisitions, many security groups run several websites, booking forms and payment setups. We bring them onto one platform, keeping local brand names on location pages where they carry weight, and move customer accounts, open invoices and active patrol plans across with redirects that protect each old site's search rankings. Customers of each former brand keep their order history, so nobody has to create an account again.

One platform, with local brands kept where they help.

Franchise networks

Franchisors want a consistent national website and checkout while each franchisee sets prices within limits, staffs its own territory and gets paid directly. The platform routes orders by territory, splits payments to each franchisee's merchant account, and reports royalties and performance to the franchisor without exposing one franchisee's customers to another. New territories can be opened for sale the moment a franchise agreement is signed.

Territory routing and split payments built in.

Event staffing companies working nationwide

Touring shows, trade exhibitions and sports events book security in many cities in a single season. Producers create one project with dates in several states, receive quotes priced by each local branch and pay deposits once. Local teams staff each date, and the producer sees every location on one invoice. Changes to dates or headcount in one city never disturb bookings in another.

Multi-city projects booked and billed as one.

A six-stage plan for a national booking platform.

01Discovery across branchesVideo sessions with head office, finance and branch managers to list services, prices, licenses, tax positions, entities and systems in every state. The output is a written scope and a rollout order.
02Rules and configuration modelWe design how branches, territories, services, tax settings and policies are stored, so new states are configured rather than coded, and legal terms differ only where the law requires.
03Design for every buyerPaths for national accounts, local businesses, consumers and event producers, designed for phones first and reviewed against WCAG 2.2 AA, since ADA claims over inaccessible websites reach companies of every size.
04Build and integrationThe platform, admin and booking engine are built and connected to processors, a sales tax engine, accounting systems per entity and the scheduling software each branch uses.
05Pilot branchesOne or two branches go live first with real buyers. We watch orders, payments and support requests, fix what the pilot reveals and refine configuration before wider rollout.
06State by state rolloutRemaining branches are configured, location pages published, old sites redirected and local teams trained by video, in the order agreed with head office.

How we work with US companies

A remote team, a phased rollout and a platform you own.

Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. Our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and we are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. US clients work with us remotely, by video call and shared review boards. Cost depends on the number of states and branches, legal entities and merchant accounts, the services and pricing rules involved, franchise or split payment needs, data migration from older sites and the systems we connect to.

Fixed scope

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.

Written scope and acceptance criteria
Fixed price and delivery date
Weekly build on a URL you can open
30 days of fixes after launch

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Dedicated team

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.

Senior engineers, not a rotating bench
Your tools, your repo, your process
Monthly, cancel with 30 days notice
A lead who answers for the team

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Retainer

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.

Agreed response times
Monitoring and dependency updates
A monthly report of what changed and why
Priority access to the same team that built it

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Technology

What we build this with.

Usually Next.js with a Laravel or Node back end, a relational database designed for branches and territories, Stripe Connect or a similar processor for split payments, a sales tax engine such as Avalara, and integrations with QuickBooks, NetSuite or your scheduling platform. Hosting sits in US regions.

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

What US security companies ask about national booking platforms.

How long does security services booking website development take for a company operating across the USA?

It is planned in phases, with dates for each phase written into the proposal.

The first phase builds the platform and launches one or two pilot branches. Later phases add states in an agreed order, each needing configuration, content, tax settings and training rather than new code. Timing depends on the number of entities and processors, how many legacy sites must be merged, and how quickly each branch confirms its prices and policies. We set dates after discovery and report against them in regular video demos.

How does the platform handle sales tax in different states?

Do federal rules on junk fees and cancellations apply to us?

How do we handle different state licenses on one website?

Can franchisees or branches get paid directly?

Do we need to worry about ADA accessibility on a booking site?

What drives the cost of a national security booking platform?

Can a team outside the US deliver a platform like this?

Services that support a national rollout.

Headless commerceCommerce logic behind fast location pages that scale across many markets.Payment integrationSplit payments, ACH, wallets and refunds across entities and merchant accounts.Digital marketing and SEOSearch and paid campaigns that send each market's buyers to the right branch.

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

One booking and payment platform for US security companies working in many states.

What a multi-state security booking platform has to get right.

Branch and territory setup

Sales tax by post location

License display by state

National account ordering

Payments, ACH and terms

Time zone aware bookings

Renewal rules by state

Privacy controls for many states

Location pages at scale

Head office reporting

Four kinds of US security business this platform serves.

Regional companies entering new states

Providers joining acquired brands

Franchise networks

Event staffing companies working nationwide

A six-stage plan for a national booking platform.

A remote team, a phased rollout and a platform you own.

Fixed scope

Dedicated team

Retainer

What we build this with.

What US security companies ask about national booking platforms.

Services that support a national rollout.

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