Services · Mobile app development · On-demand staffing apps
Codeeo provides staffing app development Chicago agencies and shift platforms can rely on when Illinois law watches every assignment closely. We build the worker app, the client booking portal and the dispatch back office, with the notices, safety training records and pay comparisons that the Illinois Day and Temporary Labor Services Act expects. The result is a platform that fills warehouse, event and hospitality shifts across Cook County and the collar counties without leaving your compliance team chasing paper.
Our focus here is temporary and on-demand labor: day labor dispatch, short assignments and recurring shifts at client sites. Permanent recruitment is a different product. Chicago temp work runs on daily dispatch and tight paperwork, and the app should make both faster.
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What we build
Temporary labor in the Chicago area is concentrated in places that need people at short notice: distribution centers near O'Hare and along the I-55 and I-80 corridors in Will County, manufacturers in Elk Grove Village and the western suburbs, convention work at McCormick Place, and hotels and restaurants downtown. Many workers commute by CTA, Metra or agency van, and many prefer Spanish or Polish for written instructions.
Illinois adds a layer that most states do not. Agencies registered under the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act must give written notices at dispatch, document pay each day for day laborers, and share safety training duties with client companies. The 2023 amendments added equal pay obligations after a worker spends a set amount of time with one client, and notice duties when a client site is in a strike or lockout. Parts of those amendments have been challenged in court, so we keep the affected rules configurable. These capabilities follow that reality.
When a worker accepts an assignment, the app generates the Illinois employment notice with the client name, work location, pay rate, hours, transportation details and required equipment. The worker signs on the phone, a copy stays in their wallet and the record is stored against the assignment for audits by the Illinois Department of Labor.
Every dispatch has a signed notice on file before the shift starts.
For each worker and client pair, the platform totals hours and days on assignment and flags when the statutory threshold approaches. Client companies supply comparable employee pay data through the portal, and the system calculates the rate the agency must meet, keeping the threshold and benefit settings adjustable while the court rulings settle.
Agencies see equal pay exposure weeks before it arrives.
The agency records general safety and hazard awareness training. The client company records site specific hazard training in its portal, which Illinois expects within days of completion, and the app sends confirmation back to the agency automatically. If a worker's role changes, new training is required before the next shift is offered.
Both sides can prove who trained whom, and when.
When a client site is in a labor dispute, coordinators mark it in the back office. Any worker offered a shift there sees a clear notice before accepting, written in their chosen language, and the acceptance record shows the notice was displayed.
Disclosure happens every time, not when a coordinator remembers.
Geofenced clock in works without biometrics by default. If a client wants face or fingerprint verification, the app collects written consent under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, shows the retention schedule and destruction policy, and keeps biometric templates separate from the main database with deletion on schedule.
Biometric features only switch on with the consent BIPA requires.
Day laborers receive an itemized statement for each day worked, showing hours, rate, deductions and any transportation charges. Approved timesheets feed your payroll provider, and optional daily pay runs through a licensed provider rather than a cash advance from the branch.
Workers see exactly how their day was paid.
Where the agency provides rides to suburban sites, workers reserve a seat when they accept the shift, drivers check riders in on a manifest, and any transportation charge appears on the notice and wage statement. Workers reaching sites by CTA or Metra see the nearest stop and walking route in the shift details.
Fewer missed vans and no surprise deductions.
Assignments inside city limits apply the Chicago minimum wage and the city's separate paid leave and paid sick leave rules, while suburban sites follow Cook County or state rules depending on where the site sits. Covered industries under the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance get advance schedule notice tracking.
Each site is paid and scheduled under the right local rules.
English, Spanish and Polish interfaces cover onboarding, notices, shift offers and pay statements, with voice friendly layouts for workers who read less comfortably on a small screen. Notices are generated in the worker's chosen language from approved templates.
Workers understand what they signed.
Warehouse supervisors, event managers and hotel department heads request headcount for a date and site, approve timesheets, enter hazard information and rate workers. Recurring orders for peak season or a convention week can be placed once and adjusted as volumes change.
Clients order labor without calling the branch at five in the morning.
Who this suits
The Chicago temp market mixes long established day labor branches, national agencies with Illinois offices, and newer app based marketplaces. Each has a different relationship with workers and clients, and Illinois law treats their duties differently depending on how they place people. We start every project by mapping how your dispatch works today and which Illinois obligations land on you versus your clients. That map decides which modules go into the first release and which wait for a later phase.
Your branches open early, workers arrive or call in, and vans carry crews to plants and warehouses in the western and southwestern suburbs. We replace paper dispatch tickets with app based offers, signed notices and van manifests, while keeping a walk in kiosk mode for workers who still come to the branch. Supervisors see who is confirmed for every van before it leaves.
Kiosk and phone flows share one record per worker.
Convention weeks at McCormick Place and large events across the city need hundreds of short shifts filled at once, then nothing for days. We build bulk shift posting, crew leads who confirm attendance on site, and fast onboarding for workers joining for a single event, with timesheets closed and approved before the event ends.
You run an on-demand staffing app in other states and Chicago is next. Illinois registration, dispatch notices, equal pay tracking and BIPA consent may not exist in your current product. We add an Illinois module to your existing codebase, test it against your counsel's reading of the Act, and make sure contractor flows, if you use them, do not cross into Illinois assignments where they do not fit.
Classification decisions stay with your counsel.
Hotels in the Loop and River North and restaurants across the North Side call for banquet servers, housekeepers and dishwashers with short notice. Temporary staffing app development for this segment centers on fast replacement when someone drops a shift, credential checks for food handler training, and Chicago's tipped wage changes reflected in pay settings.
Working with Codeeo
Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. We do not have a Chicago office. We work remotely with clients in Illinois, and discovery, design reviews and demos run by video call. Agencies usually begin with a fixed scope first release covering dispatch and notices, then continue on a monthly retainer for new branches and features. Larger operators sometimes keep a dedicated team that handles Illinois rule changes, client integrations and new modules as the business grows.
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
Worker apps are built in Flutter or React Native for Android and iOS, since many Chicago temp workers use Android phones. Portals use React, and the backend runs on Node.js or Laravel with PostgreSQL in a US cloud region, with biometric data, if used, held in a separate store.
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02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Timing depends on branch count, integrations and how many Illinois documents the app must generate.
A single branch dispatch app with notices and timesheets is a smaller scope than a platform covering several branches, client portals, equal pay tracking and biometric timekeeping. We set the timeline in discovery once we have seen your forms and systems, and record it in the scope document before design starts. Most agencies pilot at one branch first, which also gives your compliance team time to check every generated notice.
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