Services · Mobile app development · On-demand staffing apps
Codeeo takes on staffing app development New York agencies and shift marketplaces need when every borough has its own mix of clients and New York State labor law is strict about pay notices, pay frequency and fingerprints. We design and build the worker app, the client portal and the operations console for temporary and on-demand placement, so hotels, caterers, warehouses and venues can book reliable people and your team can prove every shift was handled correctly.
This work covers short assignments, per diem cover and shift marketplaces. It is separate from permanent hiring software. In New York City the product has to suit workers who travel by subway and bus, often between two jobs, and clients who book late.
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Inside the platform
Temporary work in New York City moves with the calendar and the transit map. Trade shows at the Javits Center, banquet season at Midtown hotels, food distribution at Hunts Point, air cargo around JFK and warehouses in Sunset Park and Long Island City all call for workers at different hours. Most workers reach sites by subway, bus or ferry, and many speak Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Russian or Haitian Creole at home.
New York's rules are detailed. The Wage Theft Prevention Act requires a written pay notice at hire, in the worker's primary language where the state provides a template. Manual workers generally must be paid weekly. State wage orders add call in pay and, in hospitality, spread of hours pay. The city layers its own Earned Safe and Sick Time Act on top of state paid sick leave, and Labor Law 201-a bars requiring fingerprints as a condition of employment. The platform is built to handle all of that without slowing down dispatch.
At onboarding the app generates the Wage Theft Prevention Act notice with pay rate, overtime rate, pay day and employer details, in English and the worker's primary language where a state template exists. The worker acknowledges it on the phone and the signed copy is stored for audits by the New York State Department of Labor.
No placement starts without a signed pay notice.
Each client site is tagged with the wage order that applies, such as hospitality or miscellaneous industries. The pay engine adds call in pay when a shift is cut short, spread of hours pay where it applies, and the minimum wage tier for New York City, Long Island and Westchester versus the rest of the state.
Short shifts and split shifts pay correctly without manual fixes.
Warehouse, kitchen and facilities workers usually fall under the state's weekly pay rule for manual workers. The platform closes timesheets on a weekly cycle for those roles, sends approved hours to payroll on time, and shows each worker their next pay date.
Pay frequency matches the role, not a single company default.
Because New York prohibits requiring fingerprints as a condition of employment, clock in uses geofencing, a site QR code or a supervisor confirmation instead. Any optional biometric feature is strictly voluntary, with an alternative always available and consent recorded.
Accurate time records without a fingerprint mandate.
Shift cards show the nearest subway or bus stop and an estimated travel time from the worker's saved starting point at the shift's start hour. Late night shifts can show overnight service warnings, so workers do not accept a close at a venue they cannot get home from.
Workers accept shifts they can realistically reach.
Hours worked accrue paid sick time under state law and, for New York City work, the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act. Workers see their balance and request leave in the app, and accrual follows them across clients because the agency is the employer.
Leave balances that hold up to a city or state inquiry.
Hotels and caterers often add staff the afternoon before an event. The app pushes urgent shifts to qualified workers nearby, holds a short acceptance window, then widens the radius. When someone cancels, a replacement offer goes out immediately.
Late orders fill without a coordinator calling down a list.
Hotel groups, hospital facilities teams and logistics clients with several New York locations manage orders, approvals, worker ratings and invoices from one account, with permissions by site and department.
Large clients get control without extra email threads.
Security guard licenses, food protection certificates, forklift cards and site specific training are stored with expiry dates. A worker whose card lapses stops receiving offers for roles that need it, and reminders go out in their language well before that happens.
Clients receive workers who are cleared for the role.
Social Security numbers, bank details and ID documents are encrypted, access is role based, and breach response steps are documented, in line with the reasonable safeguards the New York SHIELD Act expects from businesses holding New Yorkers' private information.
Worker data is protected to a standard you can describe to clients.
Who we build for
The New York staffing market includes banquet and catering agencies, light industrial firms serving the outer boroughs and New Jersey, facilities staffing for offices and hospitals, and newer marketplaces built around an app. They share a dense, fast moving labor pool but differ in clients, wage orders and how they employ workers. Four common profiles follow. Each one leads to a different first release, so we decide the order of features with you rather than copying a fixed template.
You supply servers, bartenders and porters to hotels, venues and caterers in Manhattan and Brooklyn, often booked a day ahead. Shift booking app development for this group centers on fast late fills, uniform and certification requirements on each shift card, spread of hours pay under the hospitality wage order, and crew check in by a captain at the venue. Captains can swap a no show for a standby worker without leaving the venue floor, and the change flows straight to the timesheet.
Event crews can be cloned for repeat clients.
Your workers load trucks at Hunts Point, pick orders in Queens and work at plants across the river. Some live in New Jersey and some sites are there too. We configure New York and New Jersey rules separately by site, including New Jersey's temporary worker protections for placements on that side, so one app serves the whole region.
Your on-demand staffing app runs elsewhere and New York is the next market. Weekly pay for manual workers, Wage Theft Prevention Act notices, city sick leave and the fingerprint rule may all be new to your product. If you engage contractors, the Freelance Isn't Free Act adds written contract and payment timing duties. We build a New York module and test it with your counsel.
Your counsel decides the classification model; we implement it.
Hospitals, universities and office towers need housekeepers, porters, security officers and patient transport staff covered every day. Temporary staffing app development here adds license tracking for security guards, health screening records where facilities require them, and portal access for each department that orders cover.
Working together
Codeeo has completed 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. Our team of 80+ is spread across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and we are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. There is no New York office: we work with New York clients remotely, and discovery, reviews and demos are held by video call. Most firms start with a fixed scope first release and continue on a monthly retainer; some keep a dedicated team as the platform grows. Under every option your company owns the code, the data and the documentation.
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 usually built in React Native or Flutter, client portals in React or Next.js, and the backend in Node.js or Laravel with PostgreSQL on AWS or Azure in a US region. Sensitive identifiers are encrypted at field level, and transit data comes from public feeds or a routing API. Offline clock in covers basements and loading docks with weak signal.
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It depends on scope, wage order coverage and integrations, and we set it in discovery.
A worker app with onboarding, shift offers and timekeeping for one type of client is a smaller build than a platform handling hospitality and industrial wage orders, multilingual notices, weekly and biweekly pay cycles and a multi site client portal. We agree the timeline after discovery and write it into the scope before design starts. Launching with a few clients first shortens the path to live use. Later phases can then add further boroughs, languages and client types without disrupting workers already using the app.
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