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Staffing marketplaces that bill clients and pay providers in every state.

Codeeo delivers staffing marketplace website development USA operators use to sell shifts and short assignments online, collect payment from the businesses that book, and pay out agencies and independent professionals on schedule. We build the public site where clients find and book cover, the vendor portal where suppliers list their people, and the money layer that splits each booking into commission and payout. Because tax, privacy and contractor rules change at every state line, the platform is set up to apply each state's rules to each booking.

This page is about the web marketplace and the payments behind it, not a worker phone app. The public site also has to rank: service and city pages bring in the client searches that fill your order book, and each new state gets its own pages. It suits founders launching a shift marketplace, agencies opening their bench to outside suppliers, and operators who want one platform for clients in several metros at once.

Built for
US shift marketplaces, staffing agencies running supplier networks, and platforms that match businesses with vetted independent professionals across several states.
Typical timeline
Set in discovery as a sequence of releases: the first state and the core booking and payment flow, then each new state once its tax and contract settings are confirmed.
What you own
Your source code, databases, payment platform account, vendor and client records and the full booking, invoice and payout history, held in accounts your company controls.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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Marketplace features

What a national staffing marketplace has to handle before it opens a second state.

A staffing marketplace is a three-sided business. Clients book and pay, suppliers deliver the people, and the platform takes its share and carries the risk when something goes wrong. Most of the engineering effort sits in the money and the paperwork rather than the booking screen.

Across the United States, the variation is what slows operators down. A handful of states, including Connecticut, Ohio and Pennsylvania, tax some staffing services, and Washington began taxing temporary staffing in 2025. Others tax only certain kinds of work. Contractor tests, pay transparency rules for job listings and consumer privacy laws differ as well. We build the platform so those differences live in settings per state and per service category, maintained by your team and your advisers, instead of in code that has to be rewritten each time you expand.

Explain your project
  • Supplier onboarding and verification

    Agencies and independent professionals apply through a guided form that collects business details, tax forms, insurance certificates and state licenses where a category needs one. Documents carry expiry dates, and listings pause automatically when cover lapses. Your team reviews each application in a queue with notes and an audit trail.

    Only verified suppliers can take paid bookings.

  • Listings by category and state

    Suppliers publish roles, skills, rates and service areas. Each listing is tagged with the states it can serve, so a client in one state never books a provider who is not set up to work there. Where a state requires pay ranges on job postings, the listing form makes that field mandatory.

    Clients only see providers who can legally serve them.

  • Client booking and quotes

    Businesses post a shift or a short assignment, choose instant booking or invite quotes, and confirm in a single checkout. Repeat clients save sites, roles and preferred providers. Large accounts can raise purchase orders and route bookings through an internal approver before anything is charged.

    Booking takes minutes, even for multi-site accounts.

  • Payments, holds and net terms

    Smaller clients pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay at booking, with a hold that captures when the shift is approved. Larger accounts move to invoices with ACH and net terms after a credit check. Card handling sits with a PCI DSS compliant payment provider, so card numbers never touch your servers.

    Each client pays the way its finance team expects.

  • Commission and split payouts

    Each approved timesheet splits into the platform fee, any sales tax and the supplier's share. Payouts run on a schedule you set, through a licensed payments platform that handles identity checks on recipients. That structure keeps your business from holding client funds in a way that could raise money transmitter licensing questions under state law.

    Suppliers are paid on time without manual transfers.

  • Sales tax by state and category

    Since the Wayfair decision, a remote seller can owe tax in a state where it has no office once its sales there pass that state's threshold. The platform records where each service is performed, applies the tax setting for that state and service category, and keeps exportable reports for filing. Your tax adviser decides the settings; the system applies them every time.

    Tax treatment is consistent and traceable on every invoice.

  • Year-end tax forms

    Independent professionals paid through the platform need correct 1099 reporting, which depends on whether you or your payments provider is the filer. We collect W-9 details during onboarding, validate names against tax IDs where the provider supports it, and keep payout totals per recipient ready for year-end.

    Tax season becomes an export, not a scramble.

  • Fee disclosure and checkout terms

    The FTC treats hidden or misleading fees as deceptive, and several states have their own rules on surcharges and total price. Checkout shows the full price for each booking, including platform fees, before the client confirms. Cancellation charges and minimum hours are stated in the booking terms, not discovered on the invoice.

    Fewer disputes start with a surprise charge.

  • Disputes, ratings and evidence

    When a client reports a no-show or questions hours, the dispute opens against the booking with timesheets, messages and approvals attached. Payout for that booking pauses while the rest flow normally. Ratings come only from completed bookings, and a moderation queue lets you handle unfair reviews without deleting history. Repeat offenders can be suspended from new bookings while existing ones finish.

    Disagreements are settled on records, not memory.

Who this is for

Operators building a staffing marketplace that crosses state lines.

The right first version depends on who supplies the people and who the platform sells to. A marketplace of W-2 agencies has different paperwork from one built on independent contractors, and a platform selling to hospitals has different buyers from one selling to restaurants. These are the four starting points we see most often. Each one changes what goes into the first release and which states make sense to launch in first. In every case, staffing booking platform development USA clients ask us for starts with the money flow: who pays, when, and who gets paid next.

01

A founder launching a shift marketplace

You have a niche, such as event crews, warehouse cover or hospitality, and a few anchor clients ready to book. The first release covers client booking, supplier onboarding, card payments and payouts in one or two states. The tax and contract settings are built in from the start, so a third state is mostly configuration. Investor reporting on bookings, fill and take rate comes from the same database.

Launch narrow, with the multi-state structure already in place.

02

An agency opening its bench to subcontractors

Your recruiters already fill more orders than your own pool can cover. A vendor portal lets approved partner agencies see overflow orders, submit candidates and invoice through the platform while you keep the client relationship. Commission, markup and payment terms are set per partner. Your clients see a single invoice even when three suppliers worked the order.

Growth without hiring more recruiters.

03

A healthcare or skilled trades marketplace

Clinicians, technicians and tradespeople hold state licenses that the platform has to check before every booking. License numbers, issuing states and expiry dates sit on the provider profile, and bookings outside a provider's licensed states are blocked. Where health data enters the picture, we scope HIPAA obligations with your counsel before any feature that touches it is built.

Licensing checks belong in the booking rules, not a spreadsheet.

04

A platform selling to multi-state enterprise clients

Your buyers are national retailers, logistics firms or facilities groups that want one supplier relationship across many locations. The platform supports parent and child accounts, approval chains, cost centers and consolidated invoicing, with location-level reporting for each regional manager. Integration with the client's procurement or vendor management system is often the deciding factor in winning the account.

Enterprise deals are won on invoicing and reporting.

How a multi-state staffing marketplace is built

  1. 01Market and money mappingWho books, who supplies, how commission works, which states come first, and which tax, contract and licensing questions your advisers need to answer before launch.
  2. 02Marketplace designStaffing marketplace website design USA buyers trust: client booking, supplier onboarding and admin screens tested as clickable prototypes with real users by video call.
  3. 03Payments and payout setupPayment provider account, recipient verification, payout schedules, holds, refunds and the ledger that reconciles every booking to money in and money out.
  4. 04Build in short releasesFeatures delivered in short cycles on a staging site you can use, so your operations team tests real bookings before anything reaches clients.
  5. 05First state launchGo live in one state with a small set of clients and suppliers, watch every booking and payout closely, and fix friction in the first weeks.
  6. 06Expansion by configurationEach further state added through tax, listing and contract settings, with new landing pages for local search and reporting split by state.

Technology

What we build this with.

We choose the stack around your payment provider, the systems your clients already use for procurement, and the team that will run the platform after launch. Common choices include a React or Next.js front end, a Laravel or Node back end, and managed cloud hosting. Staffing booking payment integration USA operators rely on usually means a marketplace payments platform with card, wallet and ACH support, connected to your accounting system.

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 staffing marketplaces in the USA

It depends on how many states and payment methods the first release covers.

A first release in one state with card payments, supplier onboarding and payouts is a much smaller build than a launch across several states with invoicing, net terms and enterprise accounts. We agree the scope of the first release in discovery and put the dates in writing before design starts. Expansion states are then planned as separate releases, so you start taking bookings while later states are prepared.

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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