Online store development from AED 4,500, live in three to eight weeks. Local payment gateways, instalments, VAT-correct invoices, Arabic layouts and delivery rules that match how this country works, with the store in your name from day one.
AED 4,500
Stores from (USD 1,225)
5%
VAT handled on invoices
Tabby
and Tamara for instalments
Day one
The store is in your name
A Starter Store on Shopify or WooCommerce is AED 4,500 (USD 1,225) for up to 50 products, live in three to four weeks. The Growth Store, with a custom-coded theme, Arabic and up to 500 SKUs, is AED 7,900 (USD 2,150) in six to eight weeks. Magento, headless, multi-store and B2B builds start at AED 18,500 (USD 5,040).
A store that looks good but cannot take a Mashreq card is not finished. Neither is one that invoices without 5% VAT or quotes the same delivery fee to Deira and Fujairah. We treat your checkout as the product and the theme as packaging.
Three fixed starting points for a UAE store. Each one includes local payments and VAT, because a store without them is not finished. Prices are in AED with USD alongside.
For a brand putting its first catalogue online in the UAE.
AED 4,500
USD 1,225 · delivered in 3-4 weeks
Most chosen
For a store that already sells and needs speed, Arabic and better tracking.
AED 7,900
USD 2,150 · delivered in 6-8 weeks
For large catalogues, several storefronts, B2B pricing or an ERP that owns the stock.
from AED 18,500
from USD 5,040 · delivered in 10-16 weeks
Not included in any tier: the platform subscription, payment gateway and instalment fees, paid apps and product data entry beyond the limit. Gateway accounts are opened in your name with your bank.
No checkout to build? The website packages start at AED 4,900.
Pick the one that matches your situation. Each page says plainly when it is the wrong choice.
Live in weeks, on a theme built for your catalogue rather than bought for someone else's.
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Total control of checkout and pricing, with no platform cut on any order.
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Large catalogues, several storefronts and B2B pricing rules that break lighter platforms.
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For subscriptions, marketplaces and pricing rules the platforms will not express.
Read moreWhatever platform sits underneath, these are not optional.
A gateway that settles to your UAE bank, tested with real cards, with 3D Secure behaving on a phone rather than only on a desktop.
Tabby and Tamara installed directly, with the messaging on product pages rather than only at checkout.
5% applied correctly, inclusive or exclusive display chosen deliberately and invoices that carry the details your accountant needs.
Zone-based rates, cutoff times, cash on delivery where you want it and courier integration so tracking reaches the customer automatically.
Variants, bundles and filters designed around your catalogue, so your hundredth product does not mean redesigning anything.
Most UAE store traffic is a phone on a mixed connection. Your product and cart pages are measured there, not on our desks.
The comparison most agencies avoid publishing, because it does not always point at what they sell.
| Shopify | WooCommerce | Magento | Custom | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to launch | Fastest | Fast | Slow | Slowest |
| Ongoing cost | Platform fee plus apps | Hosting plus plugins | Hosting plus specialist time | Hosting plus your own team |
| Checkout control | Limited unless on Plus | Full | Full | Total |
| UAE gateway options | Wide, but third-party gateways add a Shopify transaction fee | Wide, no platform surcharge | Wide, no platform surcharge | Whatever you integrate |
| Catalogue size it suits | Up to a few thousand SKUs comfortably | Small to mid | Large, multi-store, complex pricing | Anything, at a price |
| Who maintains it | Shopify, mostly | You or us | A Magento specialist | Whoever built it |
If you are under a hundred products and want to be live this quarter, the honest answer is usually Shopify or WooCommerce. The full comparison is in Shopify or WooCommerce for a UAE store, and Shopify vs custom ecommerce covers when custom pays back.
Four things decide whether your store works here. Most of the agencies on page one do not mention any of them.
Four stages, with payments proven in sandbox before a live key exists.
We model products, variants, tax and shipping before touching the design, because those decisions constrain everything visual.
Gateway, instalments and refunds tested end to end with test credentials before a live key exists.
Theme coded, then product and cart pages measured on a mid-range phone. Speed is a launch condition, not a later project.
Go live, watch your first real orders closely, then hand over with the warranty running.
90%+
Average speed gain
Sites we rebuild typically load 2-3x faster than their predecessors.
3-5x
Conversion lift
Measured against the site we replaced, on the same traffic.
0.05
Typical CLS score
Well below Google's 0.1 threshold for Core Web Vitals.
25+
Websites built
Across WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, Laravel and React stacks.
“We had our web blog and web store created. We are more than satisfied with the result. Not only the technical aspects, but also the design has been realized on the highest possible level. We will implement all our web projects with this company.”
“Excellent job building my Shopify dropshipping store. The design is sleek, user-friendly, and optimised for 70 products. Communication was smooth, and all my questions were promptly answered.”
“She is very smart and not only does any kind of Shopify work but AutoDS as well. I plan on continuing to use her services as I scale my store.”
Ownership, deadlines and defects are where web projects go wrong. We put all three in the contract, not just on this page.
Repository, hosting and domain credentials are in your name before we write a line of code. Not handed over at the end, not held as leverage.
Milestone dates are fixed in writing before the project starts. You always know what ships next and when.
Anything that breaks because of how we built it gets fixed free for 90 days after launch.
AED 4,500 (USD 1,225) for a Starter Store of up to 50 products with a UAE gateway, Tabby, Tamara, VAT and courier rates. AED 7,900 (USD 2,150) for a Growth Store with a custom-coded theme, Arabic and up to 500 SKUs. From AED 18,500 (USD 5,040) for Magento, headless, multi-store or B2B. The platform subscription, gateway fees and paid apps are billed to you by the provider.
It depends on your bank and your average order value. Telr, PayTabs, Network International, Stripe and Tap all work in the UAE and differ mainly on settlement time, per-transaction rate and how demanding the onboarding is. If you are on Shopify, note that a third-party gateway adds a Shopify transaction fee on top of the gateway's own rate. We set the account up with you rather than reselling one to you.
Yes. The Raena Beauty launch and the Frankfurter Kaffeerösterei storefront rebuild are on this page with their stack and scope, and we send live store links in your category when you share the brief.
Yes. Products, variants, customers and order history move across, and every old URL is mapped to its new address so rankings and existing links survive. Pricing rules and custom checkout behaviour get checked first, because they are the parts that differ most between platforms.
Yes, installed directly rather than through a gateway that marks the rate up. Both are widely used in the UAE and tend to lift average order value on higher-priced baskets. We put the instalment messaging on product pages as well as at checkout, because that is where most of the conversion effect happens.
It is configured during the build, not afterwards. We set whether prices display inclusive or exclusive of VAT, make sure the 5% is calculated correctly at checkout including on shipping where it applies and ensure the invoice carries the details your accountant needs. If you sell outside the UAE we also set the rules for those orders.
Both, usually, but with different expectations. A marketplace gives you traffic and takes a cut plus your customer relationship. Your own store costs more to fill but keeps the margin, the data and the ability to remarket. Most UAE brands we work with use marketplaces for discovery and their own store for repeat buyers.
Three to four weeks for a Starter Store, six to eight for a Growth Store and ten to sixteen for a Scale build. Gateway onboarding is often the slowest part because it depends on your bank, so we start it in week one. Milestone dates are agreed in writing before we start.
Yes, from day one. The platform account, hosting, domain and payment gateway are all registered in your name before development starts. Your customer list is yours and exportable, and if you move to another agency nothing has to be handed over because nothing was ever held.
Send your brief and get a fixed scope, a written timeline and a real number back within one business day. No discovery-call maze, no sales sequence.
