Shopify stores from AED 4,500, with a checkout configured for UAE cards and an app list kept deliberately short. Shopify is the quickest route to a live store when you use it on purpose.
Liquid
Custom theme on Growth Store
Short
App list kept lean
UAE
Gateways and VAT configured
90 days
Warranty after launch
Because Shopify removes the parts of ecommerce that have nothing to do with your product. Hosting, PCI compliance, uptime, security patching and checkout maintenance stop being your problem, so your effort goes into the catalogue and the marketing instead.
The tradeoffs are real and worth knowing before you commit. Checkout is largely fixed unless you are on Plus. Apps accumulate cost and page weight. A third-party payment gateway carries a Shopify transaction fee on top of the gateway's own rate.
Two fixed starting points. Send your catalogue size and we confirm the tier, the scope and the launch date in writing within one business day.
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
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.
Large catalogue, B2B pricing or several storefronts? See the Scale Store tier. Still deciding on a platform? Read Shopify or WooCommerce for a UAE store.
A well-built theme customised to your brand on the Starter Store, or a theme coded in Liquid for your catalogue on the Growth Store. Sections stay editable in the theme editor either way.
Shopify Payments where it fits, a local gateway where it does not, with the fee difference explained before you decide.
Instalment messaging on product pages and in the cart, not just an icon at checkout.
Every app is a monthly fee and usually a script on every page load. What can live in theme code does.
Emirate-level shipping zones, cutoffs, cash on delivery if you want it and 5% VAT displayed the way your customers expect.
Measured on the device your customers actually hold, with image sizes, fonts and third-party scripts kept under control.
This one decision changes your cost per order. Read the last row carefully.
| Shopify Payments | Third-party gateway | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Enabled inside Shopify | Separate application with the provider and your bank |
| Checkout experience | Native, fewest steps | Usually native, sometimes a redirect |
| Settlement | Through Shopify | Direct to your UAE bank account |
| Local acquiring | Depends on availability for your entity | Built for UAE acquiring |
| Extra platform fee | None | Shopify adds its own transaction fee on top of the gateway rate |
Run both numbers against your real average order value before choosing. On low-margin, high-volume catalogues the difference is not small.
Two lists. Find your store in one of them before anyone quotes you.
“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.”
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.
The Starter Store is AED 4,500 (USD 1,225) for up to 50 products with a UAE gateway, Tabby, Tamara, VAT and courier rates, live in three to four weeks. The Growth Store is AED 7,900 (USD 2,150) with a custom-coded theme, Arabic and up to 500 SKUs, in six to eight weeks. Your Shopify plan and any paid apps are billed by Shopify.
Telr, PayTabs, Network International, Stripe and Tap all have Shopify integrations, and Shopify Payments is available for some UAE entities. The detail that catches people out is that using any third-party gateway adds a Shopify transaction fee on top of the gateway's own per-transaction rate. We work out the real cost per order against your average basket before you commit to one.
Both, and the tier decides. The Starter Store customises a well-built theme to your brand, which is the fastest way to launch. The Growth Store gets a theme coded in Liquid for your catalogue, which is lighter because it carries no settings and scripts meant for other stores. Either way your team edits it in the Shopify theme editor.
Yes. Shopify supports multiple languages with separate indexable URLs, and we build the theme with mirrored layouts and a font stack that renders Arabic properly. Product content still has to be translated by someone who knows your products, which is work you or a translator does rather than an automatic setting.
Fewer than most stores run. Each app is a recurring fee and usually injects scripts into every page load, so a long list is both a cost and a speed problem. We handle in theme code whatever reasonably can be, and keep apps for genuinely specialist functions such as subscriptions or a specific instalment provider.
Yes. Products, variants, customers and order history migrate across, and every old URL is mapped to its new equivalent so search rankings and existing links survive. The parts that need most attention are pricing rules and any custom checkout behaviour, since Shopify is stricter there than WooCommerce.
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.
