A theme written in Liquid
Built around your catalogue and brand rather than a marketplace theme reskinned. Sections stay editable in the theme editor.
Shopify development agency in Dubai. Launch in weeks without buying a theme.
A theme written for your catalogue, 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.
- Custom themes
- Liquid
- Shopify Payments
- Tabby
- Headless
Built
Themes coded, not bought
Short
App list kept lean
UAE
Gateways and VAT configured
90 days
Warranty after launch
Why do UAE brands hire a Shopify development agency?
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.
What your Shopify build includes.
Payments configured for the UAE
Shopify Payments where it fits, a local gateway where it does not, with the fee difference explained before you decide.
Tabby and Tamara installed
Instalment messaging on product pages and in the cart, not just an icon at checkout.
A deliberately short app list
Every app is a monthly fee and usually a script on every page load. What can live in theme code does.
Delivery and VAT rules
Emirate-level shipping zones, cutoffs, cash on delivery if you want it and 5% VAT displayed the way your customers expect.
Speed on a mid-range phone
Measured on the device your customers actually hold, with image sizes, fonts and third-party scripts kept under control.
Shopify Payments or a third-party gateway in the UAE?
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.
Is Shopify development the right call for your store?
Two lists. Find your store in one of them before anyone quotes you.
Shopify fits when
- You want to be selling within weeks, not months
- The catalogue is up to a few thousand SKUs with straightforward pricing
- You do not want to own hosting, patching or PCI compliance
- Your team is marketers rather than web developers
Look elsewhere when
- You need checkout logic that Shopify does not allow outside Plus
- Pricing depends on customer group, contract or negotiated B2B rates
- The store is one part of a larger custom system
- App subscriptions and transaction fees would outweigh hosting your own
Three commitments most Dubai agencies will not make.
Ownership, deadlines and defects are where web projects go wrong. We put all three in the contract, not just on this page.
You own everything, from day one
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.
A written timeline, agreed up front
Milestone dates are fixed in writing before the project starts. You always know what ships next and when.
90-day post-launch warranty
Anything that breaks because of how we built it gets fixed free for 90 days after launch.
What people ask before they commit.
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.
We build them. A purchased theme is quick and it carries settings and scripts for a hundred stores that are not yours, which shows up in load time. A theme written for your catalogue is lighter, easier to change and still fully editable in the Shopify theme editor by your team.
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.