WooCommerce stores from AED 4,500, inside the WordPress site you already run, with the checkout, the pricing rules and the customer data under your control. No platform cut on every sale and no rules you did not write.
0%
Platform cut on your orders
Full
Checkout control
Yours
Database and customer list
5%
VAT configured correctly
Control and cost per order. WooCommerce runs on your own hosting, so nobody takes a percentage of your revenue, and every part of the checkout, pricing and data model is editable because the code is yours.
The price of that control is responsibility. Hosting, updates, backups and the security posture are yours to hold or to hand to us. On a store doing real volume that is a fair trade. On a five-product side project it is overhead you did not need.
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.
Both tiers can be built on WooCommerce. Need multi-store or B2B pricing? See the Scale Store tier. Selling to retail shoppers? Read WordPress for Dubai retail stores.
Variants, attributes and filters designed around how your customers actually shop, not around whatever the default theme assumed.
Fields trimmed to what you need, guest checkout available and the whole flow tested on a phone. Woo lets you change all of it, so we do.
Telr, PayTabs, Network International, Stripe or Tap, with Tabby and Tamara added directly for instalments.
5% applied correctly, price display decided deliberately and invoices carrying the details your accountant needs.
Query tuning, object caching and a page-cache strategy that excludes cart and checkout. This is what separates a fast Woo store from a slow one.
Every extension is a bill, a maintenance job and a security liability. What should be theme code gets written as theme code.
The comparison people search for most. Neither column wins outright.
| WooCommerce | Shopify | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Your hosting, your database | Shopify's infrastructure |
| Cost shape | Hosting plus extensions, no revenue share | Monthly fee, apps, plus a transaction fee if you use a third-party gateway |
| Checkout control | Complete, it is your code | Limited unless you are on Plus |
| Maintenance | Yours or ours: updates, backups, security | Shopify handles the platform |
| Custom pricing rules | Straightforward to build | Often needs an app or Plus scripts |
| Best fit | Content-led stores, custom rules, existing WordPress | Fast launch, lean team, standard catalogue |
If you already run WordPress and publish content, WooCommerce usually costs less in total. If you want to launch next month with no technical staff, Shopify usually wins.
Nearly always one of these five, and all five are fixable.
“Kausar created the design for a WordPress and WooCommerce website for us. Besides very good technical knowhow she has a good sense for design. We were informed at any time about the status of the project and could always solve all questions to our complete satisfaction.”
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, or AED 7,900 (USD 2,150) for a Growth Store with a custom-coded theme, Arabic and up to 500 SKUs. Hosting and any paid extensions are billed in your name, and there is no platform percentage on your sales.
Yes, with proper hosting and a maintained plugin list. WooCommerce runs stores well past the volume most UAE businesses reach. Where it struggles is when it is installed on cheap shared hosting with a page-builder theme and thirty extensions, which is a configuration problem rather than a platform limit.
Telr, PayTabs, Network International, Stripe and Tap all have maintained WooCommerce integrations, and Tabby and Tamara can be added for instalments. Because WooCommerce is your own software there is no platform surcharge on top of the gateway rate, so your cost per order is simply the gateway's own pricing.
Usually yes, and it keeps everything in one admin and one hosting bill. The work is in the product model, the checkout, the tax and shipping rules and making sure the existing theme does not fight the store templates. We review the current site first and tell you whether extending it or rebuilding is the cheaper path.
Tax rates and display are configured during the build. We set whether prices show inclusive or exclusive of VAT, apply 5% correctly at checkout including on shipping where it applies and make sure the invoice carries the required details. If you also sell outside the UAE, the rules for those orders are set at the same time.
You can, or we can under a maintenance plan. Stores need a stricter routine than brochure sites because an untested extension update can break checkout, so updates go to staging first and are verified against a real test order. Anything that breaks because of how we built it is fixed free for 90 days after launch.
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.
