E-Commerce Development Agency for Dubai and the UAE
Bilingual Arabic/English storefronts on Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento, built by an in-house team with a working day that overlaps Dubai's almost hour for hour.
What you actually get
A storefront ready for a bilingual, multi-audience market
Right-to-left layout support for an Arabic-language storefront alongside the English build, with product listings, checkout copy and order confirmations structured in the CMS so your team can manage both without duplicating the whole catalog. We scope this at the start rather than treating a second language as a translation plugin bolted onto an English-only store later, since RTL layout touches navigation structure and checkout flow, not just which way the text reads.
Near-total working-hours overlap
Dubai is only 1.5 hours behind Pune. Our 10:00–19:00 IST studio hours cover nearly all of a standard UAE working day, so catalog reviews, checkout walkthroughs and launch coordination run closer to working with a local team than an offshore one — someone here is available whenever you'd normally expect to reach a vendor, not just during a single scheduled call each week.
Payment testing before AED is flowing through it
Before AED checkout goes live, we run it through the failure cases a demo cart never hits — a declined card, a gateway timeout, a retry that needs to actually complete on the second try. Stripe and PayPal both get this treatment, since a broken step that only surfaces after launch tends to cost a sale before anyone on your side even knows there's a problem.
Picking the platform your catalog actually needs
A fast-growing or high-volume catalog — common in UAE retail and trading — changes which platform makes sense: Magento's added complexity starts paying for itself at genuinely large catalog volume, while a smaller or simpler range does better on Shopify, which gets you live without managing a server, or WooCommerce if WordPress is already part of your stack. We'll recommend based on where your catalog actually sits, even when that means a smaller build than the one you came in asking about.
How this actually works
Why Dubai is one of the easiest timezones we work across
Dubai sits just 1.5 hours behind Pune — UAE 8:30am is our 10:00am, and UAE 5:30pm is close to our 19:00 studio close. That's not a narrow window we plan calls around; it's most of a working day shared in real time, which is a meaningfully different working relationship than the early-morning-call arrangements we run with US or Australian clients, and it means catalog and checkout decisions rarely have to wait overnight for an answer.
In practice that means checkout reviews, catalog walkthroughs and quick decisions happen the way they would with a local vendor — scheduled during normal business hours, not squeezed into a narrow slot at the edge of someone's day. We still document scope and testing results in writing so nothing depends on a single conversation being remembered correctly, but the live availability is genuinely there when you need it, which shortens the distance between raising an issue and getting it fixed.
We invoice in AED or USD by international transfer or card, against a fixed quote agreed before work starts. There's no registered UAE office behind this — just a Pune-based studio, which we'd rather state outright than let a generic 'we serve the UAE' line imply a local presence that isn't there.
Built for UAE e-commerce clients
- AED or USD invoicing
- Arabic RTL storefronts
- Shopify, WooCommerce & Magento
- Near-full working-day overlap
Guide
UAE E-Commerce Pricing Guide
What an E-Commerce Store Actually Costs in the UAE
Public UAE and wider Gulf market pricing guides show a basic Shopify or WooCommerce store, using a purchased theme, running roughly AED 5,000 to AED 12,000 through a freelancer or small studio. A custom-designed build with standard integrations sits closer to AED 12,000 to AED 50,000. A bilingual Arabic/English storefront with RTL layout, or a Magento build for a large catalog, typically runs AED 50,000 to AED 250,000 or more, since RTL support touches navigation and checkout structure, not just which way text reads.
Bilingual RTL support is the single biggest cost swing in a UAE build — a store scoped for Arabic and English from the start costs meaningfully more upfront than an English-only build, but far less than retrofitting RTL layout onto a finished English-only store later.
These are general figures aggregated from public UAE and Gulf market pricing guides, not what we charge — we scope every project against its actual catalog, language needs and integrations, with a fixed quote agreed in writing before work starts.
- Basic theme build: AED 5,000–12,000 — small catalog, single language.
- Custom build with integrations: AED 12,000–50,000 — standard payment and inventory setup.
- Bilingual RTL / Magento build: AED 50,000–250,000+ — large catalog, dual-language support.
FAQ
Questions before you get started.
Yes, when it's scoped at the start of the project. We structure the CMS to handle both languages and both layout directions cleanly rather than retrofitting RTL support onto an English-only build afterward.
Nearly all of it. Dubai is only 1.5 hours behind Pune, so our 10:00–19:00 IST studio hours line up with almost a full UAE working day — real-time availability for reviews and decisions, not a once-a-week call slot.
Catalog size and complexity decide it more than preference — Magento once volume is genuinely large, WooCommerce if WordPress already runs your site, Shopify when the priority is launching fast without touching server management. Tell us what you're actually selling and we'll recommend from there.
Yes, or in USD if that's simpler for your accounting — either way the quote is fixed in writing before work starts.
Yes — UAE VAT display and calculation get built into checkout as standard, and we can extend that to other GCC markets if you're selling across the region, though confirming exactly where you're registered to collect is a question for your own accountant.
Ready to start?
See the fuller service breakdown on our e-commerce development page.