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Selling online is a different engineering problem than a brochure site — inventory, checkout, payments, and order management all need to hold up under real traffic. We build ecommerce on the same composable architecture as everything else we ship — including headless commerce, where the storefront and the commerce engine are separate systems talking over an API. Fast, secure, and yours to own.
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A focused product catalog with checkout and payment processing — for local and growing businesses. From AED 20,000 on the Growth track.
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A Next.js storefront wired to Shopify over the Storefront API — or a fully custom checkout inside a composable platform. AED 18,300 add-on in the Scope Estimator.
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Two-sided platforms connecting vendors and buyers — listings, search, and order coordination on both sides, built as a full custom platform rather than a plugin on top of a store template.
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Product structure, payment providers, and order volume expectations — the inputs that decide whether a lightweight store or a custom commerce engine is the right call.
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Storefront, cart, and checkout built against real payment gateways — tested with real transactions before launch, not just sandbox data.
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Inventory and order management handed off to your team, with an optional Care Plan if you want us to keep monitoring uptime and performance.
Online stores built to sell — from a Growth-track shop to enterprise commerce integration.
Local gateways (Telr, PayTabs, Network International), BNPL via Tabby and Tamara, and cash-on-delivery flows — the checkout mix UAE customers actually complete, not a Western default transplanted here.
Arabic/RTL product pages, cart, and checkout are part of the build, not a paid plugin bolted on later — including how prices, quantities, and addresses render right-to-left.
If Shopify is the right call for your store, we will say so and integrate it — a custom build is only worth it when the requirements actually demand one.
Checkout goes live only after end-to-end tests against the real gateway — real cards, real refund paths — not just sandbox data that behaves nothing like production.
There are three real options, and the middle one is the one most UAE businesses should take. A native Shopify theme gets you live fastest and cheapest — hosted checkout, mature apps, predictable monthly cost — at the price of a storefront that looks like every other theme and a customization ceiling you will eventually hit. A fully custom build — Next.js over a self-hosted commerce engine (Medusa or Saleor) with Payload for content and a UAE gateway — removes every ceiling and every per-sale platform fee, but you are then also responsible for the commerce engine: inventory, tax, fraud, refunds. Headless commerce is the middle path we build most often: Shopify keeps doing what it is genuinely excellent at — checkout, payments, inventory, PCI compliance — while the storefront is our own Next.js build talking to it over the Storefront API. You get template-free design, real Arabic/RTL engineering, and page speed a theme cannot reach, without rebuilding the parts of commerce that are solved. Honest rule of thumb: validating a product or under a few hundred orders a month, stay on a native theme; once design, speed, or bilingual UX start costing you sales, go headless.
Next.js for the storefront, always — that is the part we engineer. Behind it, Shopify over the Storefront API is our default and what we recommend for most stores, because checkout, payments, and PCI compliance are solved problems and Shopify solves them well. The architecture is not tied to it: the same headless build works over BigCommerce if that is where your catalogue already lives, or over a self-hosted open-source engine — Medusa or Saleor — when you want zero platform fees and full ownership of the commerce logic. We pick the backend with you at scoping, and we will say plainly if one of them would be a first for us.
Yes — product catalogs, order history, and customer data migration is part of Legacy System Migration scoping for Enterprise projects, or a smaller data-import task for Growth-track stores.
Yes — we integrate established payment providers rather than handling card data ourselves, and align with SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA, and UAE PDPL as standard across every build.
Headless commerce separates the storefront your customers see from the commerce engine that handles inventory, checkout, and orders — the two talk over an API instead of being one monolith. It earns its cost when you need a genuinely fast bilingual storefront, several sales channels feeding one inventory, or a checkout no template will give you. For a first store at modest volume it is usually overkill: a well-built native Shopify theme ships sooner and costs less. We will tell you which side of that line you are on before quoting.
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