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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: 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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Shopify, BigCommerce, or a custom checkout integrated into a composable Enterprise 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.
Shopify gets a store live fast: hosted checkout, a mature app ecosystem, and predictable monthly costs. The trade-offs arrive with scale — transaction fees on every sale, app subscriptions that quietly stack up, customization ceilings on checkout UX, and storefronts that look like every other theme. A custom build (Next.js + Payload + a UAE gateway) costs more upfront but removes the ceilings: full control over checkout, no per-sale platform fee, catalog data you own outright, and page speed that template stores rarely reach. Our honest rule of thumb: validating a product or running under a few hundred orders a month — start on Shopify, and we can build your storefront on top of it. Established volume, custom checkout needs, or heavy Arabic/RTL requirements — the custom route pays for itself.
It depends on scale. Growth-track stores run on our standard Next.js + Payload CMS stack. Enterprise projects integrate Shopify, BigCommerce, or a fully custom checkout — whichever fits your existing systems and traffic.
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.
Book a strategic architecture call — or run the estimator and send us your pre-filled scope.