E-commerce & Marketplaces

E-commerce & Marketplace Development Company in Dubai

Storefronts and multi-vendor marketplaces built for how people actually buy in the Emirates — AED-native pricing, the payment methods regional shoppers expect, courier integration that tracks properly, and Arabic that survives every template.

Shopify PlusHeadlessMulti-vendorBNPL

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Engaging us for E-commerce & Marketplaces

Paid two-week discovery producing scope, architecture and a fixed price
Delivery in two-week increments to a staging URL you can open anytime
Named technical lead for the full engagement, Gulf Standard Time hours
Source code, infrastructure and documentation yours from commit one

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What we build

E-commerce & Marketplaces capabilities

Six areas we deliver in production — not a slide deck of things we could theoretically attempt.

Storefronts

Shopify Plus, headless commerce and bespoke builds, chosen against your catalogue size, margin and integration needs rather than by default.

Multi-vendor marketplaces

Vendor onboarding, listing moderation, commission logic, split settlement and payout engines that reconcile.

Regional payment rails

AED card processing via regional PSPs, Apple Pay, and the buy-now-pay-later options a meaningful share of UAE shoppers now expect.

Delivery and last mile

Courier integration, rate shopping, real-time tracking and returns flows customers do not have to chase you about.

Tax and compliance

UAE VAT handled correctly across products, shipping and vendors, with documentation ready for e-invoicing requirements.

Arabic storefronts

True RTL across every component, template and email — including the checkout, where most bolted-on Arabic support falls apart.

UAE context

Where UAE checkouts actually lose the sale

Conversion in this market is lost at predictable points. Buy-now-pay-later has become a mainstream expectation rather than a niche, and its absence at checkout costs real orders. Cash on delivery still matters in segments that pure-card checkouts quietly exclude, and it brings reconciliation and failed-delivery handling that must be designed for. Delivery promises are compared aggressively across the Emirates, so courier integration and honest tracking matter more than the storefront design does. Arabic support that degrades in the checkout — mirrored layouts breaking, address forms assuming a Western structure — loses exactly the customers it was added to win. And UAE address formats do not fit international templates, which produces failed deliveries that read as a logistics problem but started in a form field.

Delivered across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah, Umm Al Quwain and Al Ain — and for clients operating from Business Bay, DIFC, DMCC Crypto Centre, Dubai Internet City.

Our process

How your E-commerce & Marketplaces project runs

Week 1–2

Requirements & Planning

We interrogate the brief before we price it — commercial goals, regulatory perimeter, integration reality and the constraints nobody wrote down. You leave discovery with a scoped backlog, architecture, fixed price and a delivery date we intend to keep.

Week 2–5

Wireframe & Design

Information architecture, wireframes, then a full design system in Figma with real content and every state designed — empty, loading, error, RTL. Prototypes go in front of real users before engineering starts.

Week 4–20

Development

Two-week sprints against a visible board. Every increment is deployed to a staging URL you can open on your own phone, so progress is something you use rather than something we describe.

Continuous

Debugging & Testing

Automated unit, integration and end-to-end suites in CI, plus manual QA on real devices, load testing, accessibility audit and — for anything touching value — independent security review.

Launch week

MVP Launch

Staged rollout with monitoring, alerting and rollback rehearsed in advance. Store submissions, DNS, SSL, analytics and search infrastructure are handled by us, not handed to you as a checklist.

Ongoing

Maintenance & Growth

SLA-backed support, dependency and security patching, performance budgets held to, and a quarterly roadmap review that ties the next build to what the data is actually telling you.

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Questions

E-commerce & Marketplaces FAQs

Cost, timelines, compliance and the questions clients in the UAE ask us most.

Shopify or custom?

Shopify Plus wins for most single-brand retailers — faster to launch, cheaper to run, and the ecosystem covers the common requirements. Custom or headless earns its cost when you need multi-vendor logic, unusual pricing or deep ERP integration. We will tell you which case you are in during discovery, including when the answer means a smaller invoice for us.

How much does an e-commerce site cost in Dubai?

A well-built Shopify Plus store typically runs AED 55,000 to AED 160,000. Headless and custom storefronts start near AED 180,000. Multi-vendor marketplaces with onboarding, commission and payout engines generally run AED 250,000 to AED 750,000.

Which payment methods can you integrate?

Regional PSPs for AED card processing, Apple Pay and Google Pay, buy-now-pay-later providers, bank transfer, and cash on delivery with the reconciliation logic it requires. We size the mix against your customer segment rather than adding everything.

Can you integrate our courier and ERP?

Yes — regional and international couriers for rate shopping, label generation and tracking, and ERP or accounting integration so orders, stock and invoices stay consistent without anyone rekeying them.

Do you handle Arabic storefronts?

Yes, as a first-class build. True RTL across components, templates, transactional emails and the checkout, with Arabic product content modelled properly rather than machine-translated into a single field.