Shopify, WooCommerce, and WordPress commerce for brands selling across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah — cards, Apple Pay, instalments, COD decisions, and VAT on the invoice.
UAE shoppers compare on Noon, Amazon.ae, Instagram and your site in the same hour. They abandon when shipping appears at the last step, when VAT is a surprise, or when the size chart was written for another market.
Our e-commerce work starts with catalogue truth: SKUs, variants, Arabic titles, warehouse location, and which gateway your bank will actually approve. Then we fix the leak between PDP, payment, and the warehouse WhatsApp group that still runs too many operations.
Reviews, delivery cut-offs, size charts for this market. Arabic fields. Titles ads and Noon can reuse.
Dubai vs Sharjah rules, COD policy, returns that are a warehouse process not a WhatsApp argument.
Apple Pay, cards, instalments, COD as a policy. Failed payments that speak human — not a silent DSF miss.
Default for brands that need speed to market, a serious theme, and checkout that supports the UAE payment mix. Custom sections — not 40 stacked apps. Collections for how Dubai searches: neighbourhood, occasion, gift. Shopify Plus when volume, B2B, or multi-store complexity justifies it.
For catalogues that already live in WordPress or need deep custom logic. We harden checkout, strip plugin bloat, and connect UAE VAT rules. WooCommerce is easy to make slow. Our skill is saying no to the seventh plugin.
When content and cart must share one CMS: shoppable editorial, B2B resources, hybrid magazine-store. Editorial and checkout stay on the same design system.
Proof-heavy PDPs: reviews, payment badges, delivery cut-offs, photography that matches the unboxing. Variants, metafields, Arabic fields, feed-ready titles.
Network International, PayTabs, Stripe where available, Apple Pay, instalments. We map the approved stack and make failed payments human. A silent fail during DSF is not an edge case.
Sequential tests: shipping clarity, payment trust, PDP proof, then upsells. One change you can attribute — not twelve popups.
URL, redirect, customer and order hygiene. Monthly theme/app audits. No reckless updates the Thursday before a campaign.
Noon, Amazon.ae — inventory diplomacy. One source of truth so you do not oversell across channels.
Honest billing, pause logic, delivery that survives summer and travel. Chargebacks find trapped customers.
Quote, tier, credit, catalogue privacy. Jebel Ali trade buyers want availability, MOQ and a PDF — not a lifestyle hero.
Collection architecture and crawlable filters designed with the store, not bolted on after the theme is “done”.
Export the catalogue. List payments you think you have vs. what the bank approved. Watch three mobile checkouts on a mid-range Android.
Collection taxonomy, PDP modules, cart that does not hide fees. Gateway workstream with whoever owns merchant IDs.
Redirects, tracking, 301s. Customer password realities on a migration. Then a freeze while ads already bought traffic.
Conversion work earns the right to exist: one hypothesis, one change, one read. Marketplaces last — a second channel on a leaking cart is a bigger leak.
Titles, variants and images structured for Google, Meta and Noon — not just the theme.
We plan the gateway you can actually get approved, then design the UX around it.
Stock and orders can meet the counter. That is the difference between a store and a headache.
We do not ship breaking theme updates the week your Google Ads already bought DSF traffic.
| Shopify | WooCommerce | Headless | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best when | Speed + UAE apps + checkout mix | WordPress already owns content | Rare — we will say why |
| VAT & invoices | Configured, not assumed | Hardened checkout + tax rules | You own the entire tax UX |
| Ops join | POS and ads feeds planned in | Deep custom logic possible | Only if the team can maintain it |
| Risk | App bloat if we do not say no | Speed death by plugins | Budget and staffing |
Shopify if you need speed and a serious checkout mix. WooCommerce if WordPress already owns the content or you need deep custom logic. We choose in week one, not in a brand workshop.
Yes — redirects, collection URLs, and customer/order hygiene are part of the plan. Ghost rankings are usually a missing 301 list, not “Google being unfair”.
We map what your bank and processor will actually approve, then design the checkout around that mix. COD is a policy decision, not a plugin toggle.
That is the point of hiring this stack. One catalogue truth so the website cannot sell a size the warehouse does not have.
Yes, with their own UX and billing rules — a retail theme is not a wholesale desk, and a trapped subscriber will find chargebacks.
Fill this form. We reply on email or WhatsApp with what to keep, kill, and rebuild — not a 20-slide deck.
URL, till, ads, or the loop that burns three hours a day.
Site, store, POS, demand — whichever actually applies.
A prioritized fix list you can staff this quarter.