What a UAE online store needs
- Prices in AED, shown the way shoppers expect. Show clearly whether the price includes the 5% VAT.
- Payment methods people use. Cards, wallets and, for many categories, cash on delivery, through a gateway that works in the UAE.
- Arabic and English. A full Arabic storefront, including the product pages and the checkout, and not only the home page.
- A delivery promise you can keep. Zones, times and fees stated before checkout.
- Speed on a phone. Product pages are image-heavy. Properly sized images and few scripts keep them fast.
- Search and tracking. Clean product headings, structured data for products and reviews, analytics with purchase events, and a product feed for Google Merchant Center.
- Email that sells. Welcome, abandoned cart, post-purchase and win-back flows, set up once.
Work I have done
For a food brand on Shopify with no automation, no analytics and on-page SEO problems, I delivered in two weeks: fixed headings, rewritten metadata, optimised product images, review widgets with schema, six Klaviyo email flows, full e-commerce tracking and a live Google Merchant Center feed. Read the case study. For a US direct-to-consumer Shopify store I ran a five-milestone speed programme that took desktop layout shift from 0.43 to 0: see the speed case study.
What it costs
A small catalogue usually fits Growth: up to 12 pages with a CMS for AED 9,500, or AED 11,400 with Arabic. A larger catalogue or custom integrations are quoted after a review of what you need. The packages are on the pricing page, and a free website review tells you where your current store loses sales.