A properly built custom store typically runs from AED 18,000 to AED 55,000 as a project, depending on catalogue complexity, Arabic support and integrations. Ongoing growth retainers run from AED 12,000 to AED 26,000 per month. Very cheap builds are usually a purchased theme with apps stacked on top, which works until you need it to do something specific and then costs more to unpick than it saved.

Eight to twelve weeks for a custom store with cash on delivery checkout, Arabic support and integrations. A migration from another platform is similar, with more of the time spent on data mapping and redirects. Anything promising two weeks is a theme install with your logo on it.

Shopify supports it, but not in the way this market needs out of the box. Doing it well requires verification steps, order value thresholds, address quality checks and sometimes deposits, because a checkout that treats cash on delivery as a simple option produces refusal rates that quietly destroy margin. We build this into the checkout flow rather than installing an app and hoping.

Yes, properly, when it is planned. It needs theme level right to left support rather than a translation app layered over a left to right design, which produces broken layouts and mirrored elements. It is straightforward if decided at the start and expensive to retrofit once you are trading.

It depends on your settlement needs, fee tolerance and whether buy now pay later suits your price point, which it often does in this market. There is no single right answer and the default is rarely the best one. We assess it against your cash flow rather than recommending whichever we set up last time.

Often yes, particularly if you are spending significant time on maintenance and hosting rather than on selling. But migration carries real risk to your organic traffic if URLs and redirects are handled carelessly. We will tell you honestly if staying put is the better commercial decision, because a migration done for the wrong reason is expensive.

Both, and we prefer both. A store built by one company and marketed by another means every problem becomes a discussion about whose fault it is. When the same team owns the build and the acquisition, a checkout problem gets fixed instead of reported.

Shopify updates, your apps update, your catalogue grows and performance drifts. We offer ongoing maintenance and support alongside growth work, with monitoring, backups, tested updates and defined response times, because most stores get slower and more fragile in the year after launch when nobody owns them.