"Realistic 2026 price bands for e-commerce websites in Dubai — Shopify vs WooCommerce vs custom, what drives cost up, and where merchants overspend."
Overview
You'll find AED 2,000 'stores' that are a theme with your logo, and agency quotes past AED 100,000 for standard catalogues. The honest middle for 2026: a properly built Shopify store with UAE payments, bilingual checkout and real product setup typically runs the equivalent of low-to-mid five figures AED; WooCommerce similar with more variance; fully custom starts higher and is only justified by unusual models. What actually moves the number: catalogue size and data quality, BNPL and COD flows, Arabic content, and integrations with shipping and accounting.
What's Included
Shopify or WooCommerce setup engineered properly — theme work, speed, tracking — not a naked template. We scope it with you up front and deliver in clear milestones, so you always know what's shipping and when.
Cards, Apple Pay, Tabby, Tamara and COD with the right fallbacks and fees understood. Everything is wired for measurement from day one, so you can see exactly what this contributes to enquiries and revenue.
Arabic-English product pages and checkout — the conversion difference is real. We document and hand everything over cleanly, so your team is never locked in or left guessing.
Import, photography direction and descriptions — the hidden cost most quotes omit. We iterate in short review cycles — you see early versions, and we refine until it performs.
Aramex and local couriers wired into rates and fulfilment. We scope it with you up front and deliver in clear milestones, so you always know what's shipping and when.
GA4 e-commerce, Meta and TikTok pixels installed correctly from day one. Everything is wired for measurement from day one, so you can see exactly what this contributes to enquiries and revenue.
Goals, scope and a fixed quote — before anything is built.
You approve the direction before a line of code or copy.
Senior specialists execute with weekly visible progress.
Launch with data wired in — then we optimise what performs.
Why It Works
We tell you which band your store belongs in — and when the cheap route is genuinely fine.
Pricing covers a store built to sell, not just to exist.
Scope agreed before work begins, in AED or USD.
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Because 'e-commerce website' spans everything from an untouched theme to a custom platform. Compare quotes by what's included: payments, Arabic, product setup, tracking and post-launch support.
For testing a product idea with a tiny catalogue — sometimes. For a real brand, the corners cut (speed, checkout, tracking) usually cost more in lost sales than they saved.
Platform fees or hosting, payment gateway percentages, apps/plugins, and a maintenance allowance. We put realistic monthly numbers in every quote.
A properly scoped Shopify store: 3–6 weeks. WooCommerce: 4–8. Custom: phased from 8 weeks.
Yes. Everything we produce can ship bilingual — built for how Arabic actually reads, not just machine-translated. That covers layout direction, typography and tone, so both audiences get a native experience.
All major work is engineered at our head office in Bellevue, Washington. Our Dubai branch manages delivery on the ground across the USA, UAE & GCC — in your timezone, in English and Arabic — so you get US-grade work with local presence.
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