eCommerce websites that take UAE payments and instalments.

Cards are enough to take an order, and instalments change what the order is worth. Tabby and Tamara are the two a UAE shopper looks for on a considered purchase, and offering one is a margin decision before it is a technical one: each takes a fee on the sale, each has its own onboarding against your licence, and each changes what a basket is worth to you. We build the checkout so a provider can be added later without rebuilding it, and we will tell you plainly when your basket size does not justify the fee yet.

Yes, and it is build scope rather than accounting scope. A UAE tax invoice needs your TRN, a sequential number with no gaps and the 5% VAT shown on its own line, and it is due within 14 days of supply; a simplified invoice is only permitted at AED 10,000 or less, or to an unregistered buyer. We specify that format in the build and verify it on a live order before handover. From 1 January 2027 businesses at or above AED 50 million in revenue issue invoices as structured data through an accredited provider, and the rest follow on 1 July 2027, so the store is built to hand over the data rather than a rendered document.

Usually yes, and it should be priced as a receivable rather than treated as a payment method. Cash on delivery is still material in this market, and taking it off a category that expects it costs orders you will never see. What it costs you is the refusals: a parcel that comes back is a delivery already paid for, stock in transit and revenue that was never revenue. We build the order states and the reporting to separate money collected from orders placed, then review the refusal rate by category after three months and turn it off where the arithmetic says so.

The buyer sees it before the payment step, or the order is lost at the last screen. Delivery here is an emirate-level answer rather than a national one: same-day inside Dubai, next day to Sharjah, and a different cost and window again for Al Ain or Fujairah, priced differently by Aramex and by Quiqup. We read your courier rates per emirate into the checkout so the promise on the product page is the one your courier will keep, and we treat a free-delivery threshold as a margin decision rather than a habit copied from a bigger store.

Only where Arabic is how your buyers shop, and on a store that is a merchandising decision rather than a language one. Consumer categories, gifting and anything sold into Emirati households are where Arabic product pages earn their keep; a great deal of business-to-business selling here runs in English and always has. What makes it expensive is not the translation. It is that every product title, variant, category, size guide, delivery promise and checkout string exists twice from that day on, so a catalogue that grows weekly grows twice. The sequence that holds is to build the second locale into the data model from day one, publish Arabic on the categories that earn it, and widen from there. An Al Quoz F&B producer on a DET mainland licence selling gifting sets needs it. A Sharjah SAIF Zone manufacturer shipping to distributors usually does not.

Four things move the figure more than the design does: how many products and variants the catalogue holds, how many payment methods have to be wired and settled separately, whether the invoice has to reach an accounting system or stops at a document, and whether the store runs in Arabic as well as English. A hundred products on an existing platform with one payment method is a different number from a headless build with instalments, a courier integration and a second language. We scope against those four and put the number in writing before anything is built, which is also why the first call asks what you sell rather than how many pages you want. The stack decision sitting above all four is set out on website design and development.

The parts nobody lists in the quote: the customer accounts, the order history, the invoice sequence and the merchant account. A gateway account is issued against your licence and configured for a specific platform, so a move usually means a fresh integration and sometimes a fresh agreement, and the invoice numbering has to continue rather than restart at one. Product URLs and rankings are the part most people worry about and the part with the best-understood fix, which is a mapped redirect plan agreed with whoever runs your search work. We run the migration with a full order and customer export already in your hands before anything is switched over. Which platform you move to is argued on Shopify development and WooCommerce development.

Yes, and it is the integration most often left until after launch. Where the shop, the warehouse and the store each hold their own count, the store will eventually sell something that is not there, and a cancelled order costs more than a lost one. We wire one source of stock and let the others read from it, then decide with you what the store does when a line runs out: hide it, show it as out of stock, or take a backorder with a date on it. Which of those is right depends on how quickly you restock, not on a platform default.