E-commerce Website Development in Dubai

An online store in Dubai costs AED 35,000 to 120,000 to build and takes three to five months, with the price set by the platform, the size of the catalogue, the payment and delivery integrations and whether you need an Arabic storefront. DataMySite builds stores on Shopify, WooCommerce and custom Laravel, connects UAE gateways such as Telr, PayTabs and Network International, and handles the licence paperwork the gateway will ask for. Below: the price bands, what sits in each, which platform fits which business and the running costs to budget from year one. Part of our website development services.

What an e-commerce build costs in Dubai in 2026

The AED 35,000 to 120,000 range in our website cost guide is wide because stores differ more than brochure sites do. A hundred products on Shopify with one delivery zone and one gateway is a known job. Two thousand products with variations, a warehouse feed, wholesale pricing and an Arabic catalogue is a different one. The cost drivers, in order: catalogue size and how clean your product data is, the platform, integrations (gateway, delivery, stock, accounting), and languages. Design from scratch rather than a theme adds the same premium it adds to any site. Payment gateway fees are not in the build price; they run about 2.5 to 3.5 percent of sales plus a per-transaction fee, and belong in your margin calculation from day one.

Shopify, WooCommerce or custom: which fits

Shopify suits a brand that wants a store live quickly, sells a focused catalogue and would rather pay a monthly platform fee than manage hosting. WooCommerce suits a business already on WordPress, with content and a store on one site and more control over the checkout. Custom Laravel suits stores with logic a platform cannot express: quoting engines, bulk and wholesale pricing, delivery slots, multi-vendor marketplaces, or a back end that must talk to an ERP. We recommend after discovery, and we will say when Shopify is the right answer even though a custom build would be the bigger project.

Payments, licences and delivery in the UAE

A UAE gateway needs your trade licence with an e-commerce activity, a bank letter and the licence number on the site's footer, so that paperwork starts at kick-off, not at launch. Home-based sellers trade on DET's E-Trader licence; companies add the activity to their commercial licence through DET or their free zone. We integrate Telr, PayTabs, Network International and the card options they support, plus cash on delivery where the business still needs it. Delivery logic is built around how you actually fulfil: zones and rates by emirate, same-day windows, courier integrations, or pickup from the store. Tabby and Tamara instalment options are added where the gateway supports them.

Built to sell on a phone and rank on Google

Most UAE shopping happens on a phone, so the catalogue, filters and checkout are designed for a thumb first. Product pages are built with the technical SEO that stores usually skip: unique titles and descriptions, schema for products, reviews and prices, clean category URLs, fast image delivery and a structure that does not create thousands of duplicate filter pages. Our e-commerce SEO team can take the store on after launch, which is the difference between a store that is ready to rank and one that does. Conversion is designed in as well: search, wishlists, reviews, promo banners, abandoned-cart recovery and analytics that show which products and pages make money.

Stock, orders and the back office

A store is only as good as the admin behind it. We set up product dashboards your team can use, bulk uploads from spreadsheets, variations and stock alerts, order management with the statuses your warehouse uses, and syncs to POS, accounting or ERP systems where they exist. Reporting is configured so the questions a store owner asks every Monday have answers on one screen: sales by product, by channel, by campaign, returns and margin.

How a store project runs

Discovery and a catalogue audit first, because product data quality decides the timeline. Then design on the platform chosen, a staging store you can test with real products and a test gateway, and a launch checklist covering payments, delivery, tax settings, emails, redirects from any old store and the first sitemap. Three to five months is the realistic window for a full store; a small Shopify catalogue can be live in eight weeks. Maintenance plans cover updates, security and the small changes a store needs every month after launch.

What to have ready before you brief a store

A product list, even a rough one, with the number of products and variations, because catalogue size is the first thing that sets the price. Your trade licence and whether it already carries an e-commerce activity. The gateway and couriers you use or want to use. Your logo, brand colours and any product photography that exists. The platform you prefer, if you have one, and the date you need to be selling by. With those five things we quote a fixed price within 48 hours; without them we quote a range and narrow it after discovery.