DEPARTMENT ยท ECOMMERCE

Ecommerce platforms that actually convert in the UAE.

We build and scale ecommerce platforms for UAE brands, retail groups, and D2C founders. Our Dubai-based engineers know Tabby and Tamara, ship Arabic-first storefronts, and reconcile COD without late-night spreadsheets.

Tabby + Tamara nativeArabic-first storefrontsCOD reconciliation built-in
shop.yourbrand.aev 4.2
Software platform interface example
Conversion uplift
+38%
p95 PDP load
0.9s
BNPL adoption
42%
Checkouts
AR + EN
How we approach ecommerce work

Built for shoppers and for the warehouse, not just the demo.

Ecommerce has two truths: the shopper who needs the page in under a second, and the ops team who needs every order, refund, and return reconciled. We build for both from sprint one.

Arabic-first, not bolted on
RTL layouts, Arabic product copy, and search tuned for Arabic dialects from day one.
Tabby and Tamara native
BNPL flows wired into checkout with proper fallback, not a plugin slapped on top.
COD that reconciles itself
Cash collections matched against orders, returns, and 3PL settlements automatically.
Sub-second product pages
Our default target on Vercel or Cloudflare. Faster pages, higher conversion.
What we build

Six things we ship for ecommerce teams.

Most engagements pair one platform build with two or three add-on services.

Flagship

Custom headless storefronts

Next.js or Hydrogen storefronts on top of Shopify, Medusa, or Saleor. Fast, indexable, and built around your brand.

  • โ†’Next.js or Hydrogen frontends
  • โ†’Arabic + English by default
  • โ†’Algolia or Typesense search
  • โ†’Edge-cached PDPs and PLPs
Service

Checkout & BNPL

Custom checkout flows with Tabby, Tamara, Stripe, Network International, and Telr wired in cleanly.

Service

COD reconciliation

Match cash collections against orders, returns, and 3PL settlements. End the spreadsheet era.

Flagship

Marketplace integrations

Sync inventory, pricing, and orders across Noon, Amazon.ae, Talabat, and Carrefour from a single source of truth.

  • โ†’Inventory sync across channels
  • โ†’Order ingestion & routing
  • โ†’Pricing & promo rules
  • โ†’Returns & reconciliation
Service

Lifecycle & retention

Klaviyo and Postscript flows, Yotpo reviews, Recharge subscriptions, all tied to your CDP.

Service

Order & inventory ops

Multi-warehouse inventory, reservation logic, and 3PL routing that holds up on peak days.

What you'll see in six months

Real numbers from ecommerce clients.

These are ranges from real engagements. We measure them because retainers depend on them.

+38%
Conversion rate uplift

Average lift after replatforming to a custom storefront with Arabic-first UX and sub-second PDPs.

42%
BNPL adoption at checkout

Share of orders using Tabby or Tamara once we wire them properly into the checkout flow.

0.9s
p95 product page load

Default target on Vercel or Cloudflare for the storefronts we ship, measured from UAE IPs.

โˆ’65%
COD reconciliation time

Hours per week saved by automating cash matching against orders and 3PL settlements.

Our tech choices for ecommerce

Stacks that scale without locking you in.

We pick stacks that hold up at Black Friday and Ramadan peaks. Composable where it matters, simple everywhere else.

Storefront

Next.js (Vercel Commerce) or Shopify Hydrogen. React Server Components, edge caching, and Lighthouse budgets in CI.

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwindshadcn/uiReact Native
Commerce engine

Shopify Plus for fast time-to-market, Medusa or Saleor when you need real control over checkout, pricing, and B2B flows.

NodeGoPythonGraphQLgRPCOpenAPI
Payments & BNPL

Stripe, Network International, Telr for cards. Tabby and Tamara SDKs for BNPL. Proper webhook handling, idempotent settlement.

PostgresRedisKafkaClickHousedbtSnowflake
Search & data

Algolia or Typesense for search. Postgres for state, ClickHouse for analytics, dbt for marketing models the team can read.

RAGEvalsVector DBLLM RoutingGuardrails
Lifecycle & ops

Klaviyo, Postscript, Recharge, Yotpo. Vercel, Cloudflare, Datadog, and Sentry for the operational layer.

AWSTerraformKubernetesGitHub ActionsDatadogSentry
How to work with us

Three ways ecommerce teams hire us.

Pricing shared openly during scoping. Smallest engagement starts around the cost of one senior in-house hire.

Storefront & Checkout Audit

A two-week review of your storefront, checkout, and reconciliation flows before peak season or a replatform.

For

Brands preparing for Ramadan, White Friday, or a Shopify Plus to headless move

  • Storefront & PDP performance review
  • Checkout & BNPL audit
  • Written 30/60/90-day plan
  • Executive presentation
From the cost of one senior engineer for a week
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Most chosen

Embedded Ecommerce Engineering Team

A senior pod shipping storefront, checkout, and ops features alongside your team each sprint.

For

Retail groups and D2C brands shipping new markets, checkouts, or marketplace integrations

  • 3 to 6 senior engineers + a lead
  • Storefront, checkout, ops specialists
  • Daily overlap with your team in UAE
  • Quarterly outcome commitments
Our most popular option. Let's talk scope and price.
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Storefront & Ops Retainer

We own your storefront performance, checkout reliability, and reconciliation tooling on a monthly retainer.

For

Live brands past launch who want one steady partner for ecommerce engineering

  • Storefront performance ownership
  • Checkout & BNPL maintenance
  • COD & 3PL reconciliation
  • Monitoring & on-call
Monthly retainer, reviewed every quarter
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Small decisions, big impact

The choices that survive peak day.

Ecommerce platforms live or die by a few decisions made early. We focus there and leave clever for the recommendations layer.

01
Idempotent order creation

Checkout retries, double-clicks, and webhook re-deliveries all converge to one order. Duplicate charges and orphaned inventory holds disappear.

02
Inventory reservation under load

Stock is reserved at add-to-cart with short TTLs and released cleanly on abandonment. No overselling on flash sales, no phantom stock.

03
COD reconciles continuously

Cash collected by 3PL, returns, refunds, and exchanges all match back to orders in real time. Finance stops chasing spreadsheets on Sundays.

How an engagement runs

From first call to live on the storefront.

Week 1
Listen & learn

Walk the warehouse, sit with customer service, read the Shopify reports, look at the abandoned-cart funnel. We listen for what breaks on Ramadan eve.

Week 2
Written plan

Milestones, risks, and what we would do first. Including the work we would recommend you do not do this quarter.

Week 3
We start shipping

Our senior pod is in your repos shipping production features. Your team owns the merges, we own the cadence.

Quarterly
Outcome reviews

Measured against the outcomes we agreed on. The people who start with you are the same people in month six.

What our ecommerce clients say
SKIMBOX rebuilt our storefront and wired Tabby into checkout in one quarter. Our conversion jumped 41% on Arabic traffic, and COD reconciliation went from three days to live.
RG
Head of Digital
Retail Group ยท Dubai
+41%
Arabic traffic conversion

After rebuilding the storefront RTL-first with native Arabic search.

3d โ†’ live
COD reconciliation

Cash matching is now continuous, not a Monday-morning report.

0.8s
p95 PDP load

From 3.4s on the old Shopify theme to 0.8s on the headless storefront.

FAQ

The questions we hear most often.

Depends on your roadmap. Shopify Plus is fast to ship and fine for most brands under 50M AED revenue. Once you hit limits on checkout, B2B, or international pricing, headless makes sense. We tell you honestly during scoping, not after we've already started building.

Currently taking new clients ยท 2026 Q3

Talk to a senior engineer, not a salesperson.

Tell us what is breaking at checkout, what is stuck in the warehouse, and what your finance team is bracing for at month-end. Written plan in two weeks, or an honest 'we are not the right team'.