Services / E-Commerce
Online stores that keep your margin
A custom shop for Lebanese and UAE retail brands. Product pages that load instantly, a checkout built to convert, and no monthly platform fee taking a cut of every sale you make.
The subscription problem
Hosted store platforms are genuinely good at getting you live quickly. What they are also good at is charging you every month forever, and taking a percentage on top if you do not use their preferred payment processor. For a shop doing modest volume that is tolerable. For one that grows, it becomes the largest fixed cost in the business, and it never stops.
A custom store is a one-time build. You still pay for hosting and for whatever payment provider you choose, which are unavoidable and which you own directly, but there is no platform in the middle billing you for the privilege of running your own shop.
Built for how people here actually buy
Retail in Lebanon and the Gulf does not behave like retail in a case study. A meaningful share of customers browse on a phone with an unreliable connection, decide over WhatsApp, and want to pay in a way the platform templates rarely put first. Cash on delivery is not a legacy edge case here.
So the store is built around that. Product pages that appear immediately rather than after a spinner. A checkout that does not demand an account before it will tell you the total. Local payment methods alongside international cards, so you are not turning away the customer standing in front of you.
Product pages Google can read
Most store traffic does not arrive at your homepage. It arrives at one product, from a search for that product. That makes each product page a landing page, and most templated stores treat them as an afterthought: duplicate titles, no descriptions, no structured data.
Every product page we build carries its own title, its own description and product structured data, so a search engine can show the price and availability directly in the result. That is the difference between being listed and being clicked.
What is included
- A custom shop designed around your catalogue, not a template
- Product pages that load instantly and are individually searchable
- Cart and checkout built to convert, with no forced account creation
- Local and international payment methods
- Stock, orders and customers managed in one place
- Arabic and English storefronts, mirrored properly
- Product structured data, so prices can appear in search results
What it costs
Custom stores start at $2,500, the Commerce tier, and that is a one-time project fee, not a subscription. The exact figure depends on catalogue size, how many payment methods you need and whether stock has to sync with something you already run. It is agreed before work starts and written into the contract.
If your catalogue is small and you need to be selling next week, a hosted platform is honestly the better call, and we will say so.
Tell us what you sell
How many products, which payment methods, and who buys them. You will get an honest answer within one working day on what a custom store would cost you, and whether it beats staying on a platform.