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.
- Starts at
- $2840, a one-time build fee with no platform fee on top
- Payments
- Local and international methods, including cash on delivery where you offer it
- Languages
- Arabic and English storefronts, two languages included
- Search
- Every product page with its own title, description and product structured data
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 costs you own directly, but there is no platform in the middle billing you for the privilege of running your own shop.
We do sell a hosting and maintenance plan, and it is worth being precise about how that is different. A platform fee is rent on software you cannot take with you: stop paying and the shop stops. Our plan is a service you can cancel, on a site you already own outright, and if you leave we help you move it to your own hosting at no charge. The distinction is whether the thing you paid to build is still yours the day you stop paying.
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 $2840, the Commerce plan, and that is a one-time build fee, not a subscription. It includes two languages and the storefront itself. 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.
The same price applies wherever you are, and the full breakdown, including extra languages and optional hosting, is on the pricing page. There is no extra-page charge on a store: how many pages a catalogue needs depends on how many products are in it, so it is counted in the quote rather than added on afterwards.
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.
Questions about online stores
How much does an online store cost?
Custom stores start at $2840 on The Commerce plan, as a one-time build fee. The exact figure depends on how many products you sell, which payment methods you need and whether stock has to sync with a system you already run, and it is agreed in writing before work starts.
Is there a monthly fee on a custom store?
There is no platform fee. You pay for hosting and for your payment provider directly, as you would anywhere. Our hosting and maintenance plan for a store is optional, from $115 a month, and if you cancel it we help you move the store to your own hosting at no charge.
Can customers pay cash on delivery?
Yes, if your business offers it. Cash on delivery sits alongside card payments and local methods at checkout, because in Lebanon and the Gulf it is how a real share of customers prefer to pay.
Can the store be in Arabic and English?
Yes. Two languages are included on The Commerce plan, and the whole storefront mirrors for Arabic, from the product grid to the checkout, set in typefaces made for Arabic.
Will my products show up on Google?
Each product page is built to be found: its own title, its own description and product structured data, so a search engine can show the price and availability in the result. Nobody can promise a ranking, but a product page Google can read is one it can list.
When is a hosted store platform the better choice?
When the catalogue is small and you need to be selling next week. A hosted platform gets you live quickly for a monthly fee, and in that situation it is honestly the right call. A custom store makes sense once the fees and the limits cost more than the build would.
Built on the same foundation
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.