Custom theme builds
Editable Liquid sections your team controls.
Shopify Partner Registered · UAE Shopify stores built for the Gulf,
Shopify stores built for the Gulf,
with the books already done.
Shopify and Shopify Plus stores for UAE and GCC merchants — with every order posted straight into your accounts.
- Registered Shopify Partner
- UAE-based team
- Arabic & RTL builds
- Your store, your code
Quick answer
What does a Shopify agency do?
A Shopify agency designs, builds and runs online stores on Shopify for local merchants. At ZaadCore that means custom themes, Shopify Plus checkout work, headless Hydrogen builds, migrations from WooCommerce, Magento, Salla or Zid, and the GCC-specific setup — cash on delivery, Tabby and Tamara, Arabic, courier and VAT — plus order sync into ZaadBooks.
- Platforms
- Shopify, Shopify Plus, Hydrogen
- Typical build
- 4–12 weeks, depending on scope
- Engagement
- Fixed price per phase, then optional retainer
- Languages
- English and Arabic (RTL)
- Region
- UAE, Saudi Arabia and the GCC
- Accounting
- Orders → ZaadBooks invoices with VAT
What we build Everything a Shopify store needs,
Everything a Shopify store needs,
from theme to ledger.
One piece or the whole build, at a fixed price.
Shopify Plus & checkout
Checkout extensions and Shopify Functions.
Headless with Hydrogen
React storefronts on Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Custom apps
Private apps for your own workflows.
Migrations
Data and URLs moved, rankings kept.
GCC payments
COD, Tabby, Tamara and Apple Pay.
Couriers & fulfilment
Rates, labels and live tracking.
Arabic & Markets
True RTL Arabic and multi-currency.
Speed & conversion
Fast mobile pages, fewer apps.
SEO & answer engines
Built to rank and be quoted by AI.
Built for the GCC Built for how
Built for how
the Gulf buys.
Local payments, language and tax — set up by default.
Cash on delivery
Still expected by many shoppers. Set up as a manual payment method with COD confirmation to cut failed deliveries.
Tabby & Tamara
Buy-now-pay-later from the region’s two main providers, installed and tested at checkout.
Arabic, properly
Right-to-left layouts, Arabic typography and translated checkout — not a machine-translated overlay.
Currencies
AED, SAR and the three-decimal dinars (KWD, BHD, OMR) handled through Shopify Markets with sensible rounding.
Local couriers
Aramex, SMSA and same-day local couriers connected for rates, labels and tracking.
VAT per country
5% in the UAE and Oman, 10% in Bahrain, 15% in Saudi Arabia, and none yet in Qatar or Kuwait.
Shopify × ZaadBooks Shopify connected
Shopify connected
to our accounting app.
ZaadBooks is our own accounting software. Your Shopify sales flow into it automatically.
ZaadBooks- Live
- Manual
- On the roadmap
- Order paid to Sales invoice: Every paid order becomes a VAT invoice. (Live)
- Refund to Credit note: Every refund becomes a credit note. (Live)
- Customer to Customer record: Customers are added automatically. (Live)
- Product to Inventory item: Products are added as stock items. (Live)
- Stock level to Shopify inventory: Send stock counts back to Shopify with one click. (Manual)
- Payout & fees to Bank reconciliation: Payout matching with your bank. Coming soon. (On the roadmap)
Migrations Move to Shopify
Move to Shopify
without losing a ranking.
Data, history and URLs move with you.
- Redirect map for every product, collection, page and post
- Order history imported against the right customers
- Delta import at cut-over, so no order falls in the gap
- Search Console watched for two weeks after launch
Industries Set up for what you sell,
Set up for what you sell,
not a generic template.
How we work From audit to launch,
From audit to launch,
in five visible steps.
- 01 1–2 weeks
Audit & plan
We review your current store or platform, apps, speed and data, then agree a written scope with a fixed price per phase.
- 02 1–3 weeks
Design
Key templates designed for mobile first, in English and Arabic, reviewed before any code is written.
- 03 2–6 weeks
Build
Theme sections, apps and integrations built against a development store loaded with your real products.
- 04 1–2 weeks
Migrate & test
Data moved, redirects mapped, and payments, COD, couriers and refunds tested end to end.
- 05 Ongoing
Launch & grow
Go-live with monitoring on the first orders, then optional retained work on speed and conversion.
Questions Shopify questions,
Shopify questions,
answered plainly.
How much does a Shopify store cost in the UAE?
It depends on scope, so we quote a fixed price per phase after a short audit. The main cost drivers are custom design versus a customised theme, the number of integrations, migration size, and whether you need Arabic and Shopify Plus features. Shopify’s own subscription and app fees are separate and paid to Shopify.
How long does it take to build a Shopify store?
A customised theme launch usually takes 4–6 weeks. A custom design with migration and integrations typically takes 8–12 weeks. Headless builds take longer. Phasing lets the store go live before every extra is finished.
Is ZaadCore an official Shopify Partner?
Yes. ZaadCore is a registered Shopify Partner, based in the UAE, building and supporting Shopify and Shopify Plus stores for merchants in the UAE and the GCC.
Can my Shopify store be in Arabic?
Yes. We build bilingual English and Arabic storefronts with right-to-left layouts, Arabic typography and translated checkout text, using Shopify’s native languages feature so each language has its own indexable URLs.
Can I offer cash on delivery and Tabby or Tamara on Shopify?
Yes. Cash on delivery is set up as a manual payment method, and Tabby and Tamara install as payment apps at checkout. We test each one end to end, including refunds and failed payments.
Will I lose Google rankings if I migrate to Shopify?
Not if the migration is planned. Every old URL is mapped to its new Shopify URL with a 301 redirect, metadata and content move with the products, and we check Search Console after launch for anything missed.
Registered Shopify Partner Written by the ZaadCore Commerce team
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Tell us about your store.
A 30-minute call gets you a fixed-price scope.