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Qanat

We build e-commerce platforms in the UAE

Building e-commerce platforms in the UAE

Qanat builds and rescues e-commerce for UAE businesses — B2B ordering portals, custom storefronts, marketplace platforms. B2B ordering, with its customer price lists, credit limits and approval chains, is where off-the-shelf platforms stop fitting and workarounds start costing more than a build.

Get a fixed quoteEstimate the cost yourself first
Scope
Written

Before anything is quoted

Price
Fixed

Agreed before we start

Held back
20%

Until you accept

Code
Yours

From the first commit

Scope

What a build of this kind actually contains.

Everything below is inside the quoted price. The items agencies leave out of a cheap quote — admin tooling, error states, deployment, handover — are the ones you end up paying for anyway.

  1. 01

    Customer-specific pricing, credit limits and approval flows for B2B

  2. 02

    UAE payment gateways and VAT handling done correctly

  3. 03

    Delivery and logistics integration

  4. 04

    Performance work, because catalogue pages decide conversion

  5. 05

    Migration from the existing platform without losing order history

What we build it with

  • Next.js
  • Medusa
  • Shopify
  • PostgreSQL
  • Stripe
  • Network International

How this goes wrong

The failure mode we see most often.

Forcing a B2C platform to do B2B. Per-customer price lists, credit terms and multi-step approvals are where Shopify stops being cheap and starts being expensive in workarounds.

What it costs

We do not publish a rate card, and you should distrust anyone who does.

The price of e-commerce platforms is decided by scope, not by category. Two projects with the same label routinely differ by a factor of five, and a number quoted before anyone has read your requirements is a guess dressed as a quote.

What we commit to is this: one price, written against a scope you have read and agreed, fixed before work starts. If we estimated badly that is our problem, not a change request.

If you need a budget figure first

Our UAE software cost guide publishes what the market charges, with every figure sourced. That is researched market data for budgeting — not our price list, and not a quote.

Often built alongside

Same build, elsewhere

Questions

E-commerce Development in the UAE

Shopify or custom?

Shopify for straightforward retail — we will happily build on it. Custom when the business runs on account-specific pricing, credit limits or approval chains, because that is precisely where platform workarounds start costing more than a build.

How long does it take to build e-commerce platforms in the UAE?

It depends on the scope, and any studio quoting you a duration before reading your requirements is guessing. We commit to a specific date in the quote, once the scope is written, and you see the software running well before that date rather than at the end.

Start here

Building e-commerce platforms? Tell us what it has to do.

A scope call, then a written scope and one fixed price against it. 20% of that price is held back until you accept the finished build, and the scope is yours to take elsewhere either way.

Who reads it
Alexandre Arnaud, Founder & Engineer. Not a coordinator, not an inbox.
What happens
A 20-minute call to pin the outcome, then a written scope and one fixed price against it.
What it costs
Nothing to get scoped and quoted. The quote is free and the scope is yours to take elsewhere.

The quote is free and the scope is yours either way.