Shopify Plus agency · United Arab Emirates
Shopify agency in the UAE: we design, build and grow Shopify and Shopify Plus stores for UAE brands.
We’re the Shopify Plus agency UAE brands hire when they have outgrown a templated theme: senior-only engineering for retail, DTC, B2B and wholesale teams across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, delivered remotely with calls in Dubai Time.
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What we do in the UAE
What we build for UAE brands
Five services, scoped for the traffic swings UAE stores see — Ramadan, the Dubai Shopping Festival and White Friday — plus the retention and lifecycle work that keeps a UAE store growing after launch, delivered by the same team.
Build and move4
Ecommerce development
Pixel-perfect custom Shopify storefronts for UAE DTC, retail and service-commerce brands — checkout logic, B2B portals, integrations and automation, engineered for the traffic you actually get.
See the service pagePlatform migration
Move onto Shopify without losing data, SEO or order history. The URL map is built first, source and destination are reconciled row by row, and cutover takes minutes, never a Friday.
See the service pageHeadless development
Hydrogen or Next.js on the Storefront API — sub-second load and full design freedom, with checkout, inventory and orders still on Shopify.
See the service pageApp development
Custom Shopify and Shopify Plus apps for UAE stores that need behaviour no public app delivers — private apps for internal workflows, public apps for the App Store.
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Grow revenue3
Conversion rate optimisation
A/B tests, PDP and checkout audits and heatmap-backed fixes that lift conversion from the traffic UAE stores already have. Audits from $1,800; only significant winners ship.
See the service pageEmail & SMS marketing
Klaviyo flows, campaigns and SMS built and run by the engineers who know your store, so lifecycle revenue is tracked as its own channel rather than guessed at.
See the serviceRetention & loyalty
Subscriptions, loyalty and the flows that turn a first order into a second — the work that decides whether a UAE store grows after launch or just replaces churn.
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Speed and AI search2
Speed optimisation
Core Web Vitals fixed in code, not with another speed app. Theme refactor, app and script cleanup, image pipeline — verified on real devices before the UAE’s sales days arrive.
See the service pageAgentic commerce
Get your UAE store found, quoted and bought from inside ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI and Perplexity — schema, feeds, agentic storefronts and AI revenue tracked as its own channel.
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How we work
A six-step process tuned for speed and zero surprises.
Weekly demos, a transparent board, senior engineers on every call — and kickoffs scheduled in Dubai Time.
Current Setup Audit
What you have, what you’re paying for, and which Plus-only features you’re not using.
Week 1Scope
We define exactly which capabilities to deploy, with a written scope and a fixed number.
Week 1–2Build Phase
Three to eight weeks per scope, with weekly demos and direct Slack access to your engineers.
Week 2–7Migration
Legacy checkout.liquid migrated to Checkout Extensions, with no loss of custom logic.
Week 6–7QA
Full device-matrix QA on Plus features in a staging environment before anything ships.
Week 7–8Launch
Go-live plus 30 days of post-launch monitoring, with a rollback plan on standby.
Week 6–7Proof
Real builds. Verified numbers.
Every number here is verified with the brand it belongs to.
Gene Juarez
The Zenoti booking integration most agencies declined — retail and salon booking unified on Shopify Plus.
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GetKif
Figma to fully custom Shopify theme: pixel-perfect, fast, and editable end-to-end from the Theme Customizer.
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PawGuard
A new DTC brand on a fully custom Shopify theme: buyer-led homepage filters and Shopify Markets from day one, live in July 2026 at a 1.4-second LCP.
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CocoLash
A Shopify storefront built from zero and grown for three years: ten lash styles on one content system, Subscribe & Save, +63% organic.
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True Glory Hair
A Shopify Plus build for a wig brand, then three years of development, CRO, Attentive retention and SEO: +27% repeat purchases.
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OuchieCap
A custom Shopify theme for an inventor-led children’s brand, twenty SEO articles and the OuchieSnuggles sub-brand: +22% revenue.
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Thirty minutes with the engineer who would scope your store, in Dubai Time.
Shopify agency in the UAE
A Shopify agency in the UAE for stores that are not on Plus yet.
Same engineers, same written scope, on Shopify or Shopify Plus.
Not every UAE brand that calls a Shopify agency is on Shopify Plus, and not every one should be. A store doing its first few million on standard Shopify gets the same senior engineers, the same written scope and the same fixed price as a Plus build: a custom theme instead of a customised one, a migration done with a redirect map, the speed fixed in code rather than with another app. When the numbers say Plus — checkout customisation, B2B, more than one market — we say so, and the Shopify Plus page works it out from your figures.
From Dubai to Sharjah, calls run in Dubai Time and the local facts that change a build — the UAE charges VAT at 5%; the peaks are Ramadan, the Dubai Shopping Festival and White Friday — are already in the scope. The pages below are the five services we run for UAE brands; the Shopify agency page has every service, the four ways an engagement starts — from a $1,500-a-month retainer up — and the four places to verify us.
Frequently asked questions.
Do you work with Shopify merchants based in the UAE?
Yes. We work with Shopify and Shopify Plus merchants across the UAE, including Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, remotely, with calls scheduled in Dubai Time. We travel for kickoff workshops and launch weeks when a project warrants it.
Which services do you offer in the UAE?
Shopify Plus development, custom ecommerce development, platform migration, conversion rate optimisation, speed optimisation, agentic commerce and AI visibility, headless development on Hydrogen or Next.js, and custom app development, each with its own service page. Everything else we do — retention, email and SMS, SEO and GEO, support — is delivered to UAE brands from the same team. Migrations, B2B, CRO, retention — is delivered to UAE brands the same way.
How much does Shopify Plus development cost?
It is scoped as one written number before any work starts, sized to the catalogue, the integrations and the migration rather than to a rate card — so a UAE brand doing its first million and a Plus brand with an ERP get very different figures for the same page. The smallest way in is a monthly retainer from $1,500; the packages page shows how larger builds are scoped, and what Shopify Plus agencies charge puts the market ranges beside them.
How long does a project take?
Eight weeks on average from kickoff to launch on Shopify Plus. Headless builds take 8–14 weeks, speed optimisation 3–5 weeks and agentic commerce setup 2–8 weeks. We tell you which category you are in during the audit, not after signing.
Can you handle UAE VAT and multi-location POS?
Yes. The UAE charges VAT at 5%; we configure Shopify’s tax settings or your existing provider for it and for the other countries you ship into, and connect POS locations so inventory, customers and orders stay unified across stores and online.
Will the store hold up during Ramadan, the Dubai Shopping Festival and White Friday?
That is what we build and test for. We load-test against your own peak rather than an average Tuesday, and speed work is verified on real devices and real networks before the season arrives.
Can you build multi-currency and multi-language storefronts?
Yes. Shopify Markets with localised domains, translated content, local currencies and duty handling — a genuinely local experience for every market you sell into, from one UAE store.
What happens after launch?
A monitored launch window, then most UAE clients move into a monthly retainer for development, CRO, lifecycle marketing, SEO and GEO, performance or support, with the same engineers who built the store. 92% of retainers renew.
Is Aqsa Shahzad a Shopify agency in the UAE or only a Shopify Plus agency?
Both. We are a Shopify agency — a Shopify Select Partner since March 2022, 5.0 in the Partner Directory — that builds on Shopify and on Shopify Plus for UAE brands in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. A standard-Shopify store gets the same engineers and the same written scope; Plus is recommended only when the store's numbers call for it. Engagements start from a $1,500-a-month retainer; the full service list and where to verify us are on the Shopify agency page.
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