We engineer custom websites and scalable web applications for UAE enterprises. Native UAE payment gateways, 5% VAT architecture, Arabic RTL support, and full source code ownership from day one.
Engineers delivering directly to Dubai and the GCC with zero agency markup. The same enterprise build without Business Bay overhead.
From fast-growing D2C powerhouses to venture-backed SaaS platforms—we engineer custom digital products built to rank and convert.
We hold our UAE deployments to strict technical benchmarks. No sluggish plugin chains, no offshore lag, and zero runtime compromise.
Direct Vercel & AWS me-central-1 edge deployments delivering sub-second load across Dubai and the GCC.
Full repository transfer, zero proprietary agency themes, and complete independence from day one.
Automated UAE FTA tax calculation engine and Peppol e-invoicing data architecture built-in.
Rigorous Core Web Vitals engineering ensuring fast mobile conversion across UAE 5G networks.
Engineered Next.js systems built for Gulf commerce, real transaction load, and flawless regional performance. No off-the-shelf page builders, no rented themes.
High-performance Next.js builds for UAE enterprises that have outgrown WordPress.
Server-rendered, sub-second load times on UAE 5G networks, semantic HTML, and structured schema markup from day one. Your marketing team gets a headless CMS they can actually use; your developers get a repository they fully own.
Engineered specifically for the UAE: Telr, Tap, Checkout.com & 5% VAT.
Sub-second checkout pipelines with 3D Secure 2.2, automated 5% FTA VAT invoice generation, Arabic RTL catalogues, and local carrier shipping sync. Headless Next.js architecture built to convert without platform transaction markups.
Multi-tenant platforms, portals, and booking systems built in-house.
Role-based access control, subscription billing, custom admin dashboards, and an architecture that doesn't need rewriting when you scale across the GCC. Delivered from kickoff to live MVP in 6 to 8 weeks.
The technical search optimization most agencies cannot do, because it lives in code.
Edge caching, Core Web Vitals optimization, rendering strategy, hreflang for English/Arabic, and safe migrations off WordPress or Drupal without losing rankings in Google UAE.
Dubai has no shortage of web development companies. It has a shortage of ones that will tell you what your project actually costs and then hand you the code.
We are not in Dubai. If your project genuinely requires weekly in-person workshops, hire a local firm — we will say so on the first call rather than after you have signed. Most projects do not require this, and we will be straight with you about which yours is.
Most agency pages say they understand the UAE market. Here is the specific technical work that phrase should cover — and the questions to ask any agency claiming it.
Gateway choice is a financial decision that gets treated as a technical one. The difference between a 2.4% and a 2.9% rate on AED 2 million of annual volume is AED 10,000 a year. Settlement timing affects your working capital just as much.
| Gateway | UAE card | International | Settlement | Local methods |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Network International | 2.4–2.9% + AED 1 | 3.4–3.9% + AED 1 | T+1 to T+2 | Mada, Apple Pay |
| Tap Payments | 2.75% | 3.25% + FX | T+1 | Mada, KNET, Apple Pay, Google Pay |
| Telr | 2.49% + AED 0.50 | 3.49% + AED 0.50 | T+2 to T+3 | Mada, Apple Pay, Tabby |
| PayTabs | 2.85% + AED 0.27 | 3.5% + AED 1 | T+2 to T+3 | Mada, KNET, Apple Pay, Tabby |
| Checkout.com | 2.9% + fixed (enterprise: interchange + 0.10–0.40%) | Custom | T+2 | Mada (enterprise), Apple Pay |
| Stripe | 2.9% + AED 1 | 3.9% + AED 1 | T+2 | Apple Pay, Google Pay — no Mada |
| Mamo Business | 2.9% + AED 1, or 1.9% on AED 399/mo | 3.2% + AED 0.80 | T+1 | Apple Pay; Tabby at 6.9% + AED 1 |
Rates as published September 2026. Verify current pricing before committing.
Two things this table makes obvious. Stripe is the default developers reach for and it does not support Mada — if you sell to Saudi customers, that is a meaningful share of checkout abandonment you will never see in your analytics. If your average order value is high, the AED 399/month Mamo plan at 1.9% beats every percentage-only option above roughly AED 40,000 monthly volume.
UAE VAT is 5%. Registration is mandatory once taxable supplies and imports exceed AED 375,000 over a rolling 12-month period, and voluntary from AED 187,500. Non-resident businesses making taxable sales into the UAE must register immediately, regardless of volume.
For a web build this means VAT cannot be a display setting. It has to be stored per line item, per tax rate, with the rate at time of transaction retained — because a refund issued next year must use the rate that applied at purchase, not today’s. Getting this wrong is invisible until your first audit or your first cross-border sale.
The UAE is rolling out mandatory e-invoicing, and the timeline is closer than most businesses realise.
Voluntary pilot phase
Jul – Dec 2026
Running nowASP appointment deadline, Phase 1
30 Oct 2026
CriticalPhase 1 mandatory — revenue AED 50m+
1 Jan 2027
ASP appointment deadline, Phase 2
31 Mar 2027
Phase 2 mandatory — all remaining in-scope
1 Jul 2027
Framework
Peppol-based — the FTA’s five-corner DCTCE model. Invoices must be issued as structured XML (PINT-AE or UBL), transmitted in real time through an FTA-accredited service provider to both the recipient and the FTA, and retained for five years. PDF and paper invoices become invalid.
Penalties
Why this belongs on a web development page: if we are building your marketplace, SaaS product, B2B portal or any system that issues invoices, that system has to emit compliant structured XML through an accredited provider. Building it now costs a fraction of retrofitting it in 2027. Not one competing agency page in this search result mentions any of this.
Confirm current requirements with the FTA or your tax advisor — we build to the spec, we do not give tax advice.
Right-to-left is not a stylesheet flip. It is mirrored layout logic, correct Arabic typography with fonts that render numerals and diacritics properly, bidirectional text handling where Arabic and Latin mix in one string, locale-aware date and currency formatting, and hreflang set up so Google serves the right language version. We build Arabic support into the routing and component layer from the start when you need it. Retrofitting it later means touching every component you have.
نبني تطبيقات ويب مخصصة
Our builds average 90+ on Lighthouse. That number matters more in the Gulf than in Europe, because a meaningful share of UAE traffic arrives on mobile over networks where a 4MB JavaScript bundle is the difference between a sale and a bounce. We host on infrastructure with edge presence near the region rather than defaulting to a US-East server and hoping. Where data residency is a contractual requirement — common in government-adjacent and healthcare work — we will tell you what that costs before you commit.
Lighthouse
94
Bundle
< 200KB
Edge PoP
Region-near
Residency
On request
Most agencies in this market will not publish a number. We will. Fixed-price contracts in AED. The number in the proposal is the exact number you pay.
Included in every build
Responsive across devices · Technical SEO foundations · Analytics configuration · 30 days of post-launch warranty · Full source code and IP transfer
Market context
The Dubai agency currently ranking first for this search publishes AED 11,000 for a 5-page CMS site, AED 22,000 for 10 pages and AED 33,000 for 15 - built on WordPress. We deliver enterprise Next.js architectures for comparable cost.
The objection is legitimate, so here is the honest answer rather than a reassurance.
Discovery call, 30 minutes.
You describe the problem. We ask about constraints, integrations and what success looks like. If your budget does not match your scope, you hear it on this call.
Proposal.
Fixed price, fixed timeline, explicit scope, and a written list of what is not included.
Architecture.
Stack, hosting, payment gateway and data model decided and documented before anyone writes a component.
Build.
Staging from week one. Weekly demos.
Testing.
Performance, accessibility, cross-browser, payment flows against real sandbox transactions, structured data validation.
Launch and handover.
Repository transfer, documentation, 30 days of included support.
Real client deployments with complex commerce logic, multi-vendor catalogues, and multi-tenant architectures handling live transaction volume.
Multi-vendor marketplace
Vendor onboarding, split payments across independent sellers, inventory sync, and search that stays fast as the catalogue grows. The hardest architecture we have shipped.
12ms Search · Split Payouts
Read the case studyE-commerce · multi-carrier shipping
A Next.js 15 storefront with three shipping providers behind one checkout. Directly relevant if you are selling physical goods into the GCC.
Sub-800ms TTFB · 3 Carriers
Read the case studyMulti-tenant SaaS platform
HR-as-a-service with isolated workspaces per customer and role-based admin panels.
Multi-Tenant · RBAC Isolation
Read the case studyLuxury Real Estate Showcase
Flagship Next.js architectural platform with interactive masterplans and sub-second CDN image delivery.
Interactive Plans · Edge CDN
Read the case studyA fair share of Dubai’s market runs on WordPress, so this deserves a straight answer rather than a sales line.
Performance
That gap is Core Web Vitals, and Core Web Vitals is a ranking factor.
Next.js build
Next.js builds average 90+ on Lighthouse.
WordPress
Plugin-heavy WordPress sites routinely land in the 40–60 range.
Security surface
Each is an independently maintained dependency with its own update cadence and abandonment risk.
Next.js build
The dependencies you chose, and nothing else.
WordPress
A typical WordPress site runs 15–30 third-party plugins.
Three-year cost
Over three years this frequently exceeds the difference in build price.
Next.js build
Managed hosting sized for a static bundle.
WordPress
Premium plugin licences, PHP-priced hosting, security monitoring, and developer hours every time an update breaks something.
If your team needs to restructure pages weekly without a developer, WordPress does that better. If your budget is genuinely under AED 10,000, WordPress is the right call and we will tell you so. We are not the cheapest option in Dubai and we do not pretend to be.
Four of the top ten results for this search are listicles that rank agencies without publishing a single criterion. Here is a checklist you can actually apply — to us as much as to anyone else.
Who owns the code?
If the answer involves a licence, a proprietary builder or an ongoing fee to keep the site live, you are renting.
Ask for a Lighthouse score on a site they built.
Not a promise — a live URL you can test yourself in thirty seconds. Most cannot produce one.
Which payment gateway would they recommend, and why?
If the answer is not about rates, settlement timing and Mada support, they have not thought about your economics.
What happens after launch?
Support period, response times, who fixes a production bug at 9pm.
Ask for a fixed price.
Time-and-materials on a defined scope transfers all estimation risk to you.
Ask who you will actually talk to.
Sales engineer on the pitch, junior developer on the build is the most common pattern in this market.
Ask about e-invoicing.
If the project involves B2B invoicing and they have no answer, they are not tracking UAE regulation.
Check the stack against your five-year plan.
A platform that fits today and blocks you in year two is a costly saving.
Answers regarding UAE payment gateways, 5% VAT architecture, full code ownership, and remote delivery.
Send us the problem, not a rigid specification. We will evaluate the technical requirements, calculate a fixed-price AED quote, and confirm feasibility within 12 Gulf business hours.