Shopify stores

Open in days, with no server to look after — and know the fee before you commit.

Shopify is the fastest way to a working store. It hosts, updates and secures itself, and your team can run it from a phone. The cost of that convenience in Egypt is real and specific: a monthly plan, plus an extra fee on every single order, because Shopify Payments is not available here.

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Built for Egypt and the Gulf · Arabic and English · a written speed target on every build

It fits you if

You need to be selling in weeks, not months.
Nobody in the company wants to think about hosting, updates or backups.
Your catalogue and rules are standard: products, variants, delivery zones, discounts.
You would rather pay a percentage than carry a technical team.

It is the wrong answer if

Your margins make a 1 to 2% fee per order painful at your volume.
Your checkout has to do something Shopify does not allow below the Plus plan.
Your pricing depends on the customer, the quantity or your ERP.

Shopify stores

What Shopify does well here

Live quickly

A well-scoped store opens in one to three weeks, including catalogue, payments and couriers.

Nothing to maintain

No updates, no hosting, no security patching. Black Friday traffic is Shopify's problem, not yours.

Run it from a phone

Staff can fulfil orders, refund and edit products from the app, which suits a team that is not at a desk.

Apps for the rest

Couriers, reviews, loyalty, WhatsApp: most of what a store needs exists as an app you switch on.

Arabic themes that work

We pick and adapt themes that handle right-to-left properly, and we test Arabic on a real phone before launch.

A clean exit

Products, customers and orders export. If you outgrow it, we move you to WooCommerce or a custom build without losing history.

The honest part

Shopify Payments does not operate in Egypt, so Egyptian stores connect an external gateway such as Paymob — and Shopify charges an extra fee on every order for that: 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced. That is on top of the gateway's own rate and on top of the monthly plan. On a store taking 500,000 EGP a month on the Basic plan, the extra fee alone is around 10,000 EGP a month. Anyone selling you Shopify without showing you that number is not on your side.

SportStuff

A store we built on this platform

From the home page to the product page, live today. Hover, or tap on your phone, to scroll it.

SportStuff — Home page — **SportStuff**Home page Visit the store

SportStuff — Shop page — **SportStuff**Shop page Visit the store

SportStuff — Product page — **SportStuff**Product page Visit the store

In every build

The same twelve things, whichever route you take

Payments that settle

Paymob or Fawry connected and tested with a real card, a real wallet and a real refund before launch, not after.

Cash on delivery, reconciled

COD orders marked, collected and matched against the courier's remittance, so the money that comes back is the money you are owed.

Shipping wired in

Bosta, Mylerz or Aramex connected so a confirmed order prints a label and gives the customer a tracking link.

Arabic that reads properly

Right-to-left done at the layout level, not bolted on: prices, forms, filters, invoices and emails.

A written speed target

90 or more on desktop and 75 or more on mobile PageSpeed, measured before and after, the same target as our speed service.

Product data done once

Your catalogue imported, categorised and de-duplicated, with the images resized and converted so the store is not carrying 40 MB pages.

Checkout that does not leak

Fewest fields that still work, guest checkout, saved addresses, clear delivery cost, and WhatsApp confirmation on every order.

Tracking you can trust

GA4, Meta and TikTok pixels with server-side events, so what your ad manager reports and what the store took actually match.

Search that finds things

Search and filters tuned to how your customers type, in Arabic and English, including the misspellings.

Security from day one

HTTPS, hardened admin, tested backups off the server, and the same monitoring we put on every site we look after.

Your team trained

Two sessions recorded in your language: adding products, handling orders, refunds, and what to do on a bad day.

Everything in your name

Domain, hosting, payment and shipping accounts, and every login registered to your company. We hold copies, not the keys.

WooCommerce, Shopify or custom

Compare the three

Same table on every page, so you can decide without a sales call.

WooCommerce, Shopify or custom	WooCommerce	Shopify	Custom
Our price, from	35,000 EGP	30,000 EGP	90,000 EGP
Time to open	3 to 6 weeks	1 to 3 weeks	8 weeks and up
Who owns the code	You	Shopify hosts it; you own the content	You
Fee per order to the platform	None	2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced, on top of the gateway	None
Monthly platform cost	Hosting only	$39 Basic, $105 Grow, $399 Advanced	Hosting only
Arabic and RTL	Full	Good, with limits in some themes and apps	Full
Deep changes to checkout	Yes	Limited unless you are on Plus	Yes
Talking to your ERP or stock	Yes, with work	Through apps, within their limits	Built for it
Who keeps it updated	You, or us on a plan	Shopify	You, or us on a plan

Shopify plan prices and the extra fee on external gateways are Shopify's own published figures, checked in September 2026. The fee applies in Egypt because Shopify Payments is not available here, so every store uses an external gateway such as Paymob.

Five stages, and you see the store at every one

01
Scope in writing
Your catalogue, your rules, your couriers, your payment methods. Written down and agreed before anything is built, so the quote and the store are the same thing.
02
Design on your products
The layout is drawn with your real products and real prices, not filler. You approve screens, not adjectives.
03
Build and connect
Store built, catalogue in, payments and shipping connected in test mode, Arabic and English side by side.
04
Test with real money
We place real orders end to end: card, wallet, cash on delivery, a refund and a return. Nothing launches on an untested gateway.
05
Launch and watch
We stay on it for the first weeks, watch the orders and the speed, and fix what real traffic finds.

Packages

Three packages, fixed scope, fixed price

Every package is a written scope: what is designed, how many products we upload, which payments and couriers are connected, and what you get after launch. Anything outside it is quoted as an add-on before we start, not discovered later.

Launch

30,000 EGP

≈ $580

Best for: A new brand that wants to be selling in two weeks
Delivered in: 2 weeks
Shopify plan: Shopify Basic

Included

Store set up on your own Shopify account: domain, checkout, taxes, notifications
Premium theme customised to your logo, colours and fonts
Home, collection, product, cart, about, contact and your policy pages
30 products uploaded with their variants
One language: Arabic or English
Paymob cards and wallets, plus cash on delivery
Shipping zones and flat rates per governorate
SEO basics, Search Console, GA4, Meta Pixel, WhatsApp button, branded emails
2 rounds of revisions, one training session, 30 days of support

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Growth

55,000 EGP

≈ $1,060

Best for: An established shop with 100+ products
Delivered in: 5 weeks
Shopify plan: Shopify Grow

Included

Custom interface designed in Figma, then applied to the theme
150 products uploaded with swatches and filters
Arabic and English through Shopify Markets, with a switcher
valU, Fawry and Meeza through Paymob
Bosta connected: shipments and tracking from the order
WhatsApp order notifications to customers
Abandoned-cart recovery, discount codes, upsell and cross-sell
Facebook, Instagram and Google sales channels connected
App audit and image work so the theme stays fast
8 hours of custom development
3 revision rounds, 2 training sessions with a recorded guide, 60 days of support

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Scale

from 100,000 EGP

≈ $1,930

Best for: High volume, B2B, or selling into the Gulf
Delivered in: 8 weeks
Shopify plan: Shopify Advanced

Included

Custom theme sections written in Liquid: up to 12 templates and campaign pages
500 products, or a bulk import from CSV
Multi-currency and extra markets for Gulf buyers, with a regional gateway
One business module: wholesale pricing, subscriptions or bundles
One system integration: ERP, POS or inventory
Loyalty programme, product reviews, email and SMS flows
Server-side tracking, structured data, SEO copy for your top 10 collections
30 hours of custom development
4 revision rounds, 3 training sessions with an admin manual, 90 days of support

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USD figures are today's conversion of the Egyptian pound price (1 USD = 51.8 EGP, 28 September 2026). Quotes are issued in Egyptian pounds and exclude VAT.

How the money and the scope work

Payment: 50% to start, 30% at design or staging approval, 20% at launch. The store goes live after the final payment.
The clock starts: When the deposit is paid and we have your logo, brand files, product data and photos. It pauses while we wait on content or approvals.
Revisions: Counted per round of consolidated feedback. Changes outside the approved scope are quoted before they are built.
You provide: Product names, prices, descriptions and photos, your policies, and the accounts for Paymob, the courier and Meta Business.
Not included: Domain, hosting and platform fees, gateway transaction fees, WhatsApp platform fees, paid licences beyond the standard stack, product photography and ad management.
Ownership: The store, the content and the domain are yours once the invoice is settled. We keep admin access only while support is running.
Validity: Prices hold for 30 days from the quote and exclude 14% VAT.

What you pay the platform, not us

Plan	Monthly	Billed yearly	Extra fee per order
Basic	$39	$29	2%
Grow	$105	$79	1%
Advanced	$399	$299	0.6%

Shopify's own published prices, checked 29 September 2026. The extra fee applies to every order because Egyptian stores take cards through an external gateway such as Paymob, and it is charged on top of the gateway's own rate. Paid apps and a premium theme licence are also yours, and we list the exact ones in your quote.

Platform costs — Shopify's monthly plan, hosting for WooCommerce, gateway and courier fees — are yours and are always separate from our fee. We tell you the real monthly number before you commit to a platform.

We do not mark these up and we do not take commission on them. They are listed so the monthly number is on the table before you choose a platform.

Proof

Stores we built and still look after

Coffee, sportswear, supplements, electronics and a multi-vendor marketplace, in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Some are named here; others prefer not to be.

Before you ask

The questions every store owner asks

Which platform will you recommend?

Whichever one your answers point to. We have no reseller deal with anyone: we do not take commission from Shopify, from a host, or from a payment gateway. If Shopify is the right answer for you, we will say so and build it there.

Can you move my existing store to another platform?

Yes, and it is a normal project: products, customers, orders, URLs and search rankings all move, and the old addresses redirect so you do not lose what you already rank for.

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Do you handle the payment gateway paperwork?

We prepare the technical side and hand you the checklist for the commercial side. The merchant account is a contract between you and Paymob or Fawry; nobody can sign that for you.

What about cash on delivery?

It is treated as a payment method with its own workflow: confirmation call or WhatsApp, courier remittance, and a reconciliation report that tells you what is still out with the couriers.

Who owns the store when we are done?

You do, on every route. Domain, hosting, accounts, code. Our handover is not a favour, it is the last stage of the project.

How we work

Do you keep working on it after launch?

Most stores stay on a yearly support plan, because a store that takes money should not go a month without someone watching it. It is optional, and the plans are published.

See the support plans

Where to go next

See the support plans Yearly technical support: tested updates, security, backups and a monthly report. See the speed packages 90+ desktop and 75+ mobile PageSpeed, in writing, priced by the size of the site. Speed, SEO and tracking The three pieces of work that bring customers in and show which ad brought them.

Tell us what you want to build.

A website, a mobile app, a CRM or an ERP: tell us what you have in mind and we'll come back with a plan, a timeline and a price. Thirty minutes is enough to tell whether we're the right team.

What do you want to build?

Website Mobile app CRM ERP

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Open in days, with no server to look after — and know the fee before you commit.

It fits you if

It is the wrong answer if

What Shopify does well here

Live quickly

Nothing to maintain

Run it from a phone

Apps for the rest

Arabic themes that work

A clean exit

A store we built on this platform

The same twelve things, whichever route you take

Payments that settle

Cash on delivery, reconciled

Shipping wired in

Arabic that reads properly

A written speed target

Product data done once

Checkout that does not leak

Tracking you can trust

Search that finds things

Security from day one

Your team trained

Everything in your name

Compare the three

Five stages, and you see the store at every one

Scope in writing

Design on your products

Build and connect

Test with real money

Launch and watch

Three packages, fixed scope, fixed price

Launch

Growth

Scale

How the money and the scope work

What you pay the platform, not us

Stores we built and still look after

The questions every store owner asks

Tell us what you want to build.