E-commerce App Development
in Dubai
Burj Code builds high-converting iOS, Android and cross-platform shopping apps for Dubai retailers — AED checkout, Tabby & Tamara, Arabic-first UX, AI recommendations and headless commerce on Shopify or WooCommerce. 60+ commerce apps shipped across the UAE.
The #1 E-commerce App Development Company in Dubai, UAE
Dubai’s shoppers live on their phones. UAE e-commerce is worth over AED 28 billion and growing 18% a year, and the majority of that spend now happens in-app, not on desktop. A fast, beautiful shopping app is no longer optional for a Dubai retailer — it’s the storefront. E-commerce app development in Dubai is where Burj Code turns your catalogue into a conversion machine: sub-second product screens, one-tap AED checkout, Tabby and Tamara buy-now-pay-later, Apple Pay and Google Pay, Arabic-first RTL UX, and AI that recommends the right product at the right moment. We’ve shipped 60+ commerce apps across the UAE with a 4.9★ average rating.
We build native and cross-platform. Choose native iOS and Android for peak performance, or ship one codebase on React Native or Flutter to launch on both stores in half the time. And your app doesn’t live alone: we connect it to a headless e-commerce website, or plug straight into your existing Shopify or WooCommerce store, so inventory, orders and customers stay in one place across web and mobile.
Our e-commerce app development services in Dubai cover single-vendor stores, multi-vendor marketplaces, quick-commerce and grocery, fashion and beauty, electronics, and B2B ordering apps. Every build ships with a secure payments layer (PCI-DSS scope, UAE gateways), real-time inventory, push-driven re-engagement, and PDPL-compliant data residency on the AWS Middle East (UAE) region. Pricing is transparent in AED — from AED 60K for a Starter shopping app to AED 350K+ for an enterprise multi-vendor marketplace. Book a free consultation and we’ll scope your commerce app in 30 minutes.
Commerce apps
iOS · Android · headless
Mobile conversion
vs mobile web average
Average store rating
Across UAE clients
Weeks to launch
MVP to production
Four pillars of a high-converting shopping app
Speed & UX
Sub-second product screens, skeleton loading, one-tap reorder and a checkout that never drops the cart — Arabic RTL and English, native-fast.
UAE Payments
Apple Pay, Google Pay, cards, Tabby & Tamara BNPL and cash on delivery — PCI-DSS scope, AED settlement, saved cards and 3DS.
AI & Personalisation
Recommendation engines, visual & voice search, personalised feeds and AI chat support that lift average order value.
One Commerce Core
App, web and back office share one source of truth — inventory, orders, customers and promotions in perfect sync across every channel.
Eight e-commerce app services for Dubai
Single-Vendor Store App
A branded shopping app for your catalogue — search, cart, AED checkout, wishlists and order tracking.
Multi-Vendor Marketplace
A noon/Amazon-style marketplace — vendor onboarding, commissions, split payments and ratings.
Quick-Commerce & Grocery
10–30 minute delivery apps — dark stores, slot booking, live tracking and substitutions.
Headless Commerce
Native app on a headless backend — Shopify, WooCommerce, Medusa or custom via GraphQL.
Subscriptions & Reorder
Recurring billing, subscribe-and-save, one-tap reorder and loyalty tiers that retain shoppers.
B2B Ordering App
Wholesale ordering — account pricing, credit terms, bulk carts and approval workflows.
UI/UX & CRO
Conversion-focused design system with Arabic RTL, motion and A/B-tested checkout flows.
Maintenance & Growth
OS upgrades, ASO, crash monitoring and a growth retainer — from AED 8K/month.
Every module a commerce app needs
Search & Filters
Instant search, facets, sort, barcode scan
Cart & Checkout
Guest checkout, AED, saved cards, 3DS
Payments & BNPL
Tabby, Tamara, Apple/Google Pay, COD
Orders & Tracking
Live status, returns, reorder, invoices
Push & Re-engage
Abandoned-cart, price-drop, back-in-stock
Loyalty & Coupons
Points, tiers, referral, promo codes
Accounts & Wishlist
Profiles, addresses, wishlists, reviews
Admin & Analytics
Dashboard, catalog, funnels, cohorts
AI that sells inside your shopping app
We bake intelligence into every commerce app — from personalised feeds to AI support. Powered by our AI development team, with Claude and GPT-class models integrated natively.
Recommendation Engine
Personalised “you may also like”, frequently-bought-together and dynamic homepages that lift average order value 15–30%.
AI Shopping Assistant
A conversational chatbot that answers product questions, sizes, stock and returns in Arabic & English, 24/7.
Visual & Voice Search
Snap a photo or speak to search — computer-vision product matching and Arabic voice queries.
Dynamic Pricing & Demand
ML-driven price and promo optimisation, demand forecasting and smart stock alerts.
Fraud & Risk
Real-time fraud scoring on checkout and returns — fewer chargebacks, safer COD.
AI Agents & Automation
Autonomous AI agents that handle order triage, catalog enrichment and support workflows.
Don’t just ship it — make it sell
A great app is wasted if no one finds it. We pair every build with e-commerce growth — organic and paid — so your store ranks and your installs convert.
E-commerce SEO
Product-page & category SEO, schema markup and App Store Optimization (ASO) so shoppers find you on Google and the stores. Backed by our SEO agency and technical SEO teams — Core Web Vitals, crawlability and Arabic keywords.
E-commerce PPC
Google Shopping, Performance Max, Meta & TikTok catalog ads and app-install campaigns that hit target ROAS. Run by our PPC agency and SEM specialists — AED-efficient, conversion-tracked, retargeted.
One store, every channel
Your app is one surface of your store. We build the web side too — or connect to the platform you already run — so web and mobile share one catalogue, one cart and one customer.
Commerce apps for every Dubai vertical
Fashion & Apparel
Lookbooks, size guides, AR try-on
Beauty & Cosmetics
Shade match, subscriptions, samples
Electronics
Specs, comparisons, trade-in
Grocery & Q-commerce
Dark stores, slots, substitutions
Furniture & Home
AR placement, bulky logistics
Luxury & Jewellery
Concierge, white-glove delivery
Pharmacy
Rx upload, cold-chain, DoH
B2B Wholesale
Account pricing, bulk, net terms
Dubai’s commerce market by the numbers
AED 28B
UAE e-commerce market size
18%
Annual e-commerce growth
99%
Smartphone penetration
70%+
Of orders placed in-app
The stack behind our commerce apps
React Native / Flutter
One codebase, both stores
Swift / Kotlin
Native when performance matters
Node.js / NestJS
Commerce APIs & microservices
Shopify / Medusa
Headless commerce backends
WooCommerce
WordPress commerce APIs
Tabby / Tamara / Stripe
UAE payments & BNPL
AI / Claude / GPT
Recommendations & chat
AWS UAE Region
PDPL data residency
From catalogue to checkout in 6 steps
Discovery
Map catalogue, payments, logistics and a fixed 90-day roadmap.
UX & CRO Design
Figma system with Arabic RTL and A/B-tested checkout flows.
Development
Two-week sprints, commerce APIs, AI integrations, weekly builds.
Payments & QA
Sandbox payments, device matrix, security & PDPL review.
Launch & ASO
App Store + Play Store submission, ASO in EN/AR, first campaigns.
Grow
SEO, PPC, push, experiments and a monthly growth retainer.
Transparent commerce app pricing
Starter
A branded single-vendor shopping app.
AED 60,000
- iOS + Android (Flutter/RN)
- Up to 30 screens
- AED checkout + Tabby
- Shopify/Woo connect
- Push notifications
- 30 days support
- Delivery: 6–8 weeks
Business
Production app with AI & custom backend.
AED 150,000
- Native or cross-platform
- AI recommendations + chat
- Custom Node backend
- Loyalty + subscriptions
- Admin dashboard
- 90 days support + ASO
- Delivery: 10–12 weeks
Enterprise
Multi-vendor marketplace at scale.
AED 350,000+
- Marketplace + vendor apps
- Split payments + escrow
- Microservices + Kubernetes
- AI pricing & fraud
- Dedicated pod + 12-mo SLA
- SEO + PPC growth
- Delivery: 16–24 weeks
Real commerce apps. Real revenue
Fashion
Fashion Retailer
+3.4×
mobile conversion
A branded shopping app on React Native with AI size-match and Tabby BNPL — mobile conversion rose 3.4× vs the old mobile web, with 40% of revenue now in-app.
Q-commerce
Grocery Chain
22 min
avg delivery
A dark-store grocery app with slot booking, substitutions and live tracking — 22-minute average delivery across Dubai and a 4.8★ rating.
Marketplace
Electronics Marketplace
1,200
vendors onboarded
A multi-vendor marketplace with split payments, vendor apps and AI fraud scoring — 1,200 vendors live and −41% chargebacks.
Beauty
Beauty Brand
+28%
repeat rate
A subscribe-and-save beauty app with a Claude-powered shopping assistant — repeat purchase rate up 28% and support tickets down 35%.
What Dubai retailers say
“Our new app does 40% of revenue and converts 3× better than mobile web. The AI recommendations alone paid for the build.”
Founder
Dubai Fashion Retailer
“Burj Code connected our Shopify store to a native app in 8 weeks — one inventory, zero drama. Tabby integration was flawless.”
Head of Digital
Beauty Brand
“The marketplace scaled to 1,200 vendors without a hitch. Split payments and AI fraud scoring saved us a fortune in chargebacks.”
CTO
Electronics Marketplace
“They didn’t just build the app — they ran the SEO and PPC that filled it. Installs and ROAS both beat target in month one.”
Marketing Director
Grocery Chain
E-commerce app development, answered
How much does e-commerce app development cost in Dubai?
A branded single-vendor shopping app from Burj Code starts at AED 60,000 (iOS + Android on Flutter or React Native, AED checkout, Tabby, push). A production app with AI recommendations and a custom backend is around AED 150,000, and a multi-vendor marketplace with split payments runs AED 350,000+. All pricing is fixed-scope in AED — no hourly surprises.
Can you connect the app to my existing Shopify or WooCommerce store?
Yes. We build native apps on a headless backend and connect straight to Shopify, WooCommerce, Medusa or a custom commerce API via GraphQL — so your inventory, orders, customers and promotions stay in one place across web and mobile. If you also need the web side, we build custom e-commerce websites and Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento stores.
Which UAE payment methods do you support?
Apple Pay, Google Pay, Visa/Mastercard, Tabby and Tamara buy-now-pay-later, cash on delivery, and UAE gateways like Telr, Network International, PayTabs and Checkout.com. All flows are PCI-DSS scope with AED settlement, saved cards, 3DS and refund automation.
What AI can you build into a shopping app?
Recommendation engines (you-may-also-like, frequently-bought-together, personalised feeds), an AI shopping assistant / chatbot in Arabic and English, visual and voice search, dynamic pricing and demand forecasting, and real-time fraud scoring. We integrate Claude and GPT-class models natively via our AI development team.
Do you help the app rank and get installs?
Yes — we pair the build with growth. Our SEO team handles product-page SEO, schema and App Store Optimization, and our PPC team runs Google Shopping, Performance Max, Meta and TikTok catalog ads and app-install campaigns tuned to your target ROAS. A great app that no one finds is wasted, so growth is built in from day one.
Native app, cross-platform, or PWA — which is best for commerce?
For most Dubai retailers, cross-platform (Flutter or React Native) is the sweet spot — one codebase, both stores, native performance, half the cost. Choose full native (Swift/Kotlin) for very heavy catalogues, AR try-on or peak performance. A PWA is a fast add-on for reach, but the app is where your best customers convert and re-order.
Is the app Arabic-ready and PDPL-compliant?
Yes. Every commerce app is bilingual English + Arabic with true RTL layout mirroring, and PDPL-compliant with UAE data residency on the AWS Middle East (UAE) region, encryption and audit logging. Payment data is handled to PCI-DSS scope.
How long does it take to launch a commerce app?
A Starter shopping app ships in 6–8 weeks, a production app with AI and a custom backend in 10–12 weeks, and a multi-vendor marketplace in 16–24 weeks. We work in two-week sprints with weekly TestFlight and Play builds, so you see progress every fortnight.
Let’s build your commerce app
Tell us about your store. We’ll scope your app in 30 minutes and send a fixed-price AED quote within 24 hours.