E-commerce development
Online stores that handle cash on delivery, WhatsApp ordering and bilingual catalogs as normal requirements rather than awkward exceptions. Built so Google can read every product you sell.
Most e-commerce platforms assume a customer with a working credit card, a courier network that guarantees next-day delivery, and a shopper happy to complete a purchase without speaking to anyone. In Lebanon at least one of those assumptions usually fails. A store that treats cash on delivery as a legacy option and hides the WhatsApp number in the footer will lose orders it should have won.
Cash on delivery presented as a first-class choice, bank transfer with clear instructions, card processing where your bank supports it, and a WhatsApp route for high-value items where the buyer wants a conversation before committing.
Complete Product schema with price, availability, condition and identifiers on every item. This is what turns a plain link into a rich result with a price attached, and it is the single most common thing missing from stores we audit.
A category page with sixty products is where most stores collapse on mobile. Responsive images in WebP, correct lazy loading, explicit dimensions so nothing jumps, and caching set up for a catalog rather than a blog.
Right-to-left layout that genuinely works, product data in both languages, hreflang so the right version is served, and enough discipline to keep the catalog at parity rather than letting one language rot.
For higher-value goods the decision is trust, not price. Certificates, provenance, clear return terms, real photography and a visible human to talk to do more for conversion than another discount banner.
An admin you can use from your phone, bulk editing that does not take an afternoon, and inventory that reflects reality so you are not selling what you have already shipped.
One of our clients sells certified diamonds, which is close to the hardest version of this problem. Every item is unique, the price depends on four independent attributes, each stone carries certification that buyers check, and nobody spends that much money without a conversation first.
We built the catalog so each stone is a genuine product with its own structured data, certificate number and media, so search engines can index inventory that was previously invisible to them. The purchase path ends in a real conversation rather than a card form, because for that price point it always will. Forty-five stones went from unfindable to indexed with complete product markup.
Questions
Market rates for e-commerce in Lebanon run roughly $3,000 to $9,000 for a standard store, with custom platforms going higher. Our own range starts at $3,000 for a straightforward catalog and checkout and runs to around $12,000 for a store with custom logic, bilingual content and a large catalog. Details are on the pricing page.
We build for how Lebanon actually buys. That usually means cash on delivery as a first-class option rather than an afterthought, WhatsApp order completion for higher-value items where people want to talk first, bank transfer with clear instructions, and card processing through whichever gateway your bank supports when that is available. The checkout is designed around these being normal, not broken.
WooCommerce is right for most catalogs: it is well understood, you can manage products yourself, and the ecosystem covers most needs. A custom build makes sense when products are not really products, for example certified stones where each item is unique and carries documentation, or when the ordering logic does not fit a standard cart. We have built both and will tell you which one your catalog is.
That is a large part of the work. Every product gets complete Product schema with price, availability and identifiers, categories get a proper architecture instead of a flat list, and images get real filenames and alt text. On one catalog we wired 45 items end to end with certificate data included, which is what makes rich results possible rather than a plain blue link.
Yes, including right-to-left layout, Arabic product data, and hreflang so search engines serve the right version. The part people underestimate is content parity: an Arabic store with half the products described properly performs badly in both search and conversion, so we plan for the full catalog in both languages from the start.
Yes. Common problems we find are inventory that search engines cannot see, empty or duplicated product schema, catalog pages that load in eight seconds on mobile, and checkouts that quietly fail on the payment step. We audit first and tell you what is losing you orders before proposing any work.
Getting the catalog indexed, ranked and fast enough to convert.
The rest of the site around the store: services, content, contact.
What a store costs, by size and complexity.
Send a few lines about your project and you will get a straight answer on scope, price and timeline, usually the same day.