Ranked by recent Shopify-verified work first (a merchant review in the last 12 months), then Shopify partner tier, then review count. "Best for" says which job each one suits.
Selling on Shopify in Dubai and the UAE
Put these on the agenda for your first call with any Dubai agency:
- Payments. Shopify Payments takes online payments for UAE businesses: Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Shop Pay. Signing up needs a company registration number and a business AED account with an IBAN that starts AE (requirements).
- Instalments. Tabby lets shoppers split a bill into 4 interest-free payments or spread it over up to 12 months, and Tamara offers up to 4 instalments and lists a Shopify integration.
- VAT. The UAE charges 5% at the standard rate (Ministry of Finance).
- Dirhams, riyals and dinars. If you also sell into Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, give each market its own prices and its own sale, so an AED 50 off code doesn’t arrive as a strange riyal number: see different discounts for different countries.
Arabic and right-to-left stores
Put right-to-left layout in the brief from the first call rather than adding it after launch. Two agencies here build it as a core service. Creative971 lists Arabic right-to-left design among its services, and its Nayomi rebuild runs Arabic and English in one Shopify Plus store; it has also built Saudi stores for La Vie En Rose and Aleph. NBT 360 starts from Arabic and builds right to left first, with Tabby, Tamara and mada at checkout.
Four more list Arabic on their Shopify profiles: Clicko Digital, Vexa, The i.o agency and AMZ Digital Agency. Vexa also trains shop staff in Arabic or English when it sets up Shopify POS. For search, Right Media’s SEO work includes Arabic translation.
Checked, not listed. Dubai searches also turn up four agencies that this page leaves out, for these reasons. Shopvert has 62 Shopify reviews, the newest from 27 October 2026, but its own site names no office or city in the UAE. Digital Gravity has a Dubai office on Sheikh Zayed Road and a Shopify service page, but it is a full-service agency, and Shopify is one platform of several there. Ebiz Experts names Dubai with a UAE phone number, yet its site title calls it a London Shopify agency, and the clients it shows are UK brands. Radiant, a Premier partner, lists Birmingham as its main location, and we could not confirm a Dubai office.
How we picked and checked
Our team started from 40 agencies that build on Shopify with an office in the United Arab Emirates, found through the Shopify Partner Directory, apps' partner lists and the agencies' own sites. An agency made the list only if Shopify is its core work and it shipped client work in 2025 or 2026.
For every agency on the list we checked:
- its Shopify partner profile: tier, reviews and partner date;
- its own site, wherever it let us in, and its listings on app partner directories;
- up to three client stores it shows as its work. "Live on Shopify" means the store loads and its pages run on Shopify's storefront. "Fast on mobile" means it passes Core Web Vitals on phones in Google's real-user data (Chrome UX Report); no stamp means too little Google data or not passing yet.
The order follows one rule: agencies with a Shopify review from the last 12 months come first, because they are clearly still shipping work; then Shopify partner tier (Platinum, then Premier, Plus and Select); then how many reviews each has; then the share of its showcased stores live on Shopify. "Best for" says where each one is strongest, so a lower-ranked agency can still be the right pick for your project.
Shashwat is a developer and the founder of DiscountOS. He has built Shopify stores and Shopify apps and has worked alongside Shopify agencies on client builds, and he writes our guides to how Shopify discounts work and our research on Shopify agencies. The research behind this page was done by hand by the DiscountOS team, and Shashwat checked and signed the ranking. "Weigh first" is the point we would raise with each agency before signing, from the same research. Every fact carries the date we checked it.
No agency paid to be here, and no listing depends on a link back. DiscountOS is a Shopify app, not an agency, so we have no one of our own to rank.
