How much does a website cost in the UAE?
Shapes Infinity prices by scope rather than from a menu, and three things move the number: how many pages the site needs and whether the studio writes the copy or you supply it; whether it ships English only or with a full Arabic right-to-left version; and the features and integrations involved, such as online booking, payment gateways, customer accounts, WhatsApp automation, CRM or ERP connections, and dashboards behind a login. The instant quote at shapesinfinity.tech/quote applies today's rate to your exact project and returns the figure in under a minute, itemised, with a PDF you can keep and the price held for 14 days.
What are the payment terms for a website in the UAE?
Shapes Infinity works on 30% to start and 70% on completion, and the terms are the same in every emirate. Scope, timeline and price go in writing before any money moves, so both payments cover something you have already read. Revisions inside that written scope are not billed per round. The figure the two payments are calculated from comes from the instant quote at shapesinfinity.tech/quote, where it is held for 14 days.
What happens after my website goes live?
Every Shapes Infinity build comes with a year of free bug fixes after launch, anywhere in the UAE, and year-one hosting and SSL are included on the standard website tiers. The domain and the hosting are registered in your company name, so nothing about ownership depends on the studio. If something breaks inside that first year it is fixed at no cost. New pages, new features and content rewrites are new scope and are quoted separately.
Who owns the website and the code when the project ends?
You do. Shapes Infinity registers the .ae or .com domain in your company name, sets up the hosting and SSL, and hands over full ownership at the end of the project. The site is hand-coded for your business rather than assembled from a theme, so it is not tied to a template or a plugin stack, and a business in Fujairah or Ras Al Khaimah can move it elsewhere later.
Can you redesign my existing UAE website instead of starting from scratch?
Yes, redesigns are common. Shapes Infinity reviews what you have, keeps what works and rebuilds the rest, and the replacement ships with the same hand-coded pages, SEO-ready markup and Google Business Profile wiring described on this page. Rankings move with the pages rather than resetting: every old URL is mapped to its new home with 301 redirects, titles, canonicals and structured data carry over, and the sitemap is resubmitted on launch. Your existing pages are part of the scope that gets written down before work starts.
Do you build on WordPress or with custom code?
Custom. Shapes Infinity hand-codes its websites rather than assembling a WordPress theme, which is why the pages load fast on UAE mobile networks and why the right-to-left Arabic side behaves like a native site instead of a plugin translation, and it means nothing depends on a stack of third-party plugins that can break on update. When each approach makes sense is covered at shapesinfinity.tech/wordpress-vs-custom-uae; if you already run WordPress, say so on WhatsApp and the move is scoped alongside the build.
What do you need from me to start a website in the UAE?
Shapes Infinity needs the trade licence details that a .ae registration and your legal name depend on, your logo and any brand files, the products or services that belong on the site, the contact details including the WhatsApp number enquiries should reach, and a decision on whether the site ships English only or bilingual English and Arabic. Copy you do not have can be written by the studio instead of supplied by you, which is one of the things the quote accounts for. Kick-off is in person in Dubai, Sharjah or Ajman, or on a call anywhere else in the UAE.
Can you build an online store that takes dirhams and handles UAE VAT?
Yes. Shapes Infinity builds e-commerce sites for UAE businesses with prices in AED, UAE VAT handled correctly and VAT-ready invoices, and a checkout integrated and tested against the gateways you hold a merchant account with, including card payments, Apple Pay and Google Pay, buy-now-pay-later and cash on delivery. A full right-to-left Arabic storefront can sit alongside the English one. Stores are scoped per project and go live in two to four weeks depending on how many products and integrations are involved; the figure comes from the instant quote at shapesinfinity.tech/quote.
Do I need a separate website for each emirate my business operates in?
No. One website serves all seven emirates. Shapes Infinity builds a single bilingual site and puts the location signals inside it: the emirates you serve named on the page, a Google Business Profile wired to the site, and Arabic where your buyers read Arabic first, so a Sharjah trader and an Abu Dhabi supplier both find you from the same build. Splitting one business across a site per emirate divides the signals that make a single site rank instead of multiplying them.