Shopify & e-commerce · Egypt

Shopify Development
in Egypt

We are based in Cairo. Egyptian e-commerce is our home market — the payment rails, the courier network, the cash-on-delivery reality, and the Arabic-first storefront.

Based in Al Manteqah Al Oula, Nasr City, Cairo

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THE MARKET

Most Shopify guidance is written for a market where everyone pays by card, addresses have postcodes, and returns are rare. Egypt does not work like that. A store that sells here needs cash on delivery treated as a first-class payment method, instalments and BNPL surfaced at the right moment, a checkout that survives an address written as a landmark, and a storefront that reads naturally in Arabic. We build for those conditions because we work in them every day.

What we build for Egypt

Local payment rails, wired properly

Paymob, Fawry, Kashier and PayTabs configured end to end — including the wallet, reference-code and card-instalment flows that Egyptian shoppers expect at checkout.

Cash on delivery that reconciles

COD is not a checkbox. We set up the order tagging, courier hand-off and reconciliation reporting so finance can actually close the month.

Bilingual EN / AR storefronts

Proper right-to-left layouts, Arabic typography that does not break, and content structured so both languages rank — not a translation plugin bolted on top.

Courier integrations that hold

Bosta, Mylerz and Fincart connected to fulfilment so tracking, status and returns flow back into Shopify instead of living in a spreadsheet.

What selling in Egypt actually requires

The market-specific work that separates a store built for Egypt from a generic Shopify theme.

Payments & checkout

Cards, mobile wallets and Fawry reference codes through Paymob, Kashier or PayTabs; Apple Pay via the gateway; bank card instalments for CIB, NBE, Banque Misr, QNB and Banque du Caire cardholders; and BNPL from valU, Sympl, Souhoola, Halan, Forsa and Aman. Which of these you enable changes your checkout conversion more than almost any design decision.

Cash on delivery

COD remains a mainstream expectation rather than a fringe option. It shapes fraud screening, order confirmation (usually a WhatsApp or phone step before dispatch), courier selection, and the cash reconciliation loop between courier remittance and your Shopify payouts.

Shipping & addresses

Bosta, Mylerz and Fincart for domestic delivery. Egyptian addresses are frequently landmark-based rather than postcoded, so the checkout address block and the courier payload both need adapting — a strict postcode field costs you orders.

Language & typography

Arabic is the primary shopping language for much of the market. That means a genuine RTL build: mirrored layout, Arabic web fonts that render numerals and diacritics correctly, and hreflang-separated EN and AR URLs so both versions can rank.

Currency & pricing discipline

Pricing in EGP against imported cost bases makes margin management an ongoing operational job, not a launch task. We build the merchandising and price-update workflows to match, rather than hard-coding prices into theme files.

What we typically build with here

  • Shopify 2.0
  • Paymob · Fawry · Kashier
  • valU · Sympl instalments
  • Bosta · Mylerz
  • Arabic RTL (EN/AR)
  • WhatsApp order confirmation

Egyptian brands we have built and shipped for include Kiliim, Kahhal 1871, Emilia Eats and Tie House — the full list is in our portfolio and on our clients page.

Where to find us

This one is simple: we are here. Our office is in Nasr City, Cairo, and most of our team works from it. You can meet us in person, and we keep Egyptian business hours (Sunday to Thursday). Full contact details and the address are below.

Qode Bites Wahran, Al Manteqah Al Oula, Nasr City Cairo Governorate 11371, Egypt +20 10 0377 3837 · hello@qodebites.com

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Commerce work we have shipped

Live stores we designed, built and still maintain.

Tie House project Tie House Fashion Retail Spire project Spire E-commerce Store NA Studio project NA Studio Portfolio & Store Kahhal 1871 project Kahhal 1871 Heritage E-commerce Kin Suki project Kin Suki Homeware & Tableware Mother Naked project Mother Naked Beauty E-commerce
View the full portfolio → Browse all examples →

Other markets we build for

Same team, same studio — different rails, languages and rules.

MENA

Shopify development for Saudi Arabia Arabic-first storefronts built for how Saudi shoppers actually pay, where they actually live, and what the invoice has to look like afterwards. Shopify development for the UAE Bilingual storefronts for a market that shops in English and Arabic, expects next-day delivery, and compares you to Noon before it buys.

Europe

Shopify development for the UK UK storefronts built by a Cairo team two hours ahead of London — with the VAT, carrier and post-Brexit shipping detail handled properly. Shopify development for Germany Germany rewards stores that respect how Germans buy: pay on invoice, read the legal pages, and expect returns to be effortless. Shopify development for the Netherlands In the Netherlands, checkout starts with iDEAL. Get that wrong and nothing else on the page matters.

Keep exploring

The guides, services and calculators behind everything on this page.

Shopify payment methods in Egypt & Saudi Arabia What a Shopify store costs Free Shopify store audit

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Frequently Asked
Questions

Common questions about working with us in Egypt.

Are you actually based in Egypt, or is this an offshore listing?

We are genuinely based in Cairo — Nasr City — and that is our only office. The address and phone number on this page are the same ones on our Google Business Profile. You are welcome to visit.

Can you set up Paymob, Fawry and instalments on Shopify?

Yes, and it is one of the most common things we are asked for. Our Paymob setup guide walks through the Paymob setup step by step, and the Egypt & Saudi payment methods guide covers every method available to Egyptian and Saudi merchants, including which ones need a separate merchant agreement.

Do you build Arabic and English versions of the same store?

Yes. A bilingual build is a proper RTL implementation with separate, indexable URLs per language — not a browser-side translation widget. Our Arabic RTL guide explains what changes in the theme, and why a machine-translated Arabic store tends to underperform a properly built one.

How much does a Shopify store cost in Egypt?

We publish our real ranges rather than quoting on request — see what a Shopify store costs for the full breakdown, or run the Project Cost Estimator for a figure based on your own scope. Pricing does not change by country; scope does.