Worth knowing
E-invoicing stops being optional in 2027.
The UAE Ministry of Finance set the framework in Ministerial Decisions 243 and 244 of 2025. A pilot runs from July 2026. From 1 January 2027, businesses with annual revenue of AED 50 million or more must issue structured e-invoices through an accredited service provider. Later phases bring in everyone below that threshold.
Most ordering problems become invoicing problems. If an order is taken in one system and invoiced in another, someone rebuilds the data by hand. We build the ordering side so the invoice data is complete and structured at the moment the order is placed.
Source: UAE Ministry of Finance, eInvoicing programme. Check the current phase dates there before you plan around them.
Nexus Cloud · Commerce & procurement
Selling and buying online,
done properly.
Storefronts for consumers and ordering portals for business customers, with the quotation, approval and payment steps your buyers actually go through. Built, hosted, secured and kept running by us, under your own brand.
Part of Nexus Cloud
Retail Cloud and Trade Cloud are two configurations of Nexus Cloud, the managed platform we build and run. Everything described on this page is delivered that way: hosted, patched, backed up, monitored and supported by us, carrying your brand rather than ours.
How ownership works
You own the store. We own the platform.
Your storefront and your ordering portal run on Nexus Cloud, the platform we build, host and maintain. You are not buying a copy of it, and that is deliberate.
Think about how a hosted store platform already works. You pay every month, your catalogue and your orders live on infrastructure you have never seen, your checkout runs on code you cannot read, and the admin screens your staff use every day carry somebody else’s name. You do not own that software. What the fee buys is somebody else keeping the shop open.
We answer the ownership question the same way, and the branding question the opposite way. The platform stays ours. The shop running on it is entirely yours: your name above the door, your own domain, your own merchant account, your customers and your order history, exportable whenever you ask.
What stays ours
The platform, the servers, security patching, version upgrades, backups, monitoring, and being the ones who get the alert when checkout stops working.
What is always yours
Your brand and your domain, your catalogue and photography, your customers, your order history, your merchant account and the money that settles into it.
Why it costs less
A storefront that handles tax rules, payment integrations and a peak sale day is expensive to build once and more expensive to keep current. You carry the cost of using one that is already maintained, not the cost of owning it.
Configured, not cloned
Shared foundations do not mean a shared template. Your catalogue structure, customer groups, price lists, quantity breaks, approval steps, delivery rules, tax treatment and the whole look of the storefront are set up around how you actually sell. Two retailers on the same configuration can behave nothing alike. What they have in common is the engineering underneath, which is the part you would otherwise be paying a full-time salary to keep current.
The honest limit
We do not hand over a copy of the platform for you to host yourself. If owning the source outright is a firm requirement, tell us at the start and we will say plainly that we are the wrong fit. Everything you put in, though, comes back out on request: all your data, in open formats, within 30 days, at no charge.
What we run for you
From catalogue to paid order.
Online stores
Product catalogues, variations, stock, delivery rules and checkout built for your categories.
Discuss thisB2B ordering portals
Customer-specific pricing, credit terms, repeat orders and account hierarchies.
Discuss thisQuotation & RFQ
Request, quote, revise and approve, tracked in one place instead of email threads.
Discuss thisPayments & invoicing
Local and international payment methods, invoicing, statements and self-service accounts.
Discuss thisTypical setups
When a shop is not enough.
Most businesses do not just need a checkout. They need a system that knows who the customer is, what price they get, what they are allowed to order, and who signs it off.
Can include
- Click and collect from your branches
- Minimum order and pack quantities
- Subscriptions and repeat delivery
- Delivery zones and collection points
- Vouchers, coupons and store credit
- Returns and exchange handling
These are options, not a fixed bundle. What you actually sell decides which of them you need, which is why the price comes from a conversation rather than a table.
What changes
Fewer steps between interest and order.
Orders without phone calls
Buyers place and re-place orders themselves, correctly, at the right price.
One source of stock truth
What the site shows is what the warehouse actually has.
Less manual re-keying
Orders land in your system ready to fulfil, not in an inbox to retype.
Retail Cloud · selling to the public
Four ways to run an online store.
Start where the business actually is. Move up without rebuilding, because your catalogue, customers and order history move with you.
One brand, one market
Storefront
- Branded store with your own domain
- Catalogue, categories and search
- Card gateway on your own merchant account
- Cash on delivery, tracked properly
- Stock levels and low stock alerts
- One language, one currency
Selling across markets
Growth
- Everything in Storefront
- Arabic and English, right to left done properly
- Multiple currencies and tax rules by country
- Bundles, variants and configurable products
- Filtered search across large categories
- Buy now pay later and abandoned basket recovery
Large catalogue, several warehouses
Scale
- Everything in Growth
- Search tuned for very large catalogues, with suggestions as the customer types and filters that stay fast
- Multiple warehouses with stock allocation
- Several storefronts or country sites from one catalogue
- Customer group and segment pricing
- Synchronisation with your ERP or product data system
Many sellers, one storefront
Marketplace
- Everything in Scale
- Unlimited vendors selling in one store
- One basket and one checkout across vendors
- Each vendor manages its own orders and delivery status
- Commission rules and vendor payouts
- Optional own domain per vendor, and more than one marketplace or regional site from one platform
On catalogue size: a normal store runs comfortably into the tens of thousands of products. Beyond that the platform is built to carry catalogues in the millions, which is a different engineering job and a different conversation. Tell us the real number and we will size it honestly rather than guess.
Trade Cloud · selling to businesses
Four ways to sell to trade customers.
B2B is not a storefront with a login bolted on. Prices differ per account, approval matters, and the buyer is reordering rather than browsing.
Trade customers ordering direct
Accounts
- Account login with your own price list
- Customer specific pricing per product
- Quantity break pricing
- Reorder straight from order history
- VAT handling and VAT number on record
- Order confirmations and invoices as PDF
A real buying portal
Portal
- Everything in Accounts
- Customer groups with their own catalogue and prices
- Several users under one company account
- Quotation requests and written responses
- Credit terms and account statements
- Arabic and English throughout
Wholesale and distribution
Distribution
- Everything in Portal
- Multiple warehouses with allocation rules
- Several brand or country portals from one source
- Contract pricing and price rules
- Approval step before an order is released
- Stock and order synchronisation with your ERP
Many suppliers, one portal
Supplier network
- Everything in Distribution
- Multiple suppliers listed in one portal
- One basket and one checkout across suppliers
- Each supplier fulfils and updates its own lines
- Commission and settlement reporting
- Buyer sees one order, not five
Managed, not handed over
Who looks after the store once it is selling.
A shop is never finished. Payment methods change, plugins get vulnerabilities, stock logic needs adjusting. The question is who does that work.
| A traditional software company | ProcureNexus | |
|---|---|---|
| What you receive | Files and a handover meeting | A running store you log into |
| Security patching | Quoted separately, or forgotten | Included and continuous |
| A payment gateway changes its API | A change request and a quote | We handle it before it breaks |
| Peak sale day | Hope the server holds | Monitored, with someone watching |
| Your orders and customer data | Often locked in their system | Yours. Full export in 30 days, free |
This is why commerce here is sold as a managed service rather than a build. A store nobody maintains stops taking money quietly, and usually at the worst moment.
Common questions
Questions we are asked most.
How much does an e-commerce website cost in the UAE?
A straightforward online store with a catalogue, payments and delivery rules typically starts in the low five figures AED. A B2B ordering portal with customer-specific pricing, credit terms and ERP integration costs more because the workflow is more complex. We give a written delivery range after a short brief rather than a generic price list.
Can you connect an online store to our existing ERP or accounting system?
Yes. Stock, pricing, customers and orders can sync both ways with most ERP, accounting and warehouse systems through their APIs or scheduled imports, so your team enters data once.
Do you support Arabic and multiple currencies?
Yes. Arabic right-to-left layouts, multilingual content and multicurrency pricing are planned from the first sketch, not added later. We support the payment methods commonly used in the UAE and Lebanon.
Commerce & procurement
Show us how your customers buy today.
We will map it, find the steps that can disappear, and tell you what it takes to build.