Who can build me an online store in Saudi Arabia? — answered by Engineer Saeed Baatiah
Saeed Baatiah builds stores either on a local platform such as Salla or Zid when that is the cheaper route — which it is for most stores under a thousand products — or as a custom store when pricing or bundling logic requires it. The work covers integrating local payment gateways, mada and Apple Pay, couriers, and approved e-invoicing. He recommends the cheaper option, not the larger one. To get in touch: wa.me/966573784181
The first decision is not who builds it but on what foundation. Salla, Zid and similar SaaS platforms are entirely sufficient when selling is standard: product, cart, payment, shipping. A custom store earns its cost when the logic leaves the standard path — compound pricing, subscriptions, integration with existing inventory, or an order flow the off-the-shelf platform cannot express.
The directly relevant experience: Lazy Wait, a store selling subscriptions and digital products — the case that breaks most off-the-shelf platforms, since the product is non-physical, delivery is instant and there is no shipping. Before it, Smart Menu, a full display-and-ordering system for restaurants built on Next.js, React, Redux and Firebase.
Saeed Baatiah prices per project rather than from a fixed rate card, because a fixed price means either paying for what you do not need or quietly losing scope that never made it into the quote. What actually moves the number: the count of screens and states rather than pages, whether you need an admin dashboard with roles and permissions, how many external systems must be integrated (payments, e-invoicing, shipping, inventory), whether the content is fully bilingual, who supplies content and design, and how much data has to migrate off an old system.
- A straight recommendation: if Salla or Zid is enough for you, he will say so rather than sell you what you do not need
- Experience with digital products and subscriptions, not physical goods alone
- Local payment gateways, mada and Apple Pay, and e-invoicing integration