We build custom online stores for Pakistani businesses — with EasyPaisa, JazzCash, and bank card payments built in from day one. Whether you sell 50 products or 5,000, your customers get a fast, mobile-first shopping experience and a checkout that actually works with Pakistani payment methods.
Unlike Shopify or WooCommerce templates, every store we build is connected to your business logic: your pricing rules, your inventory system, your delivery partners. No plugins that break. No monthly platform fees eating into margins.
EasyPaisa, JazzCash, HBL, Meezan Bank, Visa/Mastercard — all integrated and tested. Customers pay how they prefer.
Over 80% of Pakistani online shoppers use their phone. Your store is designed for mobile first — fast loading, thumb-friendly checkout.
TCS, Leopards, and other courier APIs connected directly. Orders auto-forward to your delivery partner. Customers get tracking updates.
Real-time stock levels, low-stock alerts, and automatic "out of stock" display. Connects to your existing inventory system if you have one.
Clean URLs, structured product schema, fast page speeds, and sitemap submission — built in, not bolted on. Google can find your products.
SSL encryption, PCI-compliant payment handling, and fraud-detection basics on every store. Your customers' data is protected.
Both options have a place. Here's an honest comparison so you can decide:
We do Shopify development in Pakistan and will recommend it where it fits — a clean catalogue, straightforward shipping, and a business that would rather pay monthly than up front. It is quick to launch and genuinely well built.
The problem is specific to this market rather than to Shopify: local payment gateways. EasyPaisa and JazzCash are not natively supported, so you are left with a third-party bridge, a manual bank-transfer flow, or telling a large share of Pakistani customers to pay by card — and card penetration here is nowhere near high enough for that to be a neutral decision. Add the platform fee at USD 29 to 299 a month forever, and Shopify usually costs more than a custom store somewhere in year three. If you are launching fast and testing whether the product sells at all, that trade is often worth making. If you already know it sells, it usually is not.
WooCommerce development in Pakistan sits between the two: no monthly platform fee, local payment plugins that mostly work, and any WordPress developer in Lahore can maintain it. It is a reasonable middle path for a store under a few hundred products.
Its weakness is what happens as you grow. WooCommerce slows noticeably past roughly a thousand products or under heavy concurrent traffic, and the usual response — stacking plugins for wholesale pricing, courier booking, stock sync — is exactly what makes it fragile on updates. We build and maintain WooCommerce stores, and we also rebuild a steady number of them for businesses that outgrew the plugin stack. Knowing which stage you are at is the whole decision.
Almost everything else about building an online store is the same anywhere in the world. This part is not, and it is where imported platforms and imported advice both fall down.
An EasyPaisa integration on a website is not simply a payment button. Done properly it means a merchant account in your business name, the checkout calling the API directly so the customer never leaves your site, a webhook that confirms the payment rather than trusting the browser redirect, and reconciliation that matches settlements against orders automatically at day end. The webhook matters more than it sounds: without it, a customer who closes the tab after paying leaves you with money received and no order recorded.
JazzCash integration on a website works the same way and we build both as standard, because customer preference splits roughly evenly and offering only one costs you orders from the other half. Both are included in every store we build rather than quoted as extras. Expect one to two weeks of the timeline to go on merchant account approval, which is a paperwork step on the provider's side that no developer can accelerate — start it early.
A cash on delivery website in Pakistan is not optional. COD remains the majority of online orders in this market, and a store that does not offer it is competing with one hand tied. But COD brings a problem nobody warns first-time sellers about: return-to-origin. Somewhere between 15 and 30 per cent of COD orders are refused at the door, and you pay courier charges both ways on every one.
So we build COD with the controls that keep it survivable — order confirmation by call or WhatsApp before dispatch, a blocklist for numbers that have refused repeatedly, partial advance payment on high-value items, and RTO reported as its own line so you can actually see what it costs you. Any store selling COD without measuring RTO is guessing at its own margin.
The ecommerce website cost in Pakistan is quoted so inconsistently that two proposals for the same store can differ by a factor of four. Usually that is not dishonesty — it is that one quote includes payment gateway integration, courier APIs and stock sync, and the other is a theme installation. Here is what we charge and what separates the levels.
What is genuinely worth budgeting for and is almost always left out of cheap quotes: product data entry and photography. A 400-product catalogue takes real hours to populate properly, and a store with poor photographs converts badly no matter how well it is built. We will tell you honestly whether to spend the marginal rupee on features or on photography — for most stores it is photography. See how this compares across our other services →
Ecommerce website design and ecommerce website development get quoted as one line item and are two different jobs. Design decides whether a visitor trusts you enough to enter card details. Development decides whether the order that results actually reaches your warehouse intact. Building an ecommerce website in Pakistan means getting both right plus a third thing — the local payment and delivery layer above — and a proposal that is strong on one and silent on the others is worth questioning.
On design specifically, the things that move conversion in this market are unglamorous: product photographs on a plain background, a price visible without scrolling, delivery cost and timeframe stated before checkout rather than revealed at the last step, and a checkout that works on a mid-range Android phone over a patchy connection. Ecommerce solutions Pakistan-wide fail at that last point more often than at any other, usually because the store was only ever tested on a fast desktop connection in an office.
Online store development in Pakistan follows a fairly fixed sequence with us: scoping and catalogue structure in week one, design approval in week two, build and integrations across weeks three to five, then your team loading products while we test the payment and courier flows end to end with real transactions. We insist on real test orders through the live gateway before launch. A store that has only been tested in sandbox mode will find its first genuine failure in front of a paying customer.
Many enquiries for an online shop website in Pakistan come from businesses that already sell on Instagram or WhatsApp and are drowning in manual order-taking. If that is you, the honest advice is that your own site will not immediately replace those channels — it sits alongside them and takes over the repeat customers, the ones who already know what they want and do not need convincing. The measurable win in month one is usually staff time rather than new revenue: orders arrive structured instead of as a hundred screenshots to transcribe.
A multivendor ecommerce website is a marketplace: many sellers, one storefront, with vendor onboarding, per-vendor dashboards and stock, commission calculation, split payouts, and separate dispatch per vendor. It is a substantially larger build than a single-vendor store and starts around PKR 400,000.
Worth saying before you commission one: the software is the easier half. Marketplaces fail on supply, not on features — you need enough vendors to make the catalogue worth browsing and enough buyers to make it worth a vendor's time, simultaneously, from a standing start. If you do not already have vendors committed in writing, build a single-vendor store first and add the marketplace layer once demand is proven. We have talked more than one client out of the larger build for exactly this reason.
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