Shopify · Consulting
Shopify Consultant in Lebanon
Independent Shopify consulting for Lebanese founders. Fixed-fee audits, defensible roadmaps and hands-on implementation, delivered from Beirut and priced in USD. We diagnose the whole revenue system, not just the theme.
Credentials
Training & academic partners
The problem
Most Shopify problems in Lebanon aren't Shopify problems.
We've audited enough Lebanese Shopify stores to see the same pattern: the founder blames the theme, the developer, or the ads. The real bleed is usually somewhere else. Wrong plan tier for the order volume. Six apps stacked on top of each other doing the same job. A checkout that quietly loses 12% of intent because a shipping app is throwing errors on USD orders. A product page that reads like a spec sheet because nobody rewrote it after launch.
Then there's the local layer. Lebanese founders are often running a store built for one audience (local, LBP-priced, cash-heavy) while trying to sell to a completely different one (diaspora, USD-priced, card-first). The store never gets rebuilt for the audience that actually pays, so growth stalls at exactly the level the current setup can carry.
A senior Shopify consultant fixes the plan before you spend the next quarter fixing the wrong thing.
What you get
Deliverables
Ten-day audit
Technical, commercial and CRO audit with a scored, prioritised roadmap.
Platform architecture
Shopify vs Plus vs headless, app-stack rationalisation, checkout extensibility.
Revenue diagnostic
Unit economics, contribution margin, LTV and payback windows before any tactic is chosen.
Roadmap
6–12 month plan sequenced by revenue impact, not by what's easiest to build.
Implementation
The consultant stays on to execute — you don't hand off to a different team.
Team enablement
Training your in-house merchandiser, developer or ops lead so the store doesn't need us forever.
Local context
Consulting Lebanese brands isn't the same as consulting a US or UK brand.
The macro reality changes the advice. Lebanese founders are underwriting FX risk on every SKU, running two payment infrastructures in parallel (a local one for domestic buyers, an international one for diaspora and export), and dealing with import windows that can stretch weeks longer than any freight calculator predicts. Any roadmap that ignores this ends up as a document, not a plan.
Our consulting starts by mapping the real cash-conversion cycle: where the money lands, in what currency, on what timeline, and what it costs to get it back into inventory. Only then do we look at the store. We've written more about this in our cost of e-commerce in Lebanon breakdown and the agency cost guide.
Who it's for
This consulting engagement is for a specific kind of founder.
It fits founders doing $30k+ a month who suspect the store is holding them back but can't isolate the cause. It fits diaspora-facing Lebanese brands ready to move from side-project to serious revenue. It fits brands considering a Shopify Plus move who want an independent read before signing a two-year contract.
It is not the right fit for pre-launch brands with no traffic and no product-market fit signal, or for teams looking for someone to blame instead of a plan to execute. In both cases we say so on the first call rather than sell an engagement.
Process
What working with us actually looks like.
Week 1 — kickoff call, access to Shopify, GA4, ad accounts, Klaviyo, payment processor and freight data. We do the reading before we do the talking.
Week 2 — audit delivered as a written document plus a 90-minute walkthrough call. Every finding is scored on impact and effort, with a recommended sequence.
Weeks 3+ — either you take the roadmap in-house, or we execute it directly. If we execute, weekly async updates plus a monthly review; contribution margin is the primary metric, not ROAS.
The Byblos Growth System
Build. Convert. Scale. Automate.
One operating system for Shopify, e-commerce and AI-driven growth across Lebanon, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Build
Ship a fast, conversion-ready Shopify or web foundation with real analytics, tracking and merchandising in place.
Convert
Fix product pages, checkout, offers and content so paid and organic traffic actually turns into revenue.
Scale
Scale paid media, SEO and creative across Lebanon, the UAE and Saudi Arabia with unit-economics discipline.
Automate
Layer AI, CRM and WhatsApp automation on top so growth compounds without linearly scaling headcount.
Pricing
Starting from $2,500 audit / $3,500/mo retainer
Audits are fixed-fee. Consulting retainers are monthly. Implementation quoted separately.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- A consultant sits on your side of the table before a build starts. We diagnose whether Shopify is even the right platform for your revenue plan, whether your app stack is bleeding margin, whether your PDP and checkout are the real problem, and whether you should stay on Basic Shopify or move to Plus. An agency then executes what the diagnosis says. We do both, but we never let the build begin until the plan is defensible.
- Yes. Most of our audits are for stores that were built by the founder, a junior developer or a template shop, and have plateaued somewhere between $10k and $150k a month. The audit covers technical health, Core Web Vitals, app-stack cost, checkout leakage, product-page structure, catalogue architecture, retention infrastructure and paid-media hygiene.
- Yes — diaspora-facing brands are a large part of the Lebanon client base. We architect USD pricing, cross-border payment routing, international shipping and duty handling, and messaging that speaks to Lebanese buyers abroad rather than assuming a purely local audience.
- Yes. Most Lebanese Shopify stores we audit are paying for at least 3–5 apps they no longer need, or missing 2–3 apps that would materially improve conversion. Right-sizing the plan and stack is often the first line item in our roadmap because it improves margin immediately.
- Ten working days for the audit deliverable. If the roadmap is approved, implementation starts within two weeks. We do not run three-month discovery phases.
- Both are available. Consulting-only engagements end at the roadmap. Most clients roll straight into implementation with our team so the person who diagnosed the problem is the person fixing it.
- Yes. Multilingual Shopify is standard for Lebanese and diaspora brands. We handle hreflang, currency, translation workflow (Shopify Markets or Weglot/Langify) and Arabic RTL as a first-class deliverable, not a plugin toggle.
- Audits start at $2,500 fixed-fee. Ongoing consulting is retainer-based from $3,500/month. Full implementation is scoped separately.
How is a Shopify consultant different from a Shopify agency?
Can you audit a Shopify store that we built ourselves?
Do you work with Lebanese brands selling to the diaspora?
Do you help pick the right Shopify plan and app stack?
How long does a Shopify audit take?
Will you actually implement, or just hand us a document?
Do you handle Arabic, French and English stores?
How much does a Shopify audit cost?
Ready to grow?
Book a 30-minute consultation. We'll pressure-test your growth model on the call.