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Shopify Developer in Lebanon
Senior Shopify 2.0 and Shopify Plus development from Lebanon. Themes, custom apps, checkout extensibility, Arabic RTL and Core Web Vitals under one team — priced in USD, delivered without the template-shop shortcuts.
Credentials
Training & academic partners
The problem
Shopify development in Lebanon is uneven, and it costs founders money.
The talent pool is real. The discipline is not consistent. Every month we audit a store built in Lebanon that looks fine on desktop and falls apart the second you open it on an Android phone over a patchy connection. That store is losing 20–40% of its addressable revenue to LCP and layout shift before any conversion optimisation begins.
We also see the opposite failure: over-engineered stores where the developer bolted on nine apps, wrote custom Liquid for problems Shopify already solved natively, and left the founder with a store nobody can maintain without paying the original developer forever. That's not craft. That's rent-seeking.
Real Shopify development in Lebanon should hit international performance standards, ship in Arabic and English as default, respect the founder's ability to run their own merchandising, and be handed over cleanly.
What you get
Deliverables
Shopify 2.0 themes
Section-based, editable, merchandiser-friendly, performance-tuned by default.
Custom & private apps
App Bridge, GraphQL Admin API, webhooks, and modern auth patterns.
Shopify Plus
Checkout extensibility, Functions, Flow, B2B, expansion stores.
Performance
LCP < 2.5s on mid-range Android; INP and CLS held under Google thresholds.
Arabic RTL
First-class RTL from build day one — not retrofitted.
Integrations
ERP (Odoo, Zoho, Netsuite), CRM (HubSpot, Zoho), WhatsApp Business API, Klaviyo, custom.
How we build
Standards we apply on every Shopify build.
Every theme we ship uses Shopify's Online Store 2.0 architecture with meaningful section defaults so the founder can actually merchandise without opening code. We write Liquid conservatively, keep JS budgets small, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Third-party pixels and apps go through a single loader we own, so removing an app never leaves a script tag orphaned in the <head>.
Images ship as WebP through Shopify's CDN with correct srcset and sizes. Fonts are self-hosted where possible and preloaded. We do not use theme frameworks that ship 300KB of unused JS to every page.
Structured data is native, not app-injected: Product, Offer, Review (where real reviews exist), BreadcrumbList and Article. This makes downstream SEO work actually possible; see Shopify SEO in Lebanon.
The Growth System, applied to development
Build → Convert → Scale → Automate, on the dev side.
Build. Clean Shopify 2.0 architecture, RTL, performance, accessibility, structured data. Handover documentation the founder can read.
Convert. PDP components engineered for testing — sticky add-to-cart, variant logic that doesn't reload the page, upsell modules that respect merch rules.
Scale. Multi-currency, multi-market via Shopify Markets; shipping and payments configured per country from day one.
Automate. Flow, Functions and webhook-based automation to eliminate manual ops — fraud tagging, subscription workflows, ERP sync.
Who it's for
Right fit and wrong fit.
Right fit: founder-led brands ready for a proper Shopify 2.0 build or replatform; existing Shopify merchants who need custom app work; Plus merchants moving to checkout extensibility ahead of the Shopify deprecation window.
Wrong fit: teams looking for the cheapest freelance quote in Beirut, or projects where the founder wants a “quick” theme skin without addressing conversion, performance or Arabic. We are not the right team for those.
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 $6,000 build
Retainers from $3,500/month for ongoing work. Custom apps and Plus builds quoted separately.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Yes. When a public app doesn't fit, we build private or custom Shopify apps — usually for workflow, ERP integration, bespoke merchandising logic, or connecting Shopify to a proprietary backend. All apps are built on the App Bridge and follow current Shopify security and performance requirements.
- Yes. Checkout extensibility, Shopify Functions, Flow automations, expansion stores, and B2B/wholesale on Plus are all in scope. We do not sell “Plus” as a marketing label — we recommend it only when the store actually needs it.
- Arabic RTL is a first-class deliverable, not a plugin toggle. That means: separate RTL stylesheet, proper mirrored components, native Arabic typography, correct number/date formatting, and QA by an Arabic speaker before every ship. This matters materially in KSA and for Arabic-speaking buyers in Lebanon and the diaspora.
- Our default targets on mid-range Android over 4G: LCP under 2.5s, INP under 200ms, CLS under 0.1. On new builds we hit these on first launch. On existing stores we usually improve LCP by 30–50% inside the first month of work.
- Yes — WooCommerce, Salla, Zid, Wix, Magento and custom PHP builds. Migrations are scoped on catalogue complexity, redirect surface and integration count, not on line count.
- Yes. Every build ships with clean structured data, proper canonical hygiene, indexable templates and Core Web Vitals hit at launch. If SEO is a priority, we pair development with our /shopify-seo-lebanon programme.
- From $6,000 for a focused Shopify 2.0 build. Complex builds, Shopify Plus, custom apps and multi-market rollouts are scoped separately.
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