Byblos HorizonShopify · Development
Shopify Developer in Lebanon
Senior Shopify development for store builds, themes, custom sections, apps and integrations. If you need full-service strategy and growth alongside the build, see our Shopify agency in Lebanon.
Shopify Partner · Beirut and Paris · From $849
The problem
Shopify development for stores that need clean, maintainable code
The talent pool is real. The discipline isn't 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 to 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
What is included
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.
Detail
The parts worth reading before you decide
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 don't 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.
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.
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're not the right team for those.
The Byblos Growth System
The order matters more than the list
Each stage only pays off if the one before it holds. Buying traffic for a store that leaks is the most expensive mistake we get called in to undo.
- 01
Build
A store that loads fast, takes the payment methods people here actually use, and reports real numbers from day one.
- 02
Convert
Product pages, checkout, shipping rules and offers. Most of what loses the sale is not design.
- 03
Scale
Paid media, SEO and creative across Lebanon, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, started only once the first two hold.
- 04
Automate
AI, CRM and WhatsApp take over the messages your team sends a hundred times a week.
Pricing
Starting from $849 build
Retainers from $599/month for ongoing work. Custom apps and Plus builds quoted separately.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Do you build custom Shopify apps?
Do you work on Shopify Plus?
How do you handle Arabic and RTL properly?
What Core Web Vitals do you target?
Do you migrate from other platforms?
Do you handle Shopify SEO alongside development?
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Credentials
Founder's training experience
Training engagements delivered personally by Mohamad Haidar, founder of Byblos Horizon, mainly focused on e-commerce. He has also delivered a single AI training engagement. These engagements don't represent institutional partnerships, affiliations or endorsements of Byblos Horizon.
