Founder-led since 2017 · Lucknow, India
A web development company for UAE businesses, built in India and priced in AED
Codingclave is a web development company for UAE businesses, run from Lucknow, India since 2017, with AED price bands from AED 2,200 excluding VAT.
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- AED price bands from AED 2,200
- No UAE VAT on our invoice
- Every account in your company's name
- Arabic and English, right-to-left
- Saturdays, 08:30–17:30 GST
- ★ 4.9 on Google (76 reviews)Lucknow, India profile
- 200+ projects since 2017
- Top Rated on Upwork, 100% Job Success
Founder-led delivery
Overview
We build websites, online stores, web apps, mobile apps and CRMs for companies in all seven emirates, in English, Arabic or both. You sign with Codingclave Development LLP, an Indian firm, and there is no UAE entity behind it. Your domain, hosting, code and app-store accounts are opened in your company's name. Message us on WhatsApp, Monday to Saturday, 08:30–17:30 GST.
By Ashish Sharma, founder · Updated 12 October 2026
Quick answer
Can a company outside the UAE build my website or app, and what changes for my business if it does?
Yes, and you need no UAE licence to hire one. Three things change. You contract with a foreign company, in our case an Indian LLP. The invoice carries no UAE VAT and no TRN, so a VAT-registered business usually accounts for the VAT itself under the reverse charge (confirm with your tax adviser). And every account the project runs on has to sit in your company's legal name, because Apple, Google and your gateway check it against your licence. Contact runs on WhatsApp, email and video, Saturday included.
- Withholding tax on the payment: 0%.
- Not registered or required to register? No VAT entry.
- Apple will not enrol a branch or a trade name.
- What stays the same: every login is yours at handover.
Who we help
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Where we work
Where we work in the UAE
Ajman
iOS and Android apps for Ajman businesses at AED 17,000–108,000 in 4–12 weeks, online stores from AED 5,900, and the D-U-N-S and store steps for week one.
Sharjah
Sharjah online stores for AED 5,900–49,000 in 2–6 weeks, plus licence costs (SPC from AED 5,750 a year) and the documents Stripe, Telr and PayTabs check.
Fujairah
Fujairah software for bunker, ship-agency, free-zone and hotel firms: AED 24,500–245,000 in 6–16 weeks. Apps from AED 17,000, websites from AED 2,200.
Work is delivered remotely from Lucknow, India, so every emirate is served the same way: WhatsApp, email, video calls and fixed AED quotes. Emirate not listed? Ask on WhatsApp
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Who signs your contract
We have no Dubai address, so this comes before any price.
The company on your contract
I'm Ashish Sharma. I founded Codingclave Development LLP in Lucknow in 2017, and I still price every project and lead its delivery, so the person who quotes your build is the one answerable for it. Your contract and invoices are with the LLP in India. If you are weighing an Indian team at all, start with why Dubai firms outsource to India.
No Dubai office, and what that means for you
We have no UAE office, staff, trade licence or TRN. Nobody visits your premises, and our invoice is not a UAE tax invoice.
We can't apply for your licence, bank account or payment gateway either, because each one names your company as the applicant. What we can do is tell you what each asks for and build the pages a gateway reviews.
How you reach us
Start on WhatsApp, +91 92771 84741. Most questions get settled there. Anything you will want to point back to later, like the scope or a sign-off, goes by email, and calls run on a video meeting link.
Our 10:00–19:00 day in Lucknow is 08:30–17:30 Gulf Standard Time, Monday to Saturday. Neither country moves its clocks, so that holds in January and July. The hour-by-hour working day is on our hiring page.
Saturday and the UAE working week
Since 1 January 2022 the federal government has worked Monday to Thursday plus a Friday half day (Ius Laboris briefing). Private employers were not obliged to follow, so weeks vary by firm. If yours includes Saturday, so does ours.
Proof you can open yourself
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Before you trust a ‘top 10’ list
The lists that rank for this search are not neutral. Semrush's Dubai web development list is headed 'TOP 15' and sorts by an 'Agency Score' it never explains. Its own note says firms tagged 'Active in United Arab Emirates' don't have a physical office in the area.
A list won't tell you who ends up holding your domain. These five checks will, and each takes a few minutes.
| Check | How to run it | What should come back |
|---|---|---|
| Google reviews | Sort the profile by newest, then read the lowest-rated reviews and how the firm replied | Recent reviews that describe actual work, not one-line praise |
| Live work | Ask for three URLs and open them on your phone, in Arabic too if they built it | Sites still live on each client's own domain |
| .ae WHOIS | Pick a .ae site from their portfolio and run a WHOIS lookup (whois.aeda.net.ae answers for .ae) | The client's company as Registrant Contact Organisation, not the agency |
| App Store seller | Open an app they list and read the seller line under its name | The client's organisation, not the developer |
| Where the developers sit | Ask for the city, and whether any of the build is subcontracted | A straight answer that names a city |
Run them on us too: our Google reviews and live projects are a click away, and the city is Lucknow. If a link is dead or a review reads oddly, ask us about it before you sign. Ask for three live projects on WhatsApp.
Have a project in mind?
Send a few lines on WhatsApp or get a fixed AED quote.
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What our invoice means for your VAT return (October 2026)
Our invoice shows no UAE VAT and no TRN. If you are VAT-registered, the VAT moves into your own return: you record it as output tax and normally recover the same amount as input tax. Where input tax is recovered in full, buying from us adds no net VAT cost.
No self-invoice since 1 January 2026
Federal Decree-Law No. 16 of 2025 (Ministry of Finance, 3 December 2025) ended self-invoicing under the reverse charge, though the supporting documents must still be kept. The amendment also requires you to check that a supply is legitimate before deducting input tax, and lets the FTA deny input tax on a supply that is part of a tax-evasion arrangement. Keep the contract, our invoice and your proof of payment together.
Withholding tax is 0%
Under Article 45 of Federal Decree-Law No. 47 of 2022, withholding tax on UAE-sourced income of a non-resident with no permanent establishment in the UAE is 0%, so nothing is deducted when you pay us. The rate is set by Cabinet Decision, so it could change.
E-invoicing does not cover the import
The Ministry of Finance's Electronic Invoicing Guidelines (v1.1, 1 June 2026, section 10.5.1) say the import of Concerned Services is not subject to any e-invoicing requirements. Your own sales invoices are a separate matter, covered by the phased rollout in the same guidelines.
| Your VAT position | Price-list figure | Output tax you record | Input tax you normally recover | Net VAT cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered, business website at the entry price | AED 2,900 | AED 145 | AED 145 | Normally AED 0, if fully recoverable |
| Registered, business website at the top of its band | AED 17,000 | AED 850 | AED 850 | Normally AED 0, if fully recoverable |
| Registered, with exempt supplies as well | AED 17,000 | AED 850 | Only the share your input-tax rules allow | The part you cannot recover |
| Neither registered nor required to register | AED 17,000 | None | None | None |
Imports count towards the AED 375,000 mandatory registration threshold, so a business near that line should talk to its adviser before signing. This is how the rules read in October 2026. It isn't tax advice, so have your adviser confirm how they apply to you. One thing that keeps your records simple: we invoice in AED and your bank transfer goes into our AED account, so the figure you record for the reverse charge is already in dirhams.
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Accounts that carry your company’s name, opened before we write code
Open every account in your company's legal name before the build starts, because two of them involve identity checks nobody can hurry. Store accounts (gateway, instalments, Shopify) are covered in our e-commerce cost guide.
Why a branch or trade name stalls Apple enrolment
If the name on your shopfront isn't the name on your licence, Apple will reject it. The enrolling organisation must be a legal entity, and its name becomes the App Store seller. Apple will not enrol a branch, so if your UAE licence is a branch of a foreign company, check with Apple which entity should enrol before you request the D-U-N-S Number.
Apple also turns away social media pages and websites with minimal content. So the website usually ships first.
Handover means every login
You get admin on the repository, the admin panels, DNS, hosting and both developer consoles, and nothing stays in our accounts. When you say so, we remove our access, and each account's user list shows it. Send your licence name on WhatsApp and I'll tell you which accounts to open first.
| Account | Who can hold it | What it needs | Fee | Our part |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| .ae domain | Companies and individuals, through an .aeDA-accredited registrar | No documentary evidence | The registrar's price | We set up DNS once you add us |
| .co.ae domain | A UAE trade or free-zone licence holder, or a UAE trade mark holder or applicant | Those papers, and a name that matches, abbreviates or is closely connected to your company name, trading name or trade mark | The registrar's price | The same |
| Apple Developer Program (organisation) | A legal entity; no DBAs, trade names or branches | A D-U-N-S Number, a public website and work email on your domain, and an enroller who can bind the company | USD 99 a year | We build and submit from your account |
| Google Play Console (organisation) | An organisation | A D-U-N-S number, free from Dun & Bradstreet | USD 25, once | The same |
| Google Play Console (personal) | An individual | If created after 13 November 2023, testing requirements before production | USD 25, once | We plan the test period in |
| Hosting, DNS and code repository | Your company | Accounts and a card in your name | Each provider's price | We deploy and push there; the hosting region is agreed in the scope |
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Seven checks in our bilingual QA pass for Arabic and English websites
We build Arabic and English websites and apps with right-to-left layouts, and they get a bilingual QA pass before launch. These are engineering checks on a built site. The design side belongs to our UI/UX design work for Dubai businesses.
| Check | What breaks without it |
|---|---|
| Mirrored layout | Arrows and progress bars must flip; logos and media controls must not. Miss one and a 'next' arrow points backwards. |
| Arabic font rendering | A fallback font swaps in mid-sentence, and tight line height clips the diacritics. |
| Numerals | Each field needs one deliberate choice, Western (0–9) or Eastern Arabic, or one price shows two ways on a page. |
| Mixed-direction strings | AED prices, UAE mobile numbers and order codes inside an Arabic sentence scramble without bidi isolation. |
| Forms | Errors show in one language only, Arabic names fail a Latin-only rule, and phone fields lose their left-to-right order. |
| Language tags | Without lang (ar-AE, en-AE), dir and hreflang pairs, screen readers mispronounce the text and search shows the wrong language. |
| Emails and PDFs | Without the Arabic font embedded, customers see empty boxes where the letters should be. |
Translation is a separate job from this pass. Who writes the Arabic copy is one of the points the written scope settles (step 3 below).
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What has to be approved before we can connect it
Each service below needs an account or an approval in your company's name, and the build cannot finish without it. Apply early.
| Service | What the build involves | What your company arranges first |
|---|---|---|
| Stripe | Checkout plus webhooks that mark orders paid or refunded | A Stripe account in the company's name |
| Telr, PayTabs, Network International N-Genius | Hosted or embedded checkout with payment callbacks | Merchant approval from the provider you choose |
| Tabby and Tamara | An instalment option at checkout | Approval from each provider |
| Property Finder and Bayut | Listing feeds from your CRM to each portal | A portal account and feed access |
| AI and WhatsApp chatbots | A bot that answers set questions and passes the chat to a named person on your team when it can't answer | A WhatsApp Business account in your name |
For online stores we build the pages gateways expect, from refunds and delivery to terms and contact details, and before you apply I point out the ones each provider checks; the order of licence, bank and gateway is in the e-commerce cost guide. Then, ahead of handover, we put one real order through the live checkout with you. No live test order, no handover.
More on each: payment gateway integration, Property Finder and Bayut feeds and AI chatbot development.
Have a project in mind?
Send a few lines on WhatsApp or get a fixed AED quote.
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One price in every emirate, from Al Ain to Umm Al Quwain
Nothing about our price or process changes between Dubai and Al Ain. The licensing authority does, and the way it spells your company's name is the one every gateway and app store will check.
Website development in Al Ain
Al Ain is a city in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, so an Al Ain business is licensed through Abu Dhabi's bodies, with ADRA handling registration since January 2025. The bands and process are the ones on this page. I ask an Al Ain client for the licence first, because the English and Arabic names on it decide how the domain, gateway and app accounts are opened.
Web design in Ras Al Khaimah
A RAKEZ licence is valid for one year from issue, so check the expiry date before a gateway or Apple reviews it. If you trade on the mainland through the DED's 'Branch of a Free Zone Company' licence, remember that Apple will not enrol a branch, and ask Apple whether the free-zone company itself should enrol.
Website development in Umm Al Quwain
The UAQ Free Trade Zone says its licence covers business inside the zone or outside the UAE, with sales into the wider UAE market made through an agent or distributor. Check that before an online store takes its first UAE order. A freelancer permit is a different case for Apple: an individual account sells under your personal name, so ask Apple first if you want a company name on the listing.
| Emirate | Licensing authority | What to check before you open accounts |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai | DET (Department of Economy and Tourism) for mainland companies; free-zone companies hold their zone's licence | The licence name matches every account. Budgets: website costs in Dubai |
| Abu Dhabi, including Al Ain | ADDED, whose ADRA has registered mainland and non-financial free-zone businesses since January 2025 | The same name check. Budgets: website costs, same as in Dubai |
| Ras Al Khaimah | RAKEZ for free-zone and non-free-zone licences; the emirate's DED for mainland and branch licences | Is the licensed entity the company itself or a branch? |
| Umm Al Quwain | UAQ Free Trade Zone for licences and freelancer permits; the emirate's DED for mainland licences | A freelancer permit or a company licence? |
| Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah | Set out on each emirate's own page | Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah |
Tell me your emirate and the job on WhatsApp and I'll say which name check applies.
Pricing in AED
What each kind of build costs
Every band excludes VAT, and each card shows the usual timeline. Ongoing work has monthly bands too: AED 600–1,800 a month to look after a website, AED 1,500–4,500 for an app, and a full-time developer at AED 8,900–17,900. Only gateway, BNPL and portal integrations are still quoted, per provider. Each project starts with a short discovery call, after which you get one AED figure and the scope in writing, and that figure stays put unless the scope changes. Pricing a website first? The AED website cost calculator shows roughly where yours sits inside its band.
Business website
AED 2,900 – AED 17,000
Excl. VATBusiness website (custom design, Next.js or WordPress) · Typical timeline: 1–3 weeks
A custom-designed company site in English, Arabic or both. What sets the price.
Get a quote for this plan
WordPress website
A WordPress site your staff can edit. WordPress or custom?
E-commerce store (Shopify, WooCommerce or custom)
A Shopify, WooCommerce or custom store. Build and monthly fees, or Shopify development.
Mobile app (iOS + Android, Flutter or React Native)
One app for iOS and Android, published from your accounts. App costs in Dubai.
Custom software, portal or SaaS
Web apps, portals, operations systems and SaaS. Software, CRM and ERP costs, or a startup MVP.
Custom CRM
A CRM built around your sales stages. Custom CRM development.
Restaurant POS + commission-free online ordering
A POS with commission-free online ordering. Restaurant and café websites.
Real estate website + CRM
A property website with a CRM behind it. Real estate websites.
Clinic / healthcare software
Appointments, patient records and clinic workflows. Clinic websites and software.
AI chatbot (website or WhatsApp)
A website or WhatsApp chatbot that hands over to staff. AI chatbot development.
SEO and digital marketing (monthly retainer)
Monthly SEO and marketing. Digital marketing in Dubai.
Gateway, BNPL or property-portal integration
Stripe, Telr, PayTabs, N-Genius, Tabby, Tamara, Property Finder or Bayut, priced per provider. Gateway integration.
Website care plan (updates, security, backups, small changes)
Bug fixes cost nothing for the first six months after launch, so this plan is for keeping the site current: updates, security, backups and small edits. Website maintenance.
App maintenance plan (OS and store updates, monitoring, small changes)
OS releases and store-policy changes handled, plus monitoring and small changes, so the app keeps passing review. App maintenance.
Dedicated developer, full-time (about 160 hours a month)
A developer on your product only, about 160 hours a month; half-time runs AED 4,900–9,500. Hire a developer.
- Fixed price in AED
- Free scoping call
- No obligation
Not sure which card fits? Describe the job on WhatsApp and I'll name the band.
Prices are in UAE dirhams (AED) and exclude VAT. Project prices are converted from our GBP price list at GBP 1 = AED 4.90 (11 October 2026) and rounded; monthly plans are set in AED. Codingclave is an India-based supplier and is not registered for UAE VAT. VAT-registered UAE businesses usually account for VAT on imported services under the reverse-charge mechanism; confirm with your tax adviser.
Fixed AED quote
Get your AED figure and scope in writing
Ashish asks what is missing, books a short video call and sends your AED figure and scope in writing, with every account in your company's name from day one.
Ashish Sharma
Founder, Codingclave
Ashish or the team replies on WhatsApp or email during our hours, Mon–Sat, 8:30am–5:30pm GST.
- ★ 4.9 on Google (76 reviews) · Lucknow, India profile
- 200+ projects since 2017
- Top Rated on Upwork, 100% Job Success
- Founder-led delivery
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From a WhatsApp message to the keys of your own accounts
Timelines follow the band: 1–3 weeks for a business website, 2–6 for a store, 4–12 for an app and 6–16 for custom software.
Send a WhatsApp with the basics
Your emirate, what you need and a rough budget. If you already hold a licence, add the company's legal name exactly as printed; Apple, Google, your gateway and your registrar all check against it. Still setting up the company? Say so and we plan around it.
A video call to pin down the scope
We work out what the site or app has to do and who on your side will update it. Then we cover whether Arabic is needed and which gateway or portal it talks to.
A written scope with your AED figure
Inclusions line by line, with exclusions and dates. Once you sign, the AED figure is fixed and only a change of scope can move it. Payment comes in three slices, 40% to start, 40% on reaching the mid-project milestone written into the scope and 20% at launch, and that last slice is when your company takes ownership of the source code and IP. The hosting region and who writes the Arabic copy are confirmed in writing for your project before you sign.
Your company opens the accounts
Domain, hosting, repository, D-U-N-S Number and developer consoles, in the legal name from step one. Request the D-U-N-S Number first, since both app-store enrolments wait on it.
Staging link and the bilingual QA pass
You review a working build on a staging address while the Arabic and English pages go through the checks above.
Go-live and handover of every login
For a store, the final check is a real purchase on the live checkout, made with you. For an app, the build goes to Apple and Google review from your accounts. You then get admin on everything, and we remove our access when you say so. For the first six months live, we fix any bug without charging you.
FAQ
Questions UAE businesses ask us
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How much does it cost to develop a website in the UAE?
Which web development company should I choose in the UAE, and how do I check one?
Do I need a UAE trade licence to hire a web developer from India?
Do I pay VAT on a website invoice from an Indian company?
Is there withholding tax when a UAE business pays a developer abroad?
Who owns the domain, hosting, App Store account and code when you build it?
Do you build websites for businesses in Ras Al Khaimah, Umm Al Quwain and Al Ain?
What does a web developer earn in the UAE, and is hiring one cheaper than paying for a project?
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Ashish founded Codingclave in Lucknow, India, in 2017 and still leads delivery on every project.
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