ENTOMagento Commerce Engines for UAE Businesses From Implementation to Long-term Growth
Our Magento expertise has been recognised through industry awards, backed by years of engineering experience across complex commerce environments.
Most Magento stores don't fail all at once. They get slower, harder to maintain, and increasingly dependent on workarounds and outdated code.
For UAE businesses, the challenge often extends beyond the Magento platform itself. Arabic and English experiences, local payment methods, VAT, regional delivery requirements, and the country's move towards electronic invoicing all need to work together. As a full-service Magento development company in the UAE, we audit what's there, fix what's brittle, and rebuild what holds you back across new builds, version upgrades, migrations, performance, integrations, and managed support.
Years in Digital Transformation
More than a decade of turning enterprise commerce ambition into proven revenue engines.
Magento Stores Delivered
Commerce experience across B2C, D2C, B2B, omnichannel, and marketplace environments.
Digital Technology Awards
Recognition across commerce, digital experience, and technology delivery.
Magento Platform Experts
A dedicated team covering architecture, engineering, UX, integrations, performance, and DevOps.
Certified Developers
Certified and experienced engineers working across Magento ecosystems.
Years Average Client Retention
Long-term partnerships built around continuous engineering, support, and commerce growth.
Most Magento stores don't fail all at once. They get slower, harder to maintain, and increasingly dependent on workarounds and outdated code.
For UAE businesses, the challenge often extends beyond the Magento platform itself. Arabic and English experiences, local payment methods, VAT, regional delivery requirements, and the country's move towards electronic invoicing all need to work together. As a full-service Magento development company in the UAE, we audit what's there, fix what's brittle, and rebuild what holds you back across new builds, version upgrades, migrations, performance, integrations, and managed support.
Years in Digital Transformation
More than a decade of turning enterprise commerce ambition into proven revenue engines.
Magento Stores Delivered
Commerce experience across B2C, D2C, B2B, omnichannel, and marketplace environments.
Digital Technology Awards
Recognition across commerce, digital experience, and technology delivery.
Magento Platform Experts
A dedicated team covering architecture, engineering, UX, integrations, performance, and DevOps.
Certified Developers
Certified and experienced engineers working across Magento ecosystems.
Years Average Client Retention
Long-term partnerships built around continuous engineering, support, and commerce growth.
An ageing Magento version can become a business issue long before the store stops working. Magento Open Source 2.4.6 reached end of support on 11 August 2026, and 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 reached end of support in 2025. If you're on any of these, your store has stopped receiving security patches.
For UAE merchants, a version review is also a useful time to assess integrations, Arabic and RTL requirements, payment flows, VAT configuration, ERP connections, and upcoming eInvoicing requirements.
Support Timeline
Unsupported Today
Running Magento Open Source 2.4.4, 2.4.5 or 2.4.6.
Adobe no longer releases security patches for these versions, so every newly disclosed vulnerability stays unpatched until you upgrade. This needs a plan now, not next quarter.
Supported, But Not for Long
Running Magento Open Source 2.4.7
There's still time to plan properly, but not to wait. Start now and combine the upgrade with a Hyvä frontend, so you run one project instead of two.
Supported and Patchable
Running 2.4.8 or 2.4.9.
2.4.8 is supported until April 2028. 2.4.9, released in May 2026, adds PHP 8.5 support and 580+ fixes, with support into 2029. The work here is staying patched and getting more out of the platform.
We shape your Magento architecture around business goals, customer journeys, and revenue priorities. Every project gets a clear roadmap covering technology, UX, and the commerce journey, whether you're launching, replatforming, upgrading, or scaling.
We build tailored B2C, D2C, B2B, and marketplace experiences with certified Magento expertise. Our engineers write clean, standards-compliant code designed for long-term maintainability, reliable performance, growing catalogues, and increasing traffic.
We build complex B2B capabilities including company accounts, negotiated pricing, quote management, credit limits, approval workflows, bulk ordering, and custom purchasing journeys. Magento's native capabilities cover what they can, while purpose-built modules address requirements that need more.
We plan and execute upgrades to supported Magento versions, assessing PHP and database compatibility, custom code, extensions, integrations, and theme regressions before development begins. Larger upgrades, including Luma-to-Hyvä projects, are scoped around your existing architecture and business requirements.
Move your store from Magento 1, Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or a legacy custom platform with a structured migration plan. We handle data, integrations, custom functionality, SEO, and cutover planning to keep disruption to your business as low as possible.
We build mobile commerce experiences connected to your Magento backend and wider commerce ecosystem. Product discovery, personalised experiences, checkout, payments, order tracking, and notifications come together across devices using React Native, native technologies, APIs, and GraphQL.
We build modern Magento storefronts with Hyvä, headless, and PWA architectures, including migrations from legacy Luma implementations. Our frontend engineering focuses on faster page experiences, cleaner architecture, responsive UX, and storefronts that are easier to maintain alongside your Magento platform.
We build custom modules, middleware, and extensions for capabilities Magento doesn't provide out of the box. Solutions such as PII Shield address specific platform requirements, while our engineering approach keeps the resulting code secure, maintainable, well-documented, and compatible with your wider Magento ecosystem.
Connect Magento with ERP, PIM, CRM, OMS, POS, payment gateways, logistics platforms, and other business systems. We build reliable data flows for pricing, inventory, orders, customers, and fulfilment, with error handling and retry mechanisms designed for real-world commerce operations.
We design and manage Magento infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and dedicated environments, using technologies such as Varnish, Redis, OpenSearch, CDN, CI/CD, monitoring, and auto-scaling. Infrastructure is sized around your traffic, trading patterns, integrations, and business requirements while keeping cloud usage under control.
We keep your Magento store maintained beyond the initial development cycle, covering security patches, version updates, uptime monitoring, troubleshooting, bug fixes, and ongoing improvements. Our support approach also accounts for peak trading periods, planned releases, and the operational needs of your commerce team.
We identify technical and conversion issues across your storefront, including slow pages, checkout friction, tracking problems, and poor product discovery. Performance engineering, CRO, analytics, and quality testing help address the areas that have the greatest impact on the customer journey. PowerListing adds another layer of optimisation for Magento search and product listing performance.
We help Magento stores stay discoverable across the channels customers use to find products, including search engines, AI-powered search, answer engines, voice interfaces, and emerging discovery platforms. We also connect the wider MarTech stack to support customer journeys across discovery, engagement, conversion, and retention.
We apply AI and analytics to practical commerce use cases such as product discovery, personalisation, merchandising, customer insights, and emerging standards such as UCP. Real-time data and analytics help teams understand what is happening across the store and make informed decisions as customer behaviour and business priorities change.
Magento's open architecture provides room to engineer capabilities beyond standard commerce functionality. We use that flexibility to build the technical foundation required for complex stores.
We engineer Magento stores for efficient performance at scale. Product listings can run through Elasticsearch or OpenSearch instead of MySQL, supported by full-page and Varnish caching, optimized images and CDN delivery. Frontend performance budgets are considered from the beginning, helping deliver 2–5x faster pages while reducing the database workload.
Magento encrypts payment credentials, while customer information such as names, email addresses and physical addresses remains unencrypted in standard installations. We implement field-level encryption at the database layer without changing the storefront experience. If customer records are compromised, the encrypted information remains unreadable.
Technical discoverability is built into the Magento store through server-side rendering and pre-rendering. Structured data, clean hreflang implementation and content prepared for search engines, AI Overviews and answer engines support broader digital visibility.
We build Hyvä themes, headless and PWA storefronts, Next.js and React interfaces, React Native applications and custom Magento modules. This approach allows the frontend to evolve independently while the Magento backend continues supporting core commerce operations.
Magento integrations with ERP, PIM, CRM and OMS platforms are built using custom middleware and event-driven systems. Retry mechanisms and error handling help keep pricing, inventory and orders synchronized during real-world traffic conditions.
We build company account structures, contract pricing, quote-to-order workflows, approvals, bulk ordering and tailored checkout experiences as clean Magento Open Source modules. The architecture keeps custom B2B functionality upgrade-safe while extending the capabilities Magento does not provide natively.
Codilar has helped us to build a robust omnichannel ecommerce platform for Carter’s, HomesRus, Monsoon and OshKosh. The team at Codilar follows the latest development trends and highly focus on a customer centric approach which resonates well with our values.
Group Head of eCommerce
Codilar has been a game changer for Marina Home. Their deep understanding of our brand vision and technical expertise helped us build a fast, intuitive website and streamline our backend operations. We've seen significant improvements in customer experience, operational efficiency, and online sales since partnering with them.
Head of eCommerce
Being India's top jewellery ecommerce brand, we were struggling in scaling our ecommerce technology stack. With Codilar, we have been able to boost our Magento store performance and have our catalog and products listed in an optimized way. Codilar's services has been outstanding and I recommend them to all the other player in the market.
CEO
Our Magento development team handles migrations across platforms, versions and legacy environments while protecting critical data, SEO value and trading continuity.
Magento 1 reached end of life in June 2020 and no longer receives security patches. Stores still running Magento 1 require a migration strategy rather than continued maintenance. We migrate large catalogues, including EGC Supply's 500K+ SKUs, through three stages: data stabilization, commerce feature expansion and UX optimisation. The process targets zero data loss, SEO preservation and 50%+ performance gains. Migration timelines typically range from 4 to 13 weeks depending on complexity.
Version upgrades are now a key requirement for many Magento merchants. We review PHP and database compatibility, extension conflicts and theme regressions before development begins, followed by complete regression testing. If the storefront is still using Luma, the upgrade can also be combined with a Hyvä migration rather than treating the two as separate projects.
When a business needs deeper native B2B functionality, Live Search, managed cloud infrastructure or vendor SLAs, we manage the move from Magento Open Source to Adobe Commerce. The transition can provide access to Page Builder, Fastly CDN, auto-scaling, managed Redis and OpenSearch, and multi-source inventory on infrastructure supported directly by Adobe.
Brands that outgrow SaaS limitations around catalogue complexity, B2B logic or customization can move to Magento while retaining SEO and order history. We rebuild the required commerce capabilities around a platform that provides greater control over the underlying technology.
When API limits, checkout constraints or multiple storefront costs begin affecting a growing business, we migrate from BigCommerce to Magento. The resulting architecture supports extensive customization, multiple stores from one instance and greater ownership of the commerce stack.
Large catalogues, higher order volumes and multi-store requirements can push a WordPress-based commerce setup beyond its practical limits. Our WooCommerce-to-Magento migration approach preserves customer data, order history and search equity while moving the commerce operation to a platform designed specifically for large-scale eCommerce.
Revenue-based pricing and separate B2C and B2B licensing can make Salesforce Commerce Cloud increasingly expensive as sales grow. Magento provides an alternative architecture where platform costs do not increase with every sale.
We consolidated TGR Ventures' two Magento stores into one instance with separate headless PWA frontends for each brand. The platform supports a 60GB+ database, 150+ customer groups, 11 currencies across 9 countries, two-way Odoo ERP synchronization and 6 payment gateways.
We rebuild outdated and fragmented technology environments into clean Magento architectures. Our team also takes on stalled projects and stores left behind after extended downtime, performance problems, or unsuccessful headless implementations.
When WooCommerce reaches its limits around catalogue complexity, transaction volumes, B2B requirements, or enterprise integrations, we move the store to Magento (Adobe Commerce). Products, customers, orders, SEO equity and critical commerce data remain protected while the architecture is rebuilt around enterprise requirements such as B2B capabilities, multi-store operations, integrations and scalable infrastructure.
Magento requires specialist knowledge across architecture, development and infrastructure. When an existing store is slower, less stable or harder to maintain than the business requires, a technical reset can often provide a clearer path forward. As a Magento consulting company, we work with brands that need an existing store assessed, repaired, stabilized or rebuilt while working alongside the business and technical teams already involved.
LIVEMitra Adiperkasa
DOWNTIME → STABLE
Rescued from regular downtime
LIVEAAW
SLOW → OPTIMIZED
Slow performance resolved
LIVEJPW Industries
STALLED → LIVE
Headless go-live stabilized
LIVEeCommerce
DOWN → STABLE
Recovered from downtime
A Magento development process built around business outcomes, with technical decisions tied to protecting your investment, data, and revenue.
Our Magento experience spans manufacturing, distribution and telecom, supporting the way different businesses sell, operate and serve customers.
Retail · Manufacturing · Distribution · Telecom
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Footwear
Grocery
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Beauty &
Personal Care
Perfumes
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Hardware
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Electronics
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Apparel
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PetCare
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Footwear
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Jewellery
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Beauty &
Personal Care
Perfumes
& Fragrances
Hardware
& Machinery
Electronics
Fashion &
Apparel
BabyCare
PetCare
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Jewellery
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Perfumes
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Hardware
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Codilar-built products designed around practical Magento commerce challenges, with proven capabilities for performance, security, and experience.
PowerListing is an OpenSearch and Elasticsearch-powered extension suite built for Magento product listing pages. It removes MySQL from the rendering path to deliver 2–5x faster listings and up to 80% infrastructure cost savings as the store grows.
PII Shield provides field-level PII encryption for Magento. Powered by Libsodium, it encrypts customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses across customers, orders, invoices, and shipments without changing checkout or admin workflows.
cWarmer is a SaaS-based Magento cache-warming solution that prepares pages in the cache before visitors arrive. It automatically monitors and pre-warms pages, reducing server response time from 5 seconds to 0.03 seconds without requiring changes to the Magento codebase.
NexPWA brings together ScandiPWA, Vue Storefront and Magento PWA Studio to provide a PWA acceleration layer for Magento. It can achieve 90+ Google PageSpeed scores and prepare a Magento store for PWA deployment in two weeks.
Hyza is a jewellery commerce platform built on Magento. Its capabilities include live gold price updates, virtual try-on, Try@Home, video cart, EMI payments, dynamic engraving, ERP integration, and catalogue management.
If your Magento store is dealing with any of these issues, there is usually a practical path to fixing them.
Stores running Magento Open Source 2.4.4, 2.4.5, or 2.4.6 no longer receive security patches, and there is no extended support option for these versions. This can leave stores exposed to ongoing security risks and make it harder to meet PCI compliance and cyber insurance requirements.
A store that performed well at launch can slow down as product catalogues and traffic increase. Weak Core Web Vitals, slow search, and checkout delays can affect both conversion and search visibility when the business should be growing.
Dependency conflicts, incompatible extensions, and theme regressions can make Magento upgrades difficult. Delaying the work can increase the size and complexity of the eventual upgrade.
Magento extension quality varies significantly. Overlapping modules, unsupported extensions, and core overrides can create compatibility problems, security concerns, and upgrade blockers.
ERP, PIM, CRM and OMS integrations built as temporary solutions can become unstable as traffic increases. Data can fall out of sync, orders can stop midway through transactions, and operational systems can begin creating more work instead of reducing it.
Self-hosting places responsibility for infrastructure, scaling, backups, WAF, and security with the business. Poorly monitored cloud environments can waste spend, while an outage during peak trading can have a direct commercial impact.
Heavy customization under a single partner can make future transitions difficult. Undocumented code, closed repositories, and limited knowledge transfer can turn a commercial decision into a technical dependency.
Internal engineering teams can become consumed by tickets, patches, and maintenance work, leaving little time for the roadmap that supports revenue growth. The store continues to be maintained, but strategic development keeps getting pushed back.
We connect Magento with the wider omnichannel technology ecosystem so commerce, operations and customer experience work together.
Our 5+ year average client lifetime reflects deep Magento expertise, continued engineering support, and long-term value creation beyond the initial project.
Our 250+ engineers include 65+ certified developers and 40+ architects and technical leads with more than 10 years of Magento experience. Certified expertise is built into the teams working on complex commerce requirements, from architecture through development.
More than a decade of implementation experience, engineering, and complex solutioning across industries and regions has built our Magento practice. Our capabilities have earned Adobe's trust for some of its highest-value clients.
Commerce is our primary focus. Magento is not one service among many. Eleven years of work on the platform gives our teams practical depth across architecture, solutioning, and development.
We extend Magento beyond its standard capabilities to address specific business requirements, supported by our own commerce products. These solutions provide additional options for performance, security, and customer experience beyond conventional extensions.
Our Magento practice has received 4 Meet Magento Awards and 3 Adobe Experience Awards. We also contribute to the wider Magento community through official meetups and Magecafe, our globally followed channel with videos reaching more than 100,000 views.
Our founders come from strong technology backgrounds and have extensive Magento experience and long-standing involvement in the ecosystem. That engineering background shapes how we approach architecture, development, and complex commerce requirements.
Your repositories, cloud accounts, Git environment, architecture documentation, and recorded module walkthroughs remain accessible to you. We also provide a contractual 30, 60 or 90-day exit commitment with handover support for a successor partner when required. Clients continue with us because they choose to.
Our regional teams provide business, solutioning, and technical support in the markets where you operate, backed by 250+ engineers at our Bengaluru global capability centre. Your project team remains accessible, involved, and accountable throughout delivery.
Three capabilities operate together within one accountable framework. Consulting defines the strategy, engineering builds the commerce foundation, and growth focuses on conversion, discovery and revenue.
KANMO GROUP
A Retail Revolution: Kanmo Group's Digital Makeover with Magento 2.4.5
2XL HOME
How Codilar Transformed 2XL Home's Online Store for Retail Success
AJMAL PERFUMES
Revolutionizing Perfume Retails: Ajmal Perfumes' Success Story Powered by Adobe Experience Cloud
HOMELANE
Redefining Interior eCommerce: Codilar's Scalable Solution for HomeLane
Each practice is led by specialists with a decade or more of experience, giving the people setting direction direct experience with the work itself.
VP - Commerce and DX Practice
VP - Commerce and DX Practice
Tech Lead
Practice Head
Practice Head
Technical Architect
Technical Architect
Tech Lead
Tech Lead
Tech Lead
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Tech Lead
Tech Lead
Tech Lead
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Where you'll find us
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View on YouTubeBring certified Magento developers into your organisation as individual specialists, dedicated teams or an extension of your existing engineering function. Senior architects provide technical direction throughout the engagement while developers work within your existing setup.
Our developers bring certified Magento expertise and hands-on experience with complex commerce implementations. They work exclusively within the commerce space, giving your team specialists who understand the platform, its challenges and the demands of real-world Magento projects.
Build the team around your requirements, whether you need a single Magento developer or specialists across backend, frontend, QA, DevOps and architecture. Principal architects and senior technical leaders stay involved throughout the engagement, bringing the wider experience of our Magento team to every project.
Choose a dedicated Magento developer, add specialists to your existing team or work with a project-based delivery team. As your roadmap changes, team capacity can be adjusted up or down each quarter. Region-aligned project managers and overlapping working hours across global markets help maintain consistent communication and keep senior expertise accessible throughout the engagement.
Our engineers follow established development practices, structured code reviews, staging-based releases and QA processes centred on critical revenue journeys such as checkout, search, cart and payments. This helps protect existing functionality while keeping delivery focused on clear, measurable outcomes. Client references and relevant delivery experience are also available under NDA.
Our Magento developers work with technologies shaping modern commerce, including AI-driven personalisation, intelligent search and product recommendations. They also use AI within development and integration workflows where it can support delivery. Your team gains access to Magento specialists who understand both the platform and the changing commerce landscape.
Yes. This is a common requirement for our Magento development team. We begin with a technical audit covering code quality, patch status, extension conflicts, infrastructure, security, and performance. The assessment then identifies what should be retained, repaired, or rebuilt, along with the expected effort and cost. We work alongside the teams that originally built the store rather than approaching the transition as a blame exercise.
Magento can be configured to handle UAE VAT rules, including the standard 5% VAT rate, tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive pricing, VAT calculation and tax display across the storefront and checkout. The exact configuration depends on the business model, customer type, product category and selling markets. For businesses operating across the UAE and GCC, Magento can also support different tax and pricing configurations across markets when the commerce architecture requires it.
Yes. Magento can integrate with payment gateways used by businesses in the UAE, including card payments, digital wallets and local payment methods where supported by the selected provider. The integration can cover payment authorisation, refunds, cancellations, transaction status updates and reconciliation between Magento and the payment platform. The choice of gateway depends on the business model, markets served and payment methods required.
Yes. Magento can support multi-market commerce across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and other GCC markets through multiple websites, stores or store views within a single platform architecture. Each market can have its own language, currency, catalogue, pricing, tax configuration, payment methods and customer experience while sharing common commerce capabilities where appropriate.
Yes. We can migrate existing UAE eCommerce stores from platforms such as Shopify, Shopify Plus, WooCommerce, BigCommerce or legacy Magento implementations. The migration can cover products, customers, orders, catalogues, URLs, integrations and other business-critical data while accounting for UAE-specific requirements such as VAT, payment gateways, Arabic content and local market configurations.
A certified Magento development company provides access to a wider team of architects, developers, QA, and DevOps specialists rather than relying on one individual. For a revenue-generating eCommerce store, that depth provides continuity when team members are unavailable and helps address complex platform, integration, and infrastructure requirements. The initial cost of a single resource may be lower, but rework, technical debt, and lost sales can increase the overall cost when a store lacks the required specialist support.
Magento can be integrated with an e-invoicing solution to support the UAE's upcoming e-invoicing requirements. The implementation can connect Magento with an approved service provider or an external invoicing system, allowing invoice data to move between the commerce platform and the required tax infrastructure. The right architecture depends on the business's ERP, invoicing system, transaction volume and e-invoicing requirements. An assessment of the existing commerce and finance stack helps determine the integration approach.
Yes. Magento supports multilingual and multi-store configurations, allowing businesses to operate Arabic and English storefronts within the same commerce architecture. The implementation can cover translated content, RTL layouts, localised product information, currencies, checkout experiences and market-specific catalogue requirements. The exact setup depends on whether the business operates one UAE storefront or multiple regional markets.
Magento can be configured and integrated with the systems required to support a business's data protection and security requirements in the UAE. This can include access controls, encryption, secure integrations, audit logging and appropriate handling of customer information. Businesses operating in specific jurisdictions such as the UAE mainland, ADGM or DIFC may also have additional regulatory requirements. The applicable requirements should be assessed based on where the business operates and where customer data is processed.
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