A $99 a month website for businesses in Dubai and the UAE

The program costs $99 a month against a regular price of $299. The minimum is three months, so you pay $297 to start, and after that it runs month to month. There is no setup fee. If you join at $99, you keep that rate for as long as your subscription stays active.

What the monthly fee covers:

• A custom-designed 3-page website, plus a logo created or redesigned if you need one
• A domain and hosting for one year from launch, or a connection to a domain you already own, with SSL
• Professionally written content in English, basic SEO setup, a contact form, and call and WhatsApp buttons
• QA, deployment, ongoing management and support, and a client portal

Anything beyond that is quoted in writing before work starts, and none of it changes the $99. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.

Every invoice is in US dollars. The UAE dirham is pegged to the US dollar, so the dirham cost of $99 stays close to the same from one month to the next. The exact amount that leaves your account depends on the rate and any fee your bank or card provider applies to a dollar payment, which is why we do not print a dirham figure.

You can pay three ways:

• Payoneer, by card or bank transfer
• PayPal
• Cryptocurrency, with 5% off every payment: $94.05 a month, or $282.15 for the first three months

Processing fees are charged by the payment provider, not by us. They typically run 2.5% to 4% depending on the method, are separate from the $99, and are paid by the client. For crypto, confirm the wallet address with us by phone on +1 (716) 317-6884 before sending, because a crypto transfer cannot be reversed.

A business in Dubai often serves English-speaking and Arabic-speaking customers in the same week. The three pages in the $99 program are written in English. Arabic pages are a paid add-on, and when you add them the Arabic version is a real Arabic page with its own address, written in Arabic, not English text run through a translation widget.

Right-to-left is more than flipping the text. The menu, the alignment, the order of the form fields and the direction of arrows all mirror, and the Arabic text is set in a typeface designed for Arabic. The language switch on each page leads to the matching page in the other language, not back to the home page.

Tell us at the review stage that you want Arabic. The Arabic pages are quoted in writing before work starts, and your $99 a month does not change. You can see this page in Arabic.

Many customers in the UAE would rather send a WhatsApp message than fill in a form. Every site in the program carries a WhatsApp button that opens a chat with your business number in one tap, alongside a call button and a contact form that delivers to your inbox. All three stay within reach on a phone.

We work with you the same way. You can reach us by WhatsApp on +1 (716) 317-6884, by email at support@tecnomation.com, or by phone, and you choose which.

We are in Hillside, New Jersey, and work Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 7 PM US Central Time, which is 11 AM to 8 PM Eastern Time all year. The UAE is UTC+4 all year and does not use daylight saving. The US does, so the UAE is nine hours ahead of Central (eight ahead of Eastern) during US summer time, and ten ahead of Central (nine ahead of Eastern) in the US winter.

• From the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, our day runs from 7 PM to 4 AM in the UAE.
• For the rest of the year, it runs from 8 PM to 5 AM in the UAE.
• A message you send on a UAE morning usually gets its reply that same UAE evening. We reply within one business day.
• Since 2022 the UAE's official working week has run Monday to Friday, so our weeks line up on the same days.

You review a staging link in your day; the changes are there the next morning. How the build runs sets out each step.

The 3-page site is built to bring you enquiries. If you want to take payments on it, an online store and the payment gateway that sits behind the checkout are e-commerce work, one of our additional services. That work is quoted in writing before it starts, and your subscription stays at $99 a month.

Selling online in the UAE also has its own licensing requirements, so check your obligations with your licensing authority before a checkout goes live. For larger or custom projects, see Tecnomation's UAE page.