Websites for Doha in Arabic and English built from Islamabad

Doha is home to the Qatar Financial Centre, which licenses financial, professional-services, family-wealth and technology firms under a legal and regulatory framework based on common law. Firms there tend to need precise bilingual service pages, team and credential profiles, and enquiry or onboarding flows their compliance team can sign off. That work sits between a marketing website and a small web application, and it is easier to scope that way from the start.

Qatar's Third National Development Strategy names manufacturing, logistics and tourism as its growth clusters, and Doha will host the 21st Asian Games in 2030. For hospitality, events and logistics operators, the website has to carry operational detail: venues, schedules, service coverage, supplier listings, and booking or quote requests that reach the right person. Brands that sell only online have a newer concern, and it is regulatory.

Ministerial Decision No. 25 of 2026, in force since 16 March 2026, created an e-commerce licence for commercial activity carried out through websites, digital platforms or social media channels without physical commercial premises. It covers activities the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has approved and published, and a business trading on several platforms needs a separate licence for each. In September 2026 the Ministry launched the licence on the Single Window at QR500, for 194 activities that include fashion design and related products. Businesses operating under the licence must use a .qa or .com.qa domain registered through a provider approved by the Communications Regulatory Authority.

The decision also lists what a licensed platform must show: commercial registration and licence numbers, contact and customer-service details, descriptions of goods or services, exchange and return procedures, complaint handling and consumer-protection information. Licensed sellers must also offer electronic payment. For a Doha label that has sold only through Instagram, per-platform licensing is a practical moment to decide whether an owned storefront should become the main channel. We model the required disclosures as structured content with fixed places in the footer, product pages and checkout, rather than a policy page written the week before launch. Where a brand already trades on a .com, we plan the move to the .qa domain with page-level redirects to protect the search visibility it has built.

If you also trade from a shop or office in Qatar, ask MOCI or your adviser whether the licence applies to you. Before a first call, four answers help: your licence position, who controls the domain and through which registrar, which payment provider you use or prefer, and who on your side approves Arabic copy. Those shape the schedule more than page count does.

Qatar's Consumer Protection Law requires the product, price and service information it covers to be given in Arabic, with other languages allowed alongside. It entitles buyers to a dated invoice showing type, price and quantity. Where goods or services are sold in instalments, the seller must disclose the cash price, instalment price, instalment period, number and amount of instalments, total cost and any advance payment before the contract, which matters for any checkout offering pay-later plans. Separately, Law No. 7 of 2019 on the Protection of the Arabic Language requires trade names and trademarks to be written in Arabic, with any text in another language less prominent than the Arabic.

We deliver Arabic and multilingual websites as full right-to-left builds: mirrored layouts, Arabic type chosen for reading on screen, separate language URLs linked with hreflang, bilingual product and CMS fields, and order emails and invoices templated in both languages. The language switch keeps visitors on the equivalent page instead of returning them to the homepage. Arabic copy comes from your team or your translator, and we bring it into the designs early so layouts are tested with real text. How your name and mark appear in both scripts is settled at the design stage, not improvised during development.

Online payments with Qatar-issued debit and prepaid cards, including Himyan, the central bank's national debit card, run through QPAY, the centralised e-commerce gateway. QPAY also carries cardless payments from bank accounts through Fawran and Tahweel and from mobile wallets through QMP, and the NAPS card network processes tokenised Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay transactions. Credit cards are widely used in Qatar and are accepted through the merchant's own payment provider. We integrate the provider you contract with and test each route before launch: local debit, cardless, credit card and wallet.

Privacy obligations depend on where the business is registered. Law No. 13 of 2016 on personal data privacy (PDPPL) requires notice before personal data is processed, prior consent for electronic direct marketing with a working way to opt out, and extra duties for websites aimed at children; it is enforced under the National Cyber Security Agency. Firms incorporated or registered in the QFC are covered by the QFC Data Protection Regulations 2021. Which regime applies to you is for your adviser to confirm, and we build forms and consent flows to match.

Our Qatar projects include The Closet, a fashion storefront where the work centred on product discovery and mobile browsing across a broad catalogue, and GWC Directory, a platform that makes a large logistics ecosystem searchable without the interface becoming dense. They correspond to two different Doha briefs: selling to consumers, and organising a large body of business information so people can find what they need.