WhatsApp Store for the UAE
Turn your Instagram and TikTok following into real orders: a branded WhatsApp store where UAE shoppers browse in dirhams, in Arabic or English, and send the finished order straight to your WhatsApp.
The UAE shops on its phone, in a dozen languages, and the order almost always closes on WhatsApp. Scaanme gives your business a branded WhatsApp store: customers in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah browse your products with photos and prices in dirhams, switch between Arabic and English, then send the complete order to your WhatsApp, ready to confirm and deliver. There is no website to build, no payment gateway to connect, and Scaanme never takes a commission on a single sale.
Get Started FreeOrders arrive in your WhatsApp
Customers browse your storefront, choose their items, and the complete order lands in your WhatsApp, itemized and ready to confirm and route for delivery across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah.
Prices in dirhams
Your customers see product prices in the dirhams they think in. The store display supports the UAE's local currency, not dollars only like many tools that never localized for the region.
Zero commission on sales
Scaanme charges a flat subscription and never takes a cut of your sales. Every dirham a customer pays goes to you.
Built for a multilingual market
Your store serves Arabic with true right-to-left and English from the same link, with 45+ languages ready for the UAE's tourists and its expat customers.
No payment gateway; settle your way
Scaanme does not process payments. Settle the way UAE shoppers prefer: cash on delivery, a bank transfer, or your own payment link.
Works with regular WhatsApp Business
Orders arrive as a click-to-chat message in the free WhatsApp Business app. There is no WhatsApp Business API and no approval process.
Selling in Instagram DMs vs a Scaanme store
| What you deal with | Selling in DMs and comments | Scaanme WhatsApp store |
|---|---|---|
| Taking an order | Piecing items together from chats in several languages | A complete order arrives in WhatsApp, itemized |
| Prices and currency | Retyped in every chat, sometimes only in dollars | Set once in dirhams, shown to every shopper |
| Serving a mixed city | One caption in one language misses half the room | Arabic, English, and 45+ languages from one link |
| Fees on sales | Marketplace or gateway fees trim the margin | Flat subscription, zero commission on sales |
| Getting started | Chasing replies across three apps all day | Add products, share one link, from $9.99/month |
Capabilities of social and marketplace tools change over time; this table describes typical experiences, not specific vendors.
How to Start
Add your products
Upload photos, set prices in dirhams, and sort everything into categories. Pick from 56 store themes made for different trades.
Share one link
Your store lives on one link. Put it in your Instagram or TikTok bio, your WhatsApp status, or on your Scaanme card and QR, and reach shoppers across the emirates.
Receive orders on WhatsApp
Customers browse, choose, and send the order to your WhatsApp. You confirm, agree on cash on delivery, a transfer, or a payment link, and deliver. Scaanme never touches the money.
What is a WhatsApp store, and how it works
A WhatsApp store is a browsable online catalog whose checkout is a WhatsApp message instead of a card payment page. A shopper opens your store link, moves through categories and product photos, adds what they want to a cart, and the finished order is sent to your WhatsApp as a click-to-chat message, itemized and ready. The shop is a link; the checkout is a conversation. Scaanme builds that storefront for you with categories, photos, and prices in dirhams, and it runs on the free WhatsApp Business app you already have. There is no WhatsApp Business API to apply for, no website to maintain, and no payment gateway to wire up before your first sale.
Why the UAE sells on WhatsApp
The UAE is a phone-first, delivery-first market layered over a dozen nationalities. Thousands of home-based and free-zone sellers, from home bakers in Sharjah to abaya and oud labels in Dubai to thrift and beauty pages in Abu Dhabi, already run on Instagram and TikTok and close the sale in chat. Shoppers here expect cash on delivery as much as card, browse in Arabic one minute and English the next, and buy in waves around Ramadan and Eid, the Dubai Shopping Festival, and the summer surprises when the heat pushes everyone indoors. A WhatsApp store gives those sellers a real, multilingual storefront in dirhams without losing the trusted chat where UAE orders actually close, and without paying a marketplace a cut.
Frequently Asked Questions
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