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Zid developer.
Zid gives you a store. It does not give you a brand. I build the storefront layer that makes the difference — custom themes, the UI your catalogue actually needs, and the functionality the platform leaves to you.
Egypt & the Gulf · Remote
- 150+Salla & Zid storefronts shipped
- ~25%client satisfaction lift
- 2agencies led as team lead
What you get
Custom Zid storefronts
Theme development against your brand and your catalogue — category structures, product page layouts and merchandising blocks built around what you actually sell.
Migration and redesign
Moving to Zid, or off a theme that has been patched one time too many. Done so URLs, SEO equity and existing traffic survive the move.
Arabic-first interface work
Arabic typography that reads at every size, correct RTL behaviour throughout the funnel, and forms that behave for Arabic input.
Performance and conversion fixes
Auditing what is slowing the store down and what is losing the sale — then fixing it, with before-and-after numbers rather than assurances.
Zid, Salla, and choosing between them honestly
They are not the same platform with different colours
Zid and Salla get shortlisted together and compared as if the decision were cosmetic. It is not. They structure a storefront differently, expose different amounts of the page to a developer, and differ in how much of the checkout you are allowed to touch. Work built for one does not port to the other by copying files.
Which means the platform decision is a technical one with a long tail, and it is worth making before the catalogue is loaded rather than after.
What actually decides it
Not feature checklists — both will tick almost every box. What decides it is your catalogue shape, the payment and shipping providers you need on day one, how much custom behaviour your selling model requires, and, more than people expect, which dashboard the person running the store every day can actually use without calling you.
Having shipped on both, I will tell you which I would pick for your case and why — including when the honest answer is that it does not matter and you should pick the one your team already knows.
The work is usually the same shape either way
Whichever platform you land on, the jobs that make a difference repeat: a storefront that looks like your brand instead of the template it came from, a product page that answers the question a buyer stopped on, a checkout that does not lose people on a phone, and speed work that nobody notices except in the numbers.
Common questions
The things people actually ask before hiring.
- Do you work on Zid and Salla, or specialise in one?
- Both, and that is genuinely useful — it means the advice on which platform suits your catalogue is not a pitch for the only one I know.
- Can you migrate my store to Zid without losing SEO?
- That is the part most migrations get wrong. It needs a URL map and redirects planned before anything moves, not patched afterwards once traffic has already dropped.
- Do you offer support after launch?
- Yes. Stores keep changing after launch — new campaigns, new categories, platform updates. I would rather hand over something you can run, and stay reachable for the parts you can't.
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