Custom e-commerce development for the Algerian market
Online stores that actually sell in Algeria: CIB and Edahabia card payments through SlickPay, OneClick, cash on delivery, integrated couriers, Arabic and French storefronts — for local brands and for foreign companies entering the market.
The problem
Selling online in Algeria isn't selling in Europe with another language. Most customers pay cash on delivery; some pay online with a CIB or Edahabia card; parcels go through couriers that each have their own API; and customers write in Arabic, French, or both. A store that ignores this ends up run by hand over WhatsApp.
What I build
- Catalog and orders — products, variants, stock, promotions and a short, mobile-first checkout.
- Payments — CIB and Edahabia cards through SlickPay, OneClick, and cash on delivery through your courier, with tracking of what's still to be collected.
- Delivery — ZR Express and Maystro integrations, per-wilaya rates and parcel tracking.
- Arabic and French — the whole storefront in right-to-left Arabic and in French, including emails and the admin.
- Day-to-day operations — one dashboard for orders, payments and shipments, with no re-typing.
Proof
I built the backend of Odigix (30,000+ registered users, SlickPay and OneClick payments, automated delivery from third-party suppliers) and GoStore, a store builder for Algerian merchants. Payments that arrive without a reference, duplicate notifications, orders stuck between two systems — I've handled them in production.
Questions clients ask
- We're a foreign brand entering Algeria. What's different?
- Payments and delivery. International gateways don't work with Algerian cards, most orders are paid in cash on delivery, and couriers each have their own API. I build that local layer behind a clean interface your team can maintain.
- Which couriers can you integrate?
- I've shipped ZR Express and Maystro integrations to production: shipment creation and parcel tracking. For another courier I review its API before committing.
- Why custom instead of Shopify or WooCommerce?
- Often an off-the-shelf store is enough, and I'll say so. Custom makes sense for digital goods, wholesale and reseller pricing, several couriers, or order volumes where manual processing breaks down. Shopify, for example, doesn't support Algerian payment methods.
Building something similar?
Tell me where you are and what's blocking you. I'll give you an honest read on how I'd approach it.