Sooquna: the store builder made in Qatar.
We designed and built Sooquna in Doha so Qatari merchants can sell online in Arabic and English, take payment through local gateways or cash on delivery, ship with the couriers they already use, and keep every riyal of their sales.
- Product
- Sooquna سوقنا
- Built by
- Cyberboost LLC, QFC 03085
- Built in
- Doha, Qatar
- Market
- Qatar first, then the Gulf
- Status
- Onboarding merchants in Qatar
- Live
- sooquna.qa
Selling online in Qatar works differently.
Global store builders were made for card-first markets. In Qatar, many orders still start in an Instagram message, many buyers prefer to pay on delivery, and the gateways, couriers and language customers expect are local. Merchants were patching plugins together, or paying a cut of every sale to platforms based abroad.
Sooquna starts from how people here actually buy, and builds that in from day one.
Small sellers run their business from Instagram DMs and WhatsApp chats.
A proper store in minutes, starting with cash on delivery while the payment gateway account is being approved.
Local payment gateways and couriers are missing or need third-party plugins.
SkipCash, Sadad, Aramex, DHL and NBOX work out of the box, with MyFatoorah, Tap, Tabby and Tamara also supported.
Arabic is an afterthought: broken layouts, half-translated checkouts.
Arabic-first right-to-left storefronts, Arabic fonts, and checkout, emails and invoices in each buyer's language.
Cash-on-delivery parcels come back unpaid and cost money.
Buyers confirm on WhatsApp before the order ships, so fewer parcels return.
Platforms take a percentage of every sale and hold the merchant's money.
No transaction fee. Payments settle from the merchant's own gateway straight into their bank account.
Built for Qatar's digital economy.
Qatar's plan for 2030 asks for a diversified, knowledge-based economy led by a strong private sector. Small and medium businesses are at the centre of it, and getting them selling online is one of the most direct ways to grow non-oil trade. Sooquna is our contribution: a Qatari platform that puts local merchants online on local rails.
of private sector companies in Qatar are SMEs, around 71,000 businesses.
Source: Gulf Timesvalue of Qatar's e-commerce market in 2024, up 22% on the year before.
Source: Ministry of Commerce and Industry, via The Peninsulathe target year for Qatar to rank among the leaders in business environment and digital competitiveness under NDS3.
Source: Deloitte on NDS3More SMEs, more of the economy
NDS3 (2024 to 2030) aims to raise the share of GDP that comes from small and medium businesses. Sooquna lowers the cost of going online to an affordable monthly plan with no commission, so a home business or a single boutique can compete on the web.
Digital economy pillar
MCIT's Digital Agenda 2030 names the digital economy and SME empowerment as priorities. Sooquna is a working tool for that, not a pilot.
Local platforms for local trade
MCIT's e-commerce strategy work focuses on helping SMEs build successful online stores. That is exactly the job Sooquna does.
Built, owned and supported here
Designed, coded and supported in Doha by a QFC-registered company. The product knowledge, the skills and the jobs stay in Qatar.
A Qatari product that travels
Qatar first, then the Gulf through Sooquna International. A technology export, not an import.
Further reading: MCIT, Digital Agenda 2030 · QNA, E-Commerce Strategy for Qatar
How it connects
The storefront and the admin are what merchants see. Behind them, we connected the local services that decide whether an order gets paid for and delivered.
Open
Pick a style of the Sahil theme, add products and go live on yourname.sooquna.store or your own domain.
Sell
A one-page checkout in Arabic or English with cards, Apple Pay, pay later or cash on delivery.
Deliver
Courier rates at checkout, labels and tracking, or your own drivers with delivery zones and time slots.
Grow
Customer segments, email campaigns, automations and live reports from the same admin.
What we built
Sooquna is a full commerce platform, designed and engineered by our team in Doha.
Arabic-first themes and visual editor
The Sahil theme in three styles, edited visually with desktop and mobile previews in both languages, plus a code editor for developers.
Local checkout and payments
SkipCash, Sadad, MyFatoorah and Tap with the merchant's own account, pay later options, bank transfer and cash on delivery. QNB is coming next.
Orders and delivery
Aramex, DHL Express and NBOX with rates, labels and tracking, or the merchant's own drivers with zones, fees, time slots and store pickup.
WhatsApp order flow
Cash-on-delivery confirmation before shipping, and order, shipping and delivery updates from the merchant's own business number.
Products and inventory
Variants, collections and stock across every location, built for shops and warehouses that share stock.
Customers and marketing
Customer profiles, segments, email campaigns, automations and product feeds.
One admin, with analytics
Dashboards, reports and a live view of the store, in Arabic or English, with permissions for each person on the team.
Domains, security and legal
Free sooquna.store address, custom domains with free SSL, and a full set of terms, privacy, data processing and security policies.
Partner program and developer docs
Free development stores, client transfers and revenue share for agencies and freelancers in Qatar, with public developer documentation.
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