A fast, Arabic-first website, webshop or Android app for your business in Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Latakia or anywhere else in Syria: made for mobile, with payment options that actually work in Syria, and easy to find on Google.
Smart Design is a web agency in Haarlem, the Netherlands, with an Arabic-speaking team. We work for business owners in Syria and for Syrians in Europe and the Gulf who run or start a business in Syria. The whole project runs in Arabic, through video calls, with one fixed point of contact.
Syrian customers are mostly on their phones, talk through WhatsApp and want to know how they can pay before they order. A site that is not built for that loses them in the first few seconds.
Not a translated European template, but a design set up in Arabic from the start, with proper Arabic fonts. English or another language can sit alongside it.
Most of your visitors arrive on an Android phone. We design buttons, menus and forms for a small screen first.
Connections in Syria are not stable everywhere. So we keep pages light: compressed images, few scripts and caching, so the site loads on a weak connection too.
Cash on delivery, bank transfer or a local e-wallet such as Syriatel Cash or Sham Cash: we build the checkout around what your customers really use.
Customers search for “a restaurant in Damascus” or “a phone shop in Aleppo” in Arabic. We take care of Arabic keywords, your address on Google Maps and a site Google can read well.
A lot of selling in Syria starts on Facebook or Instagram and is closed through WhatsApp. Your site connects to that with WhatsApp buttons, shareable product links and a product feed.
Since 2025, digital doors have been opening for Syrian businesses step by step. The United States revoked its broad sanctions on Syria effective 1 July 2025, and international tech companies have since started making their services available again. Google Play has worked without a VPN since January 2026; other services are following in phases. Banks are also being reconnected to international payment networks.
At the same time, not everything is sorted overnight. Some services remain limited and rules can change. We handle that in a practical way: for every project we check which services actually work in Syria at that moment, and we build your site so you can easily add a new payment method or integration later.
What we check for every project:
We do not give political or legal advice; we make sure your site is technically ready for what is possible now, and for what comes next.
Syria online, 2025–2026
For a webshop in Syria, the checkout is the biggest question. International payment services such as PayPal and Stripe are not yet available to businesses operating only from Syria, and online card payments are only slowly getting started through Syrian banks. So we build the checkout around methods your customers already know today.
Cash on delivery remains the basis for many shops. You can also offer bank transfer and mobile wallets such as Syriatel Cash and Sham Cash. Where a wallet cannot yet be connected automatically, the checkout shows clear instructions or a QR code, and you mark the payment as received in your admin panel. If you live in Europe and sell to customers outside Syria, your business there can simply offer iDEAL, cards and Apple Pay through Mollie or Stripe.
$ New order #1048
→ Customer chooses: cash on delivery
→ Confirmation sent to customer’s WhatsApp
Other options
✓ Bank transfer
✓ Syriatel Cash / Sham Cash
Card payment: switched on once available
We host your site on reliable servers outside Syria and add a CDN where needed, so visitors in Damascus, Aleppo or Latakia and Syrians abroad open the site quickly. Pages are kept light for mobile connections.
A .sy address shows that you operate in Syria. Registration runs through the Syrian registry NANS and takes more paperwork than a .com, so we go through the requirements with you first. A .com is quicker to arrange and can sit alongside it.
In Syria the large majority uses an Android phone, often a mid-range or older device with limited storage. An app for a restaurant, shop, delivery service or clinic therefore has to be small, start quickly and keep working when the connection briefly drops.
We build the app for Android first, with the same Arabic look as your website and connected to the same admin panel. Now that Google Play is reachable again, the app can be published there; an iPhone version can follow later for customers in the Gulf or Europe. Push notifications keep customers updated about their order or appointment.
A Facebook page on its own is fragile: your reach depends on the algorithm and your customers cannot see prices or stock. Your own site alongside social media gives you a permanent place that Google knows.
Whether a particular Google or Meta service already works fully in your region is something we check at the start of the project.
Whether you have a shop in Damascus, are opening a clinic in Hama or are setting up a business in Syria from Germany, the Netherlands or the Gulf: you work with the same team. We talk in Arabic through video calls and WhatsApp, the time difference with Syria is only one to two hours, and you follow progress on a test environment you can open on your phone at any time.
Many Syrians in Europe want to help family or a partner in Syria run their own business. You can both join the meetings, and the person running the business day to day gets an explanation of the admin panel in Arabic. Payment arrangements for the project are agreed per project.
One project, two countries
A clear process in three steps, fully online and in Arabic.
We discuss your business, your customers in Syria or beyond and what the site or app needs to do. You then receive a quote and schedule.
You approve an Arabic design, we build the site or app, set up payments, WhatsApp and Google, and let you test everything.
The site goes live on your domain, we submit it to Google and walk through the admin panel together. A three-month warranty applies afterwards.
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Yes. We are based in Haarlem and work online for business owners across Syria, from Damascus and Aleppo to Homs, Latakia, Hama and Tartus, and for Syrians abroad with a business in Syria.
Yes. Arabic is a native language within our team. Meetings, copy, the site itself and the admin panel walkthrough can all be in Arabic.
Usually cash on delivery, bank transfer and local wallets such as Syriatel Cash or Sham Cash. PayPal and Stripe are not yet available to businesses in Syria; we check what is possible at the start of the project.
Yes, but registration runs through the Syrian registry and requires documents. We explain what is needed. A .com can be set up right away and works well for customers abroad too.
That is what we design for: light pages, resized images, caching and a CDN where needed. We test the site on an ordinary Android phone and a slow connection.
A standard website is usually live within 10 to 20 working days. A webshop or app needs more time; you receive a schedule up front.
Payment arrangements are agreed per project. After the first call you receive a quote with a fixed price, and we discuss together how payment will work.
Tell us about your business and your plans. You will receive a personal reply within one business day, in Arabic, Dutch or English.
