Websites built for Oman. Website development company for businesses in Oman

What a website in Oman has to handle.

• Most cards are OmanNet debit cards

  Every debit card issued in Oman carries the OmanNet brand, and Checkout.com puts OmanNet cards at about 95% of the cards in the country. Taking them online needs a gateway and a direct agreement with a local acquiring bank; payments settle in rials, and only full refunds are supported, with no partial refunds or recurring payments. We plan refunds and any subscription around that before we design the checkout.

  Source: Checkout.com, OmanNet, read 27 Oct 2026

• No Stripe, so plan a local gateway

  Oman is not on Stripe's list of supported countries, so an Omani merchant's checkout runs through a local provider or a bank gateway. Thawani holds a Central Bank of Oman payment service provider licence and publishes an API, SDKs and webhooks; AmwalPay offers a gateway with Shopify and WooCommerce connections and pay by link. Apple Pay has worked in Oman since September 2024, so it belongs on the checkout too.

  Source: Stripe, Global availability, read 27 Oct 2026

• Forms need explicit consent you can prove

  The Personal Data Protection Law needs a person's explicit consent before you process their data, you must be able to prove it in writing, and it can be withdrawn. The privacy notice names the controller, the data protection officer's contact details, the purpose and the person's rights. Marketing by email, SMS or WhatsApp needs its own written consent first, and a child's data needs a guardian's approval, which matters for school and academy forms.

  Source: Royal Decree 6/2022, Personal Data Protection Law (decree.om), read 27 Oct 2026

• Health data and hosting abroad need more

  Health, biometric, genetic and other sensitive data need a permit from the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology before processing. The Ministry has 45 days to decide, and no answer in that time counts as a refusal. Sending personal data outside Oman, which includes hosting, analytics and form tools abroad, needs the person's explicit consent first unless the transfer meets an international obligation. So we check clinic and school forms, and where the site and its tools are hosted, before launch.

  Source: DLA Piper, Oman's new data protection implementing regulation, read 27 Oct 2026

• Prices shown with VAT, in rials

  Oman's VAT has been 5% since 16 April 2021, and the VAT Executive Regulations list failing to show prices inclusive of VAT as an offence, so product, menu and booking pages show the VAT-inclusive price. The rial divides into 1,000 baisa, so prices carry three decimals. The Central Bank launched a rial symbol in November 2025; until fonts carry it, we keep OMR or RO as text beside it.

  Source: Deloitte, Oman issues its VAT Executive Regulations, read 27 Oct 2026

• Invoice data ready for Fawtara

  Tax Authority Decision 189/2026 makes electronic tax invoices mandatory from 1 April 2027 for businesses with annual supplies above five million rials, and from 1 October 2027 for every other VAT-registered business. Invoices must be XML, sent through e-invoicing service providers the Tax Authority approves; paper, a PDF or an emailed image will not count. For a VAT-registered business, a store or booking site has to pass its order data to your provider or ERP, so we build that hand-off instead of a PDF email.

  Source: Oman Observer, Oman mandates electronic tax invoices from April 2027, read 27 Oct 2026

• An e-commerce licence and a Ma'roof Oman listing

  Ministerial Decision 499/2023 requires individuals and businesses to apply for an e-commerce licence from the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion before selling online. Sellers must set up a clear complaints process, an exchange and return policy and published contact details, keep customer data confidential and say how they protect it. Buyers can check a licensed store on Ma'roof Oman, the Ministry's free verification platform, and the Ministry tells them to check that a store's contact details match its commercial registration and never to pay into a personal account. So the site shows its licence, links its listing and takes payment into the business's own merchant account.

  Source: Oman Observer, Oman unveils new e-commerce regulatory framework, read 27 Oct 2026

• A .om domain takes paperwork and time

  The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority runs the .om registry, including .com.om, .co.om and the Arabic .عمان. Omani companies register with their commercial registration, and since a December 2025 change foreign companies can register .om, .com.om and .co.om without a trademark. One registrar quotes about two months to process, so we start the domain at kick-off, not at launch.

  Source: Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Domain names, read 27 Oct 2026

• Arabic on its own URLs, right to left

  Arabic is Oman's official language under the Basic Statute of the State, and consumer rules require it on price displays, though we found no rule that a private business website must have an Arabic version. Where you want one, Google's guidance is a separate URL for each language, linked with hreflang tags such as ar-OM and en-OM. We design the right-to-left layout from the first wireframe, so the Arabic pages are never a mirrored afterthought.

  Source: Google Search Central, Localised versions of your pages, read 27 Oct 2026

Concept builds for Muscat and Salalah.

Concept builds are working homepages we designed and built for fictional brands. For Oman: Hasik Engineering and Contracting, a construction company website for Muscat and Fazayah, a resort website for Salalah. None of them is a client, and every page of every demo says so. See every concept build.

• 

  Concept build · Construction · Muscat

  Hasik Engineering and Contracting

  Open the live site

• 

  Concept build · Hospitality · Salalah

  Fazayah

  Open the live site