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AI for UAE retail and e-commerce

EliteStack builds software and automation for UAE retailers and online stores. Zapelite connects Shopify or WooCommerce to WhatsApp for cart recovery and order updates, ZapKart runs storefronts and turns printed flyers into shoppable pages with AI, and ZapRetail is a point of sale with double-entry accounting and UAE VAT invoices.

Where time and money leak

  • Carts abandoned without a follow-up

    Shoppers leave at checkout and the store never hears from them again, because email reminders go unread and nobody has time to message by hand.

  • Print spend you cannot measure

    The weekly flyer costs money to design and print, and nobody can say which products it sold.

  • Order questions on staff phones

    "Where is my order?" arrives on WhatsApp to whoever's number the customer has, with no link to the order itself.

  • Tills and books that disagree

    The POS says one thing, the accounts say another, and the VAT return is rebuilt from both at quarter end.

The products behind it

Built and run by EliteStack in Dubai.

Zapelite

WhatsApp marketing and engagement platform: broadcasts, chatbots, a shared team inbox and commerce on Meta's official API.

AI copilot, your own key

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Zapelite campaign list with running, scheduled, completed and draft WhatsApp broadcasts, demo data

ZapKart

Commerce for shops, restaurants and wholesalers: storefronts, QR ordering, queues, events.

Reads printed flyers

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ZapKartFlyer editorDemo data
ZapKart flyer editor matching every tile on a supermarket flyer page to a named, priced product, demo data

ZapRetail

Point of sale with double-entry books and UAE VAT for multi-branch retailers.

AI integrated

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ZapRetailSell · Till 1Demo data
ZapRetail point of sale with a fabric catalogue and a three-item sale including 5% VAT, demo data

UAE rules this sector runs on

  • UAE VAT tax invoicesSimplified tax invoices for walk-in sales and full bilingual tax invoices for business customers.
  • VAT-201The VAT return is produced from the same ledger the till posts to.
  • TRN on invoicesYour tax registration number printed on every invoice.
  • E-invoicing (Peppol PINT-AE)Business sales: mandatory from 1 January 2027 at AED 50 million revenue or more, 1 July 2027 below. Consumer-only sellers are excluded.

Questions buyers ask

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Can WhatsApp recover abandoned carts from Shopify or WooCommerce?

Yes. Zapelite connects to Shopify and WooCommerce, picks up abandoned carts and sends a reminder with the cart link on WhatsApp. Recovery figures show what each reminder brought back, and opt-outs are respected before anything is sent.

What is a shoppable flyer?

Your printed flyer, published online with every product tile tappable. AI vision finds the tiles and reads the prices from the artwork, each tile links to a catalogue product, and taps and revenue are tracked per tile so you see what the print spend returned.

Does ZapRetail handle UAE VAT?

Yes. It prints simplified tax invoices for walk-in sales and bilingual English and Arabic tax invoices for business customers, and produces the VAT-201 return from the same ledger. Every document posts balanced journals, and corrections are made as revisions, never silent edits.

Is ZapRetail for any shop?

It was built for textile retail, where fabric is bought by the metre and sold by the piece, and it runs multiple branches. Other retail sectors are set up on request, depending on how you buy and sell stock.

Does the POS use AI?

No. ZapRetail is a point of sale with accounting, built so the books can be trusted. AI on our retail work sits elsewhere: in ZapKart's shoppable flyers and in WhatsApp replies through Zapelite. Keeping AI out of the ledger means every figure on the till traces back to a sale.

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Opens an email to info@elitestack.ae with your sentence in it. Or WhatsApp us on +971 56 121 1011.